Daily Republican., 1880-07-26
sou.nsrn social Ossr aoism.

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Southern social Ostr acism.
Inaugurats social ostracism against
every white man, North or South, tina.
gives his support to the building up Of
the Republican party; discountenanee
any man who Will 90 on or assist in
making the bond Of any man elected on
the Republican ticket; refuse to have
dealings Of any sort with the Republican
party, and show to the world that yon
are in truth and deed true Democrat.
Mississippi Star (Dem.)
This comes from the South that is
forever vaunting itself Of the fraternal
feeling with which 1t receives Northern
men to live in the South. Our ears
have almost daily been saluted from
the Northern dough face Democratic
press with praises Of the genuine hos
pitality, the friendship, and the gener-
al good.feeling which southern men
have for their Northern neighbors. We
suppose they mean the hospital
ity they must have for Northern Dem.
ocrats. Republicans no matter what
their social position are to be totally
ostracissd. We must Judge the charac'
ter Of the people OF the South by their
recognized paper organs. Correspon'
dents travelling or resident in the
South may write as they please and
depict in the choicest colors imaginable
the hearty welcome that awaits the
Northern man who has any idea Of
making his home in the South, but
they will fail to convince the people Of
the truth of what they say so long as
we have such outspoken language from
the editors of leading newspapers, who
represent the real true sentiment and
feeling of the people. The Star Is at
least honest and outspoken. There Is
no installing its sentiment or the mean
ing Of the above paragraph. The plan
it proposes is simply . variation
of the old programme. In addition to
the shotgun policy OF which 1t has
been a strong advocate, it advises the
social ostracism Of every man from the
North settling on Mississippi soil, I'M
less he be Democrat. This plan is to
work in where shot-guns will not be
available. The latter will do very well
for the negroes and poor native whites
who would dare be Republicans, but to
use shet.guns on prominent Northern
men would stir up too much Of an oppo-
sitio1 breeze in the North. The shot
gun has become little more notorious
than is agreeable, and so the Star
would inaugurate its plan to work in
where the shotgun does not work 30
we'll.
Under the policy advocated by the
star, there can be:.no doubt that Missis-
sippi will be solid for Hancock. It mat
ters not that there would be 10000 Re-
publican majority in the State il the
voters were left alone to vote as they
please. Mississippi must be carried for
the Democrats to make a solid South,
and to effect this purpose the shotgun
companies are brushing up their guns,
the White Leaguers are recognizing,
the Ku-Klux are fixing up their masks
and other trappings, and those who are
a little too respectable to belong to
these electioneering agencies are invit-
ed to unite in social ostracism of all
Northern men. Surely when sill these
peaceahle and harmless electioneerirg
agencies are put in operation by the
South, Hancock, the Superb" will
get a solid vote in that section. This
kind Of electioneering has double
edge and works two ways. While it is
solidifying the South for Hancock, it
is making the North solid for Garfield,
and 231 electoral votes from the North
will overbalsnce 1873 from the South.