A race problem of course implies race antagonisms, and the chief factor in bringing about race antagonism is not in the bare fact that the negro vote is Republican, but in the fact that the race, _vote as a race_, solidly, _en masse_, and _naturally_, in view of the manner of its emancipation. It is not that white men see in mere party allegiance a menace to good order, or are intolerant of Republican politics, especially the _national_ and _economic_ politics of the party, for many are at heart protectionists; but it is the perpetual _solidarity_ of the vote of the negro race, voting as a race that sharply accentuates race attrition. Much has been spoken and written about the _solidarity_ of the Southern states in voting, and little notice taken of the _cause_, which is the _solidarity_ of the negro vote. Thus one _solidarity_ begets another _solidarity_, and the South has not been in a normal condition, politically, since emancipation. Is there not a problem in this? It is submitted to all fair minded men whether it is not true—that if any race whatever vote solidly and habitually, as a race, be they German, Irish, Jew, Negro or Chinese, that it would inevitably produce race antagonism, in any state in the union. The South had at the close of the Civil War, its share of the Whig party, who on account of _negro solidarity_ were driven into _white solidarity_—the Democratic party, and they and their descendants have remained solidly there, voting solidly against the solid negro vote. In many parts of the South the negroes outnumber the whites, and could elect, if their solid vote was counted as cast, judges, clerks and sheriffs, and in at least three states, state officials, a state of affairs as much to be desired as a Chinaman mayor of San Francisco, or governor of California. The negro vote has been in some way neutralized, or he has not voted the full numerical strength of the race, else such results must have followed. The fact is, the negro has been practically disfranchised for thirty-five years, and the South has grown tired of dishonesty in elections. Thus, by restricting suffrage, the _causa causans_ is removed.