Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-01-03

Ano derthUS inIprmhnt, conducted thS
campaign with the special object OF forc
ing Harrison TO como TO his terms,
The conclusion he draws 10 that Qua,
will be nowhere in Harrison's administra
tion, that Miller has the call IL any one
and that these these ''ineoatroysrt.
ibis" facts ''settle very conclusiyely
that certain men blaine, Plat
Quay, Alger and wansmaker arc
mentioned by name) shall not be In Gen.
eral Harrison's cabinst.n On the con.
trary, we are told that nGeneral Harrison
has resolution, frmness and Judgment
enough to surround himself with esbi.
net composed mainly of men whom he
knows to be in substantial agreement with
him (on questions of protection, our re-.
lations with Canada and with the Central
and South American peoples, and In re-
gard to tho treatment of the south), and
who, because of that agreement, worked
for and had sufficient influence in the Re-
publican party to secure his nomination. -
-
remarkable contribution to our post
election political literature was the senti-
ment running through the recent speech
Of Mr.. John s. Wise of Virginia, at the
annual dinner of the new England So.
ciesy, together with the oommsnts of the
New York Times upon that speech. That
sentiment was, in Mr.. Wise's own Ian
guage, THAT the Intelligent voice Of
the sonth shall be hesrd.n Mr. wiss's
Republicanism la unimpeachable, and we
are told that bis words were greeted with
applause by an assemblags that oertsinly
cannot be suspected of uufriendliness 10
to the Republican party. In celebrating
bis exact meaning Mr.. Wise went on to
say
1t Is grand sentiment to say that man
mood suffrage Is the triumph of our struV-
gies for freedom. but the man who sits
down and studies manhood suifraRe will
Ieai 20 that the statesmen who gave 1t are
NOT upiihe the famed bees, who, gathering
their honey from all the faresr flowers
about, yet distilled poison which made
men mad cara not how It was bestowed.
IT'S failure as 1t stands. II 1t was intended
70 MAKE the weak strong, 1t mas only
douoly weakened them rs 1t now exists II
~ was intended Tor the purpose OF giving
al men vote, 1t stlnks In tina nnstrlls OF
the men who claim 1t has fulfilled its pur-
pose, and Its dead bones are the weapons
OF the men who killed 1t.
Had this language been used In the
same company ard by the same orator
before the election, what stir there
would have been. For, il words mean
anything, Mr.. Wise explicitly condemns
the very corner. stone Of his party q policy
With reference to the negro vote Of the
south, and the very issue that, until
the high tariff craze came to the front,
had dominated the party ever since the
war. Viewed from party STANDPOINT MIR.
Wise's utterances can be characterized as
nothing less than revolutionary. But
even more striking, considering its ante.
oedents, is the following extract from the
New York Times editorial comment upon
Mr.. Wise's speech:
That unconditional suffrage for the ne
gtoe5 YVES great error, or, so for as IL waa
due TO partisan greed-Rnd that was very
iht-h crime, LAnlUt ha denied. That
Euth 81 the aeaun II ms Republican
ieau r. regarding TIE bestyBal OF int snf.
ifage And tha ptEteuos vi It's lrAiutelauv.
was cynical and cruel hypocrisy ia mn
douotediv true There is no chapter In our
poltlcal history mar ked by darker evidence
Of baseness, eowardice aud trsgchery, than
that which truly recounts the use OF the
negro vote and The negro question by Re-
publican politicians, But the evil they have
done cannot be undoRe by them. Nor can
y pe femedied by aiy patented process of
that work IN country like ours-iniluences
OF commercial Intercourse. of the pu, suit Of
gatuful occupation, OF education. and al
humanity, wnieh, thank Heaven, ara NOT 40
deficient In the followers as they nave basn
IN the ieaders-must do the work.
Certainly nothing that has been said
during or since tbs campaign by the
most incorporating of Democratic
orators or newspapers in the southern
states can surpass In emphasis this
enunciation, BY prominent Republican
orator and by northern paper which,
aside from Its advocacy of tariff reform,
still remains certainly more Republican
than Democratic, OF the conviction that
the enfranchisement of the negro Was
born in sia and conceived In iniquityn
Tor purposes basely and treacharously
partisan, and that, not only must the
Intelligent voice of the south be heard"
bnt, in oEder that 1t may be distinctly
heard, the unintelligent, or negro, voice
OF the south must be hushed.