Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31


minority section control the Nation
The old Mexican spirit survives, how
ever, and is still rampant in the Demo
cratic party. The latest examples of il
are the vOciferation in Kentucky tina
the Southern trade of Cincinnati shal
be wiped out if her Representative
vote for the Lodge bill; while Missouri
mentions that as the Representatives o.
Chicago voted for the Lodge bill thu
Worlds Fair must be boycOtted. Gen
Gordon, of Georgia, the presumed EN-
bodiment of the alleged new South
telegraphs the Herald: Il am in entire
accord with the spirit, tone and practica
suggestions of the Atlanta Constitution
as to the use of the boycott as means
of self preservation and commercial in.
dependence if the useless and infamous
force bill becomes a law. Moreover
that spirit will possess and control ap
proximately every white man, woman
and child in the Southern States" Then
he goes on with song about restoring
the real brotherhood and sisterhood OF
States, and glances off to say: ''If the
force bill becomes a law, | shall use
whatever influence and ability | may
possess to arouse the Southern people to
the necessity of looking only to their
own exhaustleSs resources" This does
not vary much from the old thing. The
professions of peaceableness which ac4
company the actual menace are usually
uttered by those who are making procla-
nation of war; The He1uld says: "If
there is anything that would insure the
passage of the force bill by an over
whelming pressure of Northern senti-
ment, it would be the threat that unless
Northern people voted according to the
dictates of Southern politicians the
Southerners would not buy their goods.
There is something so mercenary in the
suggestion, something so grotesque, that
it is difficult to treat it with seriousness.
And yet we might as well say seriously
to our friend in Atlanta,g who can not
dislike the force bill or any legislation
akin to it more cordially than the Herald,
that if he wants to see every Northern
and Western State 60 Republican let
him make it clear that the SOutherners
mean to introduce boycotting into their
politics. Upon that issue we can prom
ise New York to the next Republican
candidate for President by fifty thousand
majority" The Herald is quite right in
this. General Gordon has probably Sc
cured the passing of the Lodge bill. 1t
would have been defeated except for the
substitution in the South of boasts of
bCycotting the North, for the old threat
of tearing the Union into flinders. Gen.
Gordon can thank his Mexican procliv-
tiles for the Lodge law and very
serious effort to give it vitality. Mr..
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, began the
talk of boycotting Northern towns on
account of the vote of the Representa-
tives. He was the foremost of the
Mexicans. Gordon is the most gorgeous
of them. We have not hesitated to
point out the strong objections to the
Lodge law, the greatest of them being
the certainty of but very partial +silc7
cess where it is most required in the
enforcement. That which is behind it
is visible to the naked eye of all Ameri-
can citizens 1t is measure meant to
aid in the execution of the war amend
ments of the constitution of the United
States. The intention is to remove
monstrous inequality of counting
the blacks in the black belt as citizens,
and then refusing to allow them their
rights under the constitution, thus Civ
ing the ruling class in the Gulf States
and South Carolina twice the power
exercised in National affairs by the
of New York. Is this double
political capacity the proper reward for
the slave power craftsmanship that cul
in rebellion? The proposed
of the North for tentative
in support of the constitution
is the same old narrow and deadly AFRO
gance. 1t is the outcropping of Demo-
cratic Mechanism. The Democratic
politicians who have been crying tyran-
ny and usurpation are of the trite.
yellow-legged Mexican breed, and ought
to wear green coats with gold frills and
silver spurs, as distinctive uniform.
The only thing that can now prevent
the Lodge bill from becoming law
will be the possibility of the majority of
the Senate regarding the Governor of
Georgia as frivolous person who has
become infatuated with his fine flow of
words and that is not his reputation.
1t is not hypnotism that is the matter;
it is the Mechanism that is in the blood
and bones and tissues of the Democratic
party.