Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-28
a Iou,slana 10 pcrsuade the dissatisfied

60 Louisiana 10 persuade the dissatisfied
Democrats OF that State TO Join HANDS
with the Republicans. because the former
had. by their anu-protection legislation
offended the sugar-planters. We repro
duced extracts from q speech made ny
him In October 1885, In which he appea'e"
TO the sectional feelings Of his on'o
hearers. and attempted to arouse aires"
their war-spirit.
The Brooklyn Standardization says
that our article was an instance Oh oe|
uonallsm breaking out again. ana 'ahe'
US to task as II our mere mcn'ioh VI
northern sectlonaliSm had been more oo-
jectionable than the Republican pohoy
of carving sectionalism into pracuce'
That paper uses language when we i''bn'
use on our sidc Of the qucstoh-dS' iV'
example the following;
1T Uhe Democratic partY stared IN
10 continue sectional pTe)udiccs' anu
racial pass!ons. and war FEELINGS ana tu'
up the black domination cry ana 80 nun
fed the Constitution at last, 'hat "hltc
mon I'm the states OF the late 'ohicue
racv vote twice for once by the "hileS
Of the states that sustained tho Chioh'
We need not contradict this eXtravagant
abatement Of our Brooklyn contemporary
for +; is notorious that IT was the Ie-
publlcan party which. when the war be
twccn the states ended. started in 10
continue sectional prcjudlccs and racial
passions and war feelings That party
tried to commit the greatest crime or
the age when IL attempted to put the
inferior race IN the southern States over
the superior race. The attempt promised
for a while to be successful; but tho
result vas that the superior race as
sumod its proper place. And the men
who contemplated and proposed and ad-
yocatcd this great crime now have the
onrontcry to charge that II is still the
Democratic party which seeks 70 revive
The standardization says:
Governor McKialcy's speech at New
Orleans Was that Of national statesman.
and not Of Il provincial or sectional
politician"
Bat how did he come 70 make
that speech? lie was sent TO
Louisiana by the Republican leaders
f. undo some Of the mischief
which these very leaders had been in
strumcntal in doing in that state lie
was sent thithcr TO tel the Louisiana
people that the Republicans were their
best friends. lie WIS sent thther, IN
VOID. t. make speeches totally unlike
any - those which he HAD been making
in Ohio for years. S-ctionalism was Mt
IL figure in these Louisiana speeches.
Al was 70 b. as s,,cet AS the sugar upon
which q werner Mckinley was 10 tell the
I.uuisilE.Ans that he WIS in favor OF
paying bounty. The results in No
vlnb.r VII show that the Republicans
failed 70 accomplish the end for which
they induced Governor Mckl1,ey to visit
louisiana. anI by or before 1876 Governor
Mckinley aaI an the rest OF tie Kepub-
Lean leaders viii De found raising Soc
touh issues aid deaounc.ns southern
rebels" as vigorously as they ever did.
And wc are afraid that oar brooklyn
contemporary viii D. found also thrrsh.ns
over ile same old straw. for it declares
,yca bow that "the constant tendency OF
TIE democratic party's possession Of
power is u obey the Confederate rather
tam the national COnsutut.on.'