The Nevada picayune., 1884-11-27
BITTER BLAINE,
neses;ea aad Disappointed. aeEseless.
 ly Attacks tho South,

Maine oa being fercuaded by 8 large party of friends at his home, last week. made a bitter and sense
 lcss attack on the South. As the
 candidate of the kepu5!!can party
 for President, he Lad no other ex-
 pac,ation than that of election, but the American people saw fit to sit down on n!m and his "Mulhgan let ters,' by electing Grover CIevo' i land. pure and upright statesman which has stirred up his bile. Be- l Ilor wa give some of his bickerings, followed by short comments there on:
 II think the transfer of the poiit- ! ica! power of the government to the soutn is a great national mls- fortune. IL is misfortune be-
 cause i. introduces an element which cannot insure harmony and prosperity 10 the people, because ! it introduces Into the repaohc the
 rnle of a minority. The first ia- siinct of all American is equality --- equality ot right, equality ot prlVi' ! lleae, eqnaIity of political power;
 tha. equality which says to every citizen, 'Your vote Is es 2ood, just
 as potential as the vote Of ap? otanr citizau.' ih&t cannot be saiG Ito.day in the Uuted States. The
 cnuvse af afiairB in the south has crashed out the political power of more thsu t, ,0J0,WO American cit Iizens. and has transferred ed II by yio- Hence to others. Foyty-two pTa3l
 deutial electors are assigned to tise Isouth on account of tic eoloFed popu!ati0n, with more than l .I00,- loco legal votes, have been unable % choose a single elector III these ,stAtes where they have a weighty majority of more than 1U0, ,O00.
 They were deprived of free sui trage and their rights as citizens lare scorutalIy trodden under foot.
 The eleven states that comprised
 GHE REBEL CoNFEnERACY,
 Iba3 hy ceusus of iSSG, seven and half millions white population, and 5,S00 ,o00 colored population l The colored population almost to q
 man desire to support the Rep0hii, f can party, but hy a system oi cTuei
 intimidation and by violence and murder, whenever violence aud murder are thought to be necesea- ". they are absolutely deprived ot f all political power. 1.-the outrage
 istopped there 1t would be bad
 en0ugh, but It does not stop thert
 not only is the negro population
 disfranchised, bat the power which , right.ullg and constitntonalIy bo
 Ilongs To them ia transferred to the white population of the south t iexhert an electoral influence fal lbeyoad all that exherted hI tho same aunber of white people 1T } lthe north. * * So completely |. have the co,0red men iu the soutt , been already deprived bY the dem ocratic party Of their constitution
 al and legal rights as citizens Q D the United States that they regari q the advent Of that party to nation , power ds d signal Ct their re-eu s slaVement aud are a5fgigbted be @ cause they they thi al! legal pro Y lection for them g1ue. Few peo
 -ons in the north relsi2e how com
 lp,rtely the chiefs of the rehel.ioi
 wield the political power which has triumphed in the late election T Itisa puteutous fact that the dem , ocrlur senator's who came iron ( th, states uf the late confedracy al n and mean all without a slugl' [. e1eeptiou--all personally particl E pated in the rebellion against the z national government.
 ] have spoken of tae south a, f placed by the late election in poe , session ot the government, and Q mean al that my words imply
 ,I Now that tae Democrats con tgo. the Southera States, the ne
 -roes laying lost confidence iI
 carIetbagg,.'S .'S and Republican,
 iprum5ses, voting with them, Jas , ,IG Blaine is raying mad and try
 ing t0 Ee the northern heart
 lassiast tae south. py calling Us r ere .t.s," "msr doreIS," flaw break ere etc. As .1as as the rcpabli. cans c1uIi voer the negro, it WAS aH right. but uoS that maay ot itlea FaVe e1ac over t0 the Dem olra.s. itis ali wrong and Hon. }
 Jas. Di bi4.ue wants them disfrau, . clsr3, aud s4ys ay thoir vote the |w4lie mtu oftAe South are ro3piug
 twice tle electoral Vote Of those 'af tte aorta. Why dii he not think laftb.. sooner. hea they were vo-
 ulg soally si,h the RepaJGcansY ! According Co h.s oKu reasoning, |. SC otthr South have only enjoyed one toar,h the poHer 0f the ciec- ltorAi vote. when the negro voted with .ae Republicans, which has 1 beeY ever since the war, and We ! fthuk t IS about time a change 1