The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-19
Radical Desperation.

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alty Of glu,tony. II has gorged Itself win
crow until Il is suffering from combined
attack Of biliousness, spleen, and rush OF
blood 10 the place where its brains ought
m be. II is so sick that II hardly knows
wha, II says, and views everytl ing through
n crimson film. In looking over the south
eru tield IL sees nothing but blood and
slaughter. AS II spreads It's abnormally-
developed cars TO catch the southern
breeze it hears nothing but the fero-
cious rebel yell aud the crack oil
the seli.cocking pistol. II seems that IN us
upset condition II Is moi equal TO new
idea, aud has been compelled to turn 20 It's
files and rehash the outrage literature OF
the Augustan age OF political mendacitY.
In an article entitled the Southern Ques-
ton, II starts out with the declaration that
il Is no fault OF the Republican party that
there is stirl a sectional issue in our poll
Tics. and then adds:
"No efforts have been spared by the
pcopie of the North to persuade the peo-
plc OF the South that, the war being over
and slavery abolished, antagontsin ana
preiudice should cease, and all classes join
fraternally and heartily in the work OF pro-
noting the welfare of n common country.
All POSSIBLE o, ertures have been made TO
those who tried 10 destroy the Government,
and every reasonable inducement offered
them 10 accept the situation and JUSTIFY
their boosted manhood and chiyalry by
uniting aside malice and unbindness and
performing their duties as citizens IN an
honest and proper manner. Ihat tbese
advances have not been met In recIprocai
and friendly spirit is no less true tnan ID Is
unfortunate and deplorabie; ana there Is
nothing TO be gained by Ignoring tue iacts
or making believe that the situation Is
agreeable when it is manifestly wrong ana
dangerous
This piece OF cool cheek should have re-
duced the temperature OF the Globe-Demo-
Gratis own heated imagination. But II
did not. Continuing. it lashes itself into q
fury over alleged outrages upon the man
and the brother" gives the history OF the
DanviIle and Copiah affairs with stalwart
variations, and scintilateS with lurid YER
biage regarding so-called murders, past,
present. and prospective. Yet, after all,
the significance Of the article is In the fol-
lowing paragraphs
"The Republican Convention did well,
therefore, to take a plain and emphatic
stand on the subject OF southern oppose
tim TO good government, and southern
treachery, fraud, and outrage in the mat
ter OF the enforcement OF the laws and
the maintenance OF peace, justice, and
decency. A free ballot, an honest count,
and correct return can alone give suit
ableness and value to the theory OF popu-
lar elections, up"n which the stability OF
our institutions depends, as declared by
the Chicago platform; and yet in not a
single one OF the States that joined the
Southern Confederacy are those conditions
permitted TO exist. A fair and legal cleo
ton Is thing practically unknown in that
quarter of the country. There has not
been an honest vote for President, or men,
bers of Congress, in any one OF said states
for the last twenty years; even the local
officers of the most incOnsequent kind are
chosen by methods and undue influences
that make the process mockery and con-
tinuous reproach."
"These facts are glazing and notorious.
So common have they become, in fact,
that the Door virtue OF denial is no longer
assumed regarding them; they are openly
ayowed and treated rs matters OF course.
Southern Democrats do not pretend that
they allow honest elections TO be held
when the success OF their party would be
endangered by such q course. IL they
lack majority in a given locality they
manufacture one by intimidation and vio-
lei ce, or by rascality in the enumeration
OF the votes. The testimony TO TINS effect
is direct, positive. overwhelming. IL does
not rest upon vague and conflicting reports
and Is not confined TO special districts or
surroundings. The truth is that the policy
OF the Democratic party as party in the
South is directed TO the systematic sup
preston OF anti-Democratic votes and the
carrying of elections by fraud and force.
TO be Republican in that section Is to be
a citizen i'm name Only-a man without a
country. so far a. the franchise is con-
cerned."
And il is these paragraphs that induce
us TO depart from our usual custom OF not
giving more than passing notice to llbels
upon the South. AS a rule. it is waste OF
time 10 treat them seriously. But the Globe
Democrat speaks by authority for
large element of the Republican party, and
in this instance waves the bloody
shirt for all II is worth. Its utter
ances. considered in connection with the
declarations Of the Cincinnati Commercials
Gazette and other western Republi'
can papers, do not leave room for doubt
that sectionallsm is to play an important
mart in the canvass, so far as the West Il
concerned, at least. They sustain us In
the position that LOGAN was put on the
ticket to do this act in The campaign, and
that no extreme Of demagogy that par
tisan hatred can suggest will he omitted
by the party in the effort to carry the eiec
ton. The Globe Democrat even goes Sc
far rs TO say:
"The remedy suggested by the senate
committee which investigated these par
ticular offences is probably the only prac
teal and sufficient one, and that Is 10 den.
representation TO States in which such out
RACES are permitted, according 10 the mea
sure In which the results OF elections ma
be thus affected"
on course this last idea is simply absurd
but we quote 1t as afiording additional ev'
dence not only OF Radical desperation but
the weakness OF the Chicago ticket, and
embodying lesson for people. Ii show
that the party Of fraud and corruption
wounded nigh unto death, and that cor
cert Of action among the true men Of Oh
country--sat a recognition that reforr
is the vital issue Of the hour-is all that
necessary to i've it the finishing stroke
In raising its yenomous head and strikinI
at the Democratic party il also strikes a
the Deaep nrognprity and industrial Dro