The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-31
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
The sunny hil Solid South.

The sunny hnd solid South.
There is some hope that ono or two
States may slip out Of thesolid South next
Tuesday, but it is safer in Ill calculations
to conccle 10 the Democratic nominee the
l53 Solid South votes to start with. From
time 10 time 1t has been shown why the
South is solil how it comes to
bass that States in which colorcd voters
arc in the majority are to be
relieved by Il party 10 which tho colorcd
man owes only the Christian grace ola
charitable forgetfulness. Unfortunately
the wholesale Acknowledgement OF votes in
the South-hali u million nj every general
clecton-cannot be discussed however
temperatcly by y Republican newspaper
without the doughiace Democratic jour
mas Of the North raising the cry that the
"bloody shirt" is being Haunted.
Now and then We come upon the testi-
mony of with, IS friendly to the Demo.
cratic party who admits I'LL that has been
charged. IN one of his interesting letters
from the South Mr.. A. W. Campbell
quoted Il Mississippi physician who adj
mittcd the charge that colored men are
DISTINGUISHED in the South, and justified
tho crime against liberty. However,
he plead in exclamation Of the
o'lense, that tho deadly shotgun
had given place to the milder methods OF
fraud. These things, this educated South
crn man said, were necessary, for the white
race could not tolerate the supremacy OF
the black; in some way or other the
minority was determined to rule. The
rule OF the minority in Mississippi gives
to the Democratic party its l53 Solid
South electoral votes.
Now we have other testimony from a
friendly witness. We find it in letter
from Newbcrry, South Carolina, to the
New York Ereniny Post, 4 newspaper
which itself is the earnest supporter OF
Governor Cleveland. The writer says:
was speaking Il few days ago with one OF
the most liberal and progressive OF the
Democratic leaders in the State, rs 10 GER
tain objections to Democratic policy,
the partisan election law and other
things which e!lcctually cheat large
number OF colorcd people out OF their
votes. He answered me by saying that it
was absolutely necessary, per .tas Ct nefas
TO maintain Democratic rule in the State,
and that these laws were regarded as nee
cssary SO long as the negroes continued to
follow b!indly the corrupt Radical lead
ers." PcrJns Il nGas means, through right
and wrong-in other words, the AIissis-
sippi plan.
The writer OF the Post letter, himself 4
citizen OF South Carolina, does not agree
with the most liberal and professional OF
the Democmticleaders in the State" He
admits the necessity OF maintaining Dem.
ocratic rule, but is OF opinion that "the
Democrats could now gain much more by
fair and conciliatory dealing with the col
ored race than bycontinuiugto treat them
rs enemies, and forcing them, as it were,
into the opposition" Having unbosomed
himself to this extent he proceeds. eve
need not enter into the question MS to the
necessity eight years ago OF laws discrim-
mating against the colored race, when
angry passions between the races were
! running high, and the kuklux raids and
Hamburg massacres were fresh in the
memories Of the colored people. No, it is
enough TO have all this adlpitted by Il
Southern Democrat; friendly to his party,
When these raids" and "massacres'
were "iresh' they were stoutly denied,
and to speak OF them was to "ilaunt the
bloody shirt" The writer goes on TO say
that now there is comparative harmony
between the races"-as when the lamb
lies down beside the lion-"and the col
ored people have come to regard tile rule
Of the whites Mt the South us q matter OF
course; they sec that order is better pre-
served, and that their own people arc
much more rarely killed now by lawless
men than formerly under radical rule"
1t is quite natural that they should see it
in this light
THO minority rules. Its sway is abso-
lutte and unquestioned. Butler, the hero
Of Hamburg, sits in the United States
Senate. Tho kuklux have performed
their mission. The colorcd man serves to
increase the representation Of the South
in Congress and in the Electoral College.
lilo has been whipt into submission.
lilo has become passive element
in Southern politics. There is no longer
occasion to shoot him down or even to
scourge him with hickory saplings. lie
abscnts himself from the polls or has his
rights juggled away Mt the ballot box. At
all events he submits, and the Superior
race" is on top, just rs it was when the
colo:ed man was bought and sold as other
cha!tels were. .;.. ;.
We find instruction in following further
this entertaining writer. He regrets that
his party is not pursuing q policy OF con-
citation, iorseeing TINT in time he is going
TO suffer for it. With u full sense Of tho
impending peril he asks, INSTEAD ofthis
conciliatory spirit on the part OF tho
whites, what do We see? The objcctiona.
bic election and registration laws arc still
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