The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-30
GENERAL GRANTS REASONS.

read It, and of course It was prepared with
care and due deliberstion. In this written
speech, he gives the reasons why he is Re-
publican. We will briefly review and dis
cuss those reasons and see if there is any
bottom to them. He says he athcres to the
Republican party, first, because 1t us the
national party asking the greatest, good for
the greatest nun Der of citizens" IL this
true? How can party that haunts on all
occasions, in season and out Of season, the
"bloody. shirt" that charges the people OF one
section of the union with being
traitors, Observation-Disclosures and ied-handed
murderers; that begrudges them the right
of suffrage, the right of voice in the man
agement of the affairs of the country, If it
dces not actually deny them that accuses
the people Of the southern states with being
ignorant, vicious and ndolent how can Il
party 30 stepped in soctionalism, as is the Re-
publican party, be party desiring the great
est good for the greatest numbers? This is
a characteristic Of the Democratic party, and
has boen from the day Of its inception, from
the day the grand old flag first waved over its
cohorts throughout the length ard breadth
of the union until the present time. Its
one of its fundamental principles, and in
adherence to this principle it has known no
north, no south, no east no west, but tho
entire union of states alone; and it has known
nonationalites extending the right hand offel'
lowship and hearty welcome to our shores,
to the peoples of all climes and countries,
offering TO them not only homes and liberty
and all the blessings Of n free government,
but also tho right OF citizenship and the right
to voice in the administration of the gov
ornment. Has not the Democratic party
done this Arc not these things the very
essence of the greatest good to the great
est numbers? In illustration of his
idea Of the nationality of the Re
publican party in its demands for the great
est good to the greatest numbers, he asserts
that any Democrat in any precinct within
tho vast extent of this republic can cast his
vote rs he pleases without molestation and
without hindrance and have it counted as it
was cast, and that any Democrat can pro-
claim his political opinions wherever he
pleases without persecution on account of
those opinions, but that in fourteen states in
the union, to.wt, tho southern states, n Re-
publican can neither vote as he ploases nor
freely give expression to his political convic-
tions without social ostracism and the dan
ger of personal violence. There is no
truth in either one Of these assertions and
no man ought to know it better than General
Grant So far us the principles ofthe Repub,
lican party arc concerned, we do not believe
they endorse politica ostracism or proscrip-
ton, and the same is true Of the Democratic
party; and we doubt not every Republican
throughout the whole country, if asked his
opinion, would heartily condemn any such
action. But doth Republicans. livcup to their
principles, carry out what they preach? In
Pennsy lvgnia ard the Now England states
and elsewhere in the northern and eastern
stat ., whore manufactures Of all kinds are
plentiful and where high tariff is popular,
nearly all tho projectors of these
industries are Republicans. 1t is fact
known that the operatives in these manu-
factories dare not vote the Democratic
ticket. Their empl yyers believe it to be to
their interests for the Republican party to
retain its hold of power, and if one of. their
employees votes against their interests he is
discharged at once These men, working for
their daily bread, with their wives and their
children dependent upon them for support
and for shelter from the chill blasts of win
ter are given tho alternative of having opin-
ions of their own and starving or freezing
with those t ey love best on
earth, or voting as their task-masters
dictate. This is freedom of thought
and freedom of action with vengeance
And tho Republicans never manipulated bal
lot boxes Oh, no They did not change the
returns in Louisiana and Florida and South
Carolina so as to give Hayes a majority and
are they not deity lingering the ballots in
Maine at this time? General Grant GER
tainly knew better when ho uttered this stu,
pendous nonsensicality. Is it true that in
fourteen states of the union Republican
can not vote and speak as he pleases, so far
as his politics are concerned? What are the
evidences to sustain this outrageous and
unwarranted charge? None whatever. 1t
is the bare ipse dixit Of General
Grant and other Republican leaders, made to
mislead the people of tho north and to stir
up in their bosoms hatred for and bitterness
against the southern people. 1t is true that
for tho first few years after the war was over,
when the southern states were over-run with
political knights Grant, birds ofpassagc who
came into our midst seeking political posi-
tons for selfagrandizement, men, in the
main, without character or standing at the
homes they had left, who in the silent hours
of the night would visit the cabins
Of the ignorant negroes and persuade
them TO hatred of the southern whites, and
collecting them together in crowds deliver to