, 1885-10-30
Takes His Red Rag Down to
odd Virginny
And Hangs it Out Before a
Colored Audience,
Pretending that it is as White
as the Driven Snow.
senator sherman in virginia

galleries were occupied by colored people,
the outskirts Of the crowd being fringed
with white people. Senator Sherman
was introduced by Gen. Malone as the
foremost statesman of the country. to
whose warm heart and love for every
state in the Union, and for the whole
country he bore cordial testimony. Gen.
Malone esteemed it a great honor to have
the privilege of introducing the distin-
guished senator from Ohio to a Virginian
audience
Senator Sherman was cordially greeted
and accorded a most attentive and re-
spectful hearing, He began by stat
ing that it had been said of him that he
was waving the bloody shirt. If it was
meant by waving the bloody shirt that he
had sought to renew the animosities Of
the war, her there was a grave mistake,
for he had constantly said that the war
was over and its animosities should be
buried out of sight; that he would not
hold any Confederate soldier responsible
for what he did during the war, and that
all he wished was to preserve the acknowl
edged results OF the war, and among the
rights thus obtained he claimed one was
that every man of lawful age should be
allowed the right to exercise his right TO
vote without distinction of race, color, or
previous condition. The speaker claimed
that in the last presidential election the
colUred people had been deprived of their
franchise, and that by this means Grover
Cleveland became president of the United
States instead Of James G. Blaine. 1t
was not the war of the rebellion but the
war upon the ballot box which he had ar
raigned. The senator then said.
Gen. Lee, on the other hand, has con
Quoted his canvass almost entirely upon
the basis of an appeal to Confederate
soldiers, to the pride Of Virginia, for the
courage they exhibited in the war and with
military %trappings, flags, pomp and show,
he tries to turn the attention of your peo-
pie from questions of the present time to
the memories of the wal in which Virgin
ians fought bravely, and submitted honor
ably to the arbitration of arms when the
cause was lost.
The senator then went on to say, that
the great press in the issue of the times,
was that an election should be free, open
and fair, and appealed to men of all par
ties to uphold the purity ofthe ballot box.
The speaker then stated the relative pow
ers of the two principles of states sover-
eighty and national sovereignty had been
forever settled by the war, but still the
Democratic party adhered to the old
theories and sought to belittle, limit and
cripple the powers of the national govern
ment as to many Of the Just and necessary
objects of national policy. As one OF
these objects the speaker cited the policy
of protection of home industries and after
dwelling upon the opposition of the Dem
ocratic party to that policy, said
THE Republican party plainly and
strongly its purpose to protect
all forms of American industry, not only
of the workshop, but of the farm, by levy
ing duties on foreign goods that can be
manufactured or produced in this country.
We insist that this policy gives employ
ment to capital, enables manufacturers to
pay more wages, and protects them from
sharp and undue competition, and in time
reduces TO the consumer the price of the
article; that it will set at work the cnor-
nous water rower Of Virginia, cause to
be established as near as practicable to
your coal and iron, the furnace, rolling
mill and innumerablc manufactures based
upon the proximity of coal, iron wool and
cotton.
He then characterized the Democratic
party as at sea upon the tariff, with Car
Isle, Tucker, Morrison, Hurd, pulling
one way, and Randall and Others, the
other, as proposing nothing, doing moth
ing, being nothing, except an incumbrance
on the national life of II country. The
senator went on to say that the Demo
Gratis, after waiting twenty-five years, had
finally gotten into power On the plea of
turning the %rascals out, and instead OF
turning rascals out, they put rascals in,
Mr.. Cleveland, often, no doubt, misled
and deceived, has appointed more penn.
Tertiary and jail birds in his eight months,
than were appointed in the whole twenty