National Republican., 1884-09-13
HebuI,lng {" had Methods,

The south will contribute solid elec-
toral vote, if II can, to the election of
Grover Cleveland. 1t will do this as
rebuke to tho "bad methods" of the re-
publican party and its standard bearer
This is the same solid south that made
desperate attempt to disrupt the union,
for whose preservation million patriots
laid down their lives. The soil Of the
solid south is enriched by IN OCEAN of
loyal blood spent in the defense Of the
life Of the nation. 1t was the republican
party that saved the nation from the
solid south. That is one of the "bad
methods" sought to be rebuked.
Tho republican party freed four million
slaves, and in breaking tho bondsmen's
shackles made it possible for free labor to
cultivate the soil of the cotton states and
devclope one Of the most productive
regions in America. The solid south is
yearning for an opportunity to admins
ter singing rebuke to the republican
party for its bad methods in this par
ticular.
Another bad method" the solid south
feels moved to rebuke is republican legis-
lation for tho protection of American
industry by shutting the gates against
competition with the pauper labor of
Europe.
The solid south, within whose bounds
thousands of white and black republi-
cans have been ruthlessly butchered for
daring to vote as their conscience die
tated, will endeavor to rebuke the bad
methods" employed in some republican
states to discourage drunkenuess-me
ods looking to the curtailment of the
personal liberty of man to make beast
of himself, abuse his wife, and starve his
children.
The Copiah butchers, with their hands
dripping with tho blood of the murdered
Matthews, will assist their brethren who
took part in tho Hamburg and Danvillt
massacres and other "nigger- killing pic
mics to rebuke the republican party ant
its bad methods"
The solid south, where free thought
free speech. and freedom of politica
action is delusion and mockery, ant
where it is the practice of the stern pro-
tectors of the purity of the ballot boa
and advocates of personal liberty to cleo
their candidates after s o'clock at night
feels the necessity of rebuking the "bat
methods" of the republican party, undel
whose control the republic has becom,
, the grandest, the richest and most prosper
ous and the hest country on the footstoO
The solid south, whose penitentiarie
are vile prison pens, and whose convict
. are leased to contractors to murder an
starve to death at will, is desirous of OK
pressing its disapproval Of tho convict
labor system in force in o majority G
the northern states, and to this end the
propose to assist in the election of Grove
, Cleveland, whose own state gives employ
. ment to about 5000 convict laborers.
The solid south will take delight in rebul
ing tho "bad methods" instituted by the II
publican party of raising revenue to pa
n OFF a debt incurred in suppressing the n
a bellon against the national goyernmer
, by the same solid south. If the bourbon
a of the solid south dared they would vo
solidly for reputation.
In assisting in the election of Grow
: Cleveland the solid south will rebuke Il
IS party of progress, the party of enligh
= ened ideas, the party of freedom, and Il
y party under whose wise, careful, al
s honest administration the nation h
7. made its greatest advancement.