The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-01-02


The Enert~ ~ Republican Leader "a Gre
ate Dissru<f aud Disturb tho Peace for
the sake 81 Discrediting this pemoc-
rxcy.
Since the election Of President Clcye-
land the Republicans Of tho Blaine
stamp have been devoting their energies
70 two points. They have been trying
10 persuade mill owners to shut down
and tnrn their hands adrift. and have
been predicting all sorts Of persecution
and suffering for the negroes Of the
s.Southern" States. Fred Douglass
thinks the return Of the Democracy TO
power means '.thc political death Of the
negro" Other less intelligent Repub-
licans are foolish enough To assert that
il is the first step towards the re-cstab-
lishment Of slavery.
II is evidently the wish Of some Re-
pubiicans to disturb the peace and dam
AGE the business interests Of the
try As much as possible for the purpose
Of discrediting the Democracy. That
was the object Of the long delay in adj
hitting defeat. These disappointed
politicians are indifferent rs TO the inju-
nv they may inflict on business or indi-
viduals 50 long as they can make II APP
pear that disturbance and distress result
from Democratic success.
Manufacturers will soon find that an
honest Democratic policy is far better
| for them than the unhealthy fayoritism
Of Republicanism for which they have
had TO pay very dearly. As TO the col
ored citizens OF the South, whose rights
are entirely safe under the Constitution.
no greater blessing could have befallen
| them than the overthrow of the Rrpub-
| lican party. Designing persons have
taught them that they had some great
advantage Ia expect from the Admins
tration at Washington Of which the
Democrats al home deprived them. and
this has served to keep them restless
and dissatisfied. With this deception
exploded they will settle down 70 the
consideration of their real interest and
the intelligent exercise Of their political
rights.
Democracy seeks I make people en-
lightened and happy. II raises the op-
pressed. inStructs the ignorant and pro
fccts the weak. Democracy would no
have conferred the franchise suddcnl,
on millions Of negroes sunk in igno
rance. but since they have been in
vested with the privileges Of citizens
Democracy seeks 10 make them capable
of using them intclligently.
The negroes only study their OWL goo'
when they resist the attempt Of the Re
publicans to hold them rs politica
chaftels and vote a their W judgmcn
dictates. The interests Of the citizen
Of a State arr identical. whether thei
skins are black or white. and it is quit
natural that where q majority OF n
whites are Democratic a majority OF ia
colored citizens should be the same.
Four years Of Democratic rule viii
dispel all the illusions raised by partisan
unscrupnlousness for political effect
The South will be ''solid in the future
because ignorance will gradually disar
pear and the negroes will learn that tn
white residents Of their own State
have naturally more regard for their In
,erests and are more honestly concerne
for their prosperity than Republiea
partisans, who only enfraEchised theI
because they believed they could Us
them for their own purposes, and VIII
to-day, il they could. would reduc
them to a condition Of political s~crvitud
only n little less degrading thar II
bondage from which they were release
by the war Washington Post.