The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-02-05
ruE REPUBLICAN FATTY AND THE
SOUTH.


TuE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE
SOUTH.
IL we we're cut of from the posi-
bility OF chan ges for the better by the
mutation Of parties, the attitude Of the
Republican party in Congress would
hardly fail to I'LL with painful appre-
hension the mind Of every reflective
Southern man.
1t must be admitted by the most
bigoted Republican that since, to US, the
most disastrous termination OF the war
between the States. there has been no
expression Of thought or feeling which
could have been distorted into disloy-
atty TO the country by any public man
or public body in the South. Thet truth
is. that all the South fought for was
irrevocsbly lost, and it was eager to
bury out Of sight its dead past to for
got all but its heroes and precious blood
shed in vain, and to build up a new
empire on the ruins Of its old institu-
tons and civilization. But it has never
been the purpose Of the Republican
partv that the South should rest In
peace. and the lapse Of quarter OF
century has in no wise tempered its
malignity.
Not contented with imposing on us
the cruelty Of negro suffrage. it de-
,nands that we shall submit to it with
out seeking to avert our own destruc-
ton. and without negro lsw-naker
or representative in the States under iis
control, it would deliberately, through
its proposed election laws, seek to place
every Southern State under the do
miniou Of an incapable, mischievous
aud irreclaimable class OF voters.
II rs almost uncomfortable to us that
any considerable number Of the white
race should be so lost to all sense OF
dscency as to desire party triumph
and a continued hold on power, at the
fearful cost Of the Authorization Of
single State Of the Union, but what 9th
er Interpretation can be given to the
eager, and we might say revolutionary
hate to unseat the Democratic mem
bers Of Congress, with view to con-
struc.ipg election machinery for the
manufacture OF Republican voters in
the South.
When Ingalls, raves for justice to the
negro and inVokes his destruction OF
his oppressors, had he forgotten that
almost at the very moment he was
speaking the citizens OF Topeka, in bic
own State, in their eagerness to get rid
Of a source of unbearsble political cor
ruption in their municipal elections,
were bidding 800 negroes God speed on
their departure for Oklahoma. And
when the blood-thirsty Spooner de-
nounced what seems 10 have been
the atrocious treatment of Franz in Mis-
sissippi, had it slipped, too, from his
treacherous memory that this was only
an isolated case in the South, and that
the White Caps in his own section had
whipped and scourged, and in some
cases unto death, the poor wretches
who were 90 unfortunate as to incur
their enmity?
Are these hypocritss in high places
never to be conscious OF the beam IN
their own eye, but ever TO be on the
alert for the mote in their brother eye.
and this y is the sort of fraternity
they have prepared for our welcome on
our return to our fathers house?
1t is long lane, however, which has
no turning, and we may hope at least
that these Senators are counting with
out their host. Even the farmers they
represent are fast finding out
that whilo they are burning their
corn for fuel, they are taxed with
duty Of 113 per cent. on tho win
dow panss which keep out the
billiards; Of 40 per cent. on the tin cans
which preserve their fruits for the
rlgors Of their long winters; 40 per
cent on the salt which is indisp ensable
to animal life, and that the kerosene
lamp which lights up the humble cabin
at night. is replenished from an article
of prime necessity which has already
poured e129 ,OOO,O 600 into the Golfers Of 2
single monopolist Of the Standard Oil
Company.
Not much longer will it be possibls to
conceal from the millions Of farmers
who are seeking union and strength in
the ranks Of the Farmers Alliance, that
the next issue before the country will
bs between Plutocracy and Democracy.
and then will bounding down and forg-
ing chains for the white men Of the
South, be no longer vindication of the
infamous party which has tostered mo-
nopolies, trusts and an iniqutous tariff
and whose policy has concentrated %
per cent. of the health Of 6O,0O0,OOO OF
people in the hands Of 100 900 families.
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When Benjamin F. Butler was 60