The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

4 rerleE of the platform Cd tbe
republicans pazsT, with WINCH II goes
before tbs people d the Tussed
STATES and saks thear support ihengh
II many other paxsztndes II sezs forth
xfaxt r roald have the unwxry een-
esire 10 BE- rs principles, and dwells
npon WHIT il claims 70 hare seen
tbe benefits resulting upon = high
protective t2rzG: seeking 10 hood
wink the Temperance element by is
non-s,ommiEaal Temperance plank,
and oIber deFices designed 70 hrer1
the attention Of tie patriotic ro.er
from the force bali policy, which
would place not only the southern
STATES which may have . pgepon-
derzting negro poPalH4son, but every
ss&ae and territory under Subsection
to Whatever dishonest party in power
IN Lie gOEeTnmeBI n LIE time O. IN
election may hold the rean<-
The truth is the republican par1y,
a organized and led, holds every
principle Of party and government
- totally inferior and secondary TO
being In power and 20 rule If rs
leaders coaid be coovinced that the
abrogasacn Of every principle arrow
Cd 10 their platform would insure
the enactment Of . force bill, sneh
m one n failed IN the last congress,
or still stronger, aod their elecsson
under il VISA also assured, the abro-
cation would be m net Of no heS1ta-
ton or delay.
The fact 10 that the TepsbEcan
party seems 70 hare conceived that
,he results of the heroic defence
made Of the Union and its trIum-
phaDt preservation does not accrue
TO the United States, and with them,
of course, the restored states Of the
South, but that these results accrue
solely 70 the republican party Upon
this basis they stand ready to take
and use any means in their grasp,
however remote from right and jus
tiee. In view Of Thu. terrible menace,
if they are successful, let NO demo
cr2t be deceived by the poetic tenti-
ment that there is enough patriotism
among republicans to stay the hand
Of usurpation. Such is q delusion,
and 40 ignus fatas that viii lead the
democratic party into the quicksand
of defeat Nothing short OF com
plete organization, constant work
and self-Sacr.fce can avert this dread
result
l. stimulus needej2 Remember
the days OF darkness when the
bayonet entered your government
house, and expelled the man elected
by the people from the gubernatorial
chair; entered the courts and com
pelied by its presence verdicts tor
fei,ing the liberty of your fellow
citizens; The days when you had TO
take the second place in the exercise
of your franchise; the day when ig-
Dorance and all its family of curses
controlled. As you think of these
dread. dark days returned, add TO
them thousands Of hireling marshals
and election officers, all ready to
swear away your franchise and place
you By impious reports behind
prison bars; add the wretchedness oil
your families in ili-provided homes,
and, standing aghast at all this evil.
consecrate yourselves to fealty te
/ party. Let every democrat in the
state see his neighbor and his neigh
boris wife, recount the mieeries of tho
past-and then let tariff, free coiDage
Of silver, and hundred other things
that actually pale and dissolve int
thin air compared With the resolve
Of the party Of radical ideas and
purposes 70 pat the iron collar 81
/ force shout our neoks, and renail
ltrue. Warn your nsighbors 0f tks
madpess. a eing 81 slte false "a