National Republican., 1880-08-06

ought TO be requested o aid Hancock by keeping
civil tongues ia their heads This small, dan
erousminority Of Ere eaters in the sou uth ought
to be controlled lest they commit some fatal
blunder.
GENERAL WEAVER, in his speech at Mont
gomery, Ala, told the people how shocked he
was to learn that the democrats Systematically
counted our their opponents in tho "block
belt" Of the state, where tho natural republic
can vote is three times as great as that Of the
democrats Ho told his audience that he
meant to tell the people Of the north what he
had discovered there. 1t Is a pity that there
was no well-informed democrat to ask General
Weaver what he thought Of greeuback Count
ing-o in Maine.
Mr.. GRoEsBEcK Of Cinoiuuati in his recent
speech to tho democrats OF Cincinnati, defined
despotism as "a state where there is but
one political party" This definition fits the
political condition of things in half dozen
southern states. 1t covers the case Of south
Carolina and Mississippi precisely. Tho dem.
ocratio majority permits but ono party to ox.
ercise political functions in those states, and
that party the minority. The despotism of
tine shotgun rules supreme, aud ON the shotgun
Hancock must depend for their electoral
votes.
The way it looks now is that the democrats
started the story about Hancoclx's readiness to
| support and obey Tildon in 1S76-77 for a
double purpose First, to make him more ac-
ceptable with the uuwashed democracy, who
are never able to know the truth and who are
No1 1,,., AL
ond, as an attempt to govern the votes Of that
nice class Of people who are easily persuaded
by some sharp moral dodge, the first step OF
which is to circulate an infamous lie about a
man and have it widely discussed and COM
mented upon, aud then after awhile have il
revealed in an ovcrw whelming manuer that he
il innocent of 50 grave Il charge.
AS minority element before the war the
democracy of the north united with the
south, and to our sorrow and shame and to
| the shame of the whole civilized world, ruled
these United States in the interest Of low, bar.
barous deos. When modern civilization
grew apaco and threatened to overwhelm
them, the arrogant shareholders Of the
south aud the contemplate doughfaccs
of the north Joined hands in another aud
more Infamous game-a ga me Of destruction;
yet it was the legitimate results of their
abominable practice of all these former years
destroy what they could not control. Now,
after being repeatedly condemned by the civili-
cation Of the age, after repetition upon repeti-
tion Of their old arts, they have the effront.
cry to again come before the people as aspir'
ants for public trust. Let us be sharp enough
to perceive hat the mere couching attitude
so touchingly assumed at present does
not change the leopard's spots. They
arc still there, aud the leopard ma.
ture is still within their folds. There
is no stone that tho democrats will
let 70 unturned whereby they may regain
their ante-bcllum power. There was no stone
that they let go unturned that would accom-
plish their vile purpose TO further all the
means that led to the war. They were zeal
Gus all through the war to make the righteous
attempts on the part of the union men to save
our grand institutions of no avail, and evel
since the war their zeal has not fOrsaker
them. They are as earnest as ever to regair
the full control of the government. judging
the future not only by the past, but by tht
present. we we'll know what use they woul(
make of such power. IL we have any 70
gard for what we have gained, we are eaIuestl,
reminded to be ever on the watch 70
sharp lodges and Tilden tricks, tina
being forewarned we may be forearmed