Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-10
A REAL NEW souIH.
Il Il Coming Daily Closer to Republican
Theory and Practice.

Il Il Coming Daily Closer to Republican
Theory and Practice.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
thus speaks of one of those outrages
which at one time. and that not long
ago, would have been described by ex-
treme partisans of the Southern
| oligarchy as a Lying invention of
Northern Republicans"
We must look the matter squarely IN the
face. It is foolish and criminal to turn away
and pretend that such acts as that at rAnse
Be-luchan are exceptional aud not likely to oc-
cur again, and ought, therefore, to be over
looked They are the inevitable fruit Of q con-
spiracy against the Law, and as long as this
regulator conspiracy exists we may look not
for one. but dozen repetitions OF this tragedy.
The Greensboro (Ala.) Watchman
| (Dem.) says:
The frequent lynchings in Alabama have q
meaning so plain that "a wayfaring man.
though q fool can discern it The masses have
no confidence in the execution of the laws.
The Mobile Gala Register Dem. }
says:
No, the law is all right, but the public con-
science is not sufficiently awakened to the sa-
| credness of human life. This whole
matter may be summed up by the statement
that the masses elect the lawmakers and the
administrators OF the law. They have the whole
matter in their own hands. 1t is in their pow
er to change the laws in any respect they
choose. There is no excuse, then, for lynch law.
And the Atlanta Constitution rises
to the utmost height of that great
argument which the Republican press
of the North always, and its Demo-
cratic press never, has presented to
its brethren of the South. The Con-
stitution says:
AS for the white people, there is but one thing
for them to do. That is to do right To pro-
| tect the negro in his rights-to give him justice
| and friendship and counsel. To punish those
who wrong him. To hold 20 this course to the
very last-and to quiet with strong and reso-
lutte hand the storm that threatens. And let
US see to it that the Piedgers who do not have
the respect OF their own race shall not win it
through the indignation OF the white race.
Brave words and true are these.
Determination to accept and enforce
the law should not be a matter of
party creed; it is the inherent convic-
ton of all people, and only in times of
violent excitement is it stifed, and
when it is stifed the virtue and prog
ress of the commonwealth breathe
slowly and stertoriously.
The man "Pledger" to whom the
Constitution alludes is negro, and it
would seem as if he were profession
al agitator of strife between the
races. 1t is needless to repeat on be-
half of the Republican party that it
has no more sympathy with or re-
spect for a noisy and turbulent negro
who strives for negro supremacy"
meaning thereby race hatred or de-
privation of white persons of any
State or subdivision thereof of their
constitutional rights, or of those
rights which are inherent, though not
exposed in law, than it has for those
white oligarchs who have traded
upon the bugbear of NEGRO suprem-
acy," and while securing place and
power to themselves have kept the
great body of the Southern people,
white and black alike, ignorant and
poor The end of that white oligarchy
is at hand, the beginning of a black
oligarchy must not be permitted. In
all matters of alleged crimes. political
or other, the two great truths which
the Atlanta Constitution lays down
must be recognized and enforced
]. The full truth should be developed, no
matter whom it hurts!
9. The guilty men should be punished, no
matter who they are!
The whole civilized world has waited
long and anxiously for such brave and
righteous judgment as this. There
is a new South. 1t has kicked the
Northern Democratic tariff heresy out
of its platforms. 1t is kicking the
Northern Democratic race prejudice
out of it's legal practice. The new
South may continue to call itself Dem
ocratic, that is a matter of little com
parative import. 1t is coming day by
day closer to Republican theory and
practice; and so that the doctrines Of
truth and justice bring forth their le-
ultimate fruits of prosperity and hap
piness, it matters little by what politi-
cal denomination they are taught and
accepted. Chicago Inter Ocean.