The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-01
ANSWERED..
Governor Hoadly Answers Sher.
man and Foraker.
The Republican Party the Only Enemies of
q Free Ballot and . Fair Count-why
There are NO Republican Voters In
Some of the Southern States.

There are NO Republican Voters In
Some of the Southern States.
PAINEsv1LLE. O.. September 12.-
Immediately after the adjournment of
the Democratic Senatorial Convention
to-day, Governor Hoadly addressed one
of the largest meetings ever held in this
city. No hall in the place would hold
half the crowd and the Governor spoke
in the Park. The following are the
more important points in the speech:
FELLOW CITIZENS: Senator John Sherman
of my speech made at Hamilton last Satur-
day, which treated of national arsirs. do
attention Of Senator h Sherman, ma % who undoubt d. hs
edly stands head and shoulders above every
other Republican in Ohio, and whose long
experience in public affairs gives far more
weight to his words than they would have
coming from a novice in craftsmanship. 1
the least hesitation in taking up this glove,
for if ever there were q man and an argu-
ment plainly and clearly and mischieyously
recent speech.
Let us see first If we can not find Z. stand
ard by which to Judge the present case. The
gogue is that the former addresses himself
either TO the advocacy of some wise and pat
riotic measure for the benefit of the people,
ate opinion and to enlist their efforts in hui
name, noble and patriotic cause; but when
meaner passions OF the people, Of hate and
enmity-when the ashes of an old dispute
are raked anew, and the dying embers blown
proposition of change: but simply and solely
for the purpose Of aiding in partisan polit.
ree reeuso Or foer foe oEaes es
public services on other occasions and
sion and in this " field pn playing ii 0yiS the
part Of the demagogue. Knowing that
or the
| the vote of OHIO this fall, and knowing that
| the people of Ohio were. during the war, as
America; thai. they We're T p opposed 'S to the he
Southern Confederacy and are satisfied with
to revive and enlist feelings which the sHr war
sngendered, the spirit Of animosity. to the
South, to renew the battle fever and TO re-
who died on the field or in the hopitals or in
Southern prisons of their snfferings and
il oer that he the
none? He says: 81 confess there are difficult
may may be b brought t about f first BY b'i an appeal
to the South to correct an Injustice and
wrong which vii, as long it lasts $, tend to make
resistance to the Democratic party encount-
| cred at the beginning of the war;
Then why not make ian effsrtg' Why not
| go South and try and persuade your coun-
trymen there. the majority of whom have
become voters since the war, that it is their
to rh the sner%sn wrDns of
live years "a quarter Of century.
wrong Of which you complain long ago
More than I ten years % have elapsed since the
the shackIes | Which, your party rsyet tried to 1
| upon them. and became Democratic. Nine
years haye elapsed since your de facto Presi.
sending commission to Louisiana to settle
| the disputed question who was elected Gov
ernor of that State, the result of which was
| submission to Governor Nichols, who re-
| ceived fewer votes than Tilden and Hen
bricks, while his antagonist, Packard, had
| more votes than Hayes.
| Nine years have elapsed since the last
| Southern State became free from the tyran-
ny and misgovernment of Moses, of War.
low, i Of Pease Of Texas. Powell Clayton ct ID
omne genus. During these nine years your
party has had the power to right any wrong.
1881, you had the Presidency-frst Garfield
and then Arthur; you had the Senate and
you we're a member of the Senate; you had
| the House, and If there were any Unjust 'ce to
be remedied, why was it not done? Why did
remedy?
Confess, now; confess, Mr.. Sherman; you
know as well as do that there was just as
much and Just as little wrong then as now:
the Solid South yGtsG for Ssn voted
March 4, 1883. you and your allies in
prepare some measure to right
Gasy Sfn aRp M Wh did
There are no such facts. Eight million bales
South. both black and white. is ysct which
outweighs your pretence. If Soul hern labor
were d'sorganized and Southern laborers
not have been achieved. Your whole argu.
ment is based upon the claim that when the
slaves, they at once became the slaves Of Of
the Republican party until the day of jndg
ment Yours is as simple sylogism The The
NeR10ssn s sS afS they
pnr answer Is thar os Your major PREMISES
pure assumption, unsustained by proof, and
in point of fact utterly untrue. You were
the best and truest friends the slaves OF
} America had. and one of the ablest states
men the country ever produced. Not Iona
warned his party that it must not expect the
colored men of the South to continue tc
vote its ticket have not his words before
me, and cannot quote, but he said in sub
stance you surely remembr it', that the
, American negro was a peaceful, loving
/
trusting his master. and that when emanci
, pated he would vote side by side with hi.
extent in political affairs as during slavery
he accepted his masters direction and gov
ernment. The truth is there is no controver
sy between the colored man of the South anC
his late master and present employer, ex
cept where it is excited by external force
the peas fse
naturally vote with them. Can you not di
vine the secret of the wonderful fact tina
there were no instructions at the Soutl
during the wears of the war; that while tn,
, whites fought our armies, the negroes sup
ported Their famIiIes thereby re & c9n1rIGn1n y
the conflict? The slaves loved freedom. ant
gladly welcomed it, but they loved their mas
, | ters, and did not rise in insurrection. AM
, now the races live together not in SUP
pressed hostility, hut in open am'ty.
1t is for this reason, Mr.. Sherman tha
there are no Republicans in Alabama, non
in Georgia and none in South Carolina Ho
. dare not tell me that Wade Hampton is not
0 friend of the colored people, when the reeor
| of this honorable statesman has been S
largely made up of devotion to the best inter
ests of the black people of South Caroline
South s pC Carolina % do mot not appreciate @ the frien3
e : ship of Hampton and are not his willing SUI
|, | porters? Three years ago you tried to max
!, have not made the foolish claim of pretende
+ outrage in Chatham County, Georgia. az
OF fo
I | receive the votes of all the voters {
\ that county, as if the colored man di
how to crowd up to the pol
. and get his vote in early. The long roll c
, | pretended outrages has come to an en'
None have been heard of for years. Han
:. burgh and Eliza Pinkston, Danville an
;. Copiah have fizzled and petered out, leav;n
. only the want of enough ballot boxes
Savannah as the sole remaining grist of th
once noisy outrage mill.
J. But Mr.. Sherman claims there is anotht
, remedy for his pretended wrong. He says
If the policy of the past is to be pursue
and there is no redress for the colore
q people of the South for these offences, con
mitted under the color of State laws, the
i under the Fourteenth Amendment to til
i Constitution, we may fairly appeal 70 q
the Northern States to stand together to +
= duce the representation based upon the &C
G l.ored vote, and on this question Governt
). Hoadly ought to be where he was durin
:. | tie war"
"Under the color of what State laws