The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-10-14

nothing visible 10 the naked eye
which would lead casual spectator
to conclude otherwise, the issue will
be distinctly drawn between "a solid
South and a solid North. There is
no domain for sentiment to work
in, when such vile and rancorous
expressions as used by this North
Carolina editor go unrebuked. 1t
will require good witnesses to show
that the young men of the South
are any more patriotic than the
moss-grown reptile who publishes
the Globe and caters to a sentiment
in the community which will sup
port such a pape.
There is no doubt but what the
Democratic soldiery of New York
State could nail the lid on the polit-
ical coffin of the South and bury
the remains beyond any hope of
resurrection, and probably will if
the North Carolina editorial reptile
voices the consensus Of public SEN
timent, as it appears that he does,
not answering courteous letter
except by repeating his original
libel and following it up with new
matter, more Infamous if possible
than the rot that went before.
The following is taken from the
c6Splns of the Durham On. CO.
Gi9be, and explains itself:
The tariff is job from Que end
to the other, the more iniquitous
because, while lcvying tribute upon
the masses for the benefit of the
classes, it is supplemented by a
steadily increasing pension list,
ooting the treasury to the tune of
$50, 000,0 900 year, two-thirds of
which go to the support of coffee
coolers, camp-followers and other
red-nosed patriots that loaf about
the doggeries and brothels of the
country, swearing one for another,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
1t requires the proceeds of 900. :
600 bales of cotton every year to
pay the South's part of the pension
fund, two-thirds of what is paid to
support tramps and beggars who
claim to have fought for the union
This is one of the means invented
by the Republicans to drain the
Southern people of their money
Americas (Ga.) Times Recorder.
Some of the Northern papers are
bowling about the positive fact that
Grover Cleveland hired a cheap
man to represent him when the
North pillaged and plundered and
burned and ravished the South.
There could not be better recon-
mediation. The scamps at the
North who went into the war went
for fourteen dollars a month. with
an explicit understanding that they
should and could steal all that was
in sight. Grover Cleveland knew
that the country would need his SER
vices in 1884 and again in 1892,
and he did not propose to have his
body filled with lead in order to
give a Yankee achance to pick his
pocket after he had been killed.
He simply did good business job,
as he did when he slapped the dirty
beggars- called pensioners-in the
face. Why should he, a statesman
and man of his intellect, take the
chance of war when he could hire
cheap fellow to take his place?
There is no reason. The Globe re-
CARDS that as one of the best things
Cleveland ever did. If he had
fought he would have been lowered
in the estimation of the South.
He did not propose to use his skill
in killing the boys of the South
land. The solid South owes debt
of gratitude to Grover Cleveland.
SOME of our exchanges pretend
to believe that the Republican party
is dragging the country straight to
ruin, but we suspect they are mis-
taken. Thirty-one years ago last
March when the Republicans took
hold of the government they found
an empty treasury and an indispo-
sition upon the part of capitalists
to replenish it upon any terms.
Their record during the interven-
ing years is the history of the coun
try. They crushed a Democratic
rebellion, restored the national
credit, defeated every financial
heresy advocated bv the Democratic
party and its allies, and gave us a
genuine government. Last year
our commerce was the largest ever
known and all classes were fairly
fortunate. The American people
do not object to this sort of "ruin"
aud we think they will continue to
trust the Republican party.-Mey-
arodola Com marcial