The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-05-26
WHOLE NO. 1907.

aucc. the Republican vote in ths
south will remain ct home
ask the Republican party, THAI
you that the Southern republicans
that the helpless colored men at the
south, and the deserted white Re
publicans of Florida, Louisiana, and
South Carolina, will endsnger theil
lives and risk their all by voting fol
a member of that administration
which deserted them and turned
them over bound hand and foot to the
Democrats of the south p? It is asking
too much. Remember that the Re
publicans of the south hold Mr.. Sher.
man responsible as much as Mr..
Hayes for the shameful desertion
and betrayal of them into the hands
of enemies il 1876 | ask you, gen.
| tlemen, with the belief that now pre-
walls in the south, and that must
1 prevail, is it in human nature to ex'
pect them to come out to vote for
Mr.. Sherman, having once supported
this administration, havingonce been
left by them to the mercy OF the rife
clubs Of the south; would 1t be prob.
able that these men would again
risk their lives and their all in an at
tempt to make Sherman President or
to make Blaine President? | desire
on this subject to call for the sober,
common sense judgment Of the citi-
zens of the north as well as the south.
! With q candidate who does not in
spire the southern voters With conf
dence, with courage, with hope, TIL
den or any other candidate has a
walk over. So easy would be his
victory that be need not send dollar
south of Mason and Dixon's line, and
yet he would get the solid electoral
vote Of the south. With General
Grant as candidate many Republi-
cans are OF the opinion that be would
not poll as many votes in Ohio as
Sherman, nor as many votes in New
Hampshire as Edmunds, nor as many
in Illinois as Washburne. Yet let
me call your attention to this: With
Grant as o candidate we do know
that he could expect that every black
in the south, and every white Repub-
lican in the south, would cast their
votes for him. With the. it would
take all the chicanery of Gramercy
Park to secure even majority of the
south. Instead Of spending their
money in New jersey, New York
and Ohio, their attention would have
to be divided between these states
and the south, for little good would
it do to carry Indiana and New York
if they lost Virginia, Florida. the
Caroiinas and Louisiana 10 the south.
Do | claim too much
Take the correspond zee of the
Chicago Tribune, of the Springfield
Republican, of the Gazette; read
them, if you please, aud see If you
do not find their universal EesGmony
to be that in the south the only pub
lie man that is known, who is trusted,
who is loved, who has paid to him
almost blind idolatry by the black
voters of the south is 4. s. Grant
Sherman, it is true is sometimes
spoken of among the negroes of the
south, and why? Because he is the
brother of the Sherman who aided
Grant to fight the battles of the re-
public.
was speaking but the other day
with gentleman who had recently
returned from Florida, Judge Cox,
and he told me that when you ask a
man there if be knows anything
about Blaine or Edmunds, he says,
No, sab" When you ask him if be
knows anything about Sherman, he
will say, 1T pears like / have heard
that name before. Be Sherman the
man who fought with Grant in the
south ~ But the two names which
the southern blacks regard as the sa-
viors Of their race are Lincoln and
Grant Lincoln is their dead savior,
Grant their living one. Those who
differ with me upon every other
statement with regard to Grant
must concur in this; and it is no re-
ply to say to me that in some of the
southern conventions there have
been votes secured by other candi-
dates than Grant. Southern conven-
tions are partially in the hands of
southern Office holders. The Office
holders there are John Sherman's
henchmen. Our paid representa-
tive at Columbus leaves his seat,
the legislature still in session, and
for the purpose of being delegate in
the State Convention of Georgis
Our other paid representative at
Washington can leave the halls of
Congress with matters Of vital i'm
portance to his constituency under
consideration, and can travel TO
South Carolina in behalf of John
Sherman, and another paid represen-
talive can leave his post for which
we pay him, aud come here to be
elected delegate to the State Con-
ventioD, a delegate 10 the National
Convention and Chairman of the
State Convention, al for the glory of
John Sherman. iu this way, and by
other means, there have been votes
secured in the south for candidates
other than Grant.
1t is matter of statistics that, as
sumlng nineteen-twentieths of the
black men in the south to be Repub-
licans, the Republicans could carry |
six southern states. 1t is q matter
OF common notoriety, as well known !
as any future act can be known, that
Virginia would cast her ELECTORAL
vote for Grant if Grant were the Re-
publican nominee But, says some
man who fancies that be is more pa
triotic than myself, because be joins
in the cry of the snti-third termers,
Grant can not carry Ohio Grant
cannot carry a doubtful state in the
North" My friend, you are no more
of prophe: than i am. You have
10 more reason for saying that Grant
can not carry Ohio, or the doubtful
states than l have for saying he can.
They had that great ephemeral man
of mushroom growth - Bristow.
They had then their mighty liberal
convention at Cincinnati, presided |
over by one of our distinguished citi.