The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-01-03
A Frat Admission.


A Democratic newspaper called
The Falcon, published at Oxford,
Mississippi, in late editorial headed
|" Cleveland is Elected and we are
Glad ofit-But was His Election AL
together Fair?" makes the following
very frank and rather startling adj
mission: I'VE must acknowledge
that the discussion of political ques-
lions is not as free in the south as in
some other sec ions of II g country.
That is, the Democratic party is so
greatly in the MAORI y. and pounce
upon and criticiSe so vehemently
their opponents that they shrink
away in fear and dread and do not
EXPRESS their opinions as freely as
where they are not conscious of being
in a minority. Any one no oppo-
SEES the methods of procedure by
which our Democrats carry their cleo
tons meets with Il hasty cOndemna-
ton at all hands, especially perchance
he is a cOIored man. Mr.. John r,
Lynch has recently : ven expression
to his opinion as to how we have
elected Cleveland and what will be
the result of his election, And we
may now expect the press of the
state to he all blood and thunder after
John r. Lynch, hut hnrt how it may
he tells the truth in that opir ion
more than once. He says Mr.. Cleve.
lands election was by fraud, and
that fraud was in the south that as
many as twenty-siX electoral votes
have actua ly been obtained by the
Democratic party through fraud"
ut Is great pity that the consti-
(; TetEthTrs should bleed
fArit is the guardian Ofour peace and
:. pr prosperity. 1t is the boast of an
= mercan citizen that,as a sovereign,
I sis in judgement upon his rulers
I nd his magistrates; the elective
Z anchise is the foundation stone to
Y ar liberties. And yet we of the
= 'uth live year to year in violation
!. these sacred rights. Instances are
= o numerous for us to deny it. But
! has been a government of misrule
7 hich has brought us to it, and, "a
y b believe. in this instance the end
& + were to attain justified the means.
I lhoun predicted long before the
I lancipation that there would be a
= il conflict; that the negro would
Y freeh that the South would be
hquishPd, and that he wished ne
2 did live to speak upon the rela.
J. tbs of the coIored man to the poll.
. iOf the United States. He said
e n would naturally side undivid-
ehnd as a solid phalanx with the
!. rple of The North. and that there
q Wild be with them few 'proAigate
u sFps,' who would he seeking the
70 pbnage of the federal government.
on too true have his predictions
l. mlel, and the protection of the
l. peIle of the South has been their
= domination to stand together and
9 to- I've control of their offices of gov
emlent, although they were forced
IT tokrifice some of the constitutional
II rsls of their former slaves in the
ID feipt. The southern people. and
a, va none Of the Anglo-Saxon race,
u Wsibmit to be domineered over
by aOther race of people, and the
:. nortn people cannot realize the
s. trutIlthis fact because their oppo-
,r siii0re between whites and whites
and between whites and blacks,
We wv that there have been nu.
It mer(elec;iou frauds in the South,
and 4 the cOlored mans vote has
i, not y fairly counted, but we do
- not Tx he has yet reared himself
=" to itiOn where his voice should
'e haveual weight with ours"