Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-12

I0t impossible. In South Carolina the red
shlrt, rifle, and sabre clubs give notice
through the public press that they will as
sumo control of any republican meetings
Wnlch may be convened. In Texas a Uni
ted States official is driven from his home
Ghuer threat of assassination because he
dares 10 make republican speech. In
Missouri the American flag is hauled down.
torn INTO shredS, and plated into ropes.
" hat mockery is the nomination of a
union general by political party guilty
OF these outrages! What Standardization
ON the part of union general to ac-
cept such nomination. Gen. Hancock
professes to love the flag which his sup
porters trample in dust. That flag is the
emblem the authority which he aspires to
WELD. Can he doubt that the design of
ms southern supporters is that he shall dis
grace rather than honor it? How dare he,
II he be loyal man, and if he be true to
his convictions, become the candidate of a
party which with shotguns defes free
speech and banishes free citizens? There
Is no room for doubt of the truth of these
reports. From every quarter of the south
they come well authenticated The south
ern press trumpets them to the north in a
tone OF lofty defiance. Says the BarnwelI
Is. c. People:
:, We learn that L. w. y. Mackey and W. n.
4att the brayeSt and most brazen radicals in the
state, together with numerous lesser marty Iobts
VIII be IN Blackville on Tuesday There is one
lesson which the republicans of this state have not
learned. The sooner they know and become re-
eonced to the inevitable the better it will be for
them. 1t is this: The democrats have obtained
control of the state of South Carolina and they
intend to retain 1t at every hazard and in spite Of
the utmost efforts OF local enemies and their
northern allies. We are requested by the highest
competent democratic authority to invite all demo
cratic candidates to attend the republican meet
ing They are expected to be on hand
And the BarnwelI Sentinel SAYS:
1t is the duty of the democratic party to have
representatives at this meeting from ali parts Of
the country So let all clubs send fair representa-
tlves among them. Let them be men who viii
nail lies to the wall fast as they arc told Demo-
cratic candidates should attend to man.
The clubs" here referred to are those
notorious Red Shirts, Rifles and Sabres
which shot down innocent men in Ellen
ton IN 1876 for the crime (?) of assembling
together as "republicansw Gen. Hancock,
what, IN your opinion, does the phrase lin
tend to retain control of the state of South
Carolina at every hazard" mean? 1t
means terrorism, and threats, and assassi-
nation to secure your election; and YOU
know 1t! 1t means that your candidacy in
South Carolina Is to be supported at the
bayonets point; and you know it! Ii
means that, in South Carolina, democrats
will murder republicans to prevent them
from defeating you with a free ballot; and
you know it!
The democratic party at Cincinnati de-
clared itself in favor of ''home rule" and
you, Gen. Hancock, will adopt that plat
form as your political creed What do
you mean by home rule?" Is it the
home rule which prevails in Texas? Mr..
Amos L. Bissell was threatened with as
sasslnatlon, and compelled to flee from his
1Qp 1hQQps6 IN th9 T9yPe Of Bfazqria Ri rial fQg Qg ibis
described the character of home rule in
Texas:
l complained that, while ample provisions
were made for the education of the white chill
drOn, only partial provision was made for the
colored; that the assessment for taxes was two or
three times much on the property of cOored
people as on the same kind OF property belonging
to white people; and further, that, while coored
persons confined in jail were hired out for the
benefit OF county treasury. white men in the same
fix were not interfered with.
Is this the sort of ''home rule" call for
by the democratic PLATFORM and indorsed
by you, Gen Hancock?
Will some democrat i'll behalf of Gen.
Hancock, do us the favor to answer these
questions? One of two things is about to
happen; either the Bulldozers, the Ku-
Klux Klans, the Red Shirts, and rife and
Sabre Clubs must disband, must cease to
murder, or the democratic party will wit
ness such a bloody-shirt campaign as it has
not seen since the whipped Rebels sur
rendered at Appomattox If the South is
to be kept solid by assassination, the
North will be made solid by horror :
Chicago Journal.