The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-11-22
REPUBLICAN SOUTHERN POLICY.

Discussing Senator Gibbons's expires
sion that negro supremacy at the South
will not be tolerated the Rutland Herald
answers him and takes occasion to re-
mark
So far as we know, the Republican
party is unit in it's determination that
there shall be free ballot and an honest
count throughout the country. But the
Democratic party begins to divide. The
Southern extremists will soon find that
they cannot have the support of their
Northern allies in the course they have
pursued. The election has had Its effect
on the New York Herald which says
THAT solid South delusion, that holding
in an inPxtTicabe political embrace the
dead and damned Confederacy truly
truly it is q miserable business, and now
we see what becomes OF it. Ii our
Southern friends, those who have sense
enough to remember that some things
have happened since 1865. would only
set themselves to the abandonment OF
this foreign fanaticism, it would be a
national gain"
Nothing truer was ever said, and il
the Democrats of the North had long
ago informed their Southern brethren
that the elections must be free or they
would Join the Republicans, the South
would have been pacified within u year
and would have become far more pros
porous than now.
But the Democrats nf the North said
no such thing. They desired power N
in order to gam j. winked at the cleo
ton CT lines IN the S urh, making them
selves accessories. Thousands al N rth-
prn Republicans who would gladly have
z me South to rtsi IL and do business,
were deferred from t by the lack of
political freedom there, and many who |
dId 10 have found the si'ut u, * up |
In a few large cities or Northern c To- |
mics. extremely unplra~ar t.
The Democratic party IN Vermont is |
smaller than in any other S ate IN the
Union, but it enjoys the most abs lit.
political freedom here, and in society
and business a mans politics are not
known. At the recelt State cleo N
that party cast for their candidate for
Governor, 1927 votes and could easily
have::cast more, had the party com
mended itself to the INT lligent judg
ment of the Vermont people.
Contrast this with Georgia. There
Governor Gordon rece we'd 122, 7S5 votes
and all the opposition to him that dared
express itself at the polls was represent
ed by 400 scattering votes. The Repub
lIcan organ cation haa been crushed out.
Governor Gordon is no more popular in
Georgia than Governor Dillingham; is in
Vermont. 1t is not popularity but
tyranny that accounts for the difference.
Take the Congressional vote. At our
recent election Mr.. Stewart had 23,862 !
votes, and his opponent, Mr.. Meacham,
had 9746; Mr.. Grout had "a ,2l9, and Mr..
Smith had $685. The opposition was OF
course hopeless, but the vote shows that a
L was free. t
But in the ten districts of Georgia,
where there are III 900 white voters and h
l43, 900 colored voters, there were in n
1885, (the last election of which the eff
,ial returns have yet come to hand only n
1850 Republican votes cast, and in six o. =
he districts there was not one.
Is there man living who will venture
o all this political freedom ? Every
nan knows better. Can it be expected
hat since this terrorism gives the South d
hirty. eight more votes in the House of
and in the Electoral
College than she is entitled to under the
according TO the number of
,eople who are allowed to vote, the ma r,
GRITTY in the free North will submit t. d
t? Not only political interest and the h
,ood of the whole country for all time it
orbid it, but honor towards the di, fran a,
hised class in the South demands that ST
heir wrongs shall be righted. d
M
The Union can no more exit, half en- tc
rLnchised and half dsfranchised. than 7
! could exist half slave and hslf free. ii
md we hereby serve notice upon tn. u
iibsons and Hamptons of the Sou h that e,
he sooner they recogn za the situation fl
nj conform 10 il, the hapI ipr they and in
heir 'seCtion" will be. We desire their in
God, as a part of this Union, and We Fl
annot permit them t. il psrdiz tn, to
hole by their uncivi zed ideas q bt
aste. NJ
This. in our judgment WI be The hi
lost imp Irtant result of our great r = ST
ublican victory. W