Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-01
THE CAMPAIGN or EIGHTY-FoUR.


 IL is strange that the people of the South do not realize that substantialy ly the same people, possessing the same sentiments and progressive ideas live in the north now, that lived there m 1860 and 1876. It Is true that many were killed ID the war, ard may have since died; but the sentiments of the people of the North are much the same upon the trace question" as some Of the Southern papers term it, in 1868, when Grant was elected President the first time The people of the North are more ge uerous than those Of the South, and would gladly have buried the bloody shirt years and years ago, but the people Of the South in their im- petuosity, would not permit it. There are thousands upon thous nds of men in the North who are not so closely welded 10 party as to prevent theT from voting for a competent democrat in preference to an incompetent re pub lican for president. Indeed they have time and again voted for democratic Congress men and governors of States, and might have so voted in the national icket. but the South invRr ably did something to duve them back to the republican party, which they know to be true on this question. The people of the North know that free ballot and fair count has never been had in some of the Southern States. They know that the negroes have not been permitted to vote m many localities, and that when the whites of the South set their heads together that they have not been per mitted to vote at all, or but small DOT tion were permitted to vote. The Dallas Herald, winch Is rather conservative on most questions, and which is above the average Southern journals in ability, wonders "why the changes should be rung so systematically and consistently throughout the whole republican press upon the names of Grant and Lincoln and the race question dragged to the front" It is strange that the average Southern mmd has never been able to comprehend that the people Of the North do not approve of shooting ne groes, and the organization Of societies to prevent them from voting at ihe polls. It IS unnecessary for us to repeat the many outrages which have been perpe- trated upon the negroes in the South during the past 20 years to prevent them from voting. The people of the North 1 as a rule. do not care so much how the negroes vote, but they are in favor of thelr having a vote, and of allowing ! them to vote their sentiments whatever they may be. If | the people of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, had per mitied the negroes to vote in years past, instead of Ku-hlucking them, ,and fright eping them from the polls Gs they did, the bloody shirt woIld long since have | been forgotten. After the recent action of the people of Virginia, at Danville and other places, it IS not to be won- dered at that a large portion of inc men who helped to elect Cleveland gov erpor of New York, and Hoadly gov ernor of Ohio, will drop out of the ranks of the democratic party. With mueh flourish of trumpets the white citizens of Danville appointed a com mittee of forty leading citizens to make a thorough and exhaustive report on the riot which took place there a day or two before the election, but We have heard but little from that committee, and 1t looks as though they have not been able to make O defense that would stand. We believe the people of the north would have been glad to hear of the end of Mahoneism ID Virginia, but they would have it done by the people, and not by mobs. .,
 If. as the Herald says, "the south VII have to combat sectional prtjudiees and csmpaiz Ki-Kluck lies" the south and not the por.b IS responsible for if.