People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — OUR SOUTHERN FRIENDS. [ARTICLE]

OUR SOUTHERN FRIENDS.

A Large Number of Them Manfully Stood Their Ground and Voted For the Hight. We like a genuine reformer without reference to where he may live, and we ' fully appreciate the difficulties that surround our brethren in the south. We never built as much on the reform vote in the southern states as did many of the reformers of the north, nor did the southern reformers themselves, for we knew it was their first reform contest, and after eighteen years of such work, we had learned to know something of the ordeal through which they must pass. Hence we were in a measure prepared for the returns that came from, the south. But the ice is broken now. Southern reformers know their enemy. The batteries are all unmasked, and we expect much better things in the future. We are glad, however, to be able to show our southern friends a greater steadfastness in the north. But it was not our first fight. We had been under fire before, yet it must be conceded that we have gallantly won our spurs And the question of sectionalism must change base. It is obliterated in the north; the campaign of 1892 has shown it very much alive in the south. Kansas, a state of ultra northern ideas, and only four years ago with a republican majority of 80,000, elected an exconfederate for congressman from the state at large. The south had eggs instead of votes for ex-federals. So in sectionalism the south must move to the head of the class. And yet southern reformers have done welL We have no taunts for them. A large nuumber of them manfully stood their ground, and cast their ballots in spite of abuse, and hate and ostracism. When the official vote is published it will be seen that reform Is alive in the south, that seed has been planted for a future harvest of victory. —-Mt Vernon (kIL) Progressive Farmer.