River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23
THE ISSUE.

Evidence Is constantly increasing
which should prove to the satisfaction
of all honest and intelligent men that
the main issue now before the people
for adjustment is practically the same
as in l880and during the war. The seces-
sionistsof theSouth, in conjunctionwith
rebel sympathizers of the North-both
classes of whom are Democrats-are
laboring with a zeal born of despera-
ton to secure the election of General
Hancock to the Presidency. Mark
the continuity! the rebels of the South
and the Democrats of the North uni
tedly laboring with a zeal worthy of
a better cause for the restoration of
the slave oligarchy of the South! 1t
matters not that a Union soldier is
their candidate. In accepting a NOM
ination at their hands General Han
cock committed himself to the sup
port of their iniquitous schemes.
What these schemes are the Southern
wing-the preponderating element
of the Democratic party boldly pro-
claims. Senator Beck, of Kentucky,
says to Republican senators, 1--WE do
not propose to stop until every yestige
of war legislation is wiped from our
statute books" Senator Hampton, of
South Carolina, in defining the princi-
pies of Democracy. says, "these are
the principles for which Lee and Jack
son fought for four years. The reb-
ell General Robert Toombs, in refer
ring to the possible election of Han
cock, says: eff elected, the old boys
of the South will see that Hancock
does the fair thing by them. In other
words, he will run the machine to suit
them, or they VIII run the thing them
selves" A Democratic paper in Mis-
sissippi makes the prediction that 1.-The
negro in these states will be slave
again, or cease to be; his sole refuge
from extinction will be in slavery to
TIC WilIG6 uldIl' w HltC many Ahny
scott at this idea, Democratic success
will make it not only possible but ex-
tremely probable; because the South
will control the party in case of sue
cess, and Democratic ascendancy
means notification of the later amend
ments to the constitution and wiping
out of all war legislation, AS avowed
by a leader of the Democracy in Ken
lucky. Another rebel orator says:
''The Confederacy still exists. my
friends, and jeff. Davis, the best
friend we ever had, is yet our Presl-
dent, and devoted to our interests, and
if Hancock is elected, and we have no
doubt he will be, you will be paid for
all the property you have lost through
Radical rule, and you must stand by
the great Democratic party, for SOL
id South will giUe us entire control OF
the general government, and we can
redress all our wrongs" The extracts
we have quoted were uttered by rep
resentative men of the South and
voice the ruling sentiment of the
Democratic party. Loyal men in the
North can never preserve their loyal
ty and vote to place in power the par
ty that in its hellish malignity became
responsible for the starvation of thou
sands of union soldiers in rebel prison
pens and other acts dishonorable to
civilized warefare, and which sup
presses the constitutional rights of
loyal citizens of the South by murder,
intimidation and fraud. We appeal to
all good citizens to study candidly the
relative positions of the two great
political parties IN the conviction that
by so doing they will recognize the
just claims of the Republican party to
preferment.