The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-04
REPUBLICANS
 HOPE TO GAIN
 IN SOLID SOUTH
BY COL WINFIELD JONES

WASHINGTON, March 4.-(Special Correspondence).-What of the fu- ture of the Republican party in the south?
 This question is now engaging at tentiOn of the chiefs in the Republi- can national committee and the lead CTS of the dominent party in con gross.
 In the November elections the Re publicans broke into the solid south" by carrying Tennessee, state that nearly always has been Democratic and which the Republicans had not believed they could capture, prior to the election.
 The victory in Tennessee has caused the Republican leaders to be- lieve that it is perhaps possible in the next presidential election to not only hold Tennessee in the Repub- lican camp but to bring into the fold other states of the south that have always been Democratic. At any rate in the next presidential cam paign, in 1924, the Republicans will make tremendous efforts to gain other states in the south. It is said that Georgia is slated for one of these efforts. The time for making a Republican effort in Georgia is said | tn hn proDit;o,,c haoonca tho non,O cratic party in that state is badly split, and a large number of the in dependent voters are willing to go into the Republican ranks provided the Republican party in that state, if victorious, is not dominated by the black and tan" wing of the Republi- cans. A negro, Henry Lincoln John son, is now Republican national com mitteeman in Georgia This does not sit well on either the white Re- 1 publicans or the Democrats. for GeOr- gia is strictly a white mans state" l It is believed by a large number of "c"5re 5sncn that many states in the south would be soldly Republican were it not for the negro question. Many states of the south, where they are great manufacturing interests, want protective tariff for their pro- ducts, and not a tariff for revenue only. The first kind of tariff has 1 always been a Republican policy and a tariff for revenue only has nearly always been a Democratic policy. Then, too. many of the southern farmers want a high tariff for pro- lection for their agricultural pro- ducts, and this they cannot obtain without a Republican congress and president pledged to the protective tariff principle.
 To anybody who has lived in the south and understands the southern viewpoint this belief of many south erners is a protective Republican tariff is we'll known. The protective tariff principle would cause some southern states to become Republi- can, but for one thing-fear of the domination of the negroes in politi- cal affairs,
 The black man always voted en masse for Republican tickets. If he was allowed the ballot as freely as the white man in the southern states there is little doubt that he would be able to carry many of the states l of that section into the Republican column because he Is numerically strong in the south and in some con- gressional districts numbers more than the white population. He is numerous enough to practically turn most of the south Republican-if al- lowed to vote.
 The southerners will never stand for a political status of any kind where the negro is great factor in politics, or where the black man can exercise any proportion of control in elective governmental affairs. The southerner much prefers the Demo- cratic party and a low tariff that does not protect his farm or his fac tory, to Republican high tariff which does protect but which ac- companies state or local government or partial government by the negro race. Therefore, while politically in sympathy with many of the policies of the Republicans, he prefers to re- main a Democrat and keep the black man from participating in southern | government.
 There is the one big stumbling block in the way of a Republican south. The Republican machine poli- ticians, naturally, will never agree to continued disfranchisement of the black man in the south because as