. Review of reviews and world's work. atter ofhistory and tradition. It has grown out of thewar, and out of the political and racial questionswhich led up to the war and which have followedit. Since the Republicans of the North werepolitically responsible for the conquest of theConfederate States, the freeing of the slaveswithout compensation to their owners, and theenfranchisement of the freedmen as a conditionof the readmission of the Southern States to theUnion ; and since the Republican party for along time was identified with the policy of safe-guarding the negro vote by federal bayonets,
. Review of reviews and world's work. atter ofhistory and tradition. It has grown out of thewar, and out of the political and racial questionswhich led up to the war and which have followedit. Since the Republicans of the North werepolitically responsible for the conquest of theConfederate States, the freeing of the slaveswithout compensation to their owners, and theenfranchisement of the freedmen as a conditionof the readmission of the Southern States to theUnion ; and since the Republican party for along time was identified with the policy of safe-guarding the negro vote by federal bayonets,—it is not strange that the great bulk of the whitepopulation of the South should have allied it-self politically with the Northern opponents ofthe Republican party. There seems to have beenno other alternative. A BettefOutlook. It is an extremely difficult thing toeliminate the race question from ourparty politics. But it is to be notedthat the Republicans of the North no longer talkof the federal regulation of elections, and that. they have looked on with comparatively littleavowed disapproval at the action of the fourStates which have now, by constitutional amend-ment, practically disfranchised the greater partof their negro voters. If it were not for therace question and for the strength of the tradi-tional prejudice of the South against the name Republican, the white vote of the SouthernStates would divide naturally upon the real is-sues before the country ; and it is likely that thepoints of view that Governor Roosevelt has pre-sented in his remarkable stumping tour of theWest would find even greater acceptance in theSouth than in Ohio, Indiana, lUinois, and theNorthwest. It is to be hoped that this peculiarcondition in the South may come to an end inthe near future. It is not a good condition for theSouth itself, and it is unfortunate and even dan-gerous for the rest of the country. For, while theNorth has heard the issues of the campaign thor-oughly discussed, there a
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