National Republican., 1885-09-05
HThe Bloody Shirt"

so intelligent man as Gov. Hoadly, of
Ohio, ought to be able to speak OF his own
political fortunes and the topics and incl
dents of the campaign without giving out
flow to dreary drvel Of nonsense sum
married from the idiotic editorials of small
fry country Democratic newspapers.
Gov. IIoadly has, even in very recent
times, been capable of saying good things
He said good thing to President Cleve-
land when he told him that Gen. Noyes
was the right man to be appointed to an
important office. Somehow the governors
Democratic brethren could not appreciate
the humor of that excellent remark, but 1t
was enjoyed by Republicansin in all the states
and territories and the District of Colum-
bia. 1t is being enjoyed yet at Sitka,
Alaska.
But II the governor had set himself the
task Of beating "Sairy Camp" he could not
have dropped into Il sillier vein than he
struck the other day in New York, when a
reporter asked him if he had read Judge
FOraker's speech. Here is the report
clipped from Democratic paper:
Not yet" answered the governor. ~ have
teen 100 busy, but shall do so this evening on
the cars. am told, however, that it was au
out.and.Out bloody.shirt speech. / expected 1t
and am not surprised Judge Foraker Is fol.
lowing the lead of Senator sherman. The
bloody shirt Is to be the ISSUE Well | shall re.
ply to Judge Foraker ON Saturday. We are not
afraid to meet that issue. when Gen. Grant, the
one man who did more than any other to put
an end TO rebellion, rciRed almost with his
dying breath that he had lived to sec harmony
and good will among the sections; when, after
lis death, the President, ut the earnest request
of his widow, named two prominent contGdcr.
rate generals among his palbearers, and those
gentlemen rode in the same carriage at the
funeral with the two Union generals who, next
10 Grant were most promin, mt in the war, the
Democrats of ohio believed that all that show
of fraternity aud good feeling meant some
thing II seems that they were mistaken. Al
lcHst our Republican friends are evidently Of
that opinion"
Senator Sherman and Judge Foraker state
and the country knows they tell the
truth-that great wrong exists in certain
states, whereby the rule Of the majority is
ret aside, not only in local affairs, but in
the national House Of Representatives and
ihe electoral college.
This is revolution, and none the less
revolution because II has been accomplished
without armies and navies.
The Republican party is not fighting over
again the battles Of our great civil war, is
not disturbing the serenity of its soul about
dead issues, is not cherishing or fomenting
sectional strife, but 1t is going to be true to
Its record, true TO itself, true to the cause
of human rights. And 1t will never submit
in disgraceful, guilty silence to an in
fnitely greater wrong than any for which
the American people have ever takenup
arms against foreign power.
The Republicans Of the north bear no
malice toward the Democrats Of the south,
Tut they are not and cannot be insensible
10 the great evil TO which Sherman and
Foraker referred. Gen. Grants expression
of good will toward the south met hearty
"amenn from those who stood by Grant
when Democrats, in their deyiish ma
jignity, reyiled and slandered him.
Ex-confederates find q cordial welcome
in all Republican communities, The Re
publican soldiers who served under Grant