Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-09-26


the same town. The WISE man wave:
the bloody shirt. The LEE man
flies the star-spangled banner. The
Republican ISLANDERS the people Of the
South. The Democrat speaks Of them
as brethren and fellow.countrymen.
The Republican would regain power at
the expense Of the harmony of the
country. The Democrat asks to retain
power because be holds out the olive
branch of peace to every patriot in the
land, and stands for the peace, pros
perity, and fraternity Of reunited
country. The Republicans, in a word,
are mere place-hunters. The Demo-
Gratis are patriots. The Democrats
support LEE. The Republicans sup
port WISE. Now read Mr.. RAINEs's
remarks touching the South and the
southern question. lie said:
1.-THE appeal of the leaders Of Repub-
licanism for the confidence Of the coun-
try, formally stated in this chamber
yesterday by the senior Senator from
New York, challenges our wonder. The
bones of greatness were dragged from
the tombs Of patriotic history. The
argument for the right of Republicanism
TO rule this people comprised few cor
rect plattudes upon finance, an allu-
sion TO the dangers Of interference with
the tariff, a playful suggestion that
his partisan friends were not all ex-
cluded from Office on account of de-
feet in civil-service rules as to jail
birds, and trenchant appeal to his
party not to desert its principles be-
cause the wagon train and eommissary
had been plundered by the Democracy.
Forgetting that the nation had sounded
taps for the orgies of Dorsey Repub-
licansm, and that an indignant people
had demanded Of the grand old party
the robes of Office and keys of the
Treasury, full to overhowing,' forget
ting that the memories of battles fought
for a union of hands and hearts, of
holy sacrifices Of blood in the cause
Of humanity, had been by a
supreme decree forever lifted from the
controversies of partisans, to be vene-
rated by mankind ; forgetting that the
great war chieftain had laid his fame
upon the heart of reunited people, to |
feel its throbs when mausoleums erum-
ble-the Senator rang with energy the
old alarm-bell of sectional strifes. He
challenged the whole theory of popular
government for its right to be by the
statement that in eleven States govern
ments did not rule by truthful ma
jority and the will of the people,"
Isn't that good? The wagon train
and commissary" is what JOHN WISE
is after when he makes his appeals to
sectionalism.
To whom were the above remarks of |
Mr.. RAINEs intended to apply? We
answer to Senator MILLER, WIsE's
right-hand man in New York. and the
same Senator MILLER to whom Ma
HONE wrote his last long, published
letter. Yes, it is WISE and MAHoNE's
friend who has thus forgotten that the
great war-chieftain GRANT has laid his
fame upon the heart of a reunited peo-
pie to feel its throbs when mausoleums
crumble.
Thus LEES friend eloquently took to
task WIsE's friend. Thus is shown
again the fact that the Republican party
is a sectional party in its very nature
and cannot live without sectionalism.
The Tribune is WIsE's advocate, de-
fender, and supporter. The Times
charges it with being cretinous and
cringing," and with having itself vio-
lated the section of the New York Re-
publican platform which reads:
"That in the letting of contracts for
State work no contract should be
awarded to any person or corporation
discriminating against any class or or
ganization of laborers.'
The Tribune has been boycotted, we
believe. Another paper hits off the
Tribune, WIsE's friend. as follows:
"Ye don't mean ter saw that the re-
bellion is all crushed out, do YEP" said
a surprised old fellow from Wayback.
Certainly"
mo fghtin' nor nuthin' going on
now?'
mo"
swell, l swan. I've been readin'
the Trybune for good many years, but
! never saw nuthin' in it bout the war
bein' over"
Turn We finally to PITz LEES
friend, Governor HILL, Of New York.
and We read in the same Times as fol-
lows:
"As the Governor was leaving the
platform committee from the Syracuse
Stone-Cutters' Union waited upon him
and presented him with an address ex-
pressing appreciation Of his administra-
ton as generally satisfactory to the in
telligent workingmen Of the State, and
commencing his recent action in refer
ence to the violation Of the prison law"
Stand to your colors, ye Democrats.
LEE is your man. WISE is MAHoNE's
man,