The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-06-25
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CIVIL RIGHTS.

rz .- .H-H - E-a O. -.1lelI--
Intense Feeling Among the Poor
Whites Of the South.
THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC INsTRUc-
T1oN OVERTHROW By THE PASSAGE OF
THE B1L-How THE HOTEL CLERKS |
AND BARRIERS FEEL.
From the n Y Worlds Special Correspondent |
BALTIMORE, June II, 1874,
| 1 talked yesterday with Republican |
politician of q good deal Of standing in this |
State, and until quite recently very active |
/ for his party. he voted twice for Grant, |
and being disinterested and no place hun
ter, his opinions have much force with the
people among whom he associates
Whom will the Republicans nominate
for Congress in your district next fall p
/ asked .E
| y "Nobody," he answered; There is no
Republican party any longer IN my dis
| trict. It is gone up" The district ls one
| in which in 1872 Grant received over To-
600 votes IN a total of less than 1000,
| and where the Democratic nominee for
| Congress in the same year was elected by
a majority Of less than 800 votes. -s'ssThe
Republican party,s continued my friend,
| mo longer exists in Maryland Even its
| ORGANIZATION is abandoned, except where
two or three Custom-house officers are
gathered together and call themselves the
| Radical party-for the sake Of the Offices.
1 was rather incredulous, but my friend
averred that he spoke simple truth, not
spigram. "We have before now cast TO-
600 votes in our district Now there Is
No organization, not even an executive
eommIttes, except as have SAID, self
constituted one of Custcm-house othcers,
who brew the thunder but can not draw
the houses. You could not get up ne
| publican primary meeting IN any electlon
| dlstrict i11 any of our counties, and in the
cities and towns it is pretty nigh as bad.
| HWEat do YOU take to be the cause OF
Ithis9' I asked.
"oh. rs the old ismP he said. The
ReprblicaH party has way OF its own OF
doing things. In the West 1t has lost the
German vote by oppOsing home rule, with
its suggestion of snmptuary laws and otn-
az invIdious legislation. In Ney England
| ond the COMMERCIAL cities 1t has done the
york with Sanborn, with moletles, rings,
h &c Now it is trying 20 choke Oh IT'S
| stanchest friends Of any-tnends VINO nsse
followed It's fortunes from affection raIner
| than self-interest; friends who nave 4oVeo II
more dearly because they have been Perse
cuted for its sake. mean the Dohe ana
] sinew' of NaIylsnd-especlally the west
ern part Of the State, and the MOUNTAIN All
eers5 of Kentncky, Virginia, west VIZ
ginia and Tennessee. These simple hearted
folks in fighting for the Union, gave their
IaJlepiance to the Republican party, and
did mot discriminate in their affections. III
has been like losing an eye-tooth Tor them
to alienate themselves from the party, but
the tooth is out. They are gone, and tins
time for good. Abolition Was bitter Pill,
hnt they swallowed it without so much as
making s, mouth. Suffrage Was 3 horrible
bolus. but they gulped that. But now the
1 nartv comes at them with the Civil hlghts
bill-and they'll sec the Republican party
sink before they have anything more to DC
with it. Why, Just put the thing 10 your
self" said my friend, warming as he spoke
/ / Hput yourself in the place OF those pIalr
farmer fellows around me, Tor instance
They don't bother themselves much apou
Sanborn's system OF ,knocKlng down,
ahout WiIIiams's landaulet, and GoTernol
Sbsnherd's wholesale plunder. But Jus
trv to steal their school funds or dehl
l their meeting housesl You might as vel
assail their relgionl Why, don't you se
this Civil Rights bill gives the Southern
y white trash las the niggers elegantly cal
= then) much harder measure than the
ever cot from the old 'aristocrats' IN tn
prime and elimination of their pride? n
Southern gentleman, no matter how mnc
d he might have despised the 1gnorsn
1crzckeT,3 his neighbor, ever went so lar
to tceat the niger as his equal, set MN
!. the came table or feed him with the sam
I food. And now the Radicals not on
want to force the two races TO assoela'
. and live together, but to stay together
ter desth. TheSouthern Republicans WI
see The whole Radical party cremated be
fore they submit to any such Indignlty.
You have no idea what depth OF Zee
ing there is on this subject, and especial
among the classes referred to above. Ii
matter of constant conversation among
them. and of bitterest Indignation. Al
no wonder. for they are to be the echIef, Il
onIy sufferers by this outrageous sort
legislation. People of money have meal
Iof exclusiyeness that no laws can bre'
1 down. If you attack the public schoc
they are not injured, for their children
to private schools; if you -mlscegenate q
hotels they will still 60 to private plac
where the negro is kept out, and SO ilk
wise in their travels. But, as Is the ca
in regard to teetotal legislation t
poor man is the one upon whom t
- tall and whole effect of this thing rests.
injurious sense of the words. -.s
Asd the bone and siney people, here
bonts at least, understand the matter p
Az fectlv veil. They are not IN the least
-. lceivedtsy the tinsel tattle OF Radical orato
10 annesls to the Declaration of Indeper
h e1ee- and all that muckmammocky
sbout liberty and equality and the p
ID Iosnhv of first principles IN Which
E. Sators INDUCED. They would ike to sh
tbair orinion of Mr.. Bo1tWell-they Wo
= Jo II in a coat of tar and feathers laid
. con dni0re. 81 tEs#
I talked recently with some meehsr
m Baltimore county. Poor fellowst II
, had black prospect before them-tl
we're mart of $50 lust discharged FOR
CO., want of work in the machine shops at
Mornt Clare depot Of the Baltimore 4
Ohio Rallroad.f They did not talk, b.
ever. of the dearth of work, but OF the {
IN. LII Rights bill and the prospects OF tts
coming a law It WAS mentioned thi
pre- Baltimorec ecounty politician had J1st dee
lotto the School Commissioners to bul
public school house on with the prov
however, that none but white ehllC
should ever be educated there under |
atty of voiding the title. Hes the
eed sort E9 06 s a4 snsa enc zone thing h Is
tain said another emphatlcally; aW
cot the best school children IN the "
and l have ten children 70 profit b
but l 90 in for closing the schools II
- niceers arc going to be forced into Il
Ii6dt | / see myself letting my little girls 81
the same bench in school with q ,dAY
meet black or yellow Said another, "
co bilf passes. what ought to be done p !
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