The Forrest City times., 1892-09-23
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
THE FORCE BILL.

terAtod hate of the South and south ~rn white people the following out burst from the National Republican, published at Washington, D. C., is a little ahead of anything we have seen. and is the keynote 10 the things ex- pected of the Republican party, should it elect Harrison and get control of the next congress. Hear is what this fire eater says:
 With the Lodge national election law in full force over the South and various democratic strongholds up North, we may confidently look for a different state of affairs than now ex- ists. New York City will then return several more republican congressmen than at present, while more than twen- ty negro representatives from the::South will render the republican control of the future congress absolutely safe and secure.
 "Heavy taxes should be laid upon the property of the whites to develop and extend the pubic school system of those states. Separate schools for the races should be abolished, and the plan of bringing the youth ot both colors into close and equal relation in schools and churches given fair trial. as one of the most potent elements to break down the detestable bourbonism of the South. The state laws against tho inter-m marriage of the races should bs repealed. and any discrimination against the blacks in the matter of learning trades er obtaining employ znent should be "a criminal offeDse-- while the colored mans rights to hold ofYice should be sacredly protected and recognized. A few years of this policy will solve the race problem satisfacto- rily."
 In condemnation, and in direct op. position to the above rot, which could only emanate from a miserable fool, read what Hon. Jasper Blackburn s Free South has to say, and remember that he is arepublican lfrom principle1 for life time. X man upon the spot and one educated to the conditions and needs of our beautiful Southland:
 .'Even the negro of the South, if he could understand the real intent and purpose, and final practical fruits of such programme as is thus proposed, would scoff and spit upon such twad- dle; for it is base hypocrisy, and found- cd in no love nor intentional good for the Degro, but only mean bate and cowardly spite for his former owner and master-tbe white element of the South which knew how to treat him whom a slave, and now when free is determined to treat him kindly, but not to be ruled over by him; while it were safe to say that with the amount .of colored element at the North which we have relatively at the South, there would be much more prescription and harshness there than we have ever had here-or ever will have, if left alone to treat the negro as our own unproyOked sense of right and justice may suggest and dictate. The first separate street car we ever saw for negroes was in Philadelphia, lS6s or '67, and if they do not now have them there, and at other localities in the white settlements" it is new thing, and evidently for spite and some mean advantage toward the South, because some of our states have lately adopted the separate-car system for the races on our highways; though in Little Rock, nor any other Southern city that we are now aware of, do VIC have any such regulation-but if we 90 choose and desire, we will have, without any concern for or consulta- tion with the blatant hypocrites and intermediates of other localities of our common country. "The South" claims to be a part of this common country" |" with as many and as sacred rights as any other sections or localities-no more and no less-and among these rights is the right to resist to the death the infamies suggested by this National Republican newspaper, which thus speaks tor party which, if such be its purpose, no honorable man of the South could euer again kao,rinyly support.
 "W are better republican than the editor of this National Republican nesos- paper dare euen claim to be, and haze in the past 30 proren ourseg by our Works. and q truer and safer friend cf the ne- gro, rhen he once needed friendship, than any man srho tcould attempt by Uord or action to array him against the schite rnan; but if the bent or purpose of the re- publican party has fallen into the chan nel here indicated, the glory of it's na- fional prestige has departed and We will not follow it into the petty labyrinths of sectional hate, partisan spite, and bloody race feuds. For that is not the party which Sumner labored to build up, and which Lincoln died to seal with immortality and make sacred.
 Rather let us return to our first love of national democracy, which never knew and never can know any sectional hata in the common affairs of our great country; aud let us, if you please, support in this contest a man for the presidency whose triumph at