Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-22
What the Republicans Mean.

Washington Herald.
The Republicans in the House of Rep
resentatives are playing deeper game
than is implied in the gaining of two or
three votes which do not materially i'm
prove their narrow majority. They are
still trying to retrieve their well-nigh
fatal blunder in giving the suffrage
| wholesale to the late slaves in the south,
in the idea that they could so secure a
permanent majority there for many
years. The invention returned to plague
them by merely giving increased repre-.
| sentation to the south, which to their
CONSERVATION turned out to he steadily
Democratic, simply because that party
represents both freedom and good order
there. The present scaudalous proceed.
lngs in the House are of piece with
the Administration dalliance with the
Repudiatiouists in Virginia and other
States, and before that, again, Grants
characteristic efforts in the way Of brute
force, by the use of the military. 1t is
to serve notice on all the scalawags, ad
venturers, and discontented spirits in
the southern Democratic States that n
reactionary movement by them, intend.
ed 10 overthrow the natural supremacy
of the intelligent, order loving. and pro.
gressive classes and put the black voting
masses once more in the ascendancy, as
Immediately after the war, will meet
with prompt and whole hearted assist.
auce from the Radical Republican party
north, no matter how wild, desperate,
and lawless the movement be. The
majority in the House has virtually ad
vertised for sill the disrcputablc schem.
ers in the "black belt TO get up icon.
tests" for the seats OF duly elected
Democratic Representatives, promising
by deeds, il not by words, to seat them
though every principle Of Parliamen.
tary law and the Constitution Itself
must be overridden to do so. II Is not
necessary to go further in discussing
and deuouncing this tactious and crimi-
nal attempt. II suflices to point out to
its most violent promoters that IL Is
doomed to failure in the worst possible
way. The Republican voters IN the
north are not all desperadoes, and in
fact the mhjorities OF that party are
gained 10y the votes Of the lndepen-
dents, who will not tolerate such dan
gerous usurpations nor follow whore
their would be "Stalwart' leaders wish
to take them By the nose. Have the
Radicals forgotten what followed the
high. handed performances Of Grant
when he tried TO make himself militfy
dictator OF three States OF this Union
Nothing less than the "tidal wave
7shich left the Republicans in aminority
in Congress, and brought them down to
a very small kind of larceny TO secure
the Presidency Of Hayes. instead Of the
triumphant swoop they had plafhed.
In other words, while the Radical l@.Ee
strainng to recover some Of the south.
ern States which they regard "a their
natural prey, the very violence OF their
measures loses them their efficient sup.
port in the north, and they are left
hanging between heaven and earth in
"a bad plight "a their man Malone in
Virginia. Cunning may preserve for a
while the fruits of defeated force. bat it
still remains true that Corruption wins
not more than honesty and every
abuse Of this kind is sure to be set right
by the people, when they get chance
to speak upon it.