Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-20
HOPE THEY ENJOY 1T.

HOPE THEY EaJot H.
1t is to be hoped that the organs and
leaders of southern Boilers, who have so
befouled their own nest by charging the
Democrats of this section with gross
frauds in the last election, enjoy the
patronizing lectures upon the degeneracy
of the South, and the libels upon the
southern people they have inspired in
northern quarters. These outrageous
charges have afforded northern South
haters just the occasion they de-
sired for another malignant cru
SADIE against us The New York
Mail and Express, which is one
of the most virulent of the South-haters
fairly revels in the opportunity to read
us a lesson on our sinfulness, and vent
upon us its spleen. And 10 Virginia IT
devotes special attention. In an article
headed Thine for the South TO Act" by
which II means time for the South TO
put itself under the Republican yoke, II
saws that next to Tennessee comes Viz
ginia. as a Commonwealth deliberately
placed in the Bryan column by theft.
There are. Of course, il adds other States
where gross frauds were practiced, but
Virginia and Tennessee represent those
which. without doubt, would have gone
TO Mckinley on an honest count.
But the Mail and Express is not salts
fled with charging that Virginia was
stolen for the Democrats on the presi-
dental ticket. Continuing, it says that
f4.V no
hands of a Republican Congress so long
as our demands are voiced from stolen
seats. This, of course, is an echo Of the
unsupported claims Of the anti-Bryan
combination in Virginia as to Demo
cratic frauds in certain Of our congress
sional districts.
Another northern paper that takes It's
cue from southern Standardization, as
embodied in the attack of the southern
Boilers" leaders and organs upon their
own people, is the New York Evening
Pest The Post, not only rings the
charges on southern election frauds,
and reviles us most bitterly. but advo-
Gates an additional punishment OF us to
that the Mail and Express intimates VIII
be meted out. After stating that the
line drawn across the continent by the
elections. leaving the great bulk OF pro-
perty and intelligence on one side, and
poverty. colored men, and ignorance,
want Of capital and manufactures on
the other, is a most unfortunate adVef-
tisement for the South TO make to the
world" the Posts article warns the
capitalists Of the North and East that
they would be considered little short
OF crazy" should they make southern
Investments in the circumstances.
What think the rank and file of the
Boilers Of Virginia. who repudiated the
Chicago platform on the currency ques-
ton. of the meat their leaders and or
eans nave furnished the enemies OF
The South 20 feed upon? Verify, it would
seem that they cannot DO less in duty
10 themselves and TO their State than
repudiate those leaders and organs for
ever. The course of these latter mas
opened the gates to, and encouraged
flood Of northern misrepresentation and
vituperation Of the South, such as has
not been known since the days OF recon
struction.
If would be injustice 10 both the Mail
snd Express and the Post not TO state
that a vein Of moralizing runs through
the article of each. Neither paper would
be itself were such not the case. But II
would be a suppression Of the truth not
10 note that. with all their insistence
upon honest elections. with all their
zeal for the purity Of the ballot-box'
with all their clamor for a fair express
sion Of the will Of the people, each sus-
,ains its record for consistency in the
matter OF hypocrisy. Neither makes the
slightest allusion to Mark Hanna
fragrant and unprecedented efforts 10
debauch the electorate Of Virginia by
purchase.