San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-12-04
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the-defeated candidate for President
will be found on our first page W.
think Il will be the unanimous verde
OF candid mon OF all partiea that
mere unproyoked sbullitioa ofspleen
a mere unfounded TRADE OF falsshood
has seldom, II ever. been exhibited
before tho public,
In tho frat place It Ia 10 lao noted
that thore are but three Southern
States where tho colored voters have
an actual majority, and further, that
Mr.. Blaine makes his sweeping ellega
tons Of the coercion OF negro voters
without offering particle OF evidence
in their support, We read the news
papers with some care during the late
canvass, and have scarcely seen even
an allegation OF the kind from leading
Republican journals, all OF which
have correspondents at the South.
The inevitable conclusion therefore
is, that there is no truth in the
charges made by "the great defeated.
He himself had nothing tosay on this
subject. As the Chicago News well
says;
II the success OF the faction Of the
republican party which was running
him as its presidential candidates was
80 essential 10 the preservation Of the
union and the result OF the rebellion,
why did he give that feature of the
campaign 30 little importance IN his
"swing around the circle"f In all
his speeches-and he made many OF
them-this thing was kept entirely
in the background and its importance
was not given the prominence he
gives it since he has learned Of his
defeat. II the horrors of placing the
south in the possession Of the govern
ment, as Mr.. Blaine expresses it, was
SO greatly to be feared and dreaded,
why was it not made tho feature Of
the campaigni Was it because Mr..
Blaine had hopes Of carrying tho two
Virginias, which hopes would be
wrecked if he made such declara-
ton upon the rear platform Of his
cart 1t was the dangers to the
manufacturers and the workingmen,
incident to q remodeled tariff, that
Mr.. Blaine ever brought forward as
the chief and only reason why he
should be placed at the head of the
government. II he was honest with
his hearers at Augusta after the cleo
ton he certainly could not have been
honest with his hearers during his
tour through the country previous to
the election.
Again, Mr.. Blaine's late born lamen-
tations and crocodile tears over the
alleged bulldozing of negro voters
appear especially inconsistent in
view OF the fact that while in Congress
he voted against giving them the right
to vote. This 10 matter Of record
In proof we quote the following pas
sage from the speech of Hon. Geo.
w. Julian in August last, which ap
peared in full in our columns. He is
speaking Of Mr.. Blaine's shortcomings
as Republican leader and champion
of the colored race, and concludes as
follows
In an article published few years
since in the North American Review,
he says: "The Southern States
could have been readily readmit-
ted to all their powers and priv
leges in the Union by accepting the
Fourteenth Amendment, and negro
suffrage would not have been forced
upon them" This was Mr.. Blaines
idea of Rspublicanism, 1t simply
meant that his party was willing to
hand over the negroes of the rebelli-
GUS States to the codes enacted by
their old masters, without any voice
in the Government, on condition that
they should not be counted in the
basis of representation. This prop
osition was fortunately rejected, and
what was called the Military Bill was
introduced but this also as first
left the negro without the
ballot. 1t provided that the rebelli-
JUS states should only be restored to
,he Union on condition that negro
suffrage should be secured but their
restoration was left entirely to their
option, and so long as they chose to
eject the condition specified, the
negroes we're completely at their
mercy. What was wanted to give
complete validity and force to this
plan was an amendment making it
merely provisional, and providing that
pending the decision of the question
he negroes should have the ballot.
Without this amendment they were
turned adrift and helpless; but when
It was proposed Mr. Blaine voted
against it and did everything in his
power to defeat it. 1t was adopted
in spite of his opposition, as the
Congressional Record will show; but
refer to it as an illustration Of his
and Of his fidelity to
the negro in the time of his greatest
peril
As regards what he says as to the
wages paid the negroes, it is notori-
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