The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-05
An Old Story.

An Uld Story.
An exchange says that as long as
the Republicans insist upon waving
the bloody shirt, just so long the De-
mocracy will remain sectional, and
the solid South will be perpetuated.
We suspect our esteemed c0ntem-
porary of having put the cart before
the horse. AS long as the Democrats
continue to carry elections by intimi-
dation and bloodshed, just so long
the Republican managers will use the
bloody shirt as most effective cam
paign document. The Democrats of
the Danville and COpiah political
schools commit Outrages that should
not be tolerated in any country. much
less in one where the government is
based Cn the will of the people as ex-
pressed at the ballot box. -
1t is true that the people are not
stuck very much on the present Re-
publican administration of National
affairs. Time and again have the
people Of the United States shown an
enthusiastic willingness to turn the
rasrals out, and put Democratic ad-
ministration in pGWerat Washington,
but in each and every such crisis, the
Democrats, either in Congress, or in
the Southern States, have made it
Il plain to even blind man, that REIN
stating the Democracy would be
jumping out of the frying pan into
the fire. People are not very much
different now from what they were in
the days of Shakes"eare, and prefer
'to bear the ills they have than fly to
others they know not of" There is
nothing made by turning rascals out,
if worse rascals are to be turned in.
When the Democrats act in such
manner that the independent voters,
who hold the balance of power, are
; fully persuaded that change will be
for the best, and not for the worst,
then nothing on earth can stay the
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which the party may ride trium.
phantly into fat Offices. Such an event
however, is not at all probable so
long as the shot. gun is used as an
argument to convince the negro ele-
ment in the South that the country
needs a change ofadministratiOn. We
are aware that the Democrats sneei at
the Investigations and seek to belittle
them, but these Sneers are on a par
with the courage of the boy who
whistle as he goes through grave
, yard after dark. 1t is not a genuine,
healthy sneer, by any manner of
means.
The best friends of the Stalwarts
are the Southern Democrats, who
turn the election into a tragic farce,
thereby enatling Sherman, Logan,
and the rest of the B. S. Brigade to
: display the sacred emblem with effect.
The American people are not pre-
, cisely fools, although Democrats act
, as if they were-hence the Uor EopuIi
is not apt to be deceived by the mere
waving of the bloody shirt, unless
there is something behind it. When
every American citizen in the South
can vote for whom he pleases, with
out being converted into lead mine,
the Republican politician who waves
the bloody shirt will be laughed
down, but not before. Gen. Grants
prophecy, that the Democrats can al
ways be relied on when the Republi-
cans are in tight place, has large
vein of truth running through it. 1t
is great source of comfort to the
Stalwart leaders to know that they
have friends in the Democratic camp
who are sure to turn up at the right
moment with some act of mOnumen.
tai stupidity that shocks the nation,
and unites capital and labor against
any change whatever. This is merely
the repetition of an old story, which,
however, never loses its freshness,
ana which is always applicable just
before Presidential election. Solo
mon must have been thinking of the
Democratic party when he made that
sage, of Greystone, remark about the
futility of braying fool in mortar.
The Democracy has diligently brayed
in the mortar of disaster for almost a
q quarter of century, and there is
, enough folly left in it to secure it an
+ other four years of enforced absti-
, nence from the invigorating contents
, of the public crib.-IerdS SVtingS.
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