Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-20
TUEsDAY........ocToBER 20, 1895.
Oh,o and virrinia-Again.


OHIO and Virginia Again.
The fact that BLAINE's majority IN
Ohio last year was Sl,sO2, whilst 10
HAKrn's majority in 1885 is only sew
enteen or eighteen thousand, shows that
the Mahobeites have nothing to boast OF
nc 10 the recent result in that State.
The Democrats Of Virginia do not need
% cain fourteen thousand, nor fifteen
thousand, nor any number Of votes, in
order 10 carry their State. If they do
no better than they did last year
they will elect fITz LEE by a
safe majority. And as to the
Legislature, if the Virginia Democrats
gain as largely over last years vote as
did the Democrats Of Ohio, the Ma
boneites will be in small minority.
n then. we also recall the methods re-
sorted to by tn, Ohio Republicans, and
hear in mind that such methods can
accomplish nothing here, we may calmly
regard the prospect Of SHERMAN's re-
election by one majority. but even
this does not seem to be certain.l
The electionecring done in Ohio du-
ring the recent campaign consisted in
large measure Of appeals to sectional
preiudices. We do not know how
many votes FORAKER gained by those
appeals. lie may, for aught that we
know to the contrary, have gained one
fortie,h out OF the seven hundred
thousand votes that were cast. One
fortieth would be 1880. But the Re-
publicans in Virginia have no reason
to hope that they will get any votes
certainly they will gain no white votes
by raising sectional issues. The charges
Of ballot-box stufling, bulldozing, and
assassination contained in the Virginia
Republican platform may have a ten
dency to make the negroes band to-
gether and vote the Republican ticket
as a body, or almost solidly but if the
negroes are thus made to combine, like
effect ought to be produced amongst
the whites. The cry in question is a
two-edged sword and cuts both ways.
The fact that Ohio has elected Re-
publican Governor is not something to
alarm us. but an additional reason why
Virginia should elect a Democratic
Governor. Ohio has, in endorsing the
bloody-shirt cry, set an example, which
il will be claimed we have followed if
we permit JOHN S. WISE to be elected
Governor Of Virginia. Read the Vir-
ginia Republican platform again, and
you will find in it the following:
"By insolent venality and brutality
in the South. and especially in this
Commonwealth. that have conspicuouSly
identified it with the worst elements of
rapine and corruption, and made it the
accomplice Of that Bourbonism whose
effective strength consists Of organized
regulators, ballot-box suffers, and
assassins, TO the grief and indignation
Of good men Of all parties"
If JOHN s. WISE shall be elected
upon that platform, the South will have
to run the gauntlet until after the next
presidential election. His allies in
Ohio have succeeded in carrying that
State. OF course, victory in Virginia
would encourage them to SO on in their
work Of denounclng the southern Dem
ocrats, aud lead them to believe that
this State stands with that State under
the flag Of the bloody shirt.
People of the Old Dominion, reflect
upon these things. You have now an
opportunity to do for your southern
sisters the greatest service you
have ever done for them. Resist
this latter-day wave Of sectionalism ant
ill-feeling and wicked prejudices, auC
you will save the South from another
decade OF reconstruction measures
Put the seal Ct your appreciation upol
the extract above quoted from the Vir
ginia Republican platform, and you vii
invite another season Of discord, con
fusion, strife, ill-will, and bushes
paralysis, such as prevailed Throughout
the South during the sad days tina
preceded 1876; for, as you well know
SHERMAN threatens to deprive Vii
ginia Of four of her representatives
Congress, and the South OF nine or te
times as many. Are you willing to d
aueht that will cause your influence
be cast on the side Of that act Of wron
injustice, and opprcssions win you
your votes say that your mother Sta
is unit 10 be fully represented in Co
sresss Let those who will, believe
possible for the people Of Virginia tn
10 prove false TO their State, their Sc
ton, and their country. We do n
admit any such possibility.
Two weeks from to-day your answ
/. is to be given.
While all this is going on the
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