The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-10-29
UNFOLDING THE PRESIDENT.

DemoCIdllC party Ny Tue eHCOuTdSe-
ment of dissensions by few dissatis-
fed politicians who care more for
place than they do for the good OF
the country. He says that the Ohio
campaign was fought and won by the
Republicans on the issue that the ne
groes at the South are prevented
from voting, and hence the South
should be deprived of representation
in Congress to the extent of her ne
gro population. That issue he thinks
may and probably will be made a
national issue by the Republican
party in 1888. That seems to be the
purpose of Senator Sherman, to weak
en- the South. With constant Euro
pean immigration to the west, the
swelling tide of population will adj
NIT to the union OF States, Dakota,
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Wash
ington, and with the growing wealth
of the North, and the slow growth of
the South, the Republican party
may be in a condition at not very
distant day to dictate legislation and
carry out the programme which the
Ohio leaders Of that party discussed
50 boldly recently. Then to keep
this sectional majority from cutting
down the South's representation, it
is very important to uphold the Pres
ident and strengthen the party all
along the line. Those who are TO-
menting strife and expressing dis
pleasure at the action of the Presi-
dent, whose conservative course is for
the best, should desist, in view of the
momentOus responsibilities resting
upon him and the great danger the
future is fraught with, if the Repub-
lican party's sectional agitation is
carried out by robbing the South of
representation Oh the false idea that
the negro is not allowed to vote.
And to prove that such political
crime against the South is premedita-
ted by the Republican leaders, we
need only to quote sentence from
Judge Foraker's ''bIoody shirt"
speech delivered in New York since
the Ohio election. Here is what he
said
"The man who followed Stonewall
Jackson and Robert L. Lee is exer-
cising twice or three times as much
power as the man who followed Grant
and Sheridan. Every man who put
on the blue and shouldered his musk
ct in the war would be just as ready
to shoulder it again to vindicate the
rights of an oppressed people. We
say to these people of the South, if
you will not let the colored man
have the right to vote you shall not
have the right to control these thirty
eight votes. The constitutional
amendment says that everybody must
be protected in the right to vote. We
are only carrying out the provisions
OF the Constitution. Let everybody
vote just as he may see fit, and un
less you do that, Democrats Of the
South, we will call attention to tn,
fact that you are enjoying a privilege
that you are not entitled to, and W,
intend to take it away from you.
Foraker not only threatens tina
the boys in blue shall shoulder thei
muskets" again to fight the South
but deliherately says that the Repub
lican party Intends to take away tn
right Of the South to control thes
thirty eight votes" In other word
he intends to destroy and nullify tn
Constitutional right of the South t.
Il full representation, and be is will
ing to resort to civil war to accom-
pliSh his hellish purpose. Havin,
given the negro the right to vote, h,
thinks he must control their votes il
the interest of the Republican part,
or great crime has been committed
| And yet how many thousands of Dem
ocrats in the Northern States who
have not been represented in Con
gress or in the electoral college
since the war? These Democrats
give increased electoral power to the
Republican States, and they have us
ed it to foist themselves into power
for twenty-four years, and now tina
the Democrats have come iii to pow
er, they are willing to resort to any
crime against constitutional liberty
to destroy the power of the South t
restore their party to power. AnC
to show the hypocrisy Of this party
who wish to make the negro an eX-
cuse for robbing the South of repre-
sentation, the only Republican ne.
gro candidate for the Legislature il
Ohio was scratched and defeated
while the white Republicans were
elected. Oh, liberty how many crimes
have been committed in thy name
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