Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1884 — Death Throes of a Demagogue. [ARTICLE]

Death Throes of a Demagogue.

[LoutsViilA Courier-.Journal.] As Mr Blaine, dining his [candidacy for the Presidency, manifested no appreciation of the elevation to which he aspired, so since the election has he proven his inability to accept defeat with fortitude or dignity. In his speech last night at Augusta he presented the unprecedented spectacle of an unsuccesssful candidate for the Presidency arising in public and bewailing to the world his mortification and chagrin. The chief feature of this address was his assault on the Southern States, unexceeded in venomand malignancysince his own similar phillippics nearly ten years ego in Congress. After congratulating the country that he received the support of a solid East and a solid West, he holds up the South to infamy because it was solid for his opponent. Overlooking the millions of North-

ern Democrats who, according to Ins own specious reasoning, are virtually disfranchised because they live in States having Republican* majorities, he heaps the vials of his wrath upon the Southern whites because the colored people help to increase the electoral strength of their section. The Southern “Confederacy’’ has thus been enabled to “seize the Government,'’ and Mr. Blaine yields to the patriotic impulse to put his head out oi the window and herald to the countryJts fate. But, of course, he ignores the fact that the Republican party is responsible for the South of to-day. It was that party which increased the suffrage of -the* Southern States, ana which, by its policy of reconstruction, alienated the best elements of their people from itself. It was the Republican party which opened the polls to a race that was totally unprepared to exercise the duties of electors and it was the Republican party which at the same time sought to disfranchise the intelligent and long dominant class of Southern citizenship. Theattitude in which tne South stands to-day is simply the resuit of the inevitable reaction of that policy, tt was a policy by which the Republican party designed to increase and perpetuate its own power, but which, subverted by the laws of self protection and of race, which are ever operative where such unwise race antagonisms are excited, .has turned upon the Republicans and worked their undoing. Mr. Blaine was among the leading authors and conductors o? that policy. It is peculiarly fitting that it should react, through his discomfiture, upon the party he represents.

But he will find it impossible to alarm the North with his stale criminations. If it had been possible to do so, he would have succeeded before the election. If that section had any fears of allowing the Southern people to participate, under the leadership of a man like Cleveland, in the councils of a nation whose burdens they share, it set them aside as insignificant in comparison with the dangers to popular and pure government which the triumph of Blfjne+ad his cause would hare meant - I /The, conduct of Jb fefftfc bWmhrepregontoditad tifit only hop* of,such j * j S2fy has given the opinion pwSaSJf ty jail, the fee charged heretofore being 20 cents for each prraoner when received and 1 ihe same sum when discharged.