Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-25


there will be no prosperity in the south.
The democratic party of the south has
| false leaders, and look at the leaders of
the past. Where are the heroes and
| champions of slavery? Did they save
slavery? If you put it on the abstract
! principle of power; if you deny the
question Of a God; if you deny the
sentiment Of humanity; if you deny
| the equality of men, did they accom-
| plish their purpose? Did they save
your slaves No, sir Then what sort
of leaders are they In ordinary
battles il a man deserts you, you shoot
| him. Should not your so-called leaders
| have been thrown overheard long ago2
| And vet they liDger on the scene. If
you have democratic hero in the south
l will tell YOU who il is 1t is not the
crafty and slimy-handed Hendricks, who
opened the war but did not fight, But
| il is jeff Davis. He is the hero of the
south Is he not Why, look ut the
demonstrations in the south that attend
him wherever he speaks When
you were defeated in battle and
found that ones southern man could
not whip six Yankees, when you were
driven TO the wall and then returned to
the house of your fathers, and We're
asked to obey the laws and to reverence
the old flag, did these men become recon-
ciled? Did they attempt to build up the
republic anew on broad foundations?
No sir; we arc all still struggling with
the issue. Look at the immigra-
ton which comes 10 this country. 1t
steers clear of the solid South, because
there is tie spirit Of b2rbarism there.
There is no room for a man unless he
contributes to the political power of the
solid South. Look at the great reunion
of the grey recently at Texas | have
with me few extracts from the speeches.
/ What do the speakers say We're not
ashamed of the lost cause, aud if we had
4 it to do over again we would act Just as
we did before They defy you, and
/ they avow the same principles that
brought on the war. They proclaim OPP
/ position TO the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, and to the oaths they had
/ secretly sworn to- What do you hear
echoing from Virginia and Mi sissippi?
/ What do you hear from West Virginia?
/ Why, a Democratic member Of the
/ Legislature is reported to have said
tlIat the Republicans are going to
/ bring black voters into West Virginia
and he saws. " If they do, not a
4 single negro in West Virginia shall be
allowed to vote What right, men Of
/ Kentucky, have they to say because
+ some men are illegally imported that
therefore no honest citizen of the colored
race in West Virginia shall be allowed
to vote 1t is the same right which the
4 democratic party of Kentucky says is
higher than the constitution and the
law-the god of force; that is what they
mean. They say that not a single negro
shall vote under such circumstances.
Have the negroes consented to this al
legged fraud Not at all. But the dem
Ocrats claim the right to use the inherent
power OF despotism. If white men or
+ ganize the colored men tovote the repub-
lican ticket then the democrats say
they will drive them out of the state.
They will do it by violence; there is no
/ law for it.
Why, Just look here, right under your
own ewes, in the seat of civilization, in
I the bluegrass land. the old scene Of the
mob of 1915! Did you hear of the cleo
ton the other day. First the slave
power goes to a republican meeting and
interrupts it, and claims representation
at an exclusively republican meeting.
In the city of Lexington and county
of Favette there is the very closest
4 division of the republican and dem
ocratic vote believe that in "a free and
untrammeled election the republicans
would have hundreds of majority in the
city of Lexington and county of Fay
cite. So close was the election in the
opinion Of the democratic leaders, that
they got up a big barbecue to draw out
the democratic voters They invited
some of the great guns of the western
states, Ward, Hunt. and Platt, of Ohio,
and VOORHEES,, of Indiana. What for
Because they knew that il there was a
fair election il would at any rate be
close And what "a spectacle of farce
and fraud that election was. An old
man who had voted the democratic
ticket for forty years told me that he
was SO disguised at the infamous pro-
ceedings that he had turned around and
voted tue opposition ticket Bands of
democrats were appointed as police, and
they drove republicans from the polls
and assisted at repeating and other kinds
of fraud Reliable men have told me
that whole carriage loads Of democrats
were taken from one precinct TO anoth-
er and were voted at each. / know
that a good many were taken from my
county. Madison, and voted al the cleo
ton in Fayette county, and am credi-
bly, informed that the same is true of
other counties. And now what was the
result. It was admitted beforehand
that the election would be close. Did
the democrats beat the republicans by
eleven votes No, sir; the returns
showed that the democrats had a MAORI
tn of LOO. Could that be so in a fair
elecdon2 Most certainly not. But the
democratic managers were not skillful.
They overshot the mark, and counted
too large q majority for themselves.
At YcnkeFs.