The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-12-06

read the news the Rtg1tF oilers the
highest advantages.
The Suicidal FOlIies of the Dem.
oCTacy.
IL it were not that those who are to be
destroyed are first made mad, We sup.
pose the Democratic leaders would begin
by this time to see that the more they full.
inmate against the dealings OF the Repub.
liCan administration with the Ku.Klux,
the more fatally they run their
heads against II stone wall, The more
the existence and history Of this secret
league in the South have been investi.
gated, the more undeniable has become
the evidence of its widespread existence,
OF its utterly Internal purposes, and Of It's
AtroCious practices. Ever since the war
the Democratic leaders have denied these
things. The official investigations pro.
voked by their denials have dissipated
every doubt about the existence of the
Orderts character, and It's objects.
It has been curious to sec how Us this
evidence has accumulated the Democratic
politicians and papers have increased the
vehemcnCe Of their dcnials, and Of their
denunCiatiOn Of the Government as re.
spOnsiblc lOrall the turmoil In the South
for they had not quite the cheek to deny
that there was some trouble there. They
have not been able to sec, apparently,
that the more they defended the
Ku.KluX, the more the intelligent and
honest sentiment OF the country con.
demned them all together. The Demo.
cratic partyIasa national organization had
little enough Of the popular confidence at
the close Of the war; but the iniatuatiOn
that has possessed It's leaders to cling to
the dead rebellion, and 10 resist tho recon.
sruCtion Of the South by the dominant
party and the reassertion Of Federal All.
thority there, has steadily lessencd that
confidence, until now they themselves
confess the organization to be on the
verge of dissolution.
There can be no doubt the better sCnti.
ment Of the country thoroughly approves
what has been done by the Republican
administration to put down the Ku.KluX;
and never was that approval SO strong
as at this moment; for there has never be.
fore been so much and such Overwhelm.
ing evidence touching the monstrous
character Of the Ordcr The recent whole.
sale confessions in South Carolina have
laid bare the character Of this league Of
midnight murderers in all It's hidcOusness;
and now more than ever the country dc.
mands its extinction, and will not bubble
about techniCalities in the execution OF
that work.
In this aspect of affairs, we should ex.
pect the Democratic managers would at
last perceive their mistake. But no. They
neither learn nor forget. The first thing
they do on the meeting of Congress Ia to
take up the Cudgels once more on behalf
of the Ku.Klux. They want to know
whether the action Of the President in
breaking up the neiariOus organization in
South Carolina, and in the arrest Of men
guilty Of savageries that would disgrace
the Apaches, has been strictly and tech.
nically regular and FRANK BLAIR, who.
a South Carolina XXX. confesses is Grand
Cyclops Of the order, hAstens to offer the
inquiry in the Senate, as brother Dem.
ocrat does in the House. As matter OF
party tactics could anything be more
stupid? Donot these gentlemen sec that
by keeping their party in the attitude Of
friends and defenders Of the XIX. they
only strengthen the popular tistrust Of
that partyH Do they not understand
that the country now knows all about the
order, that no sympathy Is 10 be made
among honest men anywhere by further
attempts to white.wash It's Internal CHI al
acter, and that every effort in this dlrec.
ton only costs their party friends and
confidence.
There has never been in political histo.
ry a binder inlatuation than that which
has prompted the Democratic leaders for
The last five years to resist the efforts Of
the party that was successful in the war
To reconstruct the rebel States in accord.
ance with It's own policy. 1t was utterly
impossible from the first that any such re
sistancc could succeed. OF all the methods
OF resistance none could be so hopeless as
that Of violence, seeing that all the militia
~ power ofthe country was In the hands
of the dominant party and must, Other
means failing, be employed at last with q
strong hand to put that violence down
Such violence being employedby the law.
less element in the South, the sympathetic
party in the North could have made M
more fatal mistake than to attempt to cnn.
real Or ot,olngiyn for ita aiFnrin,e cri,,,o M