Year: 1878

put in telling blows Is attesteh by the fact
that they have cut their Republican repre-
SentatiOn down from l4S 10 W.


This signifies that


rEE RTrT,TNG INTERESTS OF THE NORTHEAST,
which are moneyed interests, naturally oil
srarchical in tendency and arstOCratlc Ill as
nfratiOn have declared war upon Democracy
and made an alliance, offensive and defensive,
with Repubcanism. 1t also signifies that
THE RULING INTERESTS or THE WEST AND


SOUTH,


which are laboring and producing interests,
naturally proletarian in tendency and demo-
cratic in aspiration, have declared war upon
some circuitous indeed, but all sure, are find
ing their way to the standards OF the Demo-
cratic party.


Now let us tabulate again, this time with
reference to the total strength OF the sections


I.ep. Dem. Total.
West and South ...,.......,. 60 100 198
Majority of the West and South in both par ,o.
MaarIty 7 yVs,PSVs Of West and South in Democratic
Majority of Northeast in Republican party. 6


We therefore observe that the West and
South control the Democratic party by q ma
iorty of considerably more than four-fifths.
an easy working majority that cannot pOssi-
bly, be brought below Its present figures in
either house Of Congress. The Northeast,
however, in beggarly minority OF less than
One-third IN the total Representative vote, is
only able to control It's minority caucus Of q
minority by poor margin of six votes


The figures explain the secret Of


MIR CONKLINGa APPREHENSION.


The Northeast pursuing its programme Of
employing the machinery of the Radical
party to effect the reduction of the West and
South to q state Of financial and industrial
hEnf nftu f1ft n M
form Of government. only by keeping its nat
ural adversaries divided. 1t cannot hope to
effect this division Of the West and South
upon the issues which have grown or are
growing up out OF its own abuses OF power; so
the only hope Is in perpetuating a division of
the past. II Mr.. Conkllng and his co-laborers
can make such n noise about "the war
in which they did no fighting; about .'the
rights OF the negro'-whiCh none of them
ever exposed his precious carcase in the strug-
gle TO estabsh-in short, II they can keep up
o sentimental din sufficiently deafening to
distract the Western farmers attention from
while, the programme of the Radical machine
to make an England of the Northeast and an
India Of the West and South will proceed.
This Is the one desperate chance Of success
remaining to the ogarchy Of the Northeast
isms But if it should happen to fall
short, if one single step In the delcatey ad-
justed scheme should miscarry, turning the
sectional tables from the sentimental to the
economic and veering the lines around from
the North and South of tho past to the North
east and Southwest Of the present, then away
go the power, prestige and plutOcracy OF the
Northeast into utter wreck and ruin, world
without end. These things come more closely
home to the life-bOOd of the Northeast than
you wUutti TT first blHsh suppose 70 take
from the Northeast the control which the
Radical party has given 1t over the finances
and the tariffs Of the nation; devote to





OF the Mississippi Valley some part of the re-
sources now spent In enhancing the value Of
the bonds owned and the privileges enjoyed
by the Northeast, and verify believe the re-
suit would be almost as tremendous, iftnOt as
sudden, @ decline In the wealth and glory of
that section as would occur in England were
India wrested from her grasp by Internal in
surrectiOn or Russian invasion! These things
are well worth serious consideration. The
Northeast appears as q systematic fomenter
upon fanCiful issues OF the past, for the very
practical purpose OF preventing union Of
their political forces upon the real issues
of the present, which union would be her own
death warrant. It is the duty of Western and
Southern men to look these facts squarely
and intelligently In the face. Under the cir
cumstances the Western or the Southern man
who votes to sustain the Republican party in
traitor, voting maliciously to enslave his
neigbbors about him and exalt distant oil
garchy as heartless as 1t Is ingenious, and as
shrewd as it is despotic. / do not believe that
the device of the Northeastern politicians to
proIong their own lease Of power by keeping
up all artificial and
UNNATURAL DISCORD BETWEEN THE WEST


AND SOUTH
can ever win. If the people Of the West and
South were like tho races of India, sunk in
superstition and immersed in tribal tradi-
tions, perhaps the Northeast would be able to
rule them as England does India by playing
one against the other-first making Sepoy
suppress Sepoy--usng the hatreds of the
West to conq uer the South, and then in course
of time, perhaps, invoking the prejudice of
the South to check the West That is the
long and short Of tho present Northeastern
game. A. G. B.