The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-11-14
FlNIASHIXG ITS MISSION.
The True Issue in shsrnan's and Fursksr's
Line Of Spssehs,

The True Issue in Shsrnsa's and Farzksr's
Line Of SPssehss,
Interpreting the result of the
recent election in Ohio as an ex
preston of the Republican paIty's
approval of Senator Shermau's re.
dictionary views, Gov. elect For
aker, in IA speech delivered last
Wednesday at jamestown, n. Y,
spoke freely of the course it is
proposed to pursue toward the
South in case his party should IN
1883 regain control of the Federal
Government.
The Baltimore Sun says:
Its programme, if Judge Fora
ker can be regarded ms a responsi.
BILE spokesman, is TO revive the
bitterness, injustice, prescription
aud political unrest of the recon.
struction period. with all the ruin
to business interests that such a
course implies. "The reason the
Republican party asks TO come
back into power,' he says, ''is that
its mission has not been fulfilled"
What was left undone IN those
gloomy years while the Repub.
liean party was endeavoring TO
republicanize the South is now
to be completed. Because his
party fails to get in the South
for its candidates the electoral
votes which the reconstruction
policy was devised to gain, Cover.
nor-elect Foraker advocates tax.
ing that policy up again in order
to apply it moro thoroughly. In.
asmuch as since their readmisslon
to the Union the Southern States
persist in being almost solidly
Democratic, he would disfranchise
them. ave estimate,n says this
careful student of tho census,
shat the oolored people are en-
titled to thirty.eight votes in the
electoral college, By fraud and
| violence these tlirty.cight votes
were kept from Mr.. Blaine last fall
and given to Mr.. Cleveland. They
should have been east for Blaine
. | do not regard Mr.. Cleveland as
; legally ELECTED President of th,
: United States. We say to these
) people of the South, il you viii
not let the colored man have tn,
u right to vote, you shall not have
u the right to control those thirty
) eight votes. The Constitutions
Q amendment says that eyerybod.
u must be protected in the right 4
. vote. We are only carrying on
. the provisions of the Constitution
y Let everybody vote just as h
IS may see fit, and unless you d
U that. Democrats of the Soutl
II we will call attention to tli
, fact that you are enjoying
u privilege that you are not entitle
to, and we intend to take 1t ava
u from you.n In the Second Sc
~ tion of the Fourteenth Amen
" meut to the Constitution of Il
United States, which was addC
prior to the enfranchisement
the colored man, il was inde,
provided that the denial by al
State of any male inhabitanI
! right to vote should be followed
as reduction of the basis OF repr
% sentation therein sin the propo
10 ton which the number of su,
20 male citizens shall bear to Il
10 whole number of male citizel
"a twenty. one years of age" but
g. cannot be unknown 10 Mr.Forake
n that the 18th Amendment, whi'
u forbade the denial "by any Stat,
Il. of the right to vote to any citiz,
Oh "on account of race, color or pr
y vious condition of servitude
;ll made the 14th Amendment inope
NJ ative as regards reduction of Il
r basis of representation. All Il
to. Southern State Constitutions fo
u bid the denial of the right to vo
10 on account of race color or pre-
c. Gus condition of seryitude, SO th
ie there is no ground upon which
;, proceed. With all three branch
~ of the government under his co
NC troll, Mr.. Foraker would thereto
ch not be able, under the Constit
I'd tion, to deprive the South of Il
i'll thirty.eight electoral votes whi'
- he assumes are wrongfully cast
" white Democrats. Probably NJ
p Foraker intends that the new I
re construction, like the old, shall
IS. "outside the Constitution /
threatens indeed, revolution al
war: every man who put on q
blue and shouldered a musket
the war would be just as ready
I'd shoulder it again to vindicate u
IS. rights of an oppressed people"
~ "Rev. DIR. Boyd, of st. Lou
'lr has been ably defending won,
a who aspire to the ministry, al
of freely asserts that the OPPOSITE,
Al. A 4.