The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-13
..ox,vA scAREcROw."

The Republican press are trying very hard
70 make il appear that the Force bill is only
scarecrow" TO frighten away voters from the
Republican party in the North as well as IN
the South. Such papers % the New YORK
Tribune. the special o. gan of WhiteIaw heid'
declares that it is simply bogy. while
"Judoe. the leading pictorial organ Of the
Radicals. has cartoon this week represent
ing it az a mere fimsy disguise behind which
ia concealed the issue of Free Trade.
This attempt to deny the reality OF
Force bill sentiment in the Republican party
"a the very sublimity of Radical impudence.
II il matter OF history that the Republicans
bayenever since the organization OF their party
in 1856. omitted any opportunity to attack the
South or manifest their spirit OF mslignity
against this section. As soon as the party
came into power in 1860 by the election Oh
Abraham Lincoln, it sought to coerce and
subdue the South and institute bloody war
for that purpose. Then. when the war wac
over. il sent down here an army of vile carpet
baggers. who formed union with their scala
wag friends TO rob. impoyerish and strip the
South of the little that the desperate conflict
had left her, while both they and their
negro allies were kept in power by Republican
bayonets. Then when reconstruction, So
called was finished. and the Southern States
were received back into the Union. after they
had been compelled 10 ratify the constitutional
amendments lin other words after they had
been,required to perform the highest and most
sovereign act of State. before they would
be recognized as States at alb Ben Butler, in
1876, introduced the first Force bill, which
provided for the destruction Of civil liberty in
the South and but for the mastery flbuster-
ing of Hon. Samuel J. Randall until the 4th
Of March interviewed, it would have been
passed.
Then the Republicans lost the House and
never received credit of il until 1888. but at
the very first session of Congress thereafter
just 80 soon as they found themselves in
power once more, after twelve years, the
first thing they did was TO pass il the House
another most Infamous Force bill and even
tried to revolutionize the rules Of the Senate
to railroad it through that body also. And,
be it remembered. no man in the party was
more anxious to see that infamy law than
Benjamin Harrison.
Here then we have the Force BILL anti
Southern record of the Republican party from
its very birth 10 its last control Of Congress.
and surely it is enough to forever shut the
mouths of the most impudent of the Radical
writers and speakers who now seek to deny
Republican sympathy with such measure
But. as if to allow no pretext for the charge
that they bad grown lukewarm on this sub
ject, the party, in national convention re-
Gently gathered IN Minneapolis, demanded
that every citizen of every color be gudrdn-
teed the right to vote. and in the same con-
nection declares that we denounce the con-
tinued inhuman outrages perpetrated upon
American citizens for political reasons in car
tain States"
Now. in the face Of all this, the Republican
press dare characterize the Force bill as a
bogy and q scarecrow. If any Southern man
can believe them or be luled into a feeling of
security by any such absurd and foolish as
sertion. and be thereby induced to vote for
Republican success, either directly under
the disguise of Third partyism or anything
else, be is blind indeed, and is madly rushing
on 10 his own destruction.