Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-21
More Powder and Bali.
New York Times. /

There is one peculiarly about the more
pronounced Democratic leaders In the
South which cannot have failed to i'm
press itself upon those who have dispas-
sionatelv investigated cotton State poll
| tics, or who have inquired into what is
known as "the Southern problem" This
! popularity is that whenever the Bour bon
captains are allowed an inch they
straightway display disposition to take,
not an ell, but yard or more If they can
| get it. So long as they were ruled with
strong and firm hand, they gave some
promise OF an intention to behave them
selves. But the instant the strong hand
was removed the old spirit of lawlessness
and defiance seemed to overcome the bet.
ter judgment OF the people in question,
and they were at once ready for any act,
no matter how violent, which promised
to give power to the cause and party in
the interest Of which they were engaged.
So, when the National Government could
not see its way clear TO taking position
in support of Gov. Brooks in Arkansas,
King, White, Garland, the present U. s.
Senator, and other prominent Democrats
of the same Class, who served under the
Bourbon claimant Baxter, took the law
int their own hands and placed their
own men in power Their victory cost
the State more than two scores of lives.
Again, when Packard was deserted in
Louisiana and Daniel H Chamberlain in
South Carolina, and Nichols and Hamp-
ton given tn places which rightfully be.
| lOnged to their opponents, it became no.
torious that the lite of pronounced col.
ored Republican politician was no longer
safe in either of those States. Since those
days, which may now we'll be regarded
as memorable, the shotgun has, except in
rare instances, been al rest, and for the
simple but all.suflcient reason that ballot
/ box stuffing took the place OF road lining,
and 1t WAS no longer necessary to 'go
/ cunning for niggers" in order to carry
elections.
But as the years have gone on and the
men who went into the rebellion against
the Republic have grown in power in
Washington, until at last they control the
legislative branch of the National Gov
ernment, even necessity has not dictated
their actions, and, as it has seemed, tor
the very love OF displaying their power,
they have engaged in such pleasing little
pastimes as the killing in Tensas and
'the disturbances" in Madison. Boder
than ever since the nomination of "the
truly distinguished Federal soldier" who
is now the first choice of the Tammany
| u.
are beginning TO give to the country some
idea OF VIVA! may be expected from them
should they succeed In placi. their
6gure.hesd in the Executive char For
instance, Gen. VIM. Preston, of Kentucky,
Is usually very quiet and very modest,
though at the same time representative
Southern, gentleman. just now, however,
he is what the colored people of the
South call "enthused." He has been
making speech at a Hancock and
English ratification meeting in Louisville.
and has admirably succeeded in properly
representing his people. In tact, he
really outdid himself, and well sounded
the Southern keynote for the next cam
palgn by declaring, regarding the action
of the Cincinnati Convention, that sit
was an inspiration of the party to select a
man whose very name would stop for.
ever the odious cry raised by Morton,
now deceased, and the foul horde that
then assisted him in sacrificing the prop
erty of the Nation to the damnable lust OF
power of the Republic"
Continuing in this strain at much
length, Gen. Preston said, amid what the
: local newspapers called "storm of ap.
plause," that he was heartily tired of pa.
cif1c candidates. What he wants, If his
own story is to be believed, is "a little
more powder and ball ;" in other words
he is not yet satisfied with the injury
which has already been done to this
} country by the killing of American citi
, zens in the Southern States, and he wants
to go on another of those ''nigger hunts
, which are peculiar to the South, and
: which always occur in the game season
that is to say, shortly before an election
: But even with this prospective pastimt
Gen. Preston did not seem TO be satisfied
and with true Democratic fIankness
which is always displayed to best advan
!. tage when there is absolutely no danger
t he said-we quote literally" God only
3 knows how tired [ am of hearing 70,
call yourselves Conservatives. You hsv,
never won a victory since you ceased t.