The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-10-12

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defeat. And, after all, they who
have done this are not Republicans
in any true sense. They are merely
political adVenturers, whom the hon
est and real Republicans in their
States dislike and fear with all their
hearts.
Whatever effort the Republican
party makes in the South during the
present canvass will inure solely 10
the personal advantage of this class
of men. Whatever success the party
may secure down there by its efforts
will be the gain of the Kelloggs,
Packards, Spencers and Chamber
lains. That is now Unavoidable
Those people have the machinery in
their hands; they are the candidates
for Office, and they cling to Office
with a death grip. Reform in the
South lies not IN their further success
but in their utter and disorganizing
defeat. If the Republican leaders
of the North understood the South
crn situation, those of them who are
conscientious and patriotic. men
would shake off these Southern bar
nacles, aud those who ere not con,
scientious would still for expediency's
sake, drop these adventurers, whose
alliance has been and must continue
to be an embarrassment to the na-
tionai party.
Suppose an honest Republican
speaker sent into any Southern Safe,
except North Carolina, and wha'
would he find? Unless he kept his
ears stuffed with Cotton and avoided
all intercourse with men he could
not hel + learning that every speech
he made there was made in support
Of menno betferthan Tweed ar d his
ring; he would hear from the decent
and honest Republicans whom he
would meet that they dcp!ored moth
ing 80 much as the success of the
persons for whom he was appealing;
he wonld find in Alabama that the
real Republicans of the State have
becn either driven out of the party
or sienced within it by Spencer and
his gang of Federal Office hodcrs.-
Ho would fud in Louisiana that hon
est Republicans, though they vote f,r
Hayes, refuse utterly to vote TO-
Packard and his gang. lie would
find in Mississippi that honest Re-
puElicans are abused and villitied by
the thieves who have the machine
there. He would find in South Caro-.
lima, in florida everywhere, excep:
in North Carolina and Virginia, that
duty to his country and his party
made it impossible for him to take
part in the canvass, and that if he
spoke conscientiously he must advise
honest Southern Republicans while
voting for the national ticket to sup,
port and help elect the Democratic
local ticket. g..
The policy we suggest will be
secuted by Rep; blican partisans; bnt
IL is, nevertheless, the true policy for
the party. 1t is the policy of pru-
dence as well as wisdom: In the
Southern tier Of States-in South
Carolina Georgia. Alabama, Missis~
sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas there is
to day no Republican party worthy
f the alliance of the national party
or in whose fortunes it can take part
without injuriug itself. If M. Hayes
is chosen President he can, il he is
wise and intelligent, as we believe
him to be, easily form respectable
party there; but he will have to be-
gin by cutting adritt the so-caled
Republican leaders in those States in
a body and letting the infected wreck
float away, Why is it not better
policy in the Republican leaders to
do this now, and thus relieve their
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