Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-28
The Nature Of the Contest.

4 49,
October, provided the Republican majority
be not too iarge-say. twenty or thirty
thousand. The Republicans cannot afford
70 lose Ohio IN October. A Democratic
majority Of even one hundred in that State
n October would be equivalent TO the elec-
ton Of CLEVELAND In November. Let the
Democrats gain the irrevocsble advantage
Of q victory in Ohio in October, aud all the
money, work, speeches, and what not OF
the Republican party would not avail to
stem the torrent Of CIEvELAND's populari-
ty. This torrent would thereafter bear
down all opposition as easily as the over
flowing James does the waving grass upon
its banks when the mountain streams send
down their tribute OF rain-water 10 swell
its food.
We cannot but regard the case OF the
Republicans and Ohio rs just stated as an
illustration Of the case OF the southern
people and the whole Union. The north
ern Republicans cen afford TO lose this cleo
ton for President Of the United States.
The southern people cannot afford TO lose
IL. To the northern Republicans the elcc-
ton OF Democratic President threatens
no harm. They will continue TO dwell in
peace each man under his own vine and
6g.tree, with no one to modest or make him
afraid. But TO the southern people Re-
publican elected upon platform in which
they are denounced rs enemies Of free
ballot aud fair count seems to be not
much less than an enemy ben, upon wrong
ing them.
The Republican party is the party that is
responsible for all the unfriendly legisla-
ton with which the South has been veXed
and annoyed and wronged for the last
twenty years. The Republican party origi-
mated and passed those outrageous laws
concerning whites and negroes which the
Supreme Court Of the United States last
year pronounced unconstitutional and
void. A Republican Congress based laws
intended to control the conduct Of persons
upon a constitutional provision which in
its very terms showed that no law
could be founded upon it which did
not apply exclusively to States. The
Republican party passed the laws under
which State officers OF election are
put, like slaves under the eye OF taskmas-
tiers, under the sppointees Of Republican
judges. Deputy marshals and supervisors
now show themselves at the ballot-box at
every congressional election. The money
Of the people is used to pay them for at
tempting TO overswe the peoples servants.
The Republican party passed the jury
law under which corrupt judges packed
the juries in their courts. But for the per-
sistept efforts Of TINT grand old Roman,
United States Senator THURMAN, Of Ohio,
the southern people would still be at the
mercy Of such judges.
The Republican party is responsible for
all the i'll will that still divides the people
Of the North from the people Of the South.
Just imagine, II you can, what would now
be the condition OF the southern people il
the northern Democrats had been willing to
Join the Republican party in their crusade
against this section. Just picture to your
self, IL you can, the South sitting in ashes
under the operation Of Republican force
bill.
But Why 20 backward for factsl Read
the platform upon which BLAINE and Lo-
GAN now sand. Read the Republican Jour-
nails Of the North. Nay, read the Republic
can Journals OF the South, and learn that
your enemies are not strangers only but
"they OF your own household" Listen to
the speeches made in your own hearing.
Think Of the charges daily brought against
men who are bone of your bone and flesh Of
your flesh.
II this contest shall end In Democratic
success there will hereafter be no more
sectional animosities. The bloody shirt
will never again be waved. 1t will be
furled. Peace between the sections will
follow. Sectional preiudices viii no longer
disgrace the land. The two parties will in
1888 divide on politico-economical ques-
tons, and the discussions upon the stump
will be as such discussions were before the
war. All will DO agreeable and pleasant to
the speakers.
In word, Democratic success means a
victory for patriotism-ior the country,
whilst Republican success means victory
for sectionalbm-for a mere party.