...Robert H. Woody Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874-1890 . By Going Allen Johnson . University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press , 1951 . Pp. ix , 256 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 303 the question and that a precarious modus v'mendi...

...Harry R. Stevens Bourbon Democracy of the Middle West, 1865-1896 . By Merrill Horace Samuel . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1953 . Pp. xiii , 300 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 578 The South Atlantic Quarterly art of war...

...Robert F. Durden Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 GROVER CLEVELAND AND THE BOURBON DEMOCRACY Robert F. Durden WHEN assigned a history theme on his favorite president, a Georgia schoolboy of the 1930 s picked Grover Cleveland. The reason, he frankly stated to begin...

...Dewey W. Grantham, Jr. Dewey W. Grantham, Jr. The Southern Bourbons Revisited For a group of leaders referred to by one writer as figments of medieval imagination, the Southern Bourbons exerted a remarka­ bly pervasive and durable influence upon the region south of the Potomac. As Redeemers...

... it. Conservatism and progress are not essentially antagonistic. Conservatism need not be of the Bourbon type, never learning and never forgetting; the spirit of progress need not be exagger­ ated into radicalism. The conservatism of the South has in many things been of a distinctly liberal sort. In promoting...

..., this time made specifically in favor of his son, who was, five days after Waterloo, proclaimed Emperor Napoleon II. This arrange­ ment could not but be intolerable to the Allied Powers, and the intriguing Fouche shortly blocked the scheme by restoring Louis XVIII and the Bourbons once more to power...

... for the prize of empire. The Eighteenth Century witnessed the titanic struggle of England and Prance for naval and colonial supremacy. Louis XV., the most disgraceful of the Bourbons, ruined France. The treaty of Paris in 1763 left Eng­ land the mistress of the seas and in complete control of the vast empires...

... issues, seeking sectional recon­ ciliation, and appealing for the votes of blacks. Following defeat, the con­ ciliators were at a political dead end, the strategy they had pursued for four years . . . had failed miserably (149). The second half of the book describes the ascendency of the Bourbon...

... made by conventions; the common man s day of triumph came with the white primary as the means of making nominations. Within the framework of Mississippi politics swords were wielded by mighty warriors. On one side were James Z. George, who put political supremacy in the hands of a Bourbon oligarchy...

..., the strategy they had pursued for four years . . . had failed miserably (149). The second half of the book describes the ascendency of the Bourbon (former secessionist) wing of the Democratic party, which was hostile to active government and to appeals for the votes of blacks. Seizing the initiative...

... first message to the representatives of the col­ ony of North Carolina contained such expressions as these: The Gallic branch of the House of Bourbon distinguished of late for their worse than Punic faith have for at least a cen­ tury never ended one war but with a view to extend their Power...

... Czech and part Sudeten. . The French and Spanish Bourbon governments in the American Revolutionary War were none too ideological. They sought to weaken England, and that was sufficient unto the day. They were dictatorial, while the struggling Thirteen Colonies were democratic 346 The South Atlantic...

... and democratic republics from Bourbons and Hapsburgs, from Washingtons and Lincolns. Fascism, the dictatorial middle-ground, through the ages had had small re­ gard for the courtly niceties of kings or for the rule of 51 per cent majorities. Out of a welter of fascist-like creatures, in the long light of history...

... Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 BOOKS BOOK BY A BOURBON DEMOCRAT The State That Forgot : South Carolina's Surrender to Democracy. By William Watts Ball. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1932. Pp. 307. $2.50. This is a much better book than will be generally realized...

... of Long s career and in many Southern states at the end of the Bourbon period in the late nineteenth century, the ground was prepared for the rise of the demagogue when the existing party organization became increasingly apathetic and even hostile to the interests and needs of the great mass...

.... The party s Bourbonism, however, and its inability to produce the promise of American capitalism coupled with factionalism helped usher in a triumphant Readjuster Party in 1879. Still, the Conservatives, while plagued by insufficient capital to carry out their various plans, prefigured most of the myths...

... majority in Congress. France has had a hectic political history. The Bourbons were succeeded by the Republic, Bonaparte again by the Bourbons, LouisPhilippe of Orleans by another Bonaparte and the Third Republic. The composition of the political leadership of France changed con­ stantly. But she...

... to young Robert M. LaFollette and the rising progressives. Probably the most lasting contribution of Vilas was in his support of education in general and his own state university in particular. Professor Merrill has given us a competent analysis of one of the finest representatives of the Bourbon democracy...

... partly explained is why thirty years elapsed in most Southern states before these laws were passed. Debates in the South Carolina General Assembly in the late 1890 s, together with comments by the state s two leading news­ papers, suggest that many Conservative Democrats (or Bourbons), while possessing...

... of forty-three million Frenchmen were deciding in the Palais Bourbon in Paris. Never did a tail wag a dog so fiercely. The afternoon of May 13th I had taken a seat in the visitors gallery of the National Assembly as a guest of one of the deputies. Naturally, no one knew at the opening of the session what...