Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — The Democratic Bloody Shirt. [ARTICLE]

The Democratic Bloody Shirt.

It is not the Republican editors who are waving the “bloody gdifmentthe solid South is waving it, covered with the blood of a score or more colored Republicans shot at Danville W. Va.; with the life-blood of “Print” Matthews, of Copiah county, Miss., H. C. Ellett. of Yazoo, Miss., and scores of others through the South who dared to vote, or express their intention of voting any ticket in opposition to the regular Bourbon nominees. They are flaunting it in the faces of every Northern Republican, saying, “"What are you going to do about it ?” and the Republican editors are only pointing it out to the, people of the North, that they may see how loathsome the thing is.— Versailles Republican.