National Republican., 1883-12-25
SOUTHERN osrRACIsM.
The Political Slavery That is Crushing
tho Life Ont OF the old Slave States.
70 Mc Editor.

40 INC EdtOF.
In the report Of the proceedings of tho republi
can national committee, at u meeting held in
Washington on the twelfth instant, for the pur-
pose of determining the timo and place for the
next national republican convention, the Hon. w.
o. Bradley, OF Lancaster KY. is quoted us follows:
'Mr. Bradley, of Kentucky complained that the
republicans of the south were taunted with giving
no electoral votes. Ii the people OF the south
could 20 to the polls and vote ns the people of the
north conld they would give electoral votes. lie
was surprised that ii should be asked to increase
the basis OF representation in one section us
against another, for he always understood that
the republican party was national party ana
knew no north, south, east, or west, There is one
thing the republicans of the south could do, and
that they had done, whether they could give
electoral voes or not, they could give their lives
TO the cause of republicnnism.
for these reported utterances the COrier-Jour-
nal, the leading organ OF the democratic party in
the south, MS well as other journals of that party
III Kentucky, is disposed 10 be not only cenSorious,
put unjust to toward Col. Bradley and instead OF
been guilty OF Misrepresentation the usnnl resort
has been made to personal vituperation and
wholesale denial of the charges without offering
any proof to the contrary.
1othose familiar with the spirit of the demo
cratic press and the temper of the unTecons,ructcd
element IN the south, this is nothing new. Col
Bradley, instead of being "a boviator aud
phrase-iinger" us charged Dy the Cotrter-Journai,
sta,o an able lawyer, thoroughly acquainted
with the political situation of The country, and
more thana match for any leader of the opposite
Is charged with being "pap-sucker." Tne only
Office he has ever held was that OF county attor-
ney. 10 which he was elected by the voters Of his
native county
, When quite boy he warmly espoused the cause
OF the union, and was actively engaged recruit
lug ana fnisiug several of the regiments that were
mustered into the federal service in Kentucky.
With the exception of two or three votes given for
candidates of the democratic party, when very
young, he has uniformly voted the republican,
ucketnnd sim 1869 has acted with and lauored for
the republican ticket In every contest, having re-
IN. ipafl frI1 mil tod
tor from Kentucky when ineligible by reason of
MS youth. No only so, 6n. he. canyassed the
states OF Indiana, Ohio, ana New York, in addition
TO portions Of Kentucky during the presidential
contest, at his own personal expense, and by his
magnificent oratory and able presentation of the
principles of his party, made friends wherever he
went aud received the thanks of those having
charge of the Campaign In those state.
Col. Bradley has n lucrative law practice, and is
not dependent upon government Office tor support
He has contributed largely Of his time his talents,
and means to the support of his party, and, while
ne has been conspicuous as u leader in the
republican rarty, ne has been also terror
totho democracy. His masterly showing OF the
sho tc0mings OF that party during the last guber-
naorinl canvass III Kentucky. called down upon
lis head the wrath OF The bourbon leaders, and
they have lost no opportunity of showing their
spleen whenever an occasion for so doingpresents
ITSELF
The question is, are Col. Bradleys charges true.
In 1872 Gen. Grant carried by largo mnlorites the
states of Arkansas Louisiana, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Mississippi. Now they are
al democratic states, What has produced this
Shirts, &c.
Every man acquainted with the nature of tho
blacks knows that they Invariably vote republi-
can: In all The states mentioned there is II large
majority OF blacks, yet they are sody demo-
cratic. But have republicans in the south died
for these principles? Let the Hamburg massacre
the Chisholm murder, and cOutess others an
swer IL ha,ibeen shown ly official investiga-
tion that twenty thousand persons, mostly
colored, were Killed, malmed. or cruelty
beaten for the purpose Of intimidating them from
the exercise Of their civil and political rights from
Ia An uhnt huq hap
the condition of affairs in Kentucky? Here the
democrats have legitimate majority, and hence
II has not been necessary to indulge in wholesale
murder and intimidation. But even In Kentucky
the democrats have been guilty of the most un-
pard9na6le political sins In 1872, and again in
1915 IN Bradleys race for congress, on equal dvis
lon of election Officers was denied, although posi-
lively required 10y law. lie was defeated by only
672 votes in 1872 while in 1876 he received several
thousand more votes than in 1872, and was de-
feated in the same district by $500, This shame.
iul outrage was perpelmled BY yrepeaters from the
towns In Mercer county to Mil Springs, IN Wayne
There have been repeated election riots in diff
ferent portions of Kentucky, but the records fail
islature of Kentucky deprived the voters Of Lex
ington Of choosing new officials by ex-
lending the terms Of those in power,
OF iow democratic officials OF that
city the power to lay the city off into districts in
order TO enable them to disiranohse republicans.
These democratic sOlons also attached property
qualification to the right of suffrage in Danville,
these same tactics have been resOTled 20 by them
in various towns throughout the state. But short
while since the board of health forced the only
republican out, and the statement has been made,
without denial thus far, that the C0uJfeT-JournW
paper.
The state has been so dstrcted that while there
are 10000 democrats and 10l,OJO republicans, the
latter are able to elect only two congressman out
of eleven. But Notwithstanding all these things
the republican vote Is nearly live times great as
u was az the conclusion of the war, and for this
magnificent Increase no one is entitled to more
credit than W. o. Bradley JUSTICE.
WASHINGTON, Dec "a.