The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-09-12
"TrrsDAY, SEPTEMBER IL, 1922.
REDEEM!NG THE SOUTH.

OF year irrrtness III matters polit-
nJ., aoGp!ed with the dunce-cap meth
d. f INC Harding administration,
have II ed the rumor that the soiid
south is rearing to plunge headlorg
into the Republican reservation. We
refuse to be stampeded into a serious
discussion of any such propaganda.
We have been hearing such predic-
tions since pues was kitten, and
every time the South came along at
the succeeding election and piled up
such outrageous pluralites for the
Democratic ticket that it made our
jaws tired to count it.
We refuse to grow panicky at the
attempted efforts to raise smoke
screens on the part Of bakers dozen
Of special privilege propagandists III
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas,
South Carolina, North Carolina and
elsewhere in Dixie to prove that the
South has divorced its theory that the
least the federal government can med
die the better it is for the public well
fare. We deny that the voters OF
Dixie are ready and willing to cruelty
:" nkind on cross of tariff gold for
he sake of lining their pockets with
unearned pelt.
To be sure the lumber barons the
peanut politicians-ands some of the
b omides who hire negroes to pro-
duce them-and the sugar kings, are
already talking loudly right over in
the chimney corner with New Eng
'and's federal tax-collectors, but there
are a million home builders to every
'mber czar, and the builders demand
free lumber. This same policy applies
to sugar and peanuts, and we scorn
argument that tells US that we want
to tax ourselves on these necessarics
and near-necessaries of life in order
to satisfy the greed for gold of ths
tariff barons. Such is the situation
from the South bank of the Potomac
to Yuma, Arizona. If the G. o. P
Iord save the mark!-still refuses TO
Intimate the mote in it's eye, how
a.er It is given leave to come right
." 'own here and begin its saving
nampaign.
And, if it is prone to accept the
are, we here and now demand an ex-
planation of the apparent Harding
scorn of the South. He is the only
Republican President in history, save
Chester A. Arthur, who shut-out
Dixie from cabinet honors. With u
cabinet Of ten members, the open re-
buke Of Mr.. Harding to the South
may be glimpsed as we run, when it IS
recalled that President Lincoln's cab
i"et Of seven members contained a
Southern Attorney General. Presi
dent Grants cabinet contained thr, q
Southern members, Hayes three,
Earfield's one, Harrison's two, Nc
Kinley's one, Roosevelt's four and
Taft's one. But when the old Mother
Hubbard of Dixie Republicanism went
to the cupboard Of Warren Gamaliel
Harding for bone, she discovered
the cupboard was bare, and SO her
poor dog had none!
Still, if the Republicans insist on
saving us they are welcome to wade
in-the water is passing fine. How
ever, we have no hesitancy in telling
them before hand that they will real
ize that Jordan is hard road to nego-
tate, before they get to the end of che
trail. They must show us that they
ere ready to smoke the nigger out of
the woodpile, divide the spoils, recog-
lie US when they meet US in the cab
rot and-then we are ready to in
rn them that our principles are not
eole. In view of this pain, blum.
Ian ton are they still rearing to
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