National Republican., 1880-09-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE RED SHIRTS CALLED o oUrro-DA1


Soaring Radicals as Good Fun rs Fox
Chase.
[From the Lexington g. C) Dispatch Dem) Sep
tember |. 1891
Before our next issue the democratic party
Of South Carolina will have opened the cam
paign by a grand ratification meeting at
Columbia, and we take occasion second time
to insist upon a large attendance from Lex-
ington county. The conduct of the campaign
on the part of the democracy should be Wig.
orous and aggressive. Wo arc in the ascend
ancy and should remain there at any cost.
Let every good man, no matter what his call.
ing, spare the time to lend some aid in paving
the way TO another democratic victory. SEN
ators Bayard, Vance, Hampton and Butler will
be present to make speeches at this meeting on
the 9TH. Who that can possibly afford being
there would miss seeing and hearing the great
statesman Bayard, and the inmitable Vance
Captain ID. j. Griffith has been appointed by
the executive committee chairman Of tho Lex
ington delegation. Report to him in Colum-
bia. Go in red shirts, If you desire, and on
horseback for certain. Neighing aud stamp.
ing chargers preferred, but mules with shorn
names and tails-and d'piJus erecius--will per.
haps do just as we'll. We know from the ex.
perience of 1876 the good effect of turning
out on n beast" In the event of q battle
with the valiant radicals cavalry force might
be the best. They have been saying some
most alarming things lately. The philippics
of some of the gifted colored orators who have
recently been holding forth so boldly In the
byways aud back streets of Columbia are
more powerful than fleets aud armies" II
would bo a wise procaution, therefore, to go
to Columbia on tho 9Th prepared to make u
most hSsty retreat in case of rout by
the brave boys in black; or, taking another
view oil the matter, pretty good business
might be done ut "intimidating" by merely
putting OH formidable appearance. Why, on
big Tuesday, at Abbevillc, in 1876, Chamber
lain had his imagination so heated by the
sight Of red shirts that he actually heard n
bona Gde click of great big pistol. His sense
of hearing became SO acute that ho got to
dodging without method. The poor fellow,
no doubt, believes TO this day that that was
the most critical period in his whole en-.
reor. He could not DO convinced that some
south Carolina heathen did not cock pistol
on him. Who knows what little galloping
aud few lusty and innocent rebel yelis
would do for Columbia? The entire at
mOsphere of that beautiful city might be
purified by the expulsion OF the last radi.
cal there. The South Carolina republi-
cans are so easily, so thoroughly and SO
much intmidated that it's as good as
foX.chasc to got out after them. A rad is
funny enough any way you take him, but
when he's scared he's enough to make even "A
yankee laugh. We have had diversion enough,
however, over this much.abused, bulldozed
party and as it would doubtless give forth no
worse an odor dead than living. its speedy ex.
tinction is consummaton devoutly to be
wished for. The intimidation process is all.
sufficient for this determination. A very
little fright, and the average rad is dead all
over" Try the experiment next Tuesday.
All that is necessary is to ride about in small
groups and look pretty savage; ii any of "the
faithful" arc near they fall like ripe corn be.
fore the reaper.