The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-05-18
THE BLOODY SHIRT.
The Radical Programme.

In accordance With the resolution
agreed upon by the recent caucus of Re-
publican Senators, resolution will be
offered in the Senate that the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendment to the Consti.
tuition having been ratified by the several
States, they should be enforced by the
Executive. 1t will he adopted and sent
to the House. If the House rejects it
howl will he raised that the Democratic
House refuses to acknowledge the Const-
tntional Amendments. If the House adopt
it, snch action will play an important
part in the programme the Radicals have
agreed upon as necessary for offering it.
Stripped of all c]ap.trap, the resolution
meaus that the Republicans serve notice
on the Democrats that they intended to
make square fight in every Southern
District where the colored vote prcdomi.
mates. In their calculation Of possible
contingencies the Republican Compression
al Committee have set down to their
side of the slate three districts in Missis-
sippi held by the Democrats, three distri.
cts in North Carolina and they expect to
hold one in Louisiana, three in Sonth
Carolina and two in Alabama. The res
olution means that if there is, during the
canvass, the slightest disturbance in any
of the Southern Districts which they will
contest, Hayes is to be asked to use armed
forces, under the specious plea that the
Amendment can not be enforced other
wise. The Radical managers will have
no hesitancy in provoking outrages and
stirring up bad blood, and under the
popular excitement which they hope to
create at tho North by few outrages,
which will be either manufactured to
order or provoked, force Hayes to put
troops in the Southern States, and con-
duct the campaign on the old issues of
sectional hate. No one seems able to
conceive of any other subject in offer
ing the resolutions, and such Radical
Congressman as can be induced to say
any thing about them talk in the old vein.
They say the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments are not enforced in the
south, and the Radical party does not in
tend to give up this, their old and favor
ito war-whoop.
Not only do the Republicans propose
thus to make an effort to get the next
House, but by all means they intend to
make warm fight to secure majority
of the State delegations. The Importance
of this is patent It may be that the
next House Of Representatives. will elect
the President of tho Unites States. In
such an event each State would have but
one vote. The whole number of votes cast
would be thirty eight, of which twenty
would DO majority and sufficient to
elect. In the present House of Represen-
tatives the Republicans have majority
of the delegation in the States of Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Nebraska, Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas,
Nevada, and Oregon in all, seventeen
States. These they claim they can hold,
and count as games in the next House
Colorado and california sure, with an
even chance Of Florida, which in the
present House is evenly divided. Should
their expectations, which are reasona-
BILE, pan out, the Republicans will have
twenty States, sufficient to elect a Presi-
dent: and even though tho House might
be Democratic, it will thus be seen how
it is possible for the Republicans to elect
q President. IfOhio is redistricted, which
is anxiously hoped for by the Democrats,
it will be almost impossible for the Re-
publicans to secure a majority in twenty
States delegations; but in that event they
will make warm fight for majority
of the vote in New York. Of course, in.
dependant Of this. they will make big
effort for majority Of the House, but
will put in their hottest work to secure
enoug ID ofithe delegation to give Republi
can President if tho election is thrown in
to the House.