Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-12-31
BOURBON RULE.
AITUATAON-DAN NIGER Of
ANOT08B CONFLICT.

tor Malone is In the city, where he
will remain until the adjournment of
| Con gress. In conversation with the
Press correspondent tonight the Sena-
tor said that he had been 30 busily en-.
gagged with private affairs since theI
election that he had hardly had time To-
read the newspapers, much less toI
bother with politics.
~ haven't even read Cleveland's
civil service reform letter to George
William Curtis, but. If the President
elect could take little iaunt through
Virginia and see the Bourbons there
already wrangling and fighting over
the Offices that they expect 70 be made
vacant next March, he would be anus.
ed and instr ucted."
"Thc speech made by Blaine in Au.
gusta just after the election was one Of
the ablest presentations Of the situation
in tho South have ever read, and Its
words ought not to be forgotten by the
Northern people. 1t is not the 6rst
time, however, that patent has been |
taken out upon another mans inven |
ltion. I, myself, long ago called atten- |
ton to the political strength exercised
by Bourbon voters In the South.
ANorHKR WAR PREDICTED.
After the Danville massacre" con.
tinued the General, strokiDg his long
gray beard, several of the Senators,
Including Sherman and Edmunds,
lprossed me 70 bring this outrage to the
, attention of the Senate and the coun-
D try. l agreed 70 do 20, aud one day,
while discussing the subject with Mr..
> Sherman, l called his attention TO some
. points involving the treatment of the
' negro by theRepublican party thatl have
r never been able to understand. l said,
J. Mr.. Sherman, when the Republican
!, lparty made the negro free, /, who had
y done al in my power TO prevent IT.,
10 thought emancipation an awful thing
&c Wolf, - ysArs passed by, l improved
d end now the wonder 10 that, having
/. made him free, she Republican party
= will not protect him In his freedom.
believe that we will have another civil
coniiics In this country, not ovcr the
question Of slavery though.
= Although ! fought against the
!. Union, 1 declare / would never consent
~ that those who attempted to destroy II
n should again become Its rulers. II tht
y. Con ederates had won am very SURF
IT, the North would not have been allowet
4 70 manage tho Federal Government.
:" al called Mr.. 6berman's attention u
the condition Of affairs In the country
The South Is represented in the Senat,
no entirely by Southern Democrats. and
ln believe thirty.two of their thirty. .sil
lc' Senators were Confederate briga
o. diers. Every year the number OF he
NO publican representatives in the lowe
lc House from the South In Decreasing
ro and IL 10 only Q question Of time whe
on the Bourbons will have As solid reI
Presentation there as they have In IN
m Senate.
OF "This Is due to the wilful, dsliberat
Il and lawless overthrow of the right
We won for the negro in the civil war an
,ix guaranteed 10 him by amendments t
,so tho Cor stitution. told Mr.. Sherma
Of tn en-this was nearly year before til
ch election-that the South, coming to th
m front every four years with 153 electt
raj votes, would certainly in course {
,an time elect o Democratic Preeiden
the Some freak, accident or fraud in one
ce. the Republican Northern States woul
his give the Democrats majority OF th
vs. electoral votes. All this pointed OF
in 70 him, was due to the failure OF til
q Republicans 70 insist that the neRI
the should enjoy the political rights col
ferred upon him by the lawson IL
r,s land"
"a BUSINESS TROUBLE AHEAD.
70 but, Senator asked the Pre-.
ue correspondent, what has all this TO
ng with future civil conflict ?" al
he coming to that" was the Senator'S r
ted ply. ~ told Mr.. Sherman that whe
the Democratic party did get into powe
-, business trouble ahead. Capitalist
~. ~ AID busin ess men generally have new
III. manifested any confidence In the DEM
W. W cratic party. Its wild financial spasn
n ,oo and general lack of conservatism inspil
public distrust-
Instead Of the volume of the bus
pi. ness OF tho country being increased
at new manufactures ard workshop
ese opened and ventures undertaken b
tee business. men, there will be Rener
ad- contraction. A man who had none
sne In the bank would want to 60 the
quite often 70 sec that he could get
De- Men In business would curtail the
lois affairs and keep - close. to the shore
rop possible until they were fully assure
~, Of thoroughly reliable and consery
last tive administration of affairs.
rQp /" Meantime there would be almost
financial panic. Mills, furnaces Ar
Ala. factories would be closed and thousan'
IA. of men and women thrown out OF en-
m. ployment The upshot of it would
the probably bread riots, for whom ma
Is hungry he doesn't always think b
- fore acting. In such state of affair
.m- M you see, an unorganised mob of tho
un' sands of men moving on Washingt'
", would be altogether unnatural, al
!" shus another conflict begins. did n
believe, when said shis, that She No,
has administration would be Democrat
ere 1t may not happen, trust it will nj
ran, but there ,rtainly would never ha
on been AL opportunity for catastrop
of this sort il the negroes Of the Sout
Ar arm Stases had been protected in thl
,lnR political righte."