The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-27
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SSuo uVWn III Cu6 AepuOllCaH aQmlnlS-
tration for the purpose of taking the
control OF your affairs out OF your own
hands and leave the people of these
Southern States as they did during the
days OF carpet bag domination.
Don't you know that in the state Of
South Carolina, when their state gov
ernments were set aside in 1868, and
you will remember now that am talk
ing Of q period after the war had closed,
when the state governments were set
aside and the agents Of the Federal ad-
.ministration took control of tho State,
that at one time there were 200 mayls-
trates in that State. Men who had to
do with the rights of the people, and
there were more than 200 in that State
who could neither read nor write A
prominent Republican came from the
North into the State for the purpose OF
Alnvestiga:inE these charges and when
she returned he said that he found that
tho treasury of South Carolina had been
so literally Quilted by those who had
control of the state government that
. there was absolutely nothing loft 70
stea!S
va d further illustration of that, for
the seventy eight years OF the history
sSf that State the entire cost of public
printing was but $3.50, 900, las ing from
the period that the State became part
Of the Federal Union down to the days
OF carpet bsggism in 1868, when the
State governments were set aside; and
then during the eight years of Repub
lican misrule and carpet bag DONNA
ton the entire amount paid was Sl,3l5-'
600 for public printing.
''In the State of North Carolina
Republican Legislature was elected in
1868, the State government was set
aside aud the administration taken out
l. 4 tes,
agents OF the Federal administration
took control. During that time there
were issued bonds, bonds Of the State of
North Carolina, to the amount of TWEEN
ty-fve million three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Fourteen millions OF
dollars were for the purpose of building
railroads and not one mile Of railroad
was built. These bonds went into cir.
culation, and the people OF that State,
out OF their hard earnings, are paying
interest upon largo amount OF those
bonds day. Wha. became of them?
Not q dollar left to show.
1.-THE people OF North Carolina had
school fund of S420, 900 held in stock in
two OF the principal railroads o; that
State. This Republican Legislature OF
which have told you, for the purpose
of raising funds with which to pay it's
own expenses, ordered these bonds sold,
and they were sold for Sl5s, 900 and the
money divided between the men who
had plundered the people OF that State
from the mountains to the sea.
L might detain you longer by telling
you OF the state OF Alabama and of
Louisiana, of Mississippi and other
stases. The history OF one Of the South
ern states under the Republican mis-
history of all. Don't you remember,
Mr.. Tucker, when we heard Jeremiah
8. Black, one OF the grandest Demo
Gratis this country ever saw, in his great
argument before the electoral com mis-
sion. In his argument he said: The
carpet-baggers reached their long felon-
ious fingers into the nest OF posterity
and snatched the inheritance from UNI
born babes Now This will remind you
Of something of the era OF wrong, of in
justice, of outrage which the people OF
the Southern states passed during the
days OF carpet-bag domination.
What is the force bill? There is no
danger OF force bill? Some man says,
don't like exactly the way the Demo.
cratic party have voted upon som9ques-
ton and therefore in this contest will
vote with the Third party, which sim
ply means in this struggle for oonstitu.
tional liberty, this struggle for the
right of the people Of Virginia to govern
themselves, to have as your Governor,
and Senators and Representatives the
men that you elect, instead Of the men
who may be appointed by the Republi-
can administration. That Is ALL
1.-The force bill passed the House of
Representatives, Republican House,
every Republican but three voting for
that bill, and every Democrat, including
the distinguished Representative OF
your own district, and every other Dem
ocrat in the whole country, from tho
North to the South and from the East to
the West, voted against it. For the
Democratic party is the great national
party. The principles of this party are
the same in Virginia as they are in
1.-THE force bill went to the Senate
and there it was confronted by solid
Democratic phalanx, with your own dis
tinguished Senator, who sits upon this
platform, and his colleague, standing in
the very front Of that fight, sustained
by every Democrat, North and South,
and by three Republican Senators who
voted with them, and thereby. for the
time being. compassed the defeat of
that bill And one of these Republican
Senators, who acted with Senator Dan
lei and his colleague. declared at the
time that the force bill was the m ost in
famous piece of legislatio that had ever
crossed the threshold of the Senate.
II nse the words of Republican Sen
ator in describing that most infamous
piece of legislation. But they tell you
that shere is no danger Let ME road to
you what was said by Mr. Thomas H.
Reed, and he is better authority as to
what the Republicans intend TO do, he
is better authority az to what the Re-
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