The state chronicle., 1892-07-03
THE ISSUE ACCEPTED.

THE ISSUE ACCEPTED.
The Rochester Post -E1press reports
that President Harrison recently said to
q friend:
If the democratic party can afford
to 90 before the people crying aloud for
the suppression of the suffrage of black
citizens in the South; if they can afford
to stand as champions of the violators OF
the Constitution and laws; if they can
endorse the wholesale slaughter, intimi
dation, and murder, in order to uphold
the democratic party. can afford to &C
cept the issue. / stand before the people
as the opposite of everything democratic.
The democratic party stands committed
to free trade and Southern outrages. That
is their platform pure and simple"
This is not the way Dir. Harrison
talked when riding through the South
some time ago in Pullman car. 1t was
possibly his sentiment, but he was then
a candidate for denomination, and he
thought it unwise to give expression to
it. Having received the nomination, he
now appears in his true colors. The
mask is thrown off, and this Indiana
statute lawyer and exSuprems court re
porter shows, that when hs was receiving @
the hospitality of the Southern people and
praisng Southern society he was unworthy
of former and insincere as to the latter.
The democratic party accepts the issue
made by Mr.. Harrison. There is just
public sentiment in this country which
will ere long teach the President that his
wholesale accusation is undeservsd -
we'll Is untrue. The Southern people
are not violators of the law. Does Mr.
Harrison think so because they hang by
the neck till dead the brutal scolndrela
who rape Southern ladissa Would he
have Southern manhood quietly submit
to such outrages upon women2 Has be
caught the spirit of the negro delegation
from New York that waited upon him
to enlist bis sympathy and protection fol
negro ravishers in the Southa 1t appears
so, for there have been no killings in the
South, except the killing of the violator,
of the virtue of Southern women, and al
such ought to be killed And whe1
have the Southern people violated the
constitution Was not the constitution
written by Southern manl And wer,
not its principles of civil liberty mad,
good by the skill and bravery of South
ern soldiers2 1t i'll becomes the Presi
dent to charge the inhabitants of any sec
ton Of the country as enemies to the con
stitution, when he advocates force bill
that would destroy forever the very mu
niment of constitutional liberty. Yes
be does stand before the people as tn
opposite of everything democratic. H
is centralist; the friend of monopoly
whose money secured the office he nov
holds; the enemy of the elective fran
chise, which he would destroy with
force bill; the foe of the laborer
whose hard earned substance b.
would take to enrich the tarii
lords who watt him congratulator
messages from their castles beyond th
sea. Such is the public attitude whic
| the President has chosen for himself. Fl
says truly that the democratic part
stands for the opposite. SO it does.
favors local self-government; it oppose
the grasping power of monopolists; it
opposed to the presence of soldiers an
bayonets at the polls; it would befrien
labor by securing for the laborer the IT
ward of his toll; it would give to tt
people the volume of currency demand
ed by their needs, and would pass law
to cause the circulating medium of tt
country to find its way through all tt
avenues of Legitimate trade. The demo
cratic party accepts Mr. Harrison's issu
1t opposes his reelection. 1t appeals
the country to defeat such section
psrtizan as Mr.. Harrison has prove
himself. The sentiment he subscribes
is cold blooded and vindictive.