The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-13
IN pr.r THE DEMOCRACY.

birmingham special states that MAJOR
| c,csnaralu1 Field spoke at Cuiiman. Ala,
Tbr,sdav and that q resolution was adopted
| So.,o.;rs Il the purpose and duty of the
marty 10 defeat tho regular Cleveland TICKET
in that State. Here then we have 1t ON
cioIIv announced that the chief mission OF
,ha Third party is to defeat the Democrats
and a. A matter of course carry the South
for the Republicans This is 0lso corrobo-
rated by reports from this State. which are
that Holm NJ. Langston, the notorious
negro Republican Of Petersburg. has An
nounoed himself candidate for Congress
and is soliciting, and counting upon receiv-
ing. the votes Of the Third party IN the
Fourth district
VIII not the sensible men OF the Third
party in the South stop and consider, before
they help TO defeat the Democracy what
they will accomplish thereby? The main
idea. indeed the foundation principle, OF the
Republican party is hatred of the South
and never for one moment since the orgshi-
zation Of that party has it ever ceased 10
strive 10 bring about our degradation ana
humiliation, socially. politically ana hnan-
oially. What then can possibly induce
Southern white men to deliberately bow
themselves in the dust before their lifelong,
bitter enemies. and humbly kiss the mana
(which has never been raised to them except
10 smiteY The bare idea that there should
be found men in the South even remoteiy
contemplating such an unnatural and sui
cidal course surpasses conception.
Those Southern men heretofore Demo
Gratis. who are suffering from grievances rear
or imaginary. which they deem lntoleTaple'
should remember that never siuce 1860 has
tho Democratic party been in power, and
that therefore, all it has been able 10 90 mas
been to protect the South from Radical hate
and venom. Thisit has ehectually done'since
but for it's efforts. carpet-bag and negro rule
would long since have been restored IN the
South and maintained by Federal bayonets.
and to-day instead of the wonderful pro
gress she has made, she would be ao-
solutely destitute and impoverished and
as prone in the dust before her enemies as
she was in the days when Virginia was
Military District No. l." and the Leglsla-
lures of the Southern States were controlled
by Federal soldiers.
This is no fancy picture. Ben Butler tried
TO bring about this condition Of affairs IN
1875 az soon as he heard the Democrats had
elected a majority of the Lower House OF
Congress for the first time since 1860 to that
date. and he was then defeated by the Dem
ocrats in the Senate. So again Hoar and
Lodge tried the same thing in 1889 when
they found that, after fourteen years, they
had again secured control of Congress. And
thus it is seen that at this day the Repub-
Hcans are as bitterly hostile to the South as
they we're in 1850. and that the Democratic
party is all that stands between the South
and destruction.
Yet in face of these plain, indisputable
facts we see a party Of Southern men
deliberately working TO defeat their friends
and restore to power their enemies What
can be their object? Are they blind,
insane or what? Whatever it is, If the
Southern people permit themselves to be
influenced by such leaders, they are
binding upon themselves chains from which
they will. in after years, in bitter regret and
despair. vainly seek to be liberated. And
they will receive no sympathy, because
their deplorabe condition will be the result
Of their own voluntary and deliberate folly,
committed with their eyes open and in spite
of repeated warning.