Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-04

other Southern State, for the Government
10 take charge Of the polls at Pres dental
elections, by the appointment Of Govern
ment Supervisors, supported by such force
as may be necessary TO secure fair cleo
ton.
Oh, hol A new declaration of war! Up
with carpet bag Iuls Of the South once
more! Send Republican bayonets to
the polls and into the legisls-
tive halls Of every Southern State.
Let the old regime of terror, pillsge and
crime, which President GRANT was forced
to put an end to, begin once more. Light
the fires of race hatred once again through
out all the now peaceful and prosperous
South. Array the whites against the
blacks in deadly strife for supremacy as Of
yore. In short, force the South into its old
position Of harried province of the Re-
publican party and let the old reign of ter
TOR begin again!
1t is unfortunate for the country that the
Republican party still intends to make the
alleged suppression of the colored vote in
the South leading issue in its next cam
psign. II is unfortunate for that party.
ThOse Republican politicians who still
think there is capital for their party
in keeping up sectional sgita.
ton and firing the Northern
heart with Southern outrages are national
pests and it is to be hoped, for the sake of
union, peace and good fellowship between
the North and South, that after next No
yember We shall hear no more Of them.
Then and then only will the South cease
to be solid for its own protection.
The Northern people want no more sec
iional agitation and are entirely willing to
leave the elections in the Southern States
to the control of the people Of those States
As for Federal interference in Southern
elections, such as the Iatelligeneer advo-
Gates, none but few embittered old men
who will always hate the South, even
think oft. A dozen years ago the Northern
people admitted that Federal interference
10 Sustain State governments which rested
on an ignorant vote and were managed
mainly by greedy and INSCRIPTIONS ad-
vsnturers, could not be maintained. Pub
lie opinion withdrew all support and the
whole infamous fabric forever went to
pieces.
As to the sO-called suppression Of the
eolored vote in the South at this time, the
question is not worth consideration. 1t is
an appeal to sectional passion, which can
not deceive the intelligent people Of the
North. With the downfall Of the carpet
baggers, outrage, violence and election
frauds diminished in proportion as the
necessity for them ceased. For the last
two years little has been heard Of them,
bat election returns show that many votes
are withheld from the ballot box for one
reason or another. Colored voters have
become Indifferent, after finding that the
ills which they were taught to expect from
democratic ascendency did not bsfall them,
and cared not to vote. To considerable
extent, also, they have begun to divide
their votes between the parties, as Illus
trated by the Louisiana election. 10 not
voting or ia voting for Democratic candi-
dates, they are without doubt influenced
by no worse inducements than are used in
Northern States to sway the action OF
voters whose intelligence and honesty are
not sufficient to guide their political action.
The result would not be whit different
were the white people Of the North sud-
denly to take the places Of the white people
of the South and the Iateiligenca admits
as much in the very first words Of its arti-
Gle, which are as follows:
In conversation with an intelligent
gentleman from Louisiana, who is not
Republican, yet of Republican antecsdents
before he went to Louisiana to live, We
CLEAN his ideas of the present and future
position of the politics in that State, and
we may add, of the South generally. We
presume from what he says that he would
still be Republican if he lived in this
part of the country, but he recognizes that
politics here and in the South proper diff
fer radically. There il is the color line,
as was shown Enthusiastically in the late
Louisiana election, and for this line there
is no help save in the supremacy of the
white race.
Here we have it plainly from the IntelIi
geacer itself that even white Republicans
from the North who emigrate South are
compelled, for protection, to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket.
In fact the South will be solidly Demo-
cratic as long az it is necessary 10 pro-
tect itself from the South haters of the
North. When these latter arc relegated
to the rear in politics the South will cease
to be solid.