The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-12


and an ambition to succeed. They
can do what not the most adverse
circumstances could keep Senator
Cowan from doing-overcome the
obstacles that frowning fate have
placed in their way, and accomplish,
if not as notable career as his, at
least the distinction of upright and
honored American citizens.
There were giants in those days,
they say. Perhaps there is some
truth in the sentiment that great
men are the offspring of great events
AT any rate, Senator Cowan was one
of the greatest of great, and we of
Western Pennsylvania are sharers
in his fame.-C onneususHe Courier.
Senator John Sherman opened the
Republican campaign for Foraker in
Ohio last Wednesday by delivering
at Mount Gilead an out and out
bloody shirt Grafton. He SAYS the
rebels are "on top" that the "solid
south is held together in political
fellowship by crimes, violence and
fraud, which, if continued, will as
surely renew all the strifes of the
civil war as that the sun rolls around
in its course" that the negro is ode
prived substantially of all his polit-
ical rights by open violence or by
frauds as mean as any that have
been committed by penitentiary con-
victs, and as openly and boldly done
as by highway robbery" AS rem
edy for this state of things the Sena-
tor calls upon the northern States,
without distinction of party, to
unite the north in the execution OF
the con stitutional amendments, to
deny the States that do not protect
their citizens in the elective fran
chise representation based upon the
number so DISTINGUISHED.
The charges against the Demo
Gratis of the south of bulldozing
fraud, intimidation, violence and
murder, are not new ones, but have
been made, as occasion has demand
ed, ever since the days of reconstruc,
ton They have been, so to speak
the stock in trade of our Republican
friends; they have enabled them tC
win many undeserved victories, anC
in the only national campaign thai
the Republicans consented to DROP
them, they were defeated. 1t is mo-
strange, therefore, that the professors
of practical politics" should bt
anxious to retnrn to charges thai
have always stood them in such
good stead. But Republicans who
do not desire to hold office, who love
truth for its own sake, will be apt tt
hesitate before they follow the leat
of Blaine and Sherman in their new
bloody shirt crusade.
, That the charges must be false, Oh
the leaders of the Republican party
more inhuman, brutal and depravet
than even their worst enemies woulC
like to believe them, we think can be
, easily proved
From the close Of the war in 1867
to 1872, the year of the Democratic
tidal wave, the Republican party hae
absolute control of the Government
in all its branches. Why was no
this brutal conduct of the Southern
J Democrats punished, during al
those years, and its repetition mad,
impossible? Upon the theory tina
the charges were true, the only an
: swer is, because the leaders foresav
. that it would be impossible to keel
: the southern states in the Republi
can column for any considerabl,
length of time, and that party ends
could be better subserved by per
t hitting the continuance of this evi
behavior than by furnishing and pre-
: venting it. They could fire til,
e Northern heart and rally the voter.
of that section to the support of thu
Republican party by a recital o
these bloody outrages, and If they
stopped their preparation, they
, would have to look in other direc
e tions and depend upon less certain
e means to arouse the Northern masses
: Take either view of the matter vol
G choose, that the charges are falls,
S and that the Republicans were afraic
l to press them home only to demon
0 strate their falsity, or that they ar,
: true, and they refused to stop tn,
commission of the crimes and t,
t punish the criminal, and the Repub
o lican leaders will stand before til,
e country in most unenviable light
p SO far as West Virginia is con
: cerned we know, and so do the Re
i publicans throughout the State, tina
: there is not word of truth in thes
5 charges. There is not State in tn
q Union where elections are conducted
= more fairly. But we repeat now
what we always said when the AID
g ministration was Republican, that i
d election outrages are committed il
|. any State. North or South, it is tn
J. solemn, sacred duty of the Admins
u tration to exhaust all its powers, ant
t they are ample for the purpose, t,
y put stop to them. No party Cal
i long maintain the confidence of tn
n people of this country that will
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