Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-06
POLITICAL COMMENT.

POLITICAL COMMENT.
Southern sentimenr-The Democr.ts
tiaI Election.
A GOOD POINT.
Secretary Evarts made strong point
in his Cooper institute speech on the
northern upholders of the shot gun
policy. Speaking of the verdict in the
ChisOlm case, and the Democratic claim
that it was rendered by fair jury, he
went on to say that this was undoubted-
ly the truth. The jury fairly repre-
sented the public sentiment Of their
locality, and their verdict simply echoed
the popular opinion that the murderers
of Chisolm had done nothing which
deserved punishment. This is just as
true of the Yazoo murder. Public
sentiment in MISSISSIPPI sustains the
shotgun despotism, and gives proof that
it does by allowing the guilty persons to
60 unmolested. Lamar keeps silent in
difference to this opinion, while Single
ton, less polite, toadies to it.
| MISSISSIPPI SENTIMENT.
l NAAs NOnkACSe"dA c1uklCVOu, Ol NXlS~
sissippi, who is candidate for election
to the United States senate, has been
heard from on the Yazoo question. He
made speech at Yszoo City on the 11th
inst. in the course of which he "indorsed
the incident of the 25th of july" as the
letter mildly states it. That "inoide.t"
was the deposlting of load of buckshot
in the back of Henry NJ. Dixon. And
yet the country is assured by the north
ern allies of the shotgun Democracy
that the best citizens of Mississippi do
not approve of political assassination.
Hence the question, who are the best
citizens of Mississippi? If Mr.. Con-
gresham Singleton, who aspires to
seat in the national senate, and who
is understood to be strongly supported
in his aspirations, is not one of
the best citizens, who isl Do not the
people of that commonwealth select their
best citizens to represent them in the
senate2 If the people of that state send
Mr.. Singleton to the senate, the people
of this country will naturally and rightly
infer that he is fair representative of
Mississippi civilization, and that his
approval of the Yazoo assassination indi-
Gates the kind and degree of that civili-
zation. They will infer that he finds it
necessary to approve OF such Incl
dents" as that of July 25th in order to
win the favor of the dominant part of
the population of the state of Mississippi,
and the quality of the civilization of
that state, as of any other, may rightly
be gathered from that of the dominant
part of itspopulation.-Chicago Times.
| NORTHERN VS.. SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS.
Already there is talk of the valiant
efforts which the Democratic statesmen
of the north will make to hold their
fiery southern brethren in check when
congress reassembles. All the Disasters
of the year are charged upon the latter.
If the southern brigadiers had kept
their mouths closed, all would have
been we'll, the northern Democrats say.
This is not strictly true. The northern
Democracy were scarcely lesss revOln-
tionary than their southern allies. The
Hon. s. s. Cox was tremendous revo-
lutionist at one time, and offered to
block the wheels of government with
his own doughty body if no
one else were brave enough.
Springer was also untamed up to the
last moment, and only closed his mouth
1a,T., ~. =. S,1y ;,y S,; " ~ ;., - :. for time
saw M on on a spree. ~ To BE- sure Blackburn
eclirsed all other revolutionists when he
declared the purpose of the party to be
to wipe the last vestige of war legtsla-
ton from the statute books" and Beck
was hardly less reckless in his opening
declarations concerning the caucus pro-
gramme; yet, it should be borne in mind
that the northern Democrats, with the
exception of Fernando Wood, were the
eager allies of the Confederates in all
the revolutionary schemes of the extra
session. The responsibility rests upon
the whole party, and cannot be lodged
by any section of it.-N. Y. Tribune.
"coUNr1Na OUT" AND "CoUNTINa IN"
We said, and we repeat, that the Re-
publican party will nominate for presl-
dent, next year, man who, If elected,
will take the Office; therefore, any
treasonable plots or dishonest schemes
on the part of the Confederate Demo
cratic majority in congress to ".count
him out" or to count in a Democrat
who has not been elected, may as well be
dronped. Thereupon the Free Press
cries out: "When Tilden not only re-
garded himself as elected, but really was
elected, and it wac suggested that ne
should take his seat Notwithstanding the
) infamous counting in of Hayes, the
Republican party joined in Wild shrek
Of revolution?' The Free Press mere
" exhibits its stubborn foolishness. TIL
den never was elected; and he never
honestly believed he was elected. Or, If
it be charitablv admitted that Tilden
:, himself thought he possibly was
elected. it has been indisputably
proved that his own most init"
mate friends and agents, his own house
Q hold. did not believe he was elected ;
D else Why did they try to buy an electoral
Q vote in Oreg.:n, which neither he, mol
+ thev. nor anybody believed he was enti'
d tied to? If he really believed that he
: waa elected, or if his friends and agents
o 10 believed, Why were the cipher dispatch
Q villainies perpetrated? An honestly
u elected man does not try to buy his OWL
1s1sev ee tc 4s%Pf1sts dsfy fns gesstZ t5'ea
+ and bulldozing, and the most infamou'
6 crimes against the ballot box. Not sue
o ceedinp in that, Tilden, or his own par
!" ticular friends and agents, after he Va
beaten at the polls, tried to buy th'
Office by the most villainous bribery
Haves was not "counted in" but tn
." Democrats made efforts to "count hin
:. out" =.
y The Republicans propose to elect thei
i nominee for president, next year, by
;. majority which will be indisputabl<
ID They propose to give him the electoI:
nf votes OF enough states to MAKE q,
se election plain and palpable to the Who'll
IN world; and then, and in that case, Tnt
n. ever attempt to wickedly defraud h,'
~ and the honest people Of the Unite
>: gtatoa ont of their lust rights will nc