The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30

Especial CORES pom denes OF the Democrats
WAsHIHGToE D. G., October "a. 1915
There has been Of late In the inner CIRCLES
Of Republican management ~ curious spaErfh
OF on attenpt 10 resurrsct the worn and rusby
fragments Of the outrage mill which 50 houn&
lsssly went 10 pieces in 1874 under the clumsy
management Of LaniauIst Williams We alB&
rem enfsF how
II THE OUTRAGE Mill,
went TO pieces; hoW the Infamous Charley
Tays, Of Alabama, piled tho hopper full Of
gEist to be ground cob, and all, MS ii ysres
how joe Hawlsy and t.antjaulet williams
aforesaid seized the crank and began to turn
array, and, finally, how tbs worn-otit. eOrla
dsrEned old thing went 10 smash at one fell
| swCop, buryFDg operators, carpet -baggers, ,nig~
gers, outragee, Federal troops, United States;
nhrshals, and the devil in politics generally,
undAra Democratic majority of seventy In ths
FOrty-fourth House OF Representatives. Since
that melancholy collapse it Is safe TO saV that
prosecuted cHrpet-baggeFs- rs per grand Jury
Caleudars-a and dead niggers-h per Kukltrx
reports in seventeen volumes Of nffidavits
compiled from the census register, and Bll In
one handwriting have been away below par
In the campaign quotations. Here and thsra
in Northern Methodist State like Iowa. or
in an Out~of-the way exostosls Of New Eng
land, Ike the Western Reserve Of Ohio,
''sAMPLE SOUTHERN oUTRAeEs."
have been exhibited sporadieaIly and have
| enjoyed now and then o. brief run Of local
POPULARITY Bht as general thing, and In
| the country ht large, the Outrage business
has not paid FIRST cost since 1874 True, the
| Radical managers, stricken with sad memo
ries Of the haleyon days fed, and "fve years
| of good stealing in South Carolina gone to-
the devil" us, John Patterson exeamed in
his agony when the troops we're Withdrawn
| from the State House at Columbia cherish
| ing these "reminiscences | say, tbs Radical
managers haV6, from time to time eudgeled
| their ingenuity to invent some device to take
| the place Of the lost and Iamanted outrage
mill. But aiI 10 no purpose. The POues Ksa
| WIS tried even to the extent of O. Des MoinHss
speech, by Grant, on the subject, but 1t fell
! short and exploded like 81 She'll among their
| own outlying pickets, Hike bad artillery prae~
| tics, losing IL great many Catholic votes to
the Republican party and gaining no North
| Msthodist votes, because they had them
| already Then they tried
THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS BUSINESS.
| But this failed because no two Radical
| managers could agree on the amount to be-
| claimed, and tho estimates running from
| $5oo,No,ooo To- $14yoOo,oo0,0oo, 50 bewlldered
the average Radical voter that he forgot alE
| about the peril Of the natiUn
| | remember a'funny Incident during the
| CANVASS of 1876 in the interior Of Now York
4 local Radical orator was holding forth II, o.
crossroads audience at o place called Otselie,
aud In the course Of his barangtis he prCdueed
9 three~sheet poster and read from 1t that If
| Tilden were elected the South would rush eys
mnese to Washington with two and half
| billions Of "rsbel claffos,," repudiate the na~
tional debt, bankrupt ths treasury aud tax
the North 10 pay the bills Whereupon an
old farmer In the outskirts Of the f'hudienes''
sung out;
Say, mister, fow much IL tl Say 1t over
again. did not qnl's ketch ths figgersP'
| 1.-TWO billions and IL hslff' shouted the ern~
bryo Radical stntesnan.
ooh h-ll' responded the old man, I" is that
| all Consider 1t settlsdl I'll phY it InYsetff
| Let that pass, and tell us how much your
party has nlret1tlg stolenr
| The discomfited young man suddenly
switched off from the subject Of rebel claims,
and nfteT 40 Intellectual attempt to ctynj1re uss
an idea Of his own, collapsed and declared the
meeting adjourned,
| At tsii events, the "rebei eans" elap-trhrs
was met by such universal derison and con-
| tempt in the civilized PORTIONS Of tbs North
that it was dropped. and has not even been
mentioned during the phnding canvass in any
authoritative Or responsible Radical quarter.
| In fntt, tbs Radicals worried along In this
eanVass up to the Otctober elections Without
any "issues' ut MI, carrying on their stump
speaking and distributing their documents In
n happy go lucky sort Of way, but mainly
running on the "fnouey question" md talk
mere matter ri form.
THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS,
piiing az they did increased losses IN tor
Of the result in Maine threw the Radical
managers here into such IL blank abyss Of
despair that their despondepcy took D. hygte~
rical form md their wallis we're mistaken for
the sounds oG jubilee. The New York Tsuses
alone faced the rn"sic and owned the corn.
j. EEeFgbody =; yo SoPpossd1 p, that they had ggen
the grinding WIS heard at Sumter, SOUTH
Carolina, and upon examination it Was fouIsd
that the outrage mill had been resurreeteIs
sct on end and provided With Il nigger Of tho
name of Sam Lee at its wteezy crank. The
remarkable part Of it was that the Fra.d~
9Ient Administration appeared to be-
lending 81 faint and sickiy hand ut
the crank. Filled with establishment st Ghts
|apparition, and wondering what could possf~
/ bly, be the motive for such an apocalypse OF
the Bloody Shirt, the persecuted carpet bug
ger and the hlee1ng u nIgger-oq Z paper, 9eotI~
paign Conroittee and asked him wfaa II aH
meant; what on earth he expected 10 accom-
pIish by. 8. revival Of the Southern outrage,
businesS2
@Oh," be said, 'sConkling and Don Cameron
thought it might do some good In New York
and Pennsylvania. The fact is," pursued the
genial G-, "Our fellows don't krgou what.
TO do with
4 TEE D-~~D GEEEHBACR HCEs EgaE:
they arc afraid to touch either sIx1e Of It, and.
unless ne can Geb up an outrage Or tvs fOFt
theln they won't have anything At al 10 run.
onH'
SO D job was put up, as you have already.
, ooeesyed. Sumter, =. g. WAS rejected as the
seem, Of operations, because It happened To-
be- handy. The piggers we're armed aad In.
, eitSd 10 provoke q riot with the Whites: the
whole thing wsas as dellber sssly planned and
pat up here IN Washington as eves strategiG4
fasOVf;fne enk Was In time Of war; and it failee9
only through the notorious incapacity of tag
negro race for any executive WfJrk requEEtnf
> initiative and system, The whole b(Isinea !
ifresisttbly reminded ne III the feeble eegoF t1
that the H1ndOo8 make once ia awhile to rise
against those kings IF human beasts, the Eng
ii9h a revolt n rabfits against lions. Nov. il
: some shrewd Yankee cou41 have beea found
> to take the risk u eadiag and Greeting the
brute energies Of shat negro mob at Sumter
there might haze been trouble But it Ig 8
grim matter ok fact that, since the -