Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — War on Southern Bourbonism. [ARTICLE]

War on Southern Bourbonism.

Gen. James S. Negley, the President of the Union League of America, has just returned from a meeting of the Executive committee of that organization in Washington City. He says the speeches made outlined the campaign for 1884, and were such as he has rarely heard; that while they expressed opposition to the further flaunting of the bloody shirt, they were permeated with -the idea that the rights of Republican voters in the South must be guaranteed them. He intimated that some attention would be given to the fact that in no Southern State ha* there ever enacted a law to abolish the abuses which have been so conspicuous a part of every political campaign. It is evident that, after all, the bloody shirt will be an element in politics next year. —Pittsburgh Telegram.