The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-22
The Mobile Gala Register says:


history"
The Greenville g. CO. News, published the
following headlines over the election of Cleve-
land, the display occupying a full column:
NOW
YELL!
A SOLID, HONEST, UNTRADIMELED
REBEL YELL
GROVER CLEVELAND Is OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!
THE DEMOCRACY Is ON TOP AT LAST
ALL DOUBTS DIsPELLED.
A GLORIOUS CERTAINTY
NO MORE TROUBLE FOR TIKI SOLID soUTH-No MORE
sCALLAwAG OR CARPET-BAG GOVERNMENT
YELLl
YOU SOLID WHITE MEN AND HONEST DEM.
OCRATSi
YELL!
WE HAVE A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT
AT LAST!
Following this was the report, one part of
which said:
''The occasion is too great to be measured
by words; the joy is too wild and magnificent
to be shaped and pressed into written or spoken
phrases. There is only one thing for it; only
one method to meet the requirements of the
time. That is to go out where there is an
abundance Of room and plenty of free, elastic,
pure air, and, with head thrown back, swing
ing hat, distended mouth and the throttles Of
the throat wide open, to utter a series of clear,
resonant, ear-piercing rebel yells, which will
send the atmospheric sound waves, laden with
triumph and joy, rolling and vibrating through
streets and over fields and hills until they
break and die among the remotest echoes"
Further along the article says:
Cleveland is elected President The long
MI rbt 10 Vha dow hoc
is over. The reign of the carpet Dagger and
the scallawag, of the white traitor and the
black striker is over forever and forever! This
white mans country is going to be ruled by
white men, and the South is going to have a
boom like that of California in 1949."
''Yellp
The Lynchburg Virginian says:
l''Africa has been vanauished and it is
settled forever that the white men, whose
estate this is, must rule here all the time to
come"
The Charleston News and Courier says:
''1'his was the justification which the solid
South had long expected and predicted, and it
has been a conclusive one. This is the jpsti
fcation of the solid South, long awaited and
hoped for. When the struggle in the South
was local in its area it was national in char
acter. When the contest on the same lines,
became national, the South had naught to do
but to continue in the same path 1t is
great day for the Union and great day for
South Carolina"
The Western Christian Advocate of this
week, in an article headed evidence in the
South" says;
'Letters have come to this office from va
ricus places in the South giving accounts of
recent mobs and outrage. Among others we
learn, on what seems to be good authority,
that at a certain place in that section the post
office was assaulted and that the postmaster
and his family fled for their lives from the
rear part of the building In the same place
the American Missionary Association has
school, and the mob fired number of shots
at a window of the room in which some of the
teachers had light burning. The same let
ter says that threats were made to burn one of
our own Freedmen's Aid Society school build
ings in the South, and that the teachers were
in great fear. Similar news comes from
places hundreds of miles distant from those
already referred to.
These are afew representative expressions.
Let any white man put himself in the place
of the freedman in the South and ask himself
whether, under such surroundings, he would
feel perfectly at ease, or whether he would
not cast a.longing eye toward Goods country
as the poor slave did in the days when the
only thoroughfare was the underground rail
road In confirmation of all this we have
quoted Mr.. M. L. Bundy wrote the
Journal from Little Rock-which, by the way,
went Republcan--of the jubliant cheers Of
the victorious Democracy for jeff Davis
The Washington Post, Democratic, advo-
Gates that President Cleveland should give
the South the Attorney general and the Post
mater general in his Cabinet. 1t says:
There are obvious reasons why they would
like to have an Attorney general appointed
from their own section, as they have suffered
long and sorely from an alleged Department
of Justice, run in partisan grooves, and made
a special instrument for their oppression, and,
naturally enough, desire to have man at the
head of this department who is familiar with
the wants and sympathetic with the neces-
sites of the South"
The "obvious reasons" are that the South
should have control of the national law de-
partment so that the national laws for the
protection of the ballot may be made even
more dead letter than they are now. Such
a suggestion and advocacy from a Northern
newspaper of the character and responsibility
of the Post is enough to arouse the greatest
alarm among the colored people of the coun-
try, and to awaken Che serious thought of
every citizen az to the possibilities Of the