Daily Republican

The attempt of the Democratic newspapers to hold the Republican party responsible for any ill-feeling that exists between the North and the South, or for the absence of prosperity in the South, is ridiculous. A few years ago the depression of every business interest in that region was attributed to the carpet-baggers and to their misrule. But for more than two years the whole region had been held tight and fast by the native Democrats and there has been no advance worth noting during that time. The want of prosperity is due to two things: to the repudiation which scares off capital and to the political persecution which paralyzes labor, and for these two things the Democrats are wholly responsible. As for ill-feeling, the loyal people of the North will never be satisfied with the South until truly Democratic principles prevail there and until the Southern Congressmen represent the majority and not a small faction.