The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-27
HARRlSON'S BRUTALITY.
organs of the Mailel Hand Conspiracy
Insult Northern Democrats.


stand Back, Doughfaces!" is tho
headline President Harrlson's home
organ, the indianapolis Journal, puts
over an editorial on the mailed hand
policy Of the Republican party. 1t is
addressing in this comprehensive and
emphatic way the 100000 Democrats
outside of the RECONSTRUCTED States"
who voted for Mr. Cleveland in 1883.
In 1876, when the Presidency was
stolen. and usurper seated in the
White House, these Democrats stood
back. In 1883, when New York and
Indiana were colonized; when the cleo
ton was decided by the money used to
vote floaters in blocks Of five, these
Democrats stood back. They stood back
when Mr.. NJ. S. Quay announced
that the Republican party would hold
Congress with the mailed hand; they
stood back when the presidents of a
century were nullifed by tho Reed
Dudley conspiracy in the House Of Rep
resentatives; they stood back when tho
Democratic minority in the House was
gagged; when Democrats were unseated
to enable tho PlutOcratic league to
carry out its policy Of expressing the
masses. They stood back when the
Mon tana Senators wero stolen and the
Senate was udulently packed for the
perpetuation of Plutocracy. And they
are standing back still.
After all this Mr. Harrison's organs
once more assail them with the cry:
Stand back, doughfacesw
1t is impossible, gentlemen. The
Democrats of the unreconstructedS States
can stand back no further If you steal
another Presidential election; if you de-
prive them of their rights with the
mailed hand. they will be obliged to
stand forward. They love peace. They
arc the conservative element of this
country. Their principles and their
fidelity to them have time and again
saved the country from chaos. They
have made great sacrifices for peace.
They have hoped for reforms; they have
waited patiently for the era of radical
ism to pass; for oppression to exhaust
itself: for the love Of liberty to reassert
itself once more. And after all this
comes once more the old cry: ''Stand
back, doughfaces"
They will not. They will stand for.
ward-as far forward as duty and their
love of liberty leads them. If they are
to be sui,ten in the face with the
mailed hand of fraud and violence, il
will be found that the face is not dough-
that it can be set to iron hardness
against insolent oppression.
The first and highest duty of the mill
ion Democratic voters in the recon
structed States is to endure and wait
The highest duty of the 100000 Demo
Gratis of the unreconstructe;t States is
to keep the peace and defend American
liberties. They are Democrats, moi
bullies They have no threats to make
but we warn the mailed hand conspira
tors that successful coup detat is i'm
possible in America. The history O.
1876 can never again repeat itself. i
such an attempt is to be made, no bully
ing cry of Stand back, doughfaces"
will intimidate the 4,00O,O0J Democrat!
of the unreconstructed States from
standing forward. This is the situation
as the Republic understands it. 1t viii
be we'll for Mr.. Quay. Mr.. Dudley ane
others interested in the mailed-hane
policy to examine the situation careful
ly with view of ascertaining how ia
they are right in presuming that there
is something in the air of tho Nortl
and West which makes Democrat
'doughface," a supine coward, on whom
the utmost insult, the greatest injurie
and the worst expressions may be safel.
inflicted. St Louis Republic.