Daily Republican., 1883-11-19
A Gain that II Q Loss.

AT the recent el6cLlOnb tuo Only gain
the Democrats made was in Virginia
and by this time the Democracy Is
awakening to the fact that the gain of
Virl linia, that never was Republican
Sta'e, to the Democracy in 1883, will
loose them the Presidency in 1884.
The manner of winning Virginia takes
us back TO the days of the White
League and Rifle Clubs, Ku Klux Klans
and wholesale massacres for political
the case. If it were we might be ac-
cused of harboring political pref ulice.
But there are leading Democratic pa
pers that take the same grounds,
amongst which is 1.-THE Chicago
Times," the most influential Demo
cratic paper Of the West, which, in re.
viewing the subject, says:
=" The Democrats went to the polls
with shotguns and the negroes fed to
the woods, is rather terse account of
the Virginia election. The victory for
the Democrats was a victory won on
the color line, and not on any imagina.
~ boundary between 'Funders' and
Readjusters. The demonstrations of
hilarious " which come in the press
from all parts of the Democratic Sec
tion are celebrations of victory won
on that line and are marked by no per-
ception Of any other Read djusterism,
tariff, every political question upon
which there has been any pretence of
par y division, disappear in a sudden
gush Of race feeling. They can count
with certainty upon coming to the Ohio
river with l49 votes for any candidate
they may present. But they will need
20l votes TO eject. Some uncoujrct,lred
number of years must pass before an
organization of Presden1-makers EN-.
bodying only a sectional prejudice
against the Ethiopian in politics. can
cross the geographical boundary of that
prejudice with good hopes Of winning
popular favor Oh the Northern side
of it."
The warning Of the "Times" is not
lacking in wisdom but it comes too late
10 avert the impending disaster to its
party. Virginia has been carried by
force and bloudshed and the North has
been male practically solid again for
the Republican party. The result ia
Virginia shows that the South is 10 be
kept solid for the d mocracy no matter
by what means employed. The maSsa-
creing in cold blood number Of de-
fepceless negroes is but small affair
compared with tie results to he at
'ained. Virginia may or may not have
voted as she did at the late election, if
eft TO herself, but that were small
matter compared with free ballot. A
vote in which any opposition to Bour,
bonism is crushed by force and terror
in order that the South may be held
solid III the coming Presidential strug-
gle, justly arouses feeling in the North
ern States. Even if Malone and his
followers were unworthy of contid -nce
or support they were entitled to a fair
and free vote. But there is no disgIis,
ing the fact that the situation is exactly
what II was when General Weaver Wis.,
IIel me oOuIu Ill IbSb III advocacy OF
lis claims for the Presidency as the
candidate of the Greenback party. He
was forced to admit that ci tizen could
not support even the Greenback ticket
without jeopardiziHg his life. The pur-
pose to make the South solid for the
Democratic candidate is plainly fore
shadowel, no matter what crime it
costs whether the opposition comes
from Greenback voters, independents,
Read listers or Republicans. This
is what the North justly resents
and will not submit to. Elections
carried in the manner in which the
Virginia election was carried will never
be tolerated IN a free country. The
only peaCeable manner left to rebul;-
the system OF carrying elections by
fraud and hopdShsd is by meeting a
solid Democratic South at the ballot
box with SOLID Eepubl'can North.
Two hundred AID titty-two Northern
electoral votes vii beat one hunured
and torty-Eine southern electoral votes
all the time.