The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1916-09-21
HUGHES ELECTION WILL
MEAN ROUGH TREAT
MENT FOR DIXIE.
ENTIRE SECTION
TO BE IGNORED
To be Treated as the Cinderel-
la in the Household of the
Federal Union.

Washington, Sept. 20.-1f the
logic of the Republican campaign
committees amazingly sectional at
tacks on southern congressman and
the southern states should be applied
by Republican administration (and
there would be no escape from its
application if the Democrats lose the
presidency and the congress in No
vember) the political isolation of the
south will be attempted and mayhap
accomplished The whole drift and
meaning of Republican attacks or
southern congressman and the south
is set unmistakably in that direction
The political isolation of the south
would necessarily imply its casting
off again in the matter of general
legislation by the congress as in mat
ters having to do with the purely ad-
mnistrative affairs of the nationa
government.
1t is admitted and publicly pro.
claimed by Republican campaign
managers that henceforth the south
shall be kept in the foreground az
an issue in the campaign, harsher
things than have yet been said about
the south and its influence on ma.
tional legislation will be heard when
Candidate Hughes enters the middle
west the coming week. He has been
told that the south is the old man of
the sea of the Wilson administration
and that it is up to him to infiame
re northern mind bys.his ~sseksEn&l
slogan. This sectional issue is vel
coined by Candidate Hughes, who
finds in its adoption by the Republi
can campaign committee vindica-
ton of his "bloody flag" speeches in,
the far northwest and on the Pacific
coast.
! The political isolation of the south
would have another meaning besides
being treated as the Cinderella in
the household of the Federal Union
Merely isolating the south politically
would not suffice to make the pun
ishment fit the crime" of its partici-
patton in governmental affairs under
"a Democratic administration and
the influence in congress of southern
men, many of whom hold important
committee chairmanships by virtue
Of the Republican established rule
Of seniority.
The south must also be made to
suffer for the ascendency Of the
Democratic party. 1t must be hu
inflated as section and pilloriedI
publicly as a group of states,
Just how these punitive measures
shall be applied may be left to the
Vaccinations of Republican partisans
dominated by such men as Chairman
Toss of the Republican campaign
publicity committee; Senator Smoot
Of Utah, Senator Penrose of Penn
sylvania and Senator Gallinger of
New Hampshire. They may be trust.
ed to see to it that the south is prop
erly haired and disciplined not alone
for its geographical division, but foI
the effrontery of its public men in
speaking their voices and casting
their votes in the shaping and enact
ing of national legislation.
For that crime, committed under
the guarantee and in strict conform
ity with provisions of the federal
constitution, the south will, in the
event of Republican administration
be made scapegoat to satisfy the
flaming passions of sectional agitai
tors like Candidate Hughes. Repre-
sentative Foss of Ohio, former col
lege president; Senator Smoot, of
Utah, whose right to a seat in the
United States Senate was challenged
by that great body and whose ere
dentials were accepted only after an
exhaustive investigation; Senator
Penrose, the burly boss of Pensyl-
vania; Senator Gallinger, who still
imagines that there is no United
States outside the boundaries Of the
territory which included New Eng
land in the original 13 colonies.
Not only are native sons and
daughters of the south aghast al
these assaults by Republican cam.
paign managers and speakers, but
unprecedented men and women OF
other sections are amazed at this
eleventh hour flare-up of the fires
of sectionalism. Fair-minded and
patriotic men and women are asking
one another what is going to come
out of this senseless hue and CRY
against the south as a section.
4 Not even in the contest between
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