Year: 1879

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Though Charles Foster was good
and safe man to elect Governor OF any


State, it was not his goodness, his aoil-


ity nor his popularity that carried ONO


for the Republicans on Tuesday, though
these qualities Of course had their IN


auence with certain Of the better classes


of people. The victory must not be as


signed to narrow causes, neither can II


bs called an endorsement of any par
ticular aspirant for the Presidency
The Democrats of course will have hun
dreds of reasons and arguments to oher
why the State should change from III
600 Democratic majority two years ago
to 10000 Republican majority now, but
though they may know the causes well
they will be slow to acknowledge that
the one great mighty cause has been
the profound conviction Of the people
that the interests of the country would
not be safe any longer in Democratic
hands. The people were forced to this
conclusion when they saw the horde OF
rebel brieadier generals, colonels and
captains, that swarmed into Congress
and seized the reins Of the government.
They heard Of the butcheries OF HAM
burg and Ellenton in South Carolina,
and they not only heard that the real
leader Of the murderers and assassins
that imbrued their hands in the inno-
cent blood Of the victims Of those mas
sacres was a man named Butler, but
they afterwards saw this same
red handed butcher elected by fraud
ulent legislature to the Senate Of the
United States, where he was voted for
and kept in his seat by the votes Of
Northern Democratic Senators. Turn
ing to Mississippi they heard Of the
massacre of the Chisolm family aud saw
the widow and SOL, all that were left OF
that once prosperous and humane fami-
ly, fleeing as fugitives to the north for
protection, while the red handed muir
derers are running at large in Kemper
County. They have read of the brutal
assassination of Dixon in the streets 0,
Yazoo simply because he dared as al
independent Democrat to announce
himself a candidate for local county
Office. They have turned back over the
pages of local history and they have
read the account of the brutal massacre
of Fort Pillow during the war, by the
rebel army under General named
Chalmers and they have found thai
this same Chalmers by the adoption o
the shot gun policy OF the South over
come a Republican district in Missis
sippi and got himself sent to Congress
where he is made chairman of the
House caucus committee and where he
more than any other man in Congress
shapes the legislation of the nation
They have seen one after another o
Southern Republican States succumt
to the superior power of force and those
who were the leaders and instigators o
fraud, murder and all kinds Of violenc,
to effect their objects sent to Congress
or put in charge of the local govern
ments of the South. The people o
the North have witnessed thousand
and thousands of Southern claim bill


presented to Congress by the rebel
asking to have them paid out of th'
United States Treasury. They hav'
seen also that the South has repudiatet
1900, 900. 900 of debts, which stamp thos'
who rule through the present Congress
with nagrant dishonesty. Besides al
this the Democratic party has stepped
down from its platform of honest mon
ey, and for the sake of gaining strength
it has become the party of imitation
making the chief of inhationists th'
candidate for Governor of Ohio. Will
such record how could the Democracy
win At the same time that sensible
thinking people have been repellej
from the Democratic party by theil
murders of innocent people, their repu
diation tendencies and by electing mel
to the highest offices who ought to be
in the penitentiary instead, they have
been equally attracted to the Republi


can party by powerful influences which
could not be resisted by honest men


The resumption of specie payment was
Republican measure, and the reviva
of business all over the country was
known to be the results of the Republi


can financial policy. Knowing and see


ing all these things Republican vic
tory where people are intelligent ant
are not shot down for entertaining thei


political views, cannot be wondered at
The old war feeling, it is true, has beel
aroused to a considerable extent, caus


ed by the course of the shot gun lead


ers of the South and the rebel bripa


diers in Congress, bat better this tLa


to be again involved in the horror


Of another civil war, which seem


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