Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-21
Clexeland and the south.

The mugwump papers of the North
have been advising their readers. since
the election of Cleveland. that the new
order Of things would render the democ-
raey Of the South more conciliatory tow
ard the negroes, and result in the aboli-
ton Of the system By which that section
of the country is kept solid for the democ-
racy, These ROSY pictures descriptive OF
the South under Cleveland. are utterly
baseIess There is no hope that the coll
ored people will be treated better than
they have been By the banded assasslns and
ballot box suffers OF the South. They will
rather be treated worse The democrats of
the South do not propose to make that sec
ton less solid but more solid; they have
no idea of conciliating the negroes so that
they may become demOcrats-for that Is
impossible-bu they intend to wipe them
out more completely POLITICAL y than they
have yet been. if such a thing can be
done, by the same methods through which
this year and in previous years they have
uniustlv, fraudulently, wickedly, deprived
them of voting and turned actual republic
can majorities into republican minorites.
By this system of wrong they have elected
Cleveland They make their boasts of
it. They will not risk certainty tor an
uncertainty. They know the situation in
the South better than the mugwumps do,
and as they have controlled the negroes in
the past so they will control them in the
future, increasing instead OF relaxing their
iron rule, until under the providence of God.
by peace or otherwise, the oppressors
shall be overthrown and justice and
right shall triumph. The following
editorial from the Atlanta Con- |
stituiion, leading democratic organ
in Georgia and throughout the South. de-
clares plainly what the democracy OF the
rebel contederacy think will be the eff
feet OF Cleveland's election upon the poll
ties of the South, and how it will strength
en- and perpetuate the infamous system
by which that part of the country is made
solid for the democracy, no matter what
may be the popular majority against it.
No reader of the Journal should fail to
read and consider the following;
Whatever NAV be the result of Cleveland's /
election on the country at large it will solid
ify the South and hold it solid A people
that for twenty four wears of defeat have been
true to principles, will not forsake them in
the first years of success This ia as it should
be Those Of our people who talk of hearing
no more OF the Solid South do not speak
advisedly There is no hope for the pros
pcritv of this section, no peace for either
race, save in the clear. unmlstakable DONNA
tion OF the white race. There is no wisdom,
save in the white people Of the South stand
ing squarely and solidly together on plat
form Of conservative government and equal
rights to all men. Whenever the white peo-
pie of the South split into factions and stand,
with the negroes between them holding the
balance OF power. and each faction bidding
for their votes. then we shall have lost more
than Cleveland's election has gained for us.
II will result in the negroes turning to the
white democrats OF the South to save them
from Acknowledgement Never has blacker
chicken come to roost, quicker or more sure
ly. than has this thing of negro voting come
home to the republicans The enfranchise-
ment of the negroes has simply added thirty
seven electoral votes to the democratic half
of the college. Had the negroes never been |
entranchised, Blaine would have been Presi- |
dent in spite of the thirty-six democratic |
electoral votes in New York.
1t is not surprising that the negroes of
the South are alarmed at the election of |
Cleveland 1t is menace to them, which |
they understand, ignorant though they be.
greater menace which it contains to the
republican institutions on which this gov
eminent is founded