National Republican., 1882-09-16
Some Words of Warming.


Some Words of Warning.
1t is fact worthy of observation and |
study that every pretended Republican
in the North who is in favor of " Straight
outism" in Virginia is opposed to it in
his own State. The game is to clamor
loudly for the integrity Of the Republi-
can party organization in States where
it has not the ghost of a chance for sue
cess, and to denounce it as corrupt MT
chine" in the States where it is in ma
jority. "The Independent voter" is a
splendid fellow in the estimation of the
bogus Republicans when he Leaves the Re
publican party, but when he revolts against
Bourbon rule he is a man to be avoided
by Republicans.
The pc )ple will do we'll to watch the
false leaders and writers who exhibit so
much hostility to Republicanism in the
States of the North, but who weep and
wall at what they call q loss of its identity
In such Independent movements as that
which swept Virginia last year. There
Is a steady movement toward an alliance
between certain Tor rather uncer-
tain) clements at the North-Re-
publican in name-with the out
and-out negro-hating Bourbons of
the South. Aspiring Republicans of
easy virtue have been cndeavoring for
the last nine years to split the difference
- hatsSsS.A Lannct Paf-~Llisanisnn and that
debauched article which was seduced in
1872 by the Democratic party on false
promise of marriage. Dshonored and
cast off by the Democracy, Greeleyism
struggled back to the political home from
which, the year before, she had fed with
her rutfianly paramour. She did not
come with penitent mien, as became her
fault, but with the braZen effrontery
and domineering airs of creature of
the town seeking to make that
home the rendezvous for continued
relations with her betrayer. From that
time to this Bourbon Democrats have
lurked about the Republican house on
terms of familiarity with these lewd in
mates. The great atnewspapers which had
served in 1872 as panderers for the Demo-
cratic party continued in that capacity,
and to those in the Republican party
who were thus abandoned were added
others who hoped to be made
leaders through the aid of the
papers in question. This has gone
on until there is well defined line
within the Republican party, on the one
side of which are the men who antagon-
ize the Bourbon Democracy of the South
and on the other side are the men who
do no.. The people can easily find this
line by reading the Democratic papers.
They will ind in their columns praises and
eulogies of those Republicans who mean
Bourbonsm no harm. AS in slavery days
the "Old Hunker" pro-slavery press ex-
alted the virtues of the Doughhces," so
in our day the implacable Bourbons gush
out their admiration of those so-called
Republicans with whom they have n
tacit, if not direct understanding.
We do not underrate the danger
of this Illicit relation between the South
ern Bourbons and their Northern Repub-
lcan light O. loves. On the contrary we
see that if the masses of the Republican
party are not aroused to realization of
its existence it will rot the party to
pieces.
1t is this trcacherous element that is
constantly sympathizing with the Bour-
bon war upon Southern Independents.
Those who compose it know full well that
the Bourbons of the South cannot be even
seriously annoyed in any State in that
region, much less defeated, by the Repub-
lican party. They know that only by
a union of Republicans with Independ-
ents who have left the Democratic party
can the latter be overcome in single
one of the Southern States. Hence their
superserviceable zeal for illegitimate and
ire gular Straightout Republican organi-
cations wherever there is such union.
Instead of aiding to break down the
Bourbons they aid in breaking down the
opposition to them.
The straight Republican party in Vir-
ginia has coalesced with the Liberals of
the Malone school. All talk of
Straightout" Republcanism in oppo-
sition to the will of the regular organiza-
tion is intended merely to save the
Bourbons from defeat The delegates
from Virginia TO the next Republican
National Convention, in 1884, will be
chosen by Republican State and district
conventions, under calls signed by the
regular Republican State and district
committees. The so-called Straight
out' side-shows TO the Bourbon circus of
this year will not put in an appearance
there. Nobody would pay their rail
road fare to National Convention, for
nobody, however desperate, would be-
lieve that they could get even footing
enough to make contest, or induce
anybody to took at their bogus Gre
dentials. The Republicans of Virginia,
have not abandoned their organization.
The Readjusters of Democratic an