National Republican., 1880-10-18
A sourHERN CANVASS.


The New York Herald urges the republi-
can lead ers to organize for a thorough can
vass Of the south in order TO convince that
section that the success of GARFIELD
means no menace to its interests. Such
canvass would be productive of some good
if made judiciously, but it would fail, rs
all other attempts have failed, to cause the
democratic leaders to change their methods.
They do not wish to change Probably
they could not if they would. They have
raised devil in their red-shirt clubs which
they cannot lay with ease.
The south could easily dsarm the stall
warts by simply having its quarrel just.
Take the case of South Carolina. No
fuir-minded man will deny that the repuh-
liclns have a natural majority in that state.
There is not a democrat in it who can
truthiuly say that if left to q fair, tolerant
undisturbed canvass, succeeded by q peaceful
election and an honest cOunt, South Carolina
would not give majority for the GAR
FIELD electoral ticket. Yet there is not u
republican who is 50 sanguine as to expect
anything less than forty or fifty thousand
democratic majority.
| The democrats cannot claim that they
are ostracsing, bullying, dividing time,
night-ridng, etc, for " home-rule." The
republicans have no state ticket; they have
not single straight republican county
ticket in the state Although they are in
n natural majority in twenty out of the
thirty-two counties they have in but one
county a straight nomination for members
of the legislature. The republicans have
thus sought in every way to disarm all but
fair, legitimate opposition on the part OF
the democrats. They can in no way i'm
peril the local interests of the party Of
property and intelligence" their success
in November cannot add one penny to tho
taxes, nor bring within the reach OF Office n
single incompetent, ignorant, extravagant
or dishonest man. They cannot be charged
with making a color'line, and every pre-
tense that there is race issue involved has
been absolutely rendered impossible of main
tennce. The success Of the republican
electoral ticket will not he "negro domi-
nation" nor will it even affect the political
result in the nation for GARFIELD will, in
all probability, be elected without the vote
of South Carolina if elected all.
And yet the red-shirt campaign will go
on Governor PERRY and the party press
will not cease to urge Ostracism in society
and in business as the penalty for being 9
republican. Republican speakers win con
tinue to be insulled and bullied Ropubli,
can meetings will continue to be broken up
as that at Greenyillo was, by mounted
cluba riding down the audience and shout
ing down tho speakers, Republican voter
will continue to be shot and abused Ni
three were by the red-shirt riders on Tho
night succeeding the Greenyille meeting.
II is no use for the Herald 10 talk. The
same spirit which led South Carolina tc
mob anti-s slavery men, to applaud Brooks
for attacking SUMNER, to fire on Sumter, t.
lead in the rebellion, TO enact the blacl
code to organize the ku-klux, to slaughtei
negro prisoners at Hamburg, 10 hunt repub
licans to death at Ellenton, to take CoKEI
f from the railroad train and shoot him tt
death in Aiken county, to murder RAN
DoLPH at Cokesbury, TO STUFF 800 ballot
boxes in thirly-one counties with tissu,
ballots, and where these were not suiiicen
, to count out every man not democrat i
still alive in the breasts of nine out Of ter
, of the white democrats in the state. The,
do not want to change this spirit The.
never will change it as long as success j.
allowed to attend on such methods. A
/ well try to peysudde the tiger to surronde
{ his prey as ask these men to submit elec
tions to fair discussion and the decision o
+ a free ballot.
, When they are taught that force AM
fraud cannot tcia elections; when they or'