Show THE SOLID SOUTH AGAIN The New York Sun pokes a a. little harmless fun at atthe atthe atthe the statement that under Mr ili Tafts Taft's administration the solid south is to be broken The Sun hears that Mr Air Taft is going to accomplish this by appointing a great many Democrats in the south to office and the thc Su Sun ii does not believe he will Neither do we And d were he to appoint ever so many that may not notch ch change things because the tho southern men of the old regime would not think any more of him for doing it and they would think less of their brother Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- if they would accept it We see no way for the solid south to ever eYer be broken until the people there accept the situation as asit asit asit I it is and it is about time they did It is almost forty forty- four years since the lips of tho the last cannon grew cold at Appomattox a generation and a half hail have grown up since then but there has been transmitted from father to son an idea that for any southern man to be a a. Republican is not only a personal disgrace dis grace but a reproach to the south and while that feeling remains there is no use Offers of conciliation concilia tion and friendship count for nothing pointing out that only a square deal is intended amounts to noth noth- ing The Thc solid south will break when the Democrats in the south remembering that their party parry in the old days lays controlled this country decide to control the Democratic party once more assume their old prerogative pre pro and assert themselves When they do dot t that nt then those opposed to them will have something to fo fight for will have an incentive to fight and some of the thc states will break away from the old rigid rule and the people will do what they want to do If 12 Mr Ir Taft when he hc beco becomes es president gives out offices to Democrats in the south he will vill only convert the Democrats that receive e the offices and he will vill antagonize the Republicans who have hn been true As the thc Sun says there are several kinds of Republicans Republican's Re Re- publicans publican's in the south They are tho real men of high principle like those of western Tennessee in the tho war Then there thore is a time timo serving class who are only after spoils and they ther are not worth the consideration consideration consid consid- cration of any administration Republican or Demo Demo- cratic Until tho the south understands that the south is not all in all hut but that it is only one section of the United States will any change come and that will vill not not come como by obsequiousness but it will Win eventually come through a square deal That square deal we believe Mr 1 Taft will give just as President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt has given it just as McKinley l before him did just as every Republican president has tried to do since the war closed The Republican party would d have been glad three years after the war to have declared that the I books of the war were balanced and that now this being one country every man in it should have a chance chanc The south would not have it so they preferred preferred pre pre- to agree that they had been badly injured They still have that grievance on hand and they will vill willI I never get over it until the strong men of the south in the Democratic party assert themselves and declare declare de de- de- de clare dare their principles in a potential way and demand their part in the government of this country For four forty years they have o accepted nominations nomina from the north and voted their states solid but it has not counted The longer they keep it solid the longer will the north be practically solid against it and th that t is not a 3 good way for a family to carry carryon on business We wish there could be an island out in the sea loaded with natural resources to which the young men of of- the African race might move and begin to build up for themselves es a little kingdom or a little republic republic anything anything to remove remo them from this country count coun try and to take away from the south what the south- south brn states insist upon believing is a menace because with the race removed the chances for trouble would be altogether reduced the excuse for making mak-ing the tho negro question a political question wot would d pass away and we would all be Americans and intent only on doing the best we all could for our country |