The Jasper weekly courier., 1886-09-24


WELCOME DISAPPEARANCE
-. usss sSss 80 Ds.sssssy wssss -.
srnrs q Agass knslsvs ~ Ceisrse
MAn-ls uas 0sas visA - nassey
shirt
Another Republican State convcn-
tion. that Of Michigan. has adopted .
platform without any allusion % me
rights Of cclorcd men - distinguished
from the rights Of white men Three
such platforms in two days constitute
most striking acknowledgement Of the
success of President Clevelands
Administration in eliminating the
negro question from Polince
II would not be far out o.
ths way 10 say that the Republican
rartv has declared .'in thunder tones
|. dat there i no longer any such ISSUE
and that the accession Of the DEM
4 ccrntS 10 power has been the cause o.
+. its di~appearance- Il is certain thAt
the Republicans never before failed 70
make the most Of IL II i equally GER
tain that they would not fail now 70
s.waxe the bloody shirt II there were
any such thing TO wave Moreover
The Republicans in convention -
srmblci are lust as keeniy alive 70 the
dan~ers attending Chinese labor. ana
| manner labor. Is the Democrats ~ is
| not that they have forgotten any OF me
r;rhtS or wrongs Of the downtrodren
and oppressed. They have SIMPLY
reeornized the fact that the enssn-
! onined garment has gone from among
S,-.Ix nothing could be more
easily spared.
The admirable disappearance suS
. costs . few reflections on the last na
,,onai eampaign- We shall not cnid'
: The Republicans for their glonml
rrophe-,ings about the drcadfui Tau
~ ,i,e ~ 70 in case MIR. Clevelan'
, werr elected President They mosti
/. believed what they said. But the trut
!. mnst l,e told that excessive and exclu
: Sixe attention to one idea almost =
= waxs produces an un<ettling OF N
mental balance. and causes the thinke
~ lo-e the sense Of perspective. In
i what senator Hoar said was q
: matter with the Mugwumps two veal
: AGO. He said that their intense me-
: I'll strain concerning the spot
,. Mr.. Blaine's robe had caused them
9 lose all sense of the proportion
g things They could not see the !.
= pending fate Of the negro in case ~
Cleveland should Be- elected ln'
in could only see the Mulligan letters.
Of was nothing to them that four millio
ar az freedmen were about 10 be hand'
er over to their former masters boui
o. hand and foot This was tribe
them compared with few 0eggar
n- railroad bonds Such obliquity
=, vision was simply astounding
:. The Nucwnmps replied that :
- Democratic party would not dare. ev
ne II they were 20 inclined. 10 oppreSS
'es c,'ored man. since the first reco-ni7
III. evidence Of such intentions wot
cans them 10 be hurled from pow
They argued that the sense Of rcspon
IN h;li,v for order and good g0vernm'
od- whicl, mower confers would lead I
~, wicked party 10 b. extremely care
rhe IN their WAYS and that since the
-. far of the negro. by reason oi ms :
sits graphical situation. was more dtp
ldi- dent upon Democrats than upon
uubl.cans any way. he would perna
IN H. even better of when the respo'
IN h,litv for his good treatment rc-
iiaI wholly upon the ex-rrbelS II
1oln ~ argued. also-and this was Derhaps
~, M, most amazing and impudent prete
,oo of ali-that the Democrats were
,s '-;si half of the American people and
,.te what was rood for them in the J
nm would be good for the rest Of
,nal This was 80 opposed TO the PREY
oba- ing Republicar conception q ~, !,
,res That No words could be found
characf rize the pernicious folly
%. corc.pf;on. shared even by .
- bankers and college professors
go. that the Democrats were not An
can citizens al all. except 70 is
osel that they were really > klri oi
over eigners reeking with Rum komar
VIII and Rebellion. striving 10 gain COZ
r. 20 Of the Government in order 70 Q
plete throw il. The blow that Rev
~ Burchard struck was . severe on
~ IL effect upon the Irish confinge
..- because il expressed the common
rtirg ,r publican view Of the Democratic p'
nave The Blaine Irishmen recognizes
,tion. flavor immciiatelv-
Along with the disappearance o
epuo bloody shirt and largely IN g
eveD ouence of il. there will also disaf
every tie fantastic notion that one-hal
$500 the American people are bent
re TO the destruction Of the Govern
ority- and the establishment of some
Ictory .cribahle pow-wow in it stead.
iwell, .hlx no one who held this belief
giving cave himself the trouble 70 dem
cratic n. -, mind what kind Of -
major ~ Cleveland and mis- party i,
ans In y. ~. ru;rs ~ the constitl
y -" II they should once get power
tunately for all such. they arr
J cleo shared the necessity Of doing .
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