The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16

An intelligent young Republican writes
the Portland Oreconias that the country
needs new party which would embrace
the better part OF tie Republican followers,
but the name must be changed because 1t
Is q canker in the mouth OF the South.
Why not let the war be thing OF
the past and take the hnal action neces-
cary TO make it sol The bloody shirt has
been waved long enough"
This is all very true. but il is the South
and not the North that was originally re.
sponsiole for the situation: for the shirt,
and for the persistent waving thereof. The
Northern men who went south after the
war and had pluck enough to claim their
political rights at the ballo; box were at
once welcomed with bloody hands to
hospitable graves" or driven into exile.
The North has treated the whole subject
Of the rule of blood and fraud at the South
with grea. moderation, bat the South is
never willing 10 let il die. It Is the
South and not the North that has been
bowling about the force bill the whole
campaign, So bitter and tenacious is this
Southern hate for the North that no
change Of name by the Republican party
would change the Southern heart. The
South has captured the government with
the aid of the Northern Tammany Democ-
racy, and il has no use for "a new party"
The Republican party is just as acceptable
to the South today as il would be under
new name; it is not the name of our party
the South hates; it is its ideas, past and
present, and its policy.
The national campaign that has just
closed with the election of Cleveland to
the presidency has been free from disorder
throughout the whole North. There has
been a notable absence of vituperative
language; the speeches on both sides, with
few exceptions, have been marked by can.
dor, sobriety and entire freedom from
passion and personal abuse. The conduct
Of the campaign in the South, on the other
hand, has been marked by great deal of
riotous treatment and vulgar abuse of the
opposition by the Democratic party.
Gen. Weaver, because he was Union
soldier. was threatened with violence, his
meetings broken up and his campaign
stopped. In Alabama the newspapers
threatened the negroes with disfranchise-
ment for the future if they dared to vote
with the Kolb party. The Democratic
press in North Carolina has been full of
disgusting abuse of the g. A. r. Here is
an extract from the Durham On. c. Globe:
The South has been taxed TO death to pay this
Grand Army o. rascais-those bottie-searred
T. -.
Cleveland struck the beggars in the face be did
q good business job. We hope to God that he
may have q chance TO hit 'em again. Migrants
and mendicants should be both vigorously
slapped and kicked. But between
Harrison AMI Cieysland-drst, last and ali the
| time-I am for the brave Buffalo man who
Slapped the dirty pensioners, who are for the
most part bsggars, in the face They were dirty
and lousy rascals. who came into this country,
and who abused women, who burned homes,
Who stole ali that as in sight, and today with.
out an honorable scar, are bleeding thi. eoun-
try, and / am helping 10 pay for it Let the
hired Yankee howl AIN OF the south and for
the south.
The Newbern Journal publishes the fol.
lowing:
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Are still in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered Us.
They died OF Southern fever.
Aud Southern steel and shot;
wish there were three million
Instead OF what we got
The Charleston Ne,cs aud Courir de-
nounces Vice President Morton because
in his speech at Chicago he omitted the
name OF Lee from the list of heroes of
liberty and 10 insert in it's place that of
an outlaw like Toussaint L'Ouverture."
This is the way the South feels. the way
it has always felt since the war. 1t has
not been necessary for Us TO wave Q red
rag at the Southern bull; he charges the
Republican party on sight, and he always
will So long as his memory is long enough
10 recall the death of the Southern Con.
federacy and to cherish the political phi.
losophy Of Calhoun.
Furthermore, the South is free trader;
has always been a free trader since 1924,
and is likely 10 be free trader for the
next fifty yesrs. and therefore hates the
Republican policy of protection. There is
no need OF n new party or new name TO
capture the South. The South hates our
ideas and would ike some day TO force US