Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1889 — What Makes the Solid South. [ARTICLE]

What Makes the Solid South.

It is solid Africa that makes the solid South. Northern papers and persens of superficial views are constantly urgng the breaking up of the “Solid South” at any cost, and blaming the while Democrats of the South for its so’idity, all the time reusing to recognize the fact that it is the solid colored Republican vote throughout the South that makes the white vote solid. Such papers and persons exhort the intelligent and educated classes of the South to vote for the candidates favored by the dull and ignorant for no other reason than that the words “Solid South” irritate partisan Republicans. Would it not bn better to advise the colored voters to divide? They have no interest in the protectionist policy of the Republican party. They have nothing whatever in common with that party, except a memory of emancipation and certain ruined ho? es. Is it not, then, move rational to try to break the solid African vote in the line of the African’s real interest?* The white Democrats would be only too glad to divide on sny one of a dozen issues if they were not ever face to face with a solid mass of voters, impenetrable to argument, who are led by Northern partisans to believe that thoy must never vote any but the Republican ticket. It is solid Africa that makes the Solid South, and not any hostility to the Union or to the Northern States. —Baltimore Sun.