Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-23
THE RULE OF RUIN.
PURPOSE AND POLICY OF The re-
PueLicANs m THE SOUTH.
Complete Exposure Of the Aims and Oh
jects Of tho Fierce Bul--A nfissing
Authority Reproduced.
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wssHrSoToS, d. c.. October 22.-The Re-
publicans have denied 80 many charges
made against them In the line'of their
radical policy towards the South that It
has been determined to give them lesson
in the most important chapter Of that vol
ume of the party history that relates TO re-
storing the rule OF ruin in the southern
States after it was found that the carpet
bag regime failed to secure oil the south
ern representatives in the Republican
party. They have denied the authenticity
of the article credited to the National Re
publican of July Q, 1890, In which that
mighty organ OF the Grand Old Party
heralded the purpose of the party to pass
the force bill and inaugurate system of
Federal control of elections. with mixed
scnools. social equality. miscegenation.
and practical conbscstion.
With their accustomed enterprise in pre-
varIcatorial politics, the Republicans de-
MED the allegation and impugned the alle-
gators.
President Harrison had whitewashed the
force-bIil paragraph of tho Minneapolis
platform by proposing to substitute q
"non-partisan elections commission" and
UPON that issue the Republican party was
TO maintain itself hike the Quaker who said
il was against his religion TO strike an
enemy, but he would hold him SO uneasy
that ne couldn't possibly 1--we, and nobody
could accuse him OF violence or murder.
The copy OF the National Rspllb icdn con-
tanning the virulent article against the
South had mysterIously disappeared when
the Republicans called for the proofs.
Weeks passed and it was not found, and
the q. O. y. organs fairly howled. They
are no Wing now about the Infamous
forgery" DC.
TIE AUTHORITY.
But just in the nick of time O good fairy
in the shape of an unkempt junk-dealer
suddenly appeared with file of the re-
Gently deiunct Republic organ, once run
BIZ "Old Man Clapp.' Government print
or and perquisite broker IN the balcyon
days of Hayes. The paper was started un-
der tho administration OF Lincoln, IN
1860, aud had been the official organ OF the
party ever since. so the Republican pa
trIols cannot deny its authority. The date
of July 8, 1870, shows the significant coin
cidence of the conception Of force bill.
We know that the Lodge bill was shrewd-
~ coucocted so as TO hide the fell purpose
and the deadly machinery in a labyrinth
of complicated language. But the Il pub
hcdn's remarks OH il confess its ayowed in
tention, and this Is exactly what the Demo
Gratis wanted to put before the people and
what the Republicans wanted to hide.
FAC-SIMILE.
But the good fairy of O junk-dealer
came to the rescue. and tomorrow (Sun-
day) the National Democrat will produce
the fac-simile Of that issue with the aff-
davit certificate of twenty well-known
citizens that it Is genuine. 1t will be good
Sunday reading for the Republicans, and
the last positive denial they made will be
q good postscript TO that page OF the
pious Democratic Sunday paper. on whom
the fairy junk-dealer lighted. To the
Democratic eye this photoilthographic pic
ture in print is equal to q Re:.10rant or
Raphael masterpiece, for it shows all the
doubling Democrats of the South that the
Republican party was, and still Is, IN
earnest, though 1t hides its purpose, to
Africanize the South and control 1t with q
patent ballot bayonet.
AN INFAMOUS SCHEME.
The following 10 a short paragraph from
the fac-ssnie of the editorial OF July 8,
1890:
Heavy taxes should.be laid on the prop
erty of the whites to develop and extend
the publie-school system, separate schools
for the races should be abolished, and the
plan of bringing the youth of both colors
into close and equal relations IN schools
and churches given trial, &C."
And the grand organ thus formulates
diatribe against the laws that prevent the
intermarrisge of the two races. Z. MoC.