The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-03

'tResolved that Print Matthews be ordered to keep
within his own inclosure to-morrowg
Adopted by the citizens of Copah county this 9th
day of November, 1883.
Mr. Matthews dared to go to the polls and
deposit his ballot He was shot while in the act
of voting and fell dead by the ballotbo an
unarmed, worthy, peaceable citizen, murdered
because he dared to exercise the highest right
granted to American citizens Wheeler tells
Just why he murdered him. These are his
words: Il killed Print Matthews. / told him
not to vote, and he voted, and killed him 1t
was not me that killed him. it was the party:
If / had not been a Democrat, would
not have killed him. 1t was not me,
but the Democratic party; and now, if the party
is a-mind to throw me off, damn such party =
Would it not be Just to say damn such a
party" anyhowY Did the Democratic party
throw Off WheelerY No, no. On the con-
trary his act was ratified by the Democratic
party by public meetings and resolutions, by
firing of cannon, shouts of rejoicing, and the
music of bands Instead Of being tried con-
victed and executed for his foul crime, he was
weeks after he committed the murder. That is
Democratic free ballot Matthews was muir
dered because he was an eminent and influential
Republican, in order that his death might ter
rorize other Republican voters and keep them
from attempting to vote just such crimes as
these are what give the Democratic party
''solid South" And it is the purpose of that
party to continue these methods.
In al eulLOfldt on the OanVllle anu NOpldn
murders, the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. a
Democratic newspaper, says: Suppose
it should turn out that the Dan
vile and Copiah affairs are all that the
fancies of the organs have painted them. What
do the organs propose to do about It'll" Randolph
Tucker, in a speech delivered at Staunton, Va,
on July 20, 1884, said Il wonder at the impu-
dence which enables Blaine to come whining
with an expression Of regret that he had to al
Jude to the Southern States as a separate sec
ton. l have never acknowledged that
the Southern cause was wrong, and never will.
The Free Lance, Democratic paper published
at St Louis, in a recent issne says: Now, boys
of the South, organize, arm and equip your
selves for the presidential contest If the South
remains solid, it will rule the White House on
and after March 4, 1885, but it cannot remain
solid unless the Seuegambians are kept in terror
of the rifle and the whip. In this way Tilden
was elected in 1876; in this way, and no other,
can Cleveland be elected in 1854 That is the
and Hendricks should be elected by the aid of a
'solid South they will know, aud the whole
world will know, that they hold their
Offices by virtue of the suppression of a
free ballot In the South by threats
cruelties and murders, and not by virtue of the
free sufrages of the legal voters Of those States
The hope for the South, and for the perpetuity
of our free institutions, is that the people OF
those States may break away from the bondage
OF the Democratic party. and assert their rights
in defense of their own interests Already they
are beginning to feel the impulses of thrift
energy and internal development. They begin
to see that Democratic freetrade doctrines and
Democratic dominion mean continued poverty
and miSrule When the light of day dawnS in
the new South, darkness and Democracy will
vanish away.