San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-13
Republican Intolerance and Brutality,

indianapolis Sentinel.
The outrages that are constantly
being committed on prohibitionists
have their inspiration largely in the
newspaper edited by Murat Halstead,
who during the war advised the aS.
sassination OF Abraham Lincoln and
wanted Grant drummed ont of the
army ns drunken reprobate.
The Commercial Gazette recon-
mends that mob violence be employed
against the probibitionists and its
counsels find ready following in
tho Republican counties of Indiana
and other states.
On tho Fourth OF July, 1887, the
Commercial Gazette said "the Re
publicans made n mistake lin 1884
in not fighting the st. John frauds
with fire and birthstone, swords,
pitchforks, etc"
The Republicans are making no
mistakes of the kind this year. They
are busily engaged, over this state, in
fighting the prohitionlsts with these
and kindred weapons, such Ns de-
cayed eggs, etc.
Recently the Commercially Gazette,
being taken to task for using the
language heretofore quoted, said:
ave do not remember the precise
language used on that interesting
occasion. 1t was like that quoted
above, but we think not exactly the
same.
And it added:
"Ten times the number of Repub-
lican votes that would have overcome
the Cleveland plurality were wasted
on the pesti!ont fraud st. John, and
the vote for him has stood rs re-
proach to American intelligence, and
a shame. We felt very bitterly about
it, and said the way to deal with such
frauds was not to codd!e them
and twaddle about their alleged good
motives and deprecate actual war,
but to club them, tell them in plain
terms the deplorable wretchedness
they are guilty of, to deal with them
by the fire and birthstone, tomahawk
and maui, butcher-knife and pitchfork
process; and we say so now"
1t concluded its incendiaIy remarks
in these words:
Others may try other means, but
we shall tickle these frauds with the
pitchfork as often as we can feel their
ribs with it. The st. John fraud de.
fealed Blaine, and the question is
whether Harrison is to be defeated
in the same cowardly way. Oar
policy is to make the lines of battle
so warm that those who are dangling
about in uncertainties shall not cross
the line without a knowledge of the
fact.
This man Halstead, who is so bit
ter over Mr.. Blaine's defeat in 81,
called Mr.. Blaine thief in rs. He
is n low-lived blackguard, a good deal
worse than his party in most respects,
but fairly representative of it's intol-
Grant and fanatical spirit in his atti
tude toward the prohibitionists.
In the face of these incendiary
preachments by one of the leading
Republican newspapers of the coun-
try, and of the disgracoful persecu,
tons to which, in accordance with it's
teachings. the prohibitionists are be-
ing subjected in the Republican
strongholds of this and other states,
Ben Harrison has the gall to say that
there is no Republican community in
the country where every man is not
fully protected in the exercise of his
political rights!
The Sentinel does not believe in
prohibition. But it believes in free
speech. It believes in federation and
liberaity, and in the right of every
man to hold and express whatever
political views may commend them
selves to his Judgment. Hence it
denounces the utterances of the Com
mercial- Gazette as Infamous, and the
practices of it's followers as cowardly
and brutal.
Tnvoc AIIionoa Moffara