Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-09-18
TIE REPUBLICAN REVIVAL.

National Papub'cao.
The "Republ.ctn' WAS almost
"alonc i'm Its glory when, in March
last, it urged the Republicans of all
the States, and especially in States
holding elections this year, TO make
the suppression of the colored vote
in the South the leading question.
But the " Republican HOW has
good company and a great deal OF
it. All the Republican State Con.
ventlOns Of the Near-Ohlo. Virgin
ia, Iowa, and rennsylyauia-hayc
put into their platforms the most
vigorous denunciatiOn Of the great
outrage by which majorities are
ruled by minoIiticS-thc subvcrSlOn
of the constitutional right OF the
majority to rule IN this Republic.
The Republican press of the
country, true to a dominating SENSE
Of public duty, is taking hold of
this greatest Of all great issues as
it has always taken hold Of Ques.
tons materially affecting human
rights. The Philadelphia Press
does not oyerstate the facts Of the
situation when 1t says 1.-THE whole
Republican party is rapidly gath
ering about this standard Of free
and fair suffrage. So speedy and
general concentration upon one
issue has not been witnessed even
in the unparalleled career of the
Republican organization. " The
Syracuse journal pcItincntly re-
marks that "thc denial OF equal
rights by such methods as the white
Democratic voters at the South
have adopted is not a question of
twenty yea>agO, but one OF today :;
and it is a living issue, a vital is
sue The Hartford Courant, not
less in earnest, says: " When tie
votes which are not allowed TO
count at the polls are counted to
increase thc Democratic repreSen-
tation i'm Congress and 10 increase
the Democratic representation in
the electoral college, it Is not pos
sible that intelligent men should
shut their eyes, or for any senu-
mental reason pretend TO approve
that which is unjust aud wrong
The Dcs Moincs Register thinks
{" the Iowa Republican plank de
nouncing the Democratic patty for
its schemes in the South to dis
franchise the negroes, steal their
political power and protection, de
grade them into cheap labor and a
pauperzed class, and thus inllict
injury on free labor everywhere, IS
the Republican buzz-saw for this
campaign and for the next Nation.
al campaign" These are samples
OfexpressionS with which we might
fill many columns.
Let Democrats and Mugwumps
20 on with their Sncering at " the
bloody shirt Having no other
answer to the most serious charge,
with but a single exception, that
has ever been preferred against any
party in the United States; their
only recourse is a stercOtyped sheer.
The " Republican holds it to be
impossible Tor this republic to en-
dure unless the government IS
brought onto its only possible foun.
datiOn-the will OF the majority.
But the Republican believes
that this republic Will endure, for
it has no doubt that the party
which has dedicated itself to the
cause of honest elections Will
achieve success.
1t is a great thing-to be right
in a struggle like this. \ party
whose feet are on the bed rock of
Gods eternal Justice has no cause
to fear for the ultimate result of Il
conflict with a party that wallows
waist.deep in Quagmilc of fraud.