National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-09-14
FaIsincation of Facts.

Gov lloadly made a long speech to a
large audience at Paincsvillc Saturday night
The press report states that much of his
time was devoted to local issues. It would
have been better for him aud his cause II
he had given all his time to such questions,
for he had nothing to gain by the thing
which he attempted, 10 wit, q reply to SEN
ator Sherman's Hamilton speech.
When Mr.. Sherman constructs set
speech for a campaign involving his seat in
the Senate, he does not build structure 50
weak in any part that IL can be successfully
assaulted by man Of IIoadly's capacity.
In the preparation Of the speech recently
delivered Mr.. Sherman used even more than
his customary caution. lie built a wall Of
solid granite founded on established facts.
In all that he said of the suppression of
votes in the south there is not charge or
an insinuation that cannot be supported by
the admissions of southern Democrats in
public debates. What he said is not only
true, but is universally known to be true.
lie confined his charges to things that have
been notorious for years and which have
been admitted, over and over again, by
leading Democratic newspapers in the
states where the fraud exists.
Mr.. lloadly had two courses open to
him-either to 20 on snecrlng about "the
bloody Shirt and talking about incidents
connected with the death and burial Of Gen
Grant, but steering clear of the issue, or to
attempt the denial Of ascertaincd and ad-
mitted facts. There was no other course
possible, and 1t was supposed he would go
on with his campaign Of sneers and snivel-
ing. But he lacked the discretion attributed
to him, and made the blundcr of attacking
Mr.. ShCrman's wall.
Gov Hoadly stated what he knew to be
false when she accused Mr.. Sherman OF
dtmagogy IN appealing to the base and
mean passions Of the people, blowing the
Cmhers Of an old dispute into blaze with
cut any definite proposition of change, but
simply and solely for the purpose of siding
in n partisan political canvass Mr.. Sher-
man has done nothing of the kind. He
has spoken kindly Of the south. lie and
the Republican party of the north have
done full justice to the south. But the
senator has asscrtcd--and all the world
knows-that the Democratic party, by sup
| pressing votes, controls Republican states
and elects n Democratic President As
bearing on this branch Of Hoadly's speech,
we give the following from the Phladel-
! phia Press Of last Saturday:
The Republicans of Mississippi in despair of
having an honest election in their state, de.
cline TO make any nominations this year, and
abandon the field TO the Democrats. The rca.
/ This CDursn n hn lop,,ua,,o oF nv Cn,-
| gresham Lynch, chairman OF the Republican
state committee, is that If the Republicans
would organize the opposition TO the Dsmo.
! cratic party in their state and defeat their
candidate by large majority, they would
| nevertheless he returned elected by Il majority
larger than by which they were defeated"
| Repeated trials have proved the truth of this,
and the Republicans are unwilling to be
| mOcked again this year with an idle form.
The legislature chosen this year will elect a
successor 10 James Z. George, who, in 1881,
succeeded Blanche X. Bruce, and the passive
position assumed by the Republicans insures
the election of Democratic senator from q
Republican state, made and kept Democratic
by "usurpation, violence, and fraud"
What is true of Mississippi is equally true
Of other states, and there was not a we'll
Informed man in Hoadly's audience who did
not know he was-well, to put it mildly
lying outrageously when he said, in plain
terms, that there was "no such wrong in the
south" Eight million bales of cotton,
produced by worklngmen in the south, both
black and white, is fact which outweighs
your pretense. If southern labor was dis.
organized and southern laborers under
tyranny this magnificent result would not
have been achieved This is what Hoadly
calls argument. Cotton could not be raised
If the blacks were cheated out of their polit.
icaliights lfthere was systematized fraud
in elections agriculture would die out
| Undoubtedly the South is growing rich
And the same men who proiited by slave
labor in the ante-bellum days are getting
about all the profits of black labor in these
days. Low wages, cheating by store orders
and other devices OF Il similar character
keep the great mass of black laborers in
poverty. They get little corn and bacon
and some coarse Clothes as of old, and tina,
is about the extent of their profits. The
results Of the work 90 into the pockets OF
their employers. 1t is found that this kind
OF free laborn is far more profitable thar
slave labor ever was, for there is now nc
compulsory support Of those who cannot
work.
Gov Iioadly's speech is a disgrace tC
him and his state, for it is tissue Of lies
in so far as it relates to the southern quet
tion-lies told consciously and with pre-
meditation. We should have preferred no
to have been compelled to believe or declare
this man a willful falsiher Of known facts
but he has left us no alternative.
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