e subject, it is to be presumed that he was in
accord with the President.

It is claimed by the friends and admirers of both Mr. Cleveland and Mr.
Bryan that each could be truly called a Jeffersonian Democrat; which
means a strong advocate and defender of what is called States Rights, a
doctrine on which is based one of the principal differences between the
Republican and Democratic parties. Yet President Cleveland did not
hesitate to use the military force of the government to suppress
domestic violence within the boundaries of a State, and that too against
the protest of the Governor of the State, for the alleged reason that
such action was necessary to prevent the interruption of the carrying of
the United States mail. Mr. Bryan's views upon the same subject appear
to be sufficiently elastic to justify the National Government, in his
opinion, in becoming the owner and operator of the principal railroads
of the country. His views along those lines are so far in advance of
those of his party that he was obliged, for reasons of political
expediency and party exigency, to hold them in abeyance during the
Presidential campaign of 1908. Jeffersonian democracy, therefore, seems
now to be nothing more than a meaningless form of expression.

CHAPTER XXXII

THE SOLID SOUTH, PAST AND PRESENT. FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

To turn again to the South. This section has been a fertile field for
political experimental purposes by successive Republican
administrations, ever since the second administration of President
Grant. The Solid South, so-called, has been a serious menace to the
peace and prosperity of the country. How to bring about such a condition
of affairs as would do away with the supposed necessity for its
continuance has been the problem, the solution of which has been the
cause of political experiments. President Hayes was the first to try the
experiment of appointing Democrats to many of the most important
offices, hoping that the solution would thus be found. But he was not
given credit for honest motives in doing so, for the reason that the
public was impressed with the belief that such action on his part was
one of the conditions upon which he was allowed to be peaceably
inaugurated. At any rate the experiment was a complete failure, hence,
so far as the more important offices were concerned, that policy was not
continued by Republican administrations that came into power subsequent
to the Hayes admin