Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-01-02

Democrat, and make the latter Mar.
shall to protect the poor colored peo-
pie OF Georgia."
HOW 1T WORKS
These significant instance Of 4 sur
render Of the power Of the Federal
courts to rebel Democrats, the prompt
and complete amnesty to all negro
murderers and Kuklux, and the eager
trampling out of the only remaining
Republican State governments at the
South, entirely crushed all Republic
an courage, and left Republicans at
the mercy of their enraged enemies,
who turned upon them with fierce
hatred.
Prosecutions and prosecutions in
the State courts have been freely re-
sorted to, and obnoxious Republicans
driven away or unjustly convicted.
The Republican party has been COM
PEELED to disband, and the dangers Of
q solid South and rebel rule, which
President Hayes wanted the people
of Ohio made to believe would be
averted IL he were elected, have be-
come terrible realities.
In Mississippi Governor Stone, in
famous for his failure to prosecute ef-
fectualy the Chisholm murderers,
was reelected by $685. votes, only
l,l68 Republicans daring to 20 to the
polls, where, in 1872, Grant had 49,
l75 votes, and Greeley only 47,2S8,
and in 1876 Hayes had 52,G05 votes to
liz, 173 for Tilden. n
In Virginia, lOl,94O Democratic
votes were cast, aud 1889 Republic
can
In Georgia the Republican party,
seeing Senators Gordon and Hill the
intimate friends and trusted advisers
of President Hayes, debating the ap-
pointments and controlling the Fed.
eral patronage, must of necessity dis.
solve, and yet, in 1872, Grant had g..
$50 votes and Greeley 76, 1856. and even
Hayes had 50446 to 13O,O6S for Til.
den.
In Pennsylvania, where Hayes had
1884, l22 votesto S66, l58 for Tilden, the
Republican party, in 1877, weighed
by the Hayes policy, cast but "a, 40(
| votes, . falling of Of 100000, and the
Democrats carried the state by 7,OO(
majority.
In Ohio, where Hayes had 800 69t
to 1923, 1872 for Tilden, the Republican
party, in 1877, cast only PAL ,437 votes
q loss of So, POI, and lost the state by
$1,000 majority and the Legislature
by over 40 majority, which the pre-.
vious year had been Republican by 81
majority.
In Massachusetts, where the new
/
thrust down the throats Of Republi
cans, of the 160,063 voters for Hayes
who gave him 1900 majority Over
Tilden, over 10000 refused to vote
for Governor Rice in 1877, and thu
majority against him was 1885, and
1t was only by the support and mon
ey Of the organized rumsellers Of tht
State, and over 10000 Democrat,
votes procured by rum influence, tha
he secured his election by q plnrali
ty, and the State was saved. from tn,
fate of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
| Look, however, at the result where
the new policy was repudiated.
In Iowa, Hayes had So, 228 plurality
and in 1877 the Republicans had 81,
1923 plurality.
In New York Tilden had 1914:
majority, ana in 1877 tho Democrats
had only II ,..64 majority, although tn,
new policy men promoted the Demo
cratic side by Indifference and by
procuring the new administration t
make or announce many middleton
removals of Federal officers for tn,
sole purpose Of irritating and humil
iating Senator Conkling and hi
friends.
These, then, are the facts before US
l 4
Silence is q crime; acquiescence
and inaction are political death. Car
the Republican party, of heroic
achievements, be bound to an admin
istration which is not q free agent
but is bound by bargain to General.
John B. Gordon, L. .. q. Lamar
Wade Hampton and the Southern
Democrats now in office only through
the blood of murdered Republicans
Does not every voter in the land
know that Hayes and Packard were
elected simultaneously, and held by
the same title, and that when Hayes
abandoned and trampled down Pack
ard he put an irremovable stain upon
his own title ?The Republican party
has lived long and survived many as.
saults and many treasons, only be-
cause it has been party founded up.
on high principles, animated by lofty
sentiments, courageously acting up to
noble convictions. Ifit now disgrace
its record, and Endorses or fails to re-
pudiate the Hayes surrender, its vo-
ters will leave it by thousands its
days are numbered; it will die de-
served and an unhonored death.
w. E. CHANDLER.