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Show THE EQUITIES OF THE CASE. Some of the speakers in the Democratic National Na-tional convention were very bitter over the demand de-mand of the Republicans that a vote in the North shall count for as much as a vote in the South. That is not the wording of the demand, but that is what it means. It requires twice as many, sometimes three or four times as many votes to elect a man in Ohio or Pennsylvania to Congress as it does in Alabama or South Carolina, because half the population in those states are counted but as animals and their votes, if cast, are not counted. Again, the electoral votes of the Southern States are always counted as solid for one ticket. It requires twice as many votes to count for an electoral elec-toral vote in the North as in the South. The situation situa-tion for forty years has been such that all a Democratic Dem-ocratic Presidential candidate needs to insure his election has been three or four Northern States. The grass is growing over the graves of most of the soldiers who fought in the Civil war on either side. At reunions speakers North and South are prone to tell how all the bitterness of the great conflict has died away, but it Is, nevertheless, true that Southern children are taught that it is a crime to vote a Republican ticket. So no matter h&w eminent the Republican candidate may be, no matter if the policies he ad vocates are what the Southern industries need, no matter what candidate may be pitted against him or what principles he may espouse, that candidate can-didate will carry every state. It has been so while a generation has lived and died, it promises to be so for an indefinite period in the future, for the old distrust and hate of the Republican party is continued from sire to son. Is it so very strange then, that there is a cry from the North for justice? Suppose the matter reversed. Suppose Sup-pose that ever since the war the North had banded band-ed together and rolled up a silid vote for a Republican Re-publican at each election, and had seen to it that the votes which might change the result should never be counted, what would the South say? We are not discussing the ratfe question. We are not saying that the South is not handling that better bet-ter than the North could, but on what ground of equity can the claim be made that as population popula-tion the blacks shall be counted as men, but that in the election of Presidents the only fair thing is to rate them as animals? Of course the Democratic party in the North is shocked at the demand for a fair deal. The same old spirit dominates it that caused it during the war to be a perpetual menace to the government govern-ment and the Union soldiers in the field, that caused it forty years ago to declare that the war for the Union was a failure and to demand a truce as preliminary to a dishonorable peace. It no more changes its spots than does the leopard; it seems to have no elements of progress in its organization except when it picks up some plank which the Republicans ci-eated and proved the utility of it, and adopts it as original Democratic Dem-ocratic doctrine. This year its hope is by the use of Standard Oil and corporation money to buy enough votes in New York, New Jersey, Indiana and Connecticut Connecti-cut to join the solid South and elect a President. And that has been its highest hope for forty years. |