Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-29
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1885.
sectional Appeals.

IN their speeches in Ohio and New
York. the Mahoneites have the impu-
dence to charge us with making Sec
tional appeals. Every reader OF the
DispafcA knows that we have made no
sectional appeals. We have never SAID
a word against the northern people.
We have gladly reproduced from the
Providence Journal and other north
ern Republican papers utterances
friendly to the South. We men,
toned the fact that the address OF
the New York Republican State Com
mittee made no reference to sectional
matters. and we applauded the commit
tee for their refusal to wave the bloody
shirt. But il suits the purposes OF
MAHoNE's followers to misrepresent
our fairest references to SHERMAN's
msIignity, and yet, strange to say, to
be blind to the heaviest charges brought
against MALONE, SHERMAN, FORA
KER, WISE & Co., by others. The
public know to what that sort of con-
duct is to be attributed.
We have to say that we have quoted
from SHERMAN's and FoRAKER's
speeches in Ohio, as these appear in
supplement to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial- Gazette, which supplement was
printed by the hundreds of thousands
by the Republican Committee and Cir
culated all over Ohio. Fortunately,
Hon. JAMES II. SKINNER, Of Augusta,
had the fOrethought to send to Ohio
nearly two months ago and pro-
cure copies of that supplement. He
kindly sent one copy to us, which we
have lying by us at this moment. He
also sent copies to Harrisenburg, where
Judge FORAKER would have had to
face them on Tuesday last if he had
not refused to engage in q joint discus
sion with Judge HARRIS. Mr.. SKIN
NER no doubt sent copies to other
places. He, therefore, has earned the
gratitude of the Democrats of Virginia
for having put it in their power to ex-
pose FoRAKER's and SHERMAN's
double-desling and hypocrisy.
The speech of SHERMAN at Mount
Gilead would occupy more than whole
page Of the Dispatch, and that Of Fo-
RAKER at Portsmouth would occupy
about two solid pages. Both speeches
were taken down by shorthand writers
and both, we repeat, were circulated as
campaign documents, and made no
doubt many q vote for FORAKER.
Now, FORAKER has the efirontery to
declare to his Virginia audiences that
he has never waved the bloody shirt
except to declare for fair elections
everywhere, North and South.
That is downright falsehood. No
virginian would object to a declaration
on the part Of any man in favor of fair
elections everywhere. What we OBJ
ject TO, as FORAKER we'll knows, is
that he charged the southern Democrats
with fraud, murder, and assassination.
Here are his own words as they were
circulated all over Ohio in the CONNER
eial- Gasette supplement above referred
to. We quote them once more !;
- But these colored Republicans were
not allowed so TO vote. On the con-
trary, by fraud, by violence, by muir
der. by assassination, by bull-whips
and shot-guns, white leaguers and ku-
klux clans, by agencies Of the most un.
scrupulous and diabolical character,
by horrible bsrbarities such as were
practiced at Coushatta and Hamburg,
in the murder Of the Chisholms, in the
massacre at Danyille, and in the assas-
sination Of Print Matthews in Copiah
county, Miss, q system Of terror was
inaugurated and practiced for the last
ten years preceding the election, by rea
son OF which at the last election the
colored Republicans Of the South were
wholly deprived Of ell practical beneil
Of their right Of suffrage, aud the fort,
votes which ought to have representeI
them and have been cast in the electora
college as Republican votes wer
wrested from them, not only in viola
ton Of their right, but in violation Q
the right Of every voter in the Unite
States, and cast rs Democratic vote:
whereby TO elect Democratic Pres
dent and install Democratic Admir-
istration."
II the making Of that speech Wa
not the waving Of the bloody shir
then nobody has ever waved Il
bloody shirt in Ohio or in any 9th,
State. We viii not attempt to con
ment upon that language. 1t CARR,
lis own comments with ii, and prov,
beyond q doubt that Mr.. FoRAKE
cannot be trusted to tell the who
truth upon the stump. He reserve
The right TO define what the word
"waving the bloody shirt " means.
On this question Of sectionalisu
PACE McCAaTY is laying on I'll
blows thick and heavy. lie issued "a
CoHpaign on Wednesday, and wi
issue Il again on Saturday. The Ms
honeites, We fear, will not see the 10
loving.
Behold the bloody shirt displsye,
BY the Republican party, aud supporte,
BY the INDUSTRIOUS lie about the Dan
vile riot and the suppression Of Re
publican votes in Virginia.
Is 1t the Campaign that waves tn,
bloody shirt and appeals to sectional
Ism, or Is 1t FoRAKgRs Read again
He lMahonsl proposes to offer th,