The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-12
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n Virginia with such damaging results
o the Bourbon party, is making its in
luence felt throughout the entire south,
md the political disenthrallment of that
Iection by means of coalition between
he Republicans and the Liberal Demo
rats seems to be only aquestion of time
ind has already come to be regarded as
4 foregone conclusion by careful stu
dents of the situation. That the Bour-
bon leaders have justly interpreted the
of the handwriting on tn e
wall seems to be apparent from their
bitter denunciation of Malone, who has
led the new departure with such success |
in Virginia, and has inspired revolt |
against Bourbon domination all along
the line. Georgia, among other states |
of the recent solid south has caught the |
spirit of revolution, and in the course of
a lengthy interview published in a re-
cent. number of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition, Senator Ben Hill makes
use of the following bitter
language in reference to the movement
in that state:
81 understand the scheme perfectly
It is the second attempt TO AfricaniZe
the south for the benefit of the Republi-
can party. The first attempt was made
with reconstruction as an excuse. The
Republicans wanted TO control the south
ern states, and To create constituency
through which they could do so, they
enfFanchised the negrOs and disfranchis-
ell many whites. AS bad as that first at
tempt was, this second is infamous. The
movement is managed by the worst Gle
ment in the Republican party at the
north, the Grant Conkling- Arthur wing
of the party, the StalwartS, who have no
tolerance for the south except SO far rs
they can use il. | know what am talk
ing about The administration has de-
| termined deliberately to capture the
| southern states by a combination be-
| tween the negroes, the malcontent Benz
ocrats and the Democrats that they can
buy. They hope to keep the negroes
| solid by the moral force OF the admins
tration, and 10 use the patronage to buy
| such Democrats as they can not induce
by argument or delude with the hope of
/ office. This is the scheme, open and
avowed. 1t was the scheme that was
worked out in Virginia, and by which
the honor of Virginia was stained, and
her good people Overrun by the wicked
and ignorant.
"The scheme is a plausible one. 1t
will only take q, 900 or 80 goo disaffected
Democrats TO combine with the negroes
and carry any state in the south. The
managers here have given orders to
their henchmen to solidify the negroes
In every state by threats, appeals Oh
promises. and to seize upon any local
preiext that may be offered, and try tC
win enough Democrats TO carry the state
They are not to regard consistency
at all, but to take whatever side of Gny
local issue that offers the most votes
In Virginia it was readjustment under
Malone. In Texas it is fiat money, un
der Jones. In North Carolina ii may
be temperance, and in Georgia it may
be the convict question or the tariff.
} know that they have been very hard pu
for an issue in Georgia, and know tina
many are in favor of making a reopen
ing of the fraudulent bond question
there the issue. After the issue is once
found and the candidates are up, thu
!, whole federal patronage will then b
put in the hands of the Independent
for the purpose of buying Democrats
Such a prostitution of the appointing
power as will result from this has neve
l
system of Jackson, because under tina
theory offices were used to reward tn
partiZans, Of the victorious party
T Here they are TO be used to bride veal
or vicious members of the opposition
This will result in such debauchery AM
jobbery, as will shock the civilized
D world"
/. 1.-THE movement cannot be successful
D In the first place, the negroes can not b
, carried solidly under any such PIT
/ gramme. They have too much sens,
7 and patriotism to be driven in herds an
4 sold like the cattle. The more decen
e Republicans will not support such
!. scheme. Republicans in Georgia lik
Josh Hill, McCay, and others, will re
} volt against it, as Wickham did in Vii
/ GINA. Very few Democrats can b
found that will be weak enough or COZ
rupt enough to join such q monstrou
conspiracy, when they are fully advise
! as to what it means, and the conspiratoI
= who are proposing to barter the honor {
8 Republicans for spolls and prostitute tn
: civil service to wholesale bribery will b
rebuked by popular revolution again:
l them in the north, Even with the tn
) mendous influence or the machine 8
!. his back, Grant was beaten out of publ
life by an uprising of the best element
q. VI HIS O"A NOAhlIAS WAS ONCl
8 whelmed at Albany by popular indIgn,
n ton, and it was hoped we were don
with these men and the policy they rel
resent; but restored to power by the a:
sassination of the president, they are d.
e termined to maintain themselves at an
|. cost. They recognize the hopelessnes
a of their carrying the North, and the
hope to make up for its loss by captu
; ing the South. They cannot hope TO d
/ this through the intelligent people Their
e and consequently they appeal to the is
!. Horant and corrupt.
81 am satisfied also that no indepeI
Q dent can get the Republican support i
q the South without giving himself owe
n absolutely to that party. The Republ
a can leaders in the South have orders, q
l know, to put this ultimatum to ever
3 Independent candidate, and to give n
b Independent, about whose status ther
is the least doubt, the Republican SUI
. port. The managers here say they hav
been fooled too often by vague promises
and they will take nothing now bu
d most positive and precise pledges"
l. al shall give every energy ofmy bod
q and soul, every hour of my time, an
every influence possess TO breakin
{ down this Infamous coalition an
t. holding Georgia true TO her fait
l. and honor. / foresaw Just this thin
Il when I made my first speech against Nj
hone. did not, of course, anticipat
3 that the movement would be so tho
o oughly organized and so furthered by
corrupt administration in Washington
but l did know that if Malone SUI
ceeded there would be an attempt to A
e ricaniZe every southern state in the il
r terest of the Republican party, or rattle
n of the worst faction of that party-a fal
1 NhAk /. A.. 80.
of the north, must look to be the ign
l. rance of the colored people and the an
% bilious cupidity of disaffection of fe
e southern whites to maintain them /
4 power. l never was SO much in ca
nest or in such physical and mental col
y dition for doing the work that is in m
e 1t can't win. With such people as "
ia have in Georgia this movement will /
, made more Infamous than the first a
tempt at reconstruction. Unlike tina
il is without reason, excuse or justific
r ton. 1t will offer temptations 10 a
. Democrats who are willing to be bougl
or whose ambition can bespurred. The
u are offering high for young men an
confederate generals. The federal offica
in the south are not for Republican,
n they are for Democrats who will agrt
to become Republicans.
I'm reconstruction days they tried
le make leaders of imported Office holder
Ie They found that this would not do, an
Is now they will try to delude or bril-
Georgians into the leadership of the
7 crusade / hope that no young ma
Of who has respect for himself. or for b
,e ancestors or his children will be deceive
by this prospect. 1t Will not give hi
what it promises, but will consign hi
u to shame and ignOminy. In 1884 ID
D, moDgrel party, made up, as have sa
b. before, of the worst elements of Dol
"a sections, both of which have been rep
dated by their own people, and whiC
Is now hold power by the accident of q
e sassination, will be swept from the fal
If of the earth, and those who forsai
a their people in the south to join the u