The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

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government, he has no superior in the House as
debator and legislator Eloquent and able, to
those of you who do not know him, and they are
few, ne will prove revelation; to those of you
who do, he will simply confirm your previous
good opinion of his high character and ability
the Executive of this State
His opponent, Isaac p. Gray, a quondam
Colonel and Know nothing, had yearning de
sire in 1866 to do one thing. He said, in a speech
delivered at Richmond; Il wish to say few
words about the Democratic party and the record
| it has made for itself during the war. If / had
| the power would write that record of treason
and infamy upon the American heavens so that
every man and woman might read it in letters
! of fire" Respectfully dedicated to the Demo
cratic party.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
To the novtiate the broad lines which separate
the great political parties are but family egible
comparison of the platforms reveals but little
difference between them. The platitudinOus
verbiage Of the Democratic instrument shows
nothing of the soiled career OF that party and its
| impure motives. But an experienced observer
will discover behind the mask of virtue which it
assumes its wolfish fangs and lolng tongue
Democracy fees from its past like a fugitive from
| justice, like criminal from the specter of his
! victim. But they cannot divorce their past
| from the present AS Freeman says. history is
the politics of the past, and politics is the history
of the present. No present event stands isolaJed
| but is connected with the past by the ndissolu
BILE links of cause and effect The doctrine of
| the heredity of crime is the only rational
| PLANTATION of the continuous misdeeds of the
| Democratic party. Its antecedents are notor-
ously bad 1t changes its professions every four
| years AS regularly those years roll by. 1t
| iuggies with political principles like a mounte-
bank, and treats an intelligent public though
| they were set of pumpkins devoid of memory,
sense and Judgment.
Suppose you intended to employ man TO fill
position of trust in your business You would
| not pay the slightest attention to his preten-
| sions; you would demand recommendations at
| testing his .punctuality honesty efficiency. The
| Democratic party presents to the country this
year a hand bill of moral platitudes, termed
| platform, which vaguely promises some things
| that are good anu others that are not so. But
| how can we believe word which that party
| Of faithless pledges and broken promises says.
when we recollect that the Democratic party of
| the North, in 1860, favored secesson2 In 1862 it
| opposed secession and favored reconciliation
the basis of slavery. In 1864 it declared the war
| a failure; in 1866 it declared the war success
| In 1868 it opposed the constitutional amend
| ments in 1872 it approved the constitutional
| amendments. In the same year it demand ed the
immediate resumption Of specie payments, in
1876 it demanded an immediate repeal of the re
sumption act. In 1880 it demanded tariff for
revenue only; in 1884 it tried to get the fence
slipped and fell the thorns of free trade where
| it ANONYMOUSLY lies. What that rugged old
philosopher DR.. johnson, once said to the young
man applies to the Democratic party: Young
man. you must have taken great pains with
y-cur education. You could not possible by ma
ture be as stupid as you are
In view of this trifing with national ques
lions of grave import, it may we'll be inquired
what States the Democrats will carry in the
coming election To answer this question 1
must open the darkest chapter in the annals of
American history, the record of the Democratic
party in the South since the record that
defles the page and shames the historian.
They will carry the State of Mississippi, where
until 1875 the Republicans had majority of
30 00O but which was overturned in that year
by a revolution so cruel and so bloody as to
blanch the face Of outraged humanity. Public
massacres, midnight hangings, ostracism, those
threats of violence that spread a nameless terror
through the community, that ferocity which
stamps barbarism on the savage, all tended to
show to an astonshed world what the Demo
cratic party meant by whites mans govern
ment In Yazoo county where the Republicans
had u majority of 800 and more seven Repub-
lican votes were cast. and there were many
others in the same ratio
They will carry the State of Louisiana, where
between the years 1866 and 1874, more than
4, 900 Republicans We're killed and wounded sim
ply for exercising their Institutional prerOga-
tive of casting a vote Negroes were pursued
like lepers, and justice prostituted that
slavery in comparison seemed a protection and
blessing.
They will carry the States blistered by the
massaeres at Hamburg Danville, Clinton, Cou
shatta, Colfax. Vieksburg, Red River and
Mechanics Institute. The Republican vote in
Arkansas. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama.
North and South Carolina has been literally
burnt out-vanished as smoke in the heavens
leaving only the cinders behind to tell the ghast
ly tale. Hundreds of thousands Of votes have
been annihilated.
They will carry every district in the South
where there is Illicit diStilery; every district
where a government revenue officer has been
killed; every district where there is no school
house; every district where the ballOtb0X have
been stuffed; every district where men, illegally
armed, have surrounded the polls; every district
where Ku kux and White LeaguerS existed
every district where the Union soldier sleeps
under the sod Of the battle field; every district
where man has been held as a slave; every dis
trict where the blood of th3 negro has stained
the soil every district where the tyranny of one
party remains; in fine, they will carry every
district that is controlled by the despotism of
ignorance and that is enshrouded in the black
mantle of crime.
do not say that every Democrat in the South
or a majority of them, were Ku-klux and White
Leaguers and favored the measures of these or
CARNATIONS, but do say that every ku klux and
White Lacquer was a Democrat
The Democratic party, that putrefed remin.
iscence of treason crime and blunder, is engaged
in telling the country. to-day that the mission of
the Republican party is accomplished The
mission of the Republican party will never be
accomplished until the Democratic party is
dead
They ask that we shall no longer talk of South
ern outrages. Now that the bloody work is over
and they masters of the situation, their sensi-
tiYeness may be accounted for. They have
gained control of every electoral vote south of
Mason and Dickson's line. The South presents
an impregnable and sullen front to-day, as it
did twenty four years ago. and is menace to
the peace and prosperity of this country
If the Democrats in the North desire change
so ardenty, let them adiure their Southern
brethren to permit fair count and some of
the Southern States will cast legal Republican
majority.
PENSIONS.
The Democratic party not only threatens but
absolutely pledges itself to cut off the pensions
of Union soldiers! 1t said in plank undues-
tionably dictated by the Southern members of
the convention: I'VE denounce the Republican
party for having failed to relieve the people from
crushing taxes And again:
1.-The system of direct taxation known the inter