St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-09-10
WEAVER IN THE SOUTH.


and he l,o. cs he will soon be abb
to drum up recruits for his part,
down here.
We have noticed that some Of III,
Farmers Alliances in st. Landry
express great enthusiasm over TN
Wcaver-Ficld ticket. 1t IL, tlcy
say, . reconciliation Ut the NOrtl
and South, a union Of the blu,
(Weaver) and gray (t'ield) a sort o
shaking hands over 1.-the bloody
cllasm."
Perhaps it might be well to SEE
just what sort Of reconciliation j,
, really Is and just how Gen. Weaver
feels towards the South before &C
cepting the ticket SO enthusiastical-
~. 1t has been some time since
the General visited the South.
The last time he was here he made
quite record, and was very out
spoken in his opinion of this section
and its people. We wonder il
he will give some of his old South
hating speeches this time, or wlle:l,-
er he will talk Of harmony and re-
cancellation, aud try the effect of
"a little taffy."
The people Of the district of Ten
nessee over which Weaver ruled
during the late war declare that
he was the most vindictive and
bitter hater Of the South in all the
Union army; that he delighted in
prosecuting and even plundcring
the natives because OF their friendly
disposition to the Confederacy.
The Pulaski { renn.) Citizen has
given long list Of outrages COM
mitted by Weaver on the people
Of that State. the witnesses who
testify against him being still living.
and declares that "Weaver was q
merciless foe, without principle and
exercised his authority in an unjust
and cruel manner
L
Gen. Weaver. for years after the
war, was the most ultra of South
hating Republicans, and expressed
the following opinion of the men
whom he is now asking to vote for
him:
The same old gang, except those
who have been shot or hung, is still
conspiring to get possession Of the
government. Woe to them! for
the royal host will crush them for
ever ana forever Of all possible dam
ger of such a misfortune to our
common country! No Republican
can ever. under any circumstances,
have any part or lot with the hum
CRY, rebelliOus, man-hating, women
selling gang corp0rated under the
name Of Democracy, a name so full
Of stencil and poison that it should
be blOtted from the vocabulary of
civilized man and handed over to
the barbarian that it has so fifty
represented.
This is q fair sample of Gen.
Viewers lurid and malignant ora
tory.
Here are some more choice re-
marks Of his about the Southern
people:
don't give rebels in the South
vouchers. I would rather furnish |
rope 10 hang ever d-n one Of them.
Ell
The record Of the Republican party |
appeals to the candid Judgment of
all men rs unimpcachablc. save,
perhaps, that it was too lenient with
the leading Democratic conspira-
tors.
He never spoke Of the Southern
people in any other way than rs "a
rank trait0rous horde" and again
and again he insisted that every
man who took sides with the Con-
federacy should he shot or hung.
Rebels" TRAITORS" and ''infa-
nous conspirators," were the pet
names he had for the people whose
votes he Is now soliciting.
After having been Democrat,
Know-NOthing, Republican and
everything else he could be in order
10 get votes aud hold Office, and
being turned out Of every party he
joined, Gen. Weaver has wound up
with the sO-called Peoples party.
II that party wants this venomous
crank at their head We have no
disposition to object, but We do OBJ
ject to any decent Southern white
nan, who respects his State and
welcoming this malignant,
'oul-mouthed orator. tyrant and OPP
,ressOr Of the Southern people and
cling US that the Weaver-Field ,
ticket means the reunion and recon- !,
.ilatiOn Of the sections.
Democrat.