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Show TELEGRAPHIC I'OLiiiar,. Tlie Aliunde of the Soiiili in llie cumlutf Caiupitluu. New York, 1. A prominent southerner, south-erner, conversing reyardiog the next presidential campaign, thus eeln lorlb, the views and purpoita ol ibat section. The peopie ol tbe south have no opinions on finance whioh they will in. t surrender (or tlio eako of &uccess. v (j aro oppotd to tbe nivtionnl baok-u baok-u eystem and dutire tu rtcitaDlieh stale hanks. VVe wut : currency thut bus neither vviuga nor leva, and 1 that will ntciy ivliero it id isouod. Admitting Ad-mitting trial thin platform would lose New York and Ntjw Ji-isey, he said they could a IT ml tiiat if thry could carry Ohio, Intliaiut, Illinois nud per-hapn per-hapn Peniisylvauiti. Tho weatern atiuea ro no much opposed to the national banking syatem, na we of the Koutli. Oar people in Ohio will make an anti-national bank plutform in tbe Btale convention thiu year, aud go to the people on that issue with 1 hurra hur-ra an aa the standard bearer. If wo win there, the presidential election of next year ia as good as ours, for we shall put the earns ideaa into tbe national platform. If we loae we have a year ahend to perfect Dew arrangements. ar-rangements. If our anti-bank cru-eado cru-eado laila in tbe west we shall become the hardest of hard mouey, renew alliances with the eastern democracy, and make a strike lor New York and New Jersey. The one thing for which our people care more than anything cdee, is the preservation of what we call our autonomy. We propose to manage our local allairB in our own way, and without the interference inter-ference of the general government, and are ready to surrender every other political question for that. Wo can; rally our votera just ag well under Bayard aa under Thurman. II wo fail in our western alliance we etill have a chance to unite with the eastern democracy, and make the race with them. The south is solid and will remain eo. We shall have the machinery of elections in 18S0. The republican line ia a long odo, extending ex-tending from the Atlantic to the Pa cific ocean, and ia pretty sure to be broken at Borne weak point. We have two lines, and the best part of each. The southern states are eolid. |