The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-05-14

NOTWITHSTANDING the rrothy ebulitlons OF
certain class OF Republican dailies that en-
deavor to hide the truth behind the trankln-
censed clouds of political mythology. the tone
of their address to the public is fatal exponent
of their real character. 1t is easier to conceive
than enumerate the many causes that actuate
them in this sort of work, and consplre TO pc
guile them into the wholesale peiversions ef
truth with which their columns continually
abound. Take for instance "The Southern
Outrages" and note the uncouth forms of
tracery employed in their clum sy inventions
The motives for such fabrications are of course
partisan ones and yielded to, once. ever after
allure their victims on in the easy paths OF de-
ception until the barren prose Of truth becomes
distasteful to them even when its employment
would answer their purposes thonsandfoid
better than the lie tinctHIed statement.
Every day some one more of these papers
dirty the white purity of their pages by flaming
headlines of Southern Anarchy and abound
in editorials infinitely more despicable than
the alleged condition of Southern afairs. and
unworthy the name they bear. Perhaps col
ored man is murdered in some obscure locality
in the South; Immediately the fact is exager-
ated into a bloody massacre of blacks who " are
fleeing the country in terror" and Congress
and the President are called upon to put down
these "rebels'' and "show the strong arm of the
government" A dozen Northern negroes may
have fallen by the hand of the assassin the same
day and these same publications make no more
than the ordinary skeleton report of the awful
tragedies. 1t makes heap of difference as to
the residence of the poor darkey whether 1t De
an atrocious murder to wantonly take his LIE,
or simply an affair of ordinary magnitude
Many OF our Ravenna citizens have made pro-
tracted visits in the South. ASK them for the
truth concerning the alleged expressions OF the
colored man by Southern Democrats HOW
quickly the bottom falls out of the wretched
concoctions. written by unprincipled Republi-
can politicians for the reprehensible and tral-
torous purpose of kindling the fires of hatred
between two great sections of the country.
Tested by the same proof. the result is the
same everywhere. No man worthy the name OF
an intelligent human being will look for per-
lection in any country or portion thereof. That
crimes of every description abound in the South
is q most natural supposition and one very easy
to believe Fools only would believe otherwise.
The same is true of the North. East and West.
Election frauds of the rankest and most WICKED
nature are perpetrated by the Republican party
in Indiana with impuni,y, and meet with the
appreciation of these same papers. The fresl-
dency is stolen and United States Senators un-
lawfully seated by the Republican party, and
only words of commendation are heard from
these organs, yet when they turn their eyes
south. they behold with horror the slightest
deviation from the moral code or violation of
Federal statutes and at once set up standard
of perfection which the Southern people must
live up to, or have the Federal authorities as
sumo control of their affairs.
All this is the weakest kind of subterfuge
to protect their own short comings from public
notice and criticism. 1t has always been their
strong forte whenever confronted with their
unredeemed pledges and forced to an issue on
any measure affecting the welfare OF the peo-
pie, to at once draw aside the veil and expose
to view hideoas picture of the South, drawn
by tn, ir expert artists, and always Kept on
hand for just such emergencies. The trouble is
that the South is democratic and the g. o. p
leaders are astute enough to realize that the
issue of tariff reform" made by Grover Cleve-
land, will carry the day ior the Democracy at
the North in 1s9a. and that unless they can sue
ceed in tefrorizing the white Democrats of the
South by repetition of the outrages committe ed
in ths carpet bag days, thus stealing her cleo
toral vote. they will go down in hopeless and
eternal defeat This is their motive aud it is SO
apparent that sensible members of their wn
party readily recognize it and are disguised
with such temporizing. disgraceful policy.
The Mckinley tariff BILL curious mixture OF
free trade (so horrible to the o. p and pro-
tec,ion," Cts gsd) is being dissected by Demo-
cratic statesm en- 10 the House, and now we m ay
expect daily accounts of Southern outrages and
Democratic misrule. until the rank and file OF
the z. o. p. turn their attention to this ancient
monstrosity away from the glaring defects and
hollow hypocrisy of this tariff revision" ?" bill