Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-24
sourHERM REPUBLICANS


Some Of the Wichita Democrats,
many of them, have objected to the
speeches of Ingalls and Krohn in that
they claim that these gentlemen went
farther in their descriptions Of the
Democratic party, Of It's great south
ern wing, for tie there that the party
is dominated, than the truth would
warrant. The truth is, their state
ments were moderate when compared
to the facts of history. In this con-
nection, q man who was born and rails
ed in the south, who was in the rebel
army, said to us yesterday. "Mr. In
gals didn't tell half the truth, simply
because having never lived in the south
he has no idea of the intolerant spirit
of that people and the extremes to
which they will 60 in expressing the
ignorant and unfortunate negro, and
in ostracising any man, however intel
ligent. who dares to oppose the old
South spirit. If Wichita Democrats
really do think that these things are
misrepresented we ask then
to read the folio wing editorial from
the Houstan, (Texas) Journal, of Oct.
End, which shows Just how freedom of
political thought and actions are en-
couraged by people of section
which tried TO destroy nation. Read
it and then cry "bloody shirt" if you
dare. That paper says:
prise that the Journal has ventur-
ed to say that it is disgraceiul thing
for Southerner to be a Republican.
We see nothing unnatural or bigotted
in the assertion. 1t is merely the
statement of q fact. We do not in
clude in this statement men of North
ern birth and education, nor to GER
tain extent men of European origin,
though it were thousand times bet
ter that they had never settled among
a people whose bread they eat while
they insult their history and princi-
piles. Neither do we include any of
the negro or colored race. Were
they governed by reason rather
than instinct, they woHld all be
Democrats, and thus form q po-
litical as well as industrial alliance with
the governing class of the country,
but VIC would restrict the abatement
TO men of the white race and who
have been born and bred at the south.
That such men should be Republicans
is as monstrous as that man should
affiliate with the insulters of his moth
err and the murderers of his brethren!
That a white southener should be
Republican is as unn atural aud as un-
manly as it would be for him to cult
waite the friendship of those who have
stolen his property, burnt his houses,
prescribed his people and rejoice to
call him traitor and a rebel! 1t is no
use to chop logic about loyalty aud the
Union. 1t was the Republicans who
began the war of hate, who carried it
on with unrelenting fendishness, and
who, when the bloody scenes were
over, strove by every inhuman art to
perpetuatc the hatred and to make
the strife eternal. 1t was the Repub-
licans who stole our slaves and never
paid one cent for the high-handed rob-
berry. Republicans placed the franchise
in the hands of the negro race. Before
they could read or write. II is the
Republicans who are still endeav-
oring to reduce the southern people
to the level of a civilization low
enough to accommodate a race that is
yet struggling with the superstitions
&c ko
And is it because we say that no true
son of the south can not be Republic
can without disgraciag himself. must
we be brought to the bar of Radical
opinion and be branded as disloyal
and bigoted? Away with such cheap
impudence. Ii is competent for the |
southern man to be chivalric in his |
loyalty and devoted to the flag of his |
country and yet to detest from the |
bottom of his soul the principles of
that black Republicanism that has
cast blight upon our civilization and |
has filled the country with canting |
fanatics and unprincipled piacemen. |
Blood is thicker than water; the
on his people and con-
sorts with the campers, who have sue
ceeded the spoilers, is essentially
turn coat, venal Judas or Jeremy
Diddler. Look at Longstreet, Ma
hone, Chalmers! Is there water enough |
in the mighty ocean to wash away |
their dark apostasy! Is there place for
repentance for such deliberate. traitors.
even though they seek it carefully and
with tears? Down, then, with the false
sentiment that keeps us silent and gen.
tle-spoken in reference to the crime
against our mother. We may shed !
every drop of blood in our veins to
uphold The cause and the honor of our |
country, but we could do it as Demo-
Gratis of the south, instinct with the
pride of race and the love of our be- |.
loved soil: we would do it as tree
Democrats of the country, with no po-
litical affiliation whatever with imper-
perialism and communistic corruption