Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-09-30

! poiC OI inc hcpuDllCan cause anu lls
standard bearers.
We have found instead u series OF
cvasions and curtailments of truths
and i'll fine nothing, absolutely moth
ing but an appeal to sectional preju-
diccs based on distorted facts. Til,
uttcranccs of tho patriot and the broad
views OF the statesman fail to appear
in this lengthy dissertation composed
Of assertions which could be traverse(
with pin points as if they were 50
many sleeves will. apcrtures showing
the places where their wfutations
might enter.
IL is the address of Il political Thin
blc-rigscr. "Now you sec it, and
now you DON'T"
The solid South has 1913 electoral
votes, says Mr.. Conkliu, and needs
but AZ more TO elect tho President.
lie then quotes tho census of 1870 to
show that the South Qcaving out
deity the States of Missouri, Ken
lucky, Maryland and Delaware,
though he counts them in the 1873
electoral yotcs) had Il white popula-
ton of but seven millions, against
four millions Of blacks. He then
shows that these seven millions of
rebels arc controlling the Union,
while he quietly omits the other four
States in his argument.
In the same manner he touches the
matter Of statistics. regarding pro-
ducts, their value, the amount of the
imports and exports of each section.
When the number of electoral votes
comes in he takes them from the Is
Southern States, and when he brings
up statistics he only takes in I2. Such
is his thinly-covcrcd dodge.
He tells them that in Louisiana
only $4,000 whites were registered in
1867, against $4,000 colorcd. But
what he don't tell them is that he,
Conklin, had just voted to disfran-
chisc tens of thousands of whites for
their participation in the Rebellion,
while he cnfianchiscd every negro,
whether residents of tho State or !
fresh from the disbantlcd colored rcgi-
mcnts; not to speak of the thousands
Of blacks under age who were fiaudu-
lently registered.
He does not tell either that in the
State Of New York, where there is Il |
Democratic majority, only9 Congress-
men are Democrats against "a Re-
this through the gerry
of the immaculate Rcpub
lean party.
lie does not say either, that in the
great State of Ohio q majority of
White voters arc Democrats and that
t requires the few thousands of COL
red voters who have come there
rom the South to give tho Republi-
an party IN occasional preponder-
nee of q mere handful.
He docs not say either, that there
among the whites of tho Union
Democratic majority of more than
ne million, as proven by tho 250, 600
otcs which I'ildcn obtained oyer|
layes, despite the 100000 negro|
otes received by the latter.
Tic does not say either, that the
minority Of the whites of this country
ave controlled its destinics for Gf-
zen years through the lcgcrlemain
t enifanchising the blacks to make
p for the number of whites which
icy lacked to constitute a majority. .
He does rot say either, that the $
xteen Southern States whose cleo +
'ral strength foots up l3S votes ,
lumber Il, WO,OOO Of whites against +
100000 of blacks, and that it is i;
atural that the whites who are
cmocrats should govern the blacks
no are Republicans. \
lie does not say either, as Ben !.
utter has discovered, that the COL i
ed race can only look for protec-
III among the large majority of the 4
hite people of the Union which con- i
tutes the Democratic party. h
At last he forgets to say that the y
ejority ofthe people OF this country c.
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