National Republican., 1883-10-13
Concerning "EccIcrs.v

Tho Washington organ of the democracy
informs its readers that recent editorial in
this paper throw out "feclcrs" on the subject
of "tho feasibility of controlling southern
elections noxt year by hordos of hired and
commissioned bulldo2ors to be placed under
the command of renegade democrats selected
by such mon us Cash and Chalmers" In
support of this false assertion the organ
quotes as follows from the editorial to which
it rcfors:
Thcro nre states in the south whcroo courageous
aud faithful marshal can have at his back, TO ala
him IN the discharge of his sworn duties, rs many
white independent law abiding native citizens us
there are violent and law breaking bourbons to
resist him. The President and his attorney gen
cral can satisfy themselves of this by insttuting
the proper inquiry.
Now let it be here understood that THE Ma
rGoNAL REPUBLICAN, did not put the aboyo
forth as rcolcr," nor, as intimated in tho
Post by way of discussing in II cautious
way" the subject of southern elections. If
there seemed any ambiguity about it, let us
sec if our idea can be expressed in palmer
English.
There have been no valid elections in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, or Arkan-
sas for years. Tho democratic rule in those
statos is an absolute dospotism, no more de-
riving its powers from the consent Of the gov
crned than docs the Car Of Russia. Those
states have sixteen senators aud seventy rep
rcsentativcs in congress and eighty-sx votes
in the electoral college. If elections worthy
the name were to be held in them, none of
their senators or presidential electors would
be democrats, nor would more than two
ffths of their representatives chosen
by congressional districts, bo of that order.
Would il not bo disgrace TO the American
people if they should allow twenty four
years of political progress to DO repudated
and spit upon in a presidential election by
the lawlcss brute force of minority party
which has fought against that progress inch
by inch over the whole road? We do not
ask the Washington or any other organ OF
that minority party whether we speak truly
or not. The barbarous political history of
the states wo have named are written indclibly
in letters of blood upon the annals of the
nation. we shall not dispute with the organ
over tho facts of tho case. Nor are we
debating with the lawlcss as to the measures
by which their usurpatons shall be brought
to an end. We are not iuclined either to
plead with the blind ignorance or the stolid
Indifference among nominal republicans, who
arc making great parade, as did their pro-
anise and cumin while they neglect the
weightier matters of the law. We propose
simply to warn them of tho coming storm
The despots Of South Carolina, Alabama, and
Mississippi will be tho despots of the
United States in less than seventeen months
if they are not hold in check by the strong
arm of the law. This is pleasing prospect
| for them and for their northern democratic
| friends. They do not relish any effort by
tho government to interfere in behalf of thu
majority of the people in southern states
struggling for voice in presidential elec
tion. The wolf hunted to his den is moi
iiercer or more vicious toward tho hunter
than are these bourbon usurpers toward Their
native white opponents when the touchstone
of an honest ballot is prOpose as test O
their right to rule. The rage of the bour
bOns against tho white indepe ndent
of the south is like that of tiger or blood
hound threatened with the loss of his prey
Their loud outcry against Malone has fOunt
an echo among the shallow, the timid, an'
the insinccro, aud while that heroic leader i
in the thickest ofthe fight for the essentia
principles of freedom and IL ationalty, certain
northern weakkneed republicans flock to tn
standard of his enemies. Chalmers, who ha
been elected to congress over bour
bon by the independents and ropub
licans of his district, is being stone'
by northern doughfaccs at tho bidding
of political mountebanks performing u
!
Tho bloody bourbon tyrant thus has TIN
power, even now, so TO terrorize some north
orn republicans that they dare not encourag
revolt against his rule ut home. In all tina
pertains to the state, he is the c2ar; in all tina
pertains to tho nation, hc is u nihilist. He
tho embodiment of brute force, and wit
but u minority at his back ho reign
through tho torIor he inspires, an
tho coarse frauds no is enabled {
pcrpctrato on the ballot boxes at tho moe
election farCos which arc annually enacted
The intolerablo prosecutions of all who d
not bow to the cnp of this southern Geslc
have created great indignation ut the mort
hitherto, and Hayes and Garfield were mad
presidents in order that these wrongs Nigh
be riGhtod. Lot every American say for him
self what heed has been given after cleo
tion to the loud pledges made before
For our own part, We cannot SC
any hopo Of tho establishment of ropub
loan government in tho eight states il
which it has been CrucAed, unless the elec
tion laws enacted by congress for the protec
tion of tho elective franchise are enforced Il
rigidly, and then penalties inflicted as sternl
as in the case of mail robbers and counter
. | foitprs. 10 do this no oXtremO moth hoda N op