Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-11-03
The Accomack correspondent Q

recent cditorlalin thispaptrursine
Democrats tc do their, whole duty
10 prevent the return of the pro
scrip,ive Republican party TO pow
or in this county. This correspond
ent, who used to sign himself .'In-
dependent Democrat" is now .
tull fledged Republican, and as
such is engaged in defending the
policy of the Republican party aud
in abusing and disappearing
| the Democratic party of which he
was till recently a bitter and III
compromising partisan. Four years
s.ago while speaking tor Cleveland
! and Hendricks in this county he
threatened to raise an army to
whip and hang the Republicans if
they should attempt to steal the
| Presidency as they had done in
1876. lie is now a req hot Repub
!lican and is charging the Demo
Gratis with all kinds Of wickedness
ard rascality.
lie says Cleveland has appointed
rascals to Office, that the Demo
Gratis are a narrow sectional party
benton running the prosperity Of
the country, and much moro such
stuff of the same sort. We deny
the statement that President Oleye
land has allowed any man against
whom any charge of bad character
has been proved to hold Office mn
! der his administration. But how
was it with the Republicans?
Grant had in his cabinet two men.
! Williams and Belknap, who were
| proved to be public thieves, and
the mantle Of executive power was
thrown ever them to save them the
penalties of their crimes. The
Credit Mobiicr Swindlers and the
Star Route Thieves were allowed
TO put untold millions ofthc peoples
money in their pockets and to go
unwhipped of justice undey Repub-
lican administrations. Millions upon
millions Of money were appropria-
, ted by Republican Congresses to
build navy only to go into the
!. pockets of dishonest officials and
,jobbers. Howgate - notorious
! public plunderer arrested and
then turned loose without a
, trial because he threatened
, to expose other Republicans high
in authority as his accomp!ices il
public robbery! In 1876 the Re
+ publicans capped the sum of al
/, their crimes and villainics bysteal
}. ing the Presidency; in 1880 they
|. bought it, and they would haze
G stolen it again four years ago i
= they had not been afraid that TIKI
g valiant correspondent of the FREQ
!. cricksburg Free Lance would rails,
an army and hang them all to thu
{. most convenient limb or lamp post
n This Republican party which W,
!, are asked to restore to power, j.
+. the same that ruled the Southern
. States with rod Of iron during
81 lila 70 Gi.fran
chise forever every white man fl
this State who had aided or sym
pathized with the C0nfederacy
, they made every negro a veteran,
gave him the power TO hold Office
!. They dispersed Southern LegisIa
!, lures at the point of the bayonei
and set up carpet.bag and negro
governments in every State tha
had followed the Confederacy.-
They robbed the PROSTATE people
, Of their money, ate out their sub
stance, and put the whites rs ia,
!, as they could under the heel of the
negroes, the scalawags, and the
carpet baggers. They would have
perpefrated this intolerable state
of affairs in the South and bav,.
driven the Southern whites from
their own country to seek homes
in foreign lands if the Democrats
OF the North had not come to our
assistance and helped ns to drive
the Republican party from powcr
in the Government.
These Republicans threaten to
inaugurate Shell in the South"
again, rs one of their own Sena
tors expressed it during the dark
days of reconstruction. Harrison.
their candidate for President. in
making a speech to a delegation Of
negroes that recently visited him
charged the white people ofihe
South with being equity of crimes
that would he q disgrace to bar
harous NATIONS" These are his
words. Can the self respecting
white people OF Virginia and other