The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-07-25

do not say and do not believe that the pres
long ago set the example OF revising the tariR
snd may be relied ON TO correct all It's present
and ~ future Inequalities But there 10 one
matter In which am fully persuaded that the
good sense OF the American people whole
will constrain them 10 tgroe with Republican
policy and principles, and that IL that the doc
trines OF . English free TRADE schools, under
which American manufacture would inevitably
be confined 10 such simple operations as saving
wood AMI inending shoes should never be per-
mttei "a gain ascendency upon this continent.
Men Who can only view the tarin question
through the iree trade goggles OF Richard Golden
and from the standpoint occupied by the Eng
lish manufactures, whose desire I'm the matter Ia
his own selfish gain. will never be permitted by
the voters OF this nation TO lay their unwasned
and ignorant hands upon the citadel OF Ameri-
can industry.
In order that the American laborer may have
his hire, the American manufacture must have
his reasonable profit and home competition
will not be trusted in vain. all experience
proves. to prevent his profit from becoming ex-
Orbtant. We can not have depression I'm one
branch OF industry, or class OF industries, and
prosperity in the rest, and that party which
falsely and dishonesty, through appeals To
pro .udice attempts to incits one class OF Ameri
can producers ~ anst another class should DO
treacod by the voters OF tho nation as the enemy
of this Republic, and cast again into outer dark
ness.
Fellow citizens 1 should feel that had been
recroant to my sense OF duty IL / failed TO call
your attention 10 one other question-a question
that lies at the very foundation of our free inst
utions and compared with which all hers
sink into nothingnoss. i refer 10 the political
condition OF the colored race in the south.
| Nearly twice as many members of Congress as
constitute the present Democratic majority In
| the lower house hold their seats by counting in
the enumeration of electors n disfranchised con-
| sttuency. race beyond the Ohio is robbed of
| "A constitutional right by fraud and violence.
This know has been said many times. but even
ut the risk of provoking harsh criticism and Bit
ter vitupsration il ought TO be- said and shouted
and proclaimed in the face of heaven until
| Just God hears the cry Of the oppressed and the
| fact ceases TO ex So.
| Twenty three years Lavo elapsed since the
great tragedy closed at Appomattox. new gen.
| GRAFTON with faces toward the rising sun is al
ready ON the stage. The passions and bitter
hates engendered by gradually giving
way before the bright sunlight of peace. No one
| reloices at this more than do: would not
| wantonly revive the bitter memories OF bitter
war or stir up the angry passions of men. Let
| the dead past bury it's dead. But this ia not
question OF the dead past, but OF the living pres
ent, and turn which way will il stares at US
| from every section of the South
There were according TO the census of 1880 in
/ the eleven States that composed the Southern
| Confederacy, in round numbers 100000 white
voters TO Loss, 900 colored. These States elect
| eighty-nve members TO the lower house OF Con-
seats by counting in the enumeration
the colored population. Out of these
eighty-hve members only four are Repub-
| licans, all the others are Democratic, Ten
| nessee and North Carolina being the only States
| having Republican Congressman, each OF them
having two. During General CIR nt's administra-
| ton there were on an rnge about thirty-four
members from these States, being nearly the
number based on the colored population In
two OF these states, Mississippi and south Caro-
| Lima the cclored vote is in large majority. In
Mississippi the majority is 1000, and in South
Carolina II is 80 0O0 and yet these States send
| Republicans to Congress. Their electoral votes
were counted for Cleveland in 1884 and will be
again in 1888, will also the votes Of all the
| other southern States in my Judgment. There Is
clear majority OF colored voters in every of
| the seven Congressional districts in South Caro-
\ lima, and yet that state, we have seen, sends
no Republican TO Congress-. In no one Of these
districts except the Seventh did the Democratic
candidate have any opposition ut the last Con-
| ressioDal election.
According to the census OF $780, there were in
the Seventh District 81 900 colored voters to 304
white still, notwithstanding this fact, the Re
publican candidate defeated by nearly / 900
majority. Some ono may ask what evidence
have we that these colored voters have not oil
become Democrats The common sense of the
American people comedies that they al
most unanimously Republican. II il not prob
able that the colored race would forget
| that their right to vote received the bitter and
malignant opposition of the entire Democratic
party in Congress and in the different Legisla-
| lures aud wherever else 1t could make itself
heard But IL proofs wanting they fur
nished by the statistics. We have seen that in
the SeYt nth District there are $1,000 coored
voters to ,304 white. At the Congr ssional cleo
| tion OF 1886 the Democratic candidate received
| 6 ,l93 votes or about the number of white voters
in the district, while the Republican candidate
received less than 4, 900 votes. The question il,
| what became of the other 26 900 votes? Doubt
| less tney were Kept away Dy violence or counted
out by fraud What has been said OF this dis
trict will apply with almost equal force TO near
| ly every other Congressional district in these
| eleven States.
| Let no Republican be so mealy- mouthed and
| unpatriotic not 70 speak Ct these outrages.
Let such injustice be arraigued at the bar OF the
civilized opinion of America. Denounce IL on
| the stumpl Denounce il everywhere Produce
the statistics and not to proclaim the
| shame of IL until the sense of justice OF the
Am rican people shall correct the outrage and
place the negro hut and the white mans pal
ace equal beneath the protecting shield of the
Constitution.
Fellow Rep blicans, / feel that shall 60
forth to victory in this canvass, not alone by
reason of what we have done but by reason also
| of what and will do for the country in
the future. The party which has done all che
political reforming in the last fifty years can do
some more il needed. IL the tariff needs REFORM
ing and readjusting what party can better do II
Of American enterprise and American labor?
| If the constitutional amendments which embody
| the great results of the civil TO be
vitalized and protected from practical nullihca-
ton in the South what party can better be
| trusted 10 do 10 than the one which with bayo-
nets and blood wrote these amendments in the
| Constitution against the relentless opposition
| of the entire Democratic party?
II letters and newspapers are TO be carried and
! delivered should not those undertake IL who can
read rather than those who have dragged the
public service down TO its present state of supine
inefficiency2 III the civil service Is TO be reform
ed not do it little better than il 10 likely
TO be done by the original inventors of the spoils
! system? IL periurers, ballot-box suffers. and
tally sheet forgers are TO be prosecuted and pun
ished can we not do it as well as those who profit
/ hos lao