The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-09-24
GOLD ISSUES"

the present political campaign is the
overweening anxiety Of the Democrat
ic party to contrive some plan by
which events OF the past NAV be
thrown into shadow to deep aud dark
for recognition. Considering what
those events were. and how their
consideration is likely to affect old
Democratic leaders, many OF whom
now coming to the front for The
first time in several years, this is no,
at all strange. Nor is it to be denied
that there are issues of the present
which deserve prime consideration;
and which are of quite sufficient inn
poitancc to warrant their being made
the subject of grand political d'vi-
sions. And while making this admis-
sion we are also more than willing 10
admit that very many men through
out the North who have in the past
been acting with one or the other of
existing political parties, would be
glad to have an opportunity t" make
issue on these questions of the pres
ent. and to unite themselves with the
party-old or new-whose principles
shall accord with their own views
But while this is true. it is also true
that with every man who has in the
past supported union against disunion,
and the supremacy Of the constitution
and laws against treason and anarchy.
these issues-call them ''old" as much
as you please-will still tower above
everything else in importance. OF
what use to speculate about national
finances if national existence is
threatened. Why spread eagle about
needed laws in regulation of com
merce when whole sections of country
are defying all law: We know hat
Democratic speakers and writer's
North are denying the existence of
any circumstances which are calcula-
ted to thus vitalize so-called "Old
Issues They scout the idea of any
serious difficulty in the South. This
is the language Of a prominent, Dem
ocratic Western newspaper:
1.-The present pother is actuated more
by the political necessities of the Repub
lican party than anything else. The
whole pack OF the Radical press are en-
gagged just now in bowling. baying and
yelping about the persecution Of the
poor negro by Southern Democrats"
This is the Aippant way in which
the matter is disposed of but in an
swer we need not refer to the open re-
bellion in Louisiana which has Gull
minated and been, for the present,
crushed since those words were penn
ed. We will merely introduce anoth-
er Democratic paper as a witness
the Louisville Courier Journal, the
most able and sagacious newspaper
published south of Mason and Dixon's
line. The Courier Journal, summing
up the testimony Of its own colrespon-
dents, speaks of the outrages of the
White League and kuklux despera-
does in the following. hopeless strain:
There was chance that the mex,
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radical That chance is gone. The out.
breaks IN Kentucky and the massacre IN
Tennessee settle that much. No people
no party, could stand such a load as the
people of the South and the Democratic
party of the North are forced TO carry
There is no use writing, talk
ing, speaking, argufying, contradicting
proving, as long as the bloody sum total
recorded within the last fortnight goes
out to the world unchallenged by adj,
auate redress"
Now who are we TO believe, north
en office seekers. or the Courier
journal, published in the midst of
the scenes which it describes. The
latter see in these lynchings and muir
behring's, the murder of white and col
ored school teachers and the driving
out of Northern settlers, the hand
writing on the wall that seals the
fate of its party in 1876. Ii the Dem
ocracy had month ago any prospect
OF victory, that prospect has been al
ready hopelessly and irretrievably
thrown away. The sco,ched but no,
deiunct Confederacy has lifted its
head too soon. If this is what il
dares to do before election, what
would it not do after election, partic-
ularly il the results Of that election
should place Democratic ma iority
in the Congress Of the United States.
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