Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-24
FRIDAY. OCTOBER "a. 1890.
aow They Talk About Us.

Mr.. Speaker REED ia one OF his Iowa
speeches sneered at the southern peoples
opposition TO the elections bill. and said
that il was because we had recollection
OF the bayonets OF other days.
Mr.. REED was not in the army. He
never thrust bayonet at rebel,
and cannot relate from personal obser-
walton how the followers of LEE and
JACKSON were accustomed TO behave
on such occasions. True he served in
the navy for one year, but it was not as
a belligerant, but as q paymaster. lie
belonged to the class who were " invlsi-
BILE in war and invincible in peace The
Federal soldiers who received the shock
of battle at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg,
Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Richmond
have never pursued us with anything
like the malice Of men like REED.
Indeed. in the reconstruction period
army officers and the men OF the ranks
oltener than otherwise became the TRENDS
and protectors of the people whom they
were sent TO terrorize.
The malicious expression OF Mr. REID,
recalling the sorrow and humiliation OF
our days of defeat, is characteristic OF
the man. 1t is rarely that tyrant IS
Truly brave never Is he chivalrous Zoe.
The REED Republicans foresee defeat
on the tariff question. The tremendous
rise in store prices has opened the eyes
of the American people and has become
a great objectlesson in politics All IN
vain does the willy orator seek to beguile
the voter into the belief that tariff
which puts up the prices of all that he
has to buy and in 10 respect increases
his income is beneficial to him. Useless
is the attempt to teach the laborer that
the more money there is put in the peck
cts Of the trusts tho greater will be his
own wages.
Thus the Republicans see it is clear
that if they stand on the MCKINLEY
bill they will be defeated, and hence
they are struggling to revive old feuds
and introduce new ones to keep alive
northern hatred of the South.
There is one example Of this method
in the bitter and audacious speech OF
FHEpERIcK DOUGLASS. There is another
IN the address of Speaker REED to
Which we have been referring and which
was delivered at Burlington, Iowa, when
he said
"a great cry was set up over the
LODGE bill depriving the people OF their
rights. 1t did deprive them of the right
90 steal ballot boxes, diseniranchise ne
proes. and doctor returns. The nation
had a right to know about these methods
in the South. Democrats are sensitive
about bayonets Can it DO that recol-
lection OF the past has anything TO do
with their feelings on this subject!
Laughter.
Think of the daughter " OF that
crowd Of South-hating Republicans. 1t
delighted them TO think of the evacua-
ton Of Richmond and Petersburg, the
surrender at Appomattox, tho occupa-
ton Of the South by Federal armies, the
rioting of the freed slaves, the imprison-
ment OF southern leaders, the excuses OF
BOND and UNDERWOOD, and all that
carnival of crime and pandemonium OF
carpet baggery and scalawaggery which
came with the bayonet rule.
Well, after all, we can expect nothing
better OF Mr.. REED, and we know that hi
party is in a desperate strait. They
cannot win on the tariff issue and mus
talk about the old "rebels " and arous'
war passions. Well, let them do it.
While Mr.. REED and his associates
are "waving the bloody shirt" W
rejoice TO know that there are goo
men in tho North and West-unterriiie,
Democrats-who are endeavoring I
present the real issues of the campaign Z
the voting masses, and we believe they
will succeed.
REEDS speech and President HARRl
sos's constant threat Of calling an extr
session of Congress show how alarmed
the Republicans are.
In Ohio, Indiana, New York, Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts, and many othe
States exciting contests are being wage
and the Democrats are meeting sneer
with facts, and are answering mean IL
situations With weighty arguments
Store-prices talk for us better tina
the brightest orators, though we hay