The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-09-06


THE BLOODY SHIRT IN LNDZANA.
The last Issue of the New York
Weekly Times contains a long edito-
rial in regard to the campaign in In
diana, from which we make the fol-
lowing extracts, TO show our readers
how Republican politics have degen-
Grated into appeals to ignorance and
prejudice
The Republicans know that here is a
State which they all believe is the pivot
upon which the fate of the nation is to
turn. They believe that if the Demo-
Gratis carry it in October, the country
the era before the war. They believe
that Indiana Democratic in October
means Tilden President of the United
States; means John Kelly, John Norris
sey-perhaps even Tweed himseIf-up
to their arm-pits in the treasury of the
nation; means the Rhetts and Hamptons
dominant not only in the South and IN
Washington, but everywhere; means IL
censed murder, for opinions sake,
throughout the land; means in this nine
teenth century and in this Christian
land many attempts, all through the
South, TO emulate the awful night at St.
Bartholomew: means saddling the nation
with the enormous burden of the South
ern war claims, thus paying traitors a
premium on treason; means, in brief,
barbarism, terrorism, bankruptcy, ruin,
and disgrace.
Sincerely, earnestly, fully believing
this, the Republicans ignore the petty,
stupid, dishonest economies of the Dem
ocrats and devote themselves to what
their opponents have been accustomed
to call waving the bloody shirt" !.
Morton is known everywhere as the
great distinctive champion of the bloody
shirt. More than any other man in the
nation he represents the aggressive ele-
ment ia the Republican Party; the man
who, in u political sense, has never ask
ed or given qnater; the man who by his
enemies is called brutal, nnforgiving,
unchristian in his political hates. Yet
he is the one man who now, as in 1872,
is nearest the Republican heart of Indi-
ana.
Mr.. Tenney followed, and to say that
he amazed and delighted his audience
is to state the fact feebly. His text was
the "bloody Shirt" and his powerful,
eloquent, and scathing denunciation of
Democracy as the party of treason will
long be remembered by those who heard
it.
In these extracts, and others like
them, which we forbear to make, the
keynote of the campaign is sounded.
Republican speakers are abashed at
this idea of attempting to whitewash
and cover up the rottenness of their
party, and dare not undertake to do
it.
They will not try to justify the
reckless extravaganza OF the Repub-
lican administrations. They can no
where find or hatch up charges either
of corruption orextravagance against
the Democratic party, that will bear
ventilation. So they are driven to
the mean subterfuge of waving the
bloody shirt. Their only hope of
success in the North and West lies
in their efforts to awaken the old
hatreds of the war, in their appeals
to the prejudiees of the more ignor
ant class of voters.
They do not profess to be able to
Justify their President-their Senate
their Belknaps-their Averys-
their Babeocks. No, no. Their
stock in trade there, is the war and
5he negro.
Here in the South their leaders
feel chat they have attempted to play
ibis game once too often, that the
howl of Rebel so often raised by
,hem has lost its terrors. and will
deceive and mislead no one any
onger here. They rely here (f upon
upon organization among
,he office.holders. and the fears of
The poor colored man. Republicans
know indeed that they cannot carry
4 single Southern State, in Novem-
Der, and only hope to excite the pre-
udices of the Northern people
against the people of the South,
~ falsehood and misrepresentation,
" waying the bloody shirt, and thus