Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-09-09
WEDNESDAY. sEPrEMBERs, 1885.
noadly VS.. rOraker-Lee VS.. Wise.

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Hoadly VS.. Foraker-Lee VS.. Wise.
What a contrast between the speeches
Of BoADLy and those Of FORAKER
what contrast between Fritz LEES
fri nds in Ohio and JOHN WIsE's
friends there. What . contrast be-
tween northern Democrat and q north
em Republican. What contrast, in
. word, between sympathizing friends
and malignant enemies.
Whoever has read the telegraphic
synopsis Of HoADLy's opening cam
paign-speech--made last Saturday at
Hamiltor--must have been struck with
fbe difference between his words Of
! Kindness and the words Of hatred and
revenge which characterized FORA
KER's opening csmpaign-speech.
Those contrasts mean something.
What is its They mean that the Re-
publican party is engaged in DEATH
struggle-thst is, if we may accept ss
true the statements of "F. D. NJ" the
well-known travelling correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, who
has been sent to Richmond to write let
tiers for that paper. We had supposed
that SHERMAN and his associate libel
lers we're merely endesvoring to turn
the tide Of fanaticism Of the Western
Reserve from the channel of prohibition
into the channel of sectionalism. We
are confident now that JOHN WISE
will be defeated, and that there will
never be another President Of the
United States elected on sectional issues.
We are persuaded that Mr.. GARFIELD
spoke the truth when he said year or
two before bis decesse what the result
of the last presidential election proved
to be correct forecast. We quote his
words
"The man who attempts to get up q
political excitement in this country on
the old sectional issues will find him.
self without party and without sup
port. The man who wants to serve
his country must put himself in the
line of its leading thought, and that is
the restoration of business, trade, CON-
meree, industry, sound political econo-
my, hard money, and honest payment
of all obligations, and the man who
can add anything in the direction of the
accomplishment Of any Of these pur-
poses is . public benefactor."
We must believe that Ohio still SYM
pathizes with the sentiments expressed
by the dead Ohio President. If she
does, let her reflect HoADLY. He is
now her Governor.
Nevertheless, "F. d. NJ" coming
to Virginia to represent JOHN WIsE's
Ohio friends and the Republican party
generally, forgets that Richmond is in
Virginia and not in JOSHUA GID
DfNcs's old district, and states the
issues involved in the contest between
FITz LEE ard JOHN S. WISE in the
following words:
"In Virginia the struggle is the bat
lie Of Republicanism. TO greater or
less extent questions hanging upon the
result Of the encounter are whether the
Republican party shall longer endure |;
whether the solid South shall remain
solid whether the sinister and omi-
nous spirit Of Bourbonism shall continue
TO prevail whether the results of the
war are to be preserved whether the
constitutional amendments shall be OBJ
observed and respected; whether
the men freed and enfranchised
by the Republican party through
bloody wars and wise legislation
shall be accorded their rights in citizen
ship; whether the colorcd citizens shall
be allowed to cast their votes and have
them honestly counted; whether bull
DOING and violence and bloodshed shall
be continued in suppressing the vote of
the negroes whether returns shall con-
tinue to be manipulated and frauds and
outrsges still be perpetrated against the
ballot; whether great State shall con-
tinue TO be piundered and misgoverned
and disgraced by q narrow minded,
bigoted, and reckless gang Of ex-rebels
and professional agitators, with all in
dustfial pursuits Frustrated aud progress
retarded and, finally, whether Bour,
bon senator shall represent this un
healthy element in the United States
eenate.'
What do the narrow-minded, big
oted, and reckless gang of ex-rebels ;
= think Of that? Where is the virgini,
Democrat who will not now begin I.
= york for the election of FITz LEE
when one vote may decide that the Re
publican party is no longer to zen
dure "s-that the solid South shall re
main solid for the cause Of truth
justice, good government, the peace o
tho country, and the welfare Of tn.
publics-that the Democratic party
shsll continue to prevail"
But We need not repeat the list o.
good results that would follow the cleo.
ton Of FITz LEE, nor refer to the