The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18

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brought about; and vet every vote with
drawn from a Republican candidate
through personal or local motives and
bestowed upon his Democratic competi-
tor will have the tendency to reproduce
just such situation. Think of it, Re-
publicans; think of it, citizens, and be
careful how minor matters are allowed
to influence you in bringing about u sit
uation which, once inaugurated, you, in
common with all true lovers of the pros
perity of this country, will never cease
to regret.-BariingtOn RaIokeye.
The Bloody Shirt as Campaign Banner.
1t cannot be charged against the Re-
publicans that they have raised the
"bloody shirt this year as a campaign
banner. All questions relating to South
ern politics have been ignored or lett to
the Southern people to settle for them
selves. The Republicans of the Eastern
/ States have had their hands full in the
effort to adjust factional dissensions.
/ The Republicans in the Western States
have been sufficiently embarrassed by
! the various phases of the liquor ques-
/ ton, which has been introduced as
disturbing element. There was some
/ pretense in Mr.. Hubbell's circular that
the assessments levied by the Congress
sional Committee would be used mainly
to galvanize The Republican party of the
/ South into new life, but there have been
no evidences that the money has been
employed for that purpose. The fight
against the Bourbons in the South has
been abandoned to the Greenbackers,
the Readjusters and other Independent
movements organized partly to gain
l.. l.
some new name and partly to enable
disgusted Democrats to join in anti
Bourbon demonstrations. There has
been no effort made in any part of the
country to ra ly voters for the Republic
an party on the ground of the intoler-
ance, fraud and violence of the South
ern Democrats. Yet there has been no
lack of Southern outrage, which cannot,
under the circumstances, be charged to
Republican invention. 1t became no.
torious that in certain parts of Ar
kansas, ut the late election in that
State, notably in and about Helena,
the old bulldozing methods were
revived. The polling places were
seized, the negro voters driven of, and
the ballot-boxes turned over to the
Bourbon mana ers. In Alabama not
long since the cd story of threatened
massacre by the blacks was set in circu-
lation as preliminary to the hanging OF
a negro who ha 1 made himself polite
ally obnoxious to the Bourbons. and in
order to ter.ify the blacks into silence
and Inacti itv. And now comes trust.
worthy advicas from South Carolina to
the elect tn t the Red Shirts are again
on the war-path. and that Greenback
and Independent meetings will not be
tolerated any more than Republican
meetings were formerly. A few days
ago Grecnback meeting at Winnsboro
was broken up, and Mr. McLane, the
Greenback candidate for Governor who
is described as "an inoffensive and re-
spectacle gentleman" barely escaped
with his life after being shamefully NAL
treated. Within week a more bloody
affair occurred at Lancaster, where Col
onel Cash, a former Confederate and a
typical SoIthron. was holding meeting
as an Independent candidate for Con-
gress to protest against the bad faith
the Bourbons hal displayed in their
dealings with the negroes. Cash was
not attacked personally, as that mi ght
have been dangerous 10 some of the
Red Shirts; but when he and his imme-
diate friends had quit the ground there
was an onslaught upon the negroes.
do in such cases, and went off to a dis
tant part of the town, where they re-
mained several hours in the hope that
, the bulldozers would disperse and per-
NIT them to return to their homes in
peace. But the Red Shirts were not
willing to forego so excellent an oppor-
tunity for killing negroes;' so they lay
in wait, renewed the attack, shot six ne
groes dead and wounded eighteen others,
most of whom are expected to die. Not
q single tOhtte man SCdS hurt. This ac-
count reads very much like those which
came North every day or two a few
years ago when the Southern Bourbons
sought to justify themselves by the plea
that they were engaged in throwing of
"carpet-bag rule" In some respects
the recent bulldozing is the most out
rageous ever perpetrated. "Home
ruleh is now thoroughly established all
over the South. The opposition to the
Bourbons is led in the main by South
ern Democrats and ex-Confederates
who have tired of the dictation and in
justice of the men in power. But it is
evidently the purpose of the ruling
party in South Carolina and other
Southern States not to tolerate the
negro in politics, no matter who his
sponsors may be- One of the most dis
couraging features of the recent South
Carolina outrages is that the Charleston
Nes0s and Courier, which formerly af-
fected to condemn the Red-Shirt sys-
tenn, is-said to have actually applauded
the Winnsboro bulldozers and thereby
promoted the Lancaster massacre. II
the a. bloody shirt shall become fac
tor in the pending Congressional cam
paign, it will be because the Southern
bulldozers force it upon the North by
: outrages which no civilized people
could afford to ignore. Chicago