The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-10-01

WssB wsass IAs Hiosoy shlft.
From TIE Chlcago Tribunn,
The entire Bourbon press has Joined
in an Out-ery against Senator SheT-
man for waving the bloody shirt. be
cause that gentleman in the course Of
hls spseches IN Ohio has contenoed
Tor fair vote and free count in the
South and protested against the In
equality Of representation IN ccuRress
and the electoral COLLEGE, which gives
Southern states the same number Of
members as the North, though the
vote Of the latter may be from 80 70 50
I per cent larger than that OF the forul-
/ er. The issue which Senator Sher-
man mas made has nothing 10 do with
I the WHr It 10 meTs.ly q claim for
honest suffrage. IL Is an issue not Of
twenty years ago, but Of to-day. Il
has nothing 10 do with the bloody
shirt.
The South is waving the bloody
shirt. The only election OfAny i'm
pOriance In the South this fall n that
In Virgins, and the manner In which
the BourbOns are conducting the cam
paign shows the use 10 which the
bloody shirt Is put In that state. The
Richmond correspondent Of the New
York Herdld (DemOeratiel some time
ago wrote 20 that paper q description
Of the tactics proposed by the BOur-
bOns, from which we take the follow
ing extract:
Some Of Fitzhugh Lees friends
propose that they make lt a red
shirt" cavalry campaign, similar 20
that OF Hampton, In South Carolina,
in the palmy days Of &c. when he
rode through that state at the head Of
brigades OF mounted "red shirts"
The idea meets with general approval.
Such professions marching over the
highways aud byways Of the state TO
the inspiring music OF
n you want 10 have a good time
Join the cavalry, join the cavalry.
will have q wholesome effect on the
minds Of the Virginia negroes. The
spectacle will be imposing and will
be rendered dOubly effective when
each man displays, slung 20 his belt,
the requisite number Of pistols for the
makeup Of an "Edgefieid Is. c. gen
tleman. !" which is numerically four.
Since that time the proposition set
forth above has been adopted. The
BOurbons have organized into caval-
~ companies, and Fitzhugh Lee, the
Bourbon candidate for governor. Is
accompanied 10 the various localities
where he speaks by mounted organ
/ iZatlOns OF armed men, most Of whom
are ex-cOnfederates. Their presence
and menaees are firing Bourbon
hearts and terrifying the negroes
The banners which they carry are In
scribed with notices intended to
arouse the old rebel hatred Of the
negroes and the North. Fitzhugh
Lee himself uses Gen. Robert r. Lees
war-saddle, bride and accOuterments
and one Of Lees horses. The horses,
by the way, were given to him in
Richmond by Lees admirers, with
instructions ITO proceed on the jour
ney which must arouse the cOnfeder-
ate patriotism Of every true Virgin
ian." 1t Is related that the first day
he rode twenty miles across the cOuh-
try aud that he Was received with
great feeling" 1t Is said In another
dispatch from that section that 1.-The
snall-fry Bourbon stump speakers are
drawing pictures at white heat Of
Gen. Robert. +. Lee and his followers
aud painting the CORY battle fields OF
! Virginia blood red" So eilectually
has this been done that Mr.. Wise, the
Republican candidate for 20 SernOr,
has refrained from speaking at several
places because his life has been open
ly threatened IL he appeared there,
and this the BOurbOns call making
satisfactory progress in the cam-
pAign."
The BourI Ons Of Virginia have de.
termined that the Republican vote
shall be cast in sufficient strength TO
endanger Lees success. They have
secured control Of the ballot box by
putting the management Of the cleo
tiOns into the hands Of n Bourbon
commission instead OF allowing them
to remain where they have always
been-under the control Of local Of
ficials-and they are running the
campaign exclusively upon the issues
OF the war and are making their capi-
tai by melting the whites against the
blacks and again arOusing their old
hatred OF the North.
And yet the Democrats have the
| hardihOOd to accuse Senator Sherman
OF waving the bloody shirt because he
appeals for honest suffrage in the
Southern States, and Of infiaming
sectional feeling because he protests
against the suppression Of Republican
| votes In the South