The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-11-10
A Specimen Of Republican CheekIness,

The Republican leaders do not at any
time hesitate to indulge freely in dema-
gogy and to solemnly put forward as
sumptions for facts. The address of the
National Union League to the people is
a specimen of the average cheekiness of
Republican pretension:
"There is no section Of the Republican par.
ty whose advent to power in the States and
the Nation would be as disastrous to the best
interests of the country - would that OF the
Democratic party. There b no shade OF Opin-
iica lies n in the United States that does not
breathe the spirit OF liberty, of progress and
of good government In fuller and better
sense than the best utterauce, the best inspi-
ration and the best sentiment OF the Demo-
cratic party OF to-day. Paramount to all con-
siderati0n of personal aggrandizemeDt or tho
advancement OF factions Is ne demand t9 ne
see to Il that the reins OF government be not
wrested from its hands," s,st4,f
Who constitute this Republican party,
the whole body of which is more en-
lightened and more patriotic than even
the best elements Of the Democratic
partyP Examine this supercilious state
ment and put the touchstOne of truth to
it for q moment so far as possible. At
the last Presidential election the Re-
publican party polled 4,449, 05S votes,
and the Democrats 4,442, OS5. At the
election in 1876 the Democrats polled
4, 284. 757, and the Republicans 4,0S3,-
$50. In the one election the Republic
ans had Z, Ol8 majority, and in the other
the Democrats had $50, 807 majority.
What elements constitute the vote Of
the two partiesP There were in 1880,
in round numbers. $4,000, 1000 people in
the United States. OF these AZ, 100 900
were white and 6, SOC, 900 colored. There
were ga persons to each voter. It is .
truth which will not be disputed that
the negroes voted with substantial
unanimity with the Republicans. There
were less than 5000, 900 white voters,
of whom the Democrats surely got about
4, AZ, 900 and the Republicans S,558, 900.
Is the negro race, as it exists in this
country, more capable and progress
i've than the whitesp Such would
seem to be the argument of this con-
clave of Republicans There were in
the United States In 1880 6.500. 900 for
eigners, who furnished something like
!, 200, 900 voters. tits matter Of COM
mon information that since the civil
war vast majority Of the foreign vote
has gone to the Republican party. Is
this element of the population Of the
United States more devoted to liberty
and progress than native white Ameri-
cansP No intelligent foreigner would
himself set up such claim. 1t is en-
tireIy within bounds to say that without
the negro vote neither Indiana nor
Ohio would have been Republican in
the last Presidential election. It Il
quite certain that Of the native white
voters of the United States, three-qusr-
tiers are Democrats, and mono but gam
grened partisans would deny that thus
composed this homogeneous aggrega-
ton of citizens, to state their claims in
the most moderate terms, are as capa-
BILE and progressive and devoted to
liberty as their heterogeneous Republic
an opponents. --St. Louis Republican.