Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-16
Friday EVENING. OCT. 10. 1896


manhood and self-re=pect g. to 90 out
and fawn on him at Canton. soft
words butter no parsnips," says the old
proyerb. When Mr.. Mckinley had an
opportunity to act as member OF the
House Of Representatives, he seized his
opportunity to strike at the South with
the venom OF an adder. When the force
bill was hanging by the eye-lids-there
being only small republican majority
for lit waa Mckinley who came to
the front to rally the helliah legions OF
malice and pass the bill. Prior TO that
zine he had been very sweet to GONE
Southern men who were easily de-
ceived, but he will find it hard TO de
ceive them again. He will deceive
only that class who are anxious to be &c
ceived in order to cloak their treachery
20 their party, the South and the whole
country. Give him power. and he would
act the same way again. 1t is his hdei-
ity to all the cowardly and vindictive
measures OF hate for the South, backed
by the republican party leaders, fully as
much as his pre-eminence in schemes
of dishonest and corrupt tariff legisla-
ton, that has gained him his nonina'
ton for President. For the present 1t
is McKinley's cue and that of his man
agers to speak the South fair. But
the word has not yet been passed
around 30 a. to reach every body.
Hardly q day elapses that we do
not have some fresh proof OF the
rancor felt for the South by the promi-
nent supporters Of Mckinley. Bourke
Cochran, who was brought back from
Europe by the British party to speak
for the British gold standard, instead OF
discussing the question from an eco
nomic standpoint, went on to pick out
the whole body of the Southern democ-
racy supporting Bryan and arraign
them as 'unreconciled shareholders
who were seeking TO defraud the ne
groea Of the wages due them. This
foul language from one to whom negro
associations would be compliment, was
listened to with eagerness and Joy and
applause by all the republicans and
recreant democrats in his hearing. 1t
has not been repudiated by Mir. Nc
Klnley or by any Of his nanagera or
organs, for the very good reason that ne
merely echoes the malice that courses
in their veins. Then we have Mr.
Lauterbach, Nr. Tom Plata right
hand man for dirty work il New York
city, threatening revolt at the popular
decision If it shall be recorded for
Bryan, endeavoring TO revive all the
rancor Of the civil war, and speaking Of
the Southern people az a "Gouthern
gang" from whom he and his crowd
propose 10 save the country. Another
conspicuous offender in this work Of
melting sectional hate il Archbishop
Ireland. He il not the only clergyman
who has laid aside the functions OF
sacred Office to engage in the scufile OF
the political arena with words OF
venom and studied falsehood. 1t was
Edmund Burke, we think, who spoke OF
clergymen dabbling in politics, saying
contemptuously, they have nothing OF
politics, but the evil passions they help
to incite." Yet full thirty years after
the war closed with all it's misery, we
find an ecclesiastic stopping to charge
that the spirit Of the Chicago conven-
ton was Tor secession. That blacker |
falsehood was never uttered we need |
not say. 1t is to the honor of the great |
body of the Catholic clergy and Of the
clergyman OF other denominations that |
they have refrained from entering into |
the political arena. The Catholic clergy /
and laity well know that the republi-
can party has the alliance and support
of the GA. 7. A" organization, and that
their convention at ST. Louis did not
venture to utter syllable that could
be construed into censure Of that pro-
scriptive organization, aimed specially
at members of the Catholic Church.
They know also that the Chicago con-
vention declared in the most emphatic
manner Tor political liberty and 're-
ligious freedom" and that the
democratic party has Away stood
forth as bulwark for rights of
conscience. Moved possibly by the
bad example of a bad man, we now see
Mr.. Secretary Morton, member OF
Mr.. Ceveland's Cabinet, also invoking
the spirit of sectional hate. These are
his words, full of insult to all ex-Con-
federate soldiers and to the memory Of
our honored dead, and of SANDER for
the living: 1.-The finance which they
preach is entirely Confederate fat. In
the southern Confederacy the same
leaders who now are in COM |
mand of the picket guards for
free silver at l6 to /, were leading
financiers. And Harris, Pugh, Morgan
and the other COnfedprate uanorol