Show TRE SOUTH SOLID IT aften all that the solidity ot the south is practically unbroken the facci fac thai West vi ginia is so close that even at this writing the actual result is unknown and that deh delaware ivare has chosen a republican legislature does not change the previously settle d I 1 condition that all the territory beyond mason dixons line i 13 a political unit aggressively nod defensively the new york world jias bas recently r caved letters in response rca to rL quests eats for opinions from all over the bouta outa tu luu tebor jr of these I 1 being n that until they can see their way clear r no to safely disband they had better remain ais 0 they are the people of the south sauth like those of every other section are more or less commercial and clannish atwall naturally y they prefer their own habata habitation on and their own people to any others the union is so 6 vast that to cause all parts of it to adle egeto eye and art act hand band in hand except when the whole to is threat ened is impracticable there is much greater difference between the people of the south seuth and of the north in of customs predilections modes dorlite or off lite life idiom etc than there is between those of the east and of the west and we all understand that this latter is ii considerable the old time differences that led up to the war still remain on both sides in a modified condition on the part of the noy coith th it is claimed that the south maintains itself as a close corporation by taking out oat sweet revenge upon the former slaves tile the majority of whom are presumably republicans this has hal been denied as often as it was allega alle gT and instances of nev nearo 0 democratic clubs clubb and peaceable elections everywhere were cited in support of the denials but it is si significant that this parading ol of negro suppression oppression before the public furlic has not of late years been fortified with specifications of time and place while on the other side aide counter charges of outrages upon democratic are sometimes so accompanied as wi witness ness the following dispatch fro from the world KANSAS CITY conov Mo Nov 16 when the negroes of greenville T learned that W B ross boas colored principal r of the colored public echo school of I 1 and a hof licensed attorney bad vot voted e d the democratic ticket because of his belief in tariff reform many of them took their children out of school others made threats of violence while still others started a movement to boycott him and force him to res resign ignis his position it is said that white republicans are at the bottom of the trouble under the circumstances and considering si the mood and mode of action of the average southerner it is a tolerably sate safe prognostication that dixie will remain dixie for one more presidential election ati atMe least ast |