Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-25
THE BLOODY SHIRT.


The Sonsitiyeneas OF our Democratic
brethren i one Of the maryels of the day.
No sooner does Mr.. Blaine venture to utter
the most jusiiiiable of pleas in favor Of q
free ballot and fair count in the South
than every Democratic mouth in the land
opens to give voice to the cry, " bloody
shirt No sooner does he protest against
the one great danger to the Republic, n
solid section Of the country politically, than
the Democracy roars again, bloody shirt
We fail TO find a word in his speeches to
justify this insane and senseless shout.
The truth is there never has been but
one sectional party-the Democratic.
There is now bat one sectional palty-the
Democratic. The principles Of the RepUb-
hcan party have not been of the north
or south, or east or west. bur as wide as
the domain of reason, and Is boundless
as the claims Of humanity The Demo-
cratic party, on the other hand, has had its
mainstay in a sectionalism that solidiied
an entire region and made freedom Of
thought and utterance q moclery, but that
period, thanks to the intelligence OF the
better spirit Of the South and despite such
as Long and Lowry and Lamar, is fast
drawing to a close, and North and South
are becoming, as of right they should he, no
longer geographical divisions nor sectional
Jurisdictions. but A common unit in the
structure of an indissoluble union.
In this campaign there has been no re-
calling Of the memory of bloody days. nor
appeals to the hot passions nj the most de-
plorable Of wars. On the contrary, thcnew
South has held in It's grasp the sincere and
open palm Of the whole people When a
Republican suggests that To restore the
Democracy 10 power IS to eniancer the
Government by giving it over to politicians
who represent the unreconsiructcd Gle
ment," the word and the motive are mis-
construed and the South Is told by partisan
demagogues that the Republican party is
arraring the North against the South to
Cypress her. The Democratic party can
point to no act or word to support this false
charge 4 broader charity; a more gencr-
Gus and forgiying aud forgetting spirit; a
wider and deeper ffiendliness a sinccrer
patriotic exhibition are not recorded in his
tory than disclosed by the annals of the
Republican party in the conduct of the
Nation toward the Southern States after
their wrong-doing ceased.
What is II the Republican leader asks
Simply that in every section Of our COM
mon country every citizen shall be accorded
the full, free right to exercise his political
judgment and manifest his preferences
without interference or intimidation And
this. for the South, is waving the bloody
shirt" We protest against that state Of AZ
fairs which makes political division in 4
State practically impossible; we protest
against the means employed to COW Repub-
lican voters in the Southern part of the
Union: we protest against solid South or
n solid North, since these are but other
terms for that political disfranchisement
that leads 10 tyrannical domination, sec
tionaI hate. embittercd relations. We pro-
test against the canvass now being made in
the South that involves in more than one
State no other issue than the subordination
of one class of citizens in servility TO an
other.
Mr. Long, Democratic Elector in Florida,
from Cleveland and Hendricks stump
exelaims, and the people applaud him;
The pretensions of you niggers to run for
Office or vote for those who do are affecting the