Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-18

Ingalls,. the Republican party, ana
the Timess present associations be
judged. On June -, 1892. the following
appeared In the editorial columns Of the
Times, and was continued therein until
July 18th. inclusive:
III the Republicans are returned
to power in November, they will pass
a bin to control elections In the South
by bayonets and biudgeons. and to re-
store negro supremacy, and every vote
not cast for the Democratic ticket is a
vote directly or Indirectly for Repuoli-
canism and southern degradation. Every
white man IN the South should paste
this in his hat"
Agadn. on July IA. 1892 the Times said:
But is there single sensible white
man. be he farmer or be he anything
else. in the South who does not know
with absolute certainty that there is no
possible chance for the success or any
third party this year. and that II the
Democrats do not win, the Republicans
will? There Is not one who. II ne VIII
express his honect convictions. VIII not
admit this 70 be true. What, then. Is 10
be gained by third-party vote In tne
South? Nothing but TO give help ana,
and assistance to those bitter enemies OF
the South--the Republicans
1T is incredible. therefore, that any
Southern State should be so madly blinded
to it's own interest as 10 go against the
Democracy. In this fight there can only
be two parties-one the Democratic; the
other the Republican-and whoever is not
for the one IS for the other. Let every
southern white voter remember this, and
reflect on what Democratic defeat would
mean TO him."
Is there any difference between bitter
enemies of the South" and South-haters?
IL so. we fail TO see It. Is not the Repub-
lican party of to-day the same
old Republican party it was three
years ago? But the Times did
not stop here. With a zeal worthy
of the cause in which II was then en-
gagged. 1t continued its fight against the
South-haters from day to day, and or
August 5, 1892. broke forth as follows;
1.-The Third-party people are very iona
of abiding TO The Democratic party as
the 'so-called Democracy IL Is the
same old party that 1t was when VIZ
GINA was suffering from the horrors of
reconstruction, and which stood by ner.
and all the South, when Ben. Butler and
Ben. Harrison both were so anxious TO
fasten upon her the chains of bayonet
rule and negro domination. 1t is ALSO
the same old party which has always
championed the cause OF the people
against oppression and monopoly, ana
which has always opposed any new
tangled will-o -the-wisp which has
shown itself to lure the people TO their
own destruction"
Who. we ask, has been more prominent
than Ben. Harrison in furthering the
cause Of Mckinley and the Republican
party. which is now being upheld in Vir-
ginia by Mr.. ingalls,. assisted by he
Times? And being upheld. too. by the
use of Mr.. Ingallss power and influence
as this president of a great railway cor
poration; by methods which the Times.
on December 26, 1893, denounced in these
words:
IF they dhe railroads. propose such
an interference of their own motion,
every Virginan In their employment
should have resisted ii TO the point OF
resigning his office before executing such
orders. In any event, the sooner The
public mind is assured of the severance
of railroads. as a distinct and active In
terest. from our political management.
the better for the railroads-and we most
earnestly wish them all due and lawful
prosperity"
We also wish the railroads prosperity,
but not at the expense of making poll
teal slaves of their employees. and fast
ening upon Virginia 1.-THE chains of bayo-
net rule and negro domination"
In concluding it's defence of Mr.. In
a. in der
to charge the silvertes with purpose to
overthrow the Supreme Court There is.
as we have said again and again, and
as a careful reading of the Chicago plat
form will show. nothing i'm that declara-
ton of principles 10 warrant any such
charge. Yet. as the Times has const-
tuted itself one of the lord high protec-
tors of the Supreme Court, it may he in
teresting TO the public to know what 1t
thought of that tribunal in April, 1892
Here is, in part. its opinion OF the court
as then rendered:
eve repeat, then. that, paradoxical as
il may appear the Supreme Court of the
United States is the fountain-head or
Socialists of the United States, and un-
less the pernicious doctrine that IL has
put out can be overthrown, it threatens
10 become a foundation upon which the
Socialists will erect structure that Will
overthrow all our institutions and bring
tyranny upon u.s."
We respectfully submit that this goes
further in criticising the Supreme Court
than does the Chicago platform or any
man that was connected with the draft
H. tbo. nj form
one word more: After assuring the
Times that 1t cannot be more
earnest than are we in the pur-
pose to avoid personality and the en-
rendering of bitterness in this campaign,
and that we are determined that, so far
as we are concerned the canvass shall
be a clean one, we would ask it these
questions: Is not the Times in this con-
test fighting to defeat William Jennings
Bryan, the national Democratic candi-
date for the presidency, and does the
Times not know that Bryan's defeat
You'd result in the election of William
Mckinley, South-hater, and Republic
can?
Let IL answer to the point and without
circumlocution.
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