National Republican., 1886-08-24
How Long VIII It Last ?

The New Orleans States, vigorous
organ OF Democracy, lifts its voice to warn
the northern Democrats that the south
viii not consent in 'sS TO be merely the
tail OF the New York kite. IL will insist on
having its pro rata share OF influence in
the Democratic national convention. It
will have no candidate rammed down its
throat, but will exercise its right to vote
in convention for Its own choice. In CON
clusion, the States declares that the south
will DO as solid in 'SS as II was In 'S4, and
we suppose II will. In fact, there is no
excuse for any election in the southern
states, except for the mere formality Of
going through certain motions deemed neces-
sary to consecrate fraud by giving 1t the
color OF law. IL is decreed that all the
electoral votes Of the south shall be cast
for the Democratic candidate, and that de-
cree is to be carried out.
In this connection, aud as illustrative Of
the means by whicn the Democratic party
carried the election In 'S4, we quote from
an editorial In the Brooklyn Times. That
paper thinks; "The revelations that are be-
ing made every day Of the radical rotten
ness that pervades Democratic politics In
our great cities is calculated to make sober
citizens stop and think" The writer cites
the fragrant bribery that prece led the
| granting Of the Broadway railroad fran.
chise in New York; the disgraceful Squire
Flynn transaction, the fact that not only
the late leader of the administration wing
of the Democratic party, but the chairman
of the Democratic state committee appear
to be directly implicated In It, aud concludes
that these things Of themselves are enough
to make the most unthinking reflect. The
Times adds:
And now that the Democratic organ in
Brooklyn has Quarreled with some of the
leaders of Its party we are every day informed.
on what seems to be tho strongest and clearest
evidence, that the favored chieftain of the
Kings county Democracy, who, in 1879, came
within an ace ofrecelying the party nomln |.
tion for governor of the state, is no whit better
than the public plundcrers who have disgrao?d d
the metropolis. 1t was these men who made
Grover Cleveland President of the United
States. The south, the home Of bulldozing and
fraud and violence, had cast its crime-stained
ballot in his favor, but the progressive states
where the ballot is free wherelabor is honored
Wnete euuChuOn preYalls-nuu pronounced
against him as with one voice. But Hubert o.
Thompson and Henry W. Jaehne, and Maurice
B. Flynn and Relin NJ Squire, and John c.
Jacobs besLirred themselves. They were toe
pure and immaculate to brook the rule of such
Rman MS Blaine; and they raked the slums and
dens and purlieus ofthe city for the votes OF
their plant followers, and they succeeded Sc
well that, by the majority of 900 in the two
cities, they reversed the verdict of the state
and threw New York into line with the solid
south for Cleveland by a slim plurality oil
l,0l7. The glory of the victory belonged to
such men as Jaehne and Flynn and Squire
and Jacobs and to the dense mass of unthink-
ing aud ignorant voters they had trained to do
their bidding
This is the record, this is the title OF the
Democratic party to all the power 1t holds
in the national government-murder, iu-
timidation, and fraud In the south and 're-
formn in New York.
How long will the intelligence, patriot.
ism, and morality of the ration consent to