Year: 1876

standing on any platform, 10 matter what
it contains The same may be truly said
of Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas,
Tennessee aud Kentucky, because these
states are now under tho political control
Of the Democrats, who resort to fraud and
intimidation TO carry out thcir schemes
Nothing short of u revolution, or military
protection to Republican voters will ever
release those states from Democratic con
troll until the masses Of the people there
are educated. Men of the North, will
you study this question and apply the
remedy or will you sclfshly rest content.
ed and each say ait is none Of my bust.
ness. am not my brothers keeper"
Was it none Of your business when the
slave oligarchy ruled tbs country, depriv
ing four millions of it's people from all
natural rights ? Some of you thought
and said so then, but you know better
now. No state Of this Union can suffer
from misgovernment but what the whole
country suffers. In majority of the
Southern states Republican government
is mere form, or rather farce. The
White Liners nominate and elect whom
they please within their states, and every
one Of them is Democrat


Should the Democratic party gain con.
troll of tho general government through
the election Of Tildcn and Hendricks, tho
White Liners and ex.Coniederates would
rule the country. The strength of the
Democratic party will come from the
South, and the very men who are elected
by fraud aud intimidation will be in Con.
gress to unmake old laws aud make new
ones more to their liking the men who
represent The danger GUS elements Of sooi
ETY. will then control The government in
two Of its branches. the executive and
legislative. Once seated with the rcins
Of power in their hands the judiciary
could soon be changed and reorganizcd SO
as to be in harmony with the other de-.
partments of power.


Does any candid, unpreiudiccd man
think that reform Of any kind can be
wrought out with such materials With
the country governed by men who repre-
sent neither the patriotism, the virtue or
The intelligence Of the people; who owe
their election either to violence, or fraud,
OF both men who are opposed to an hon.
est vote ci the people. who are opposed to
the education OF the masses; men who
have struck hands with Tammnny Hall,
with the Romsh priests Of the country,
with the White Liners and Ku Klux, and
who owe their election to such influences?
The question needs no answer among in
telligent and fair minded men


The retirement of Mr.. Jewell from the
cabinet is not surprising to those here
who are best acquainted with the man
and the circumstances Like ex.Scorc.
tary Bristow he was candidate for the
presidency. and as the Cincipna. Con.
vention did not nominate him for that
high Office he felt disappointed, and the
charms of official life speedily vanished.
This is not strange, but the most natural
thing possible. No one but political
babe that could be amused with teeth.
ing ring ever believes that any man, DO
he independent, reformer, or what not,
would continue to hold an office for o
great length Of time that afforded him
neither profit, nor honor, and was not 4
stepping stone to such position on the
contrary, be would embrace the first OPP
portunity to vscatc ucb an flee Atain,
il man has used biz cficc as a stepping
stcuo to the presidency and fails. he feels
a very natural contempt for the stepping
stone or bridge that did not carry him
safely over to the great Object of his dc.
sire anl ambition BATA.