Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-11

country. I have never harmed any
man here. I have tried to live hon.
estly and to be Of service You can
kill me if you will, but it is my right
to vote and | shall vote, " and vote
be did and as he turned from the
ballot box, the cowardly wretch, acting
under orders from the "committe' -
shot him dead. The murderer is
today the hero of the county-in
which he resides and his fendish deed
is he'd up as warning to those, if
any there be, who think it advisable
to organize the Republican party in
Mississippi-and this in the year
1884, nineteen years since the war
ended and seventeen years since the
Rebel States were "reeonstructed'
and the freedmen were "enfranchised"
Note the peculiar wording of this
significant threat. Can any Democrat
deny the fact that the policy of the
writer was and is purely Democratic?
Does he not through the language
("we invite every Republican to be
true to his party and vote according to
his convictions. Let the colored man
exercise his right in this respect of
his own volition, without fear or hind
rance.") seek to mislead the casual
reader? Does he not evince true
Democratic wisdom? He is DESTROYS
while the political pot begins to boil,
to put on the war paint and let the
scalping knife glitter in the sunshine,
and then seek to convey the idea that
these demonstrations were only intend
ed to apply to certain few, whom he
chooses to term Republican dema-
gogues, and that the masses were
invited to exercise their rights with
perfect freedom. This truly Demo
cratic skill in composition is only
rivaled in the unambiguous language
used By the Democratic National
Committee, who labored SO hours to
prepare tariff plank in order that a
connection might be gotten up which
would suit the most fastidious taste,
no matter hew capricious the appetite
might be, for it is either fish, flesh or
fowl, or neither fish, flesh nor fowl,
just as may be desired. 1t is free
trade or protective tariff, or if neither
should be called for to suit the epicur-
ian palate, why then it is nothing
literally nothing. ANY person having
fair understanding of the English
language, or proper conception OF
the feelings of the Southern Democ-
racy, will not willingly believe that it
took that journalist SO hours to frame
that significant language, which in
fact means so much.
If the democratic party ever had any
shame about them, I do not wonder
that they object to, and term the al
lusions to the political murders, as
'faunting the Bloody Shirt" Still
when we behold their present and
past party affections, We are led to
believe that their shame is not that
which springs from the innate sense
of justice which is supposed to be i'm
planted of god, in every human breast,
bat only superficial show for effect;
If they do not endorse such actions
why should they endorse Thos. A.
Hendricks, of Indiana, for Vice
President. A man who throughout
our civil war sympathized with the
rebels, and who openly declared the
war a failure, who always has been
and is now openly and avowedly work
ing in the interest of that class of
democrats who defently declared that
they would "win with the Ballot Box
what they lost by the "Sword." |
would appeal to any union soldier who
shouldered his musket, in defence of
his country, and who perchance lost a
leg, an arm, an eye, or at least his
health in defending the stars and
stripes; and every thinking man who
was privileged to remain at home and
enjoy the benefits and luxuries of civil
life at the expense of the privations
and sufferings of those who fought to
defend their property and homes
against the invasion of those who
sought not only to destroy both, but
also to over throw our government; to
stop and consider we'll what their duty
is at the coming election. The fitting
of straw. indicates which way the
wind blows. In like manner, these
significant remarks and actions of the
Democratic party indicate but too
clearly what their aims and objects are.
Therefore we urge the necessity OF
early and effective work in the line OF
disseminating the truth, SO that every
voter may go to the polls with full
knowledge of the Importance of his
vote in perpetuating our Government,
and insuring the continued prosperity
and rapid growth of our nation.
Further, dc not let the American
Nation suffer the penalty of Pauper
Labor system, such as is found in
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