Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — AGAINST THE NORTH. [ARTICLE]

AGAINST THE NORTH.

A Southern Orator Warns the Bourbons that They Must Stand United. [New Orleans special.] Senator J. Z. George has just finished a canvass of the lojver tier of counties in Mississippi m behalf of the Democratic State ticket. In his speech at Bay St. Louis last night he uttered the following remarkable sentiment: Do you comprehend the issues upon which the Republicans have made their fight in Ohio, and have carried that State ? Do you imagine that they have forgotten the prejudices engendered by the war, and are willing to recognize us as brothers and equal s ? If so you have forgotten that their candidate for Governor and John Sherman, one of their most eminent statesmen, made the canvas on an issue which contemplates the denying to you of your equal rights to representation in Congress. My friends, if any man thinks that we are treated and considered by the Republican party of the North as equals in a common Government and Union he is sadly mistaken. Now, when these facts are presented to us, are we to decline to hold up President Cleveland’s hands or strengthen him in the administration of the Government on a basis of equal justice and fairness to us as well as to the Northern people ? I speak to you plainly. Ido not appeal to your passions. This subject is too important for anything but calm and cool consideration. We are in the minority, and we are' likely to find ourselves in a still greater minority relatively. The North is being settled up by immigration from Europe. Few come to us. Not many years will elapse before Dakota will be admitted into the Union. Then Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Wyoming. This Will increase the preponderance of wealth and power of the Northern section of the Union. The South is growing, it is true, but our growth is slower and more by natural causes. Under these circumstances, when there stands nothing between us and the strong arm of a sectional majority but the Democratic party and the President, will you attempt to cripple that President and party ? I ask you to think of these matters. So far as lam concerned I intend to stand by President Cleveland and the Democratic party —firstly, because I think they are right; secondly, because I know that when I stand by the President I stand by you and assist in strengthening a barrier against sectional persecution, which will overrun this country unless defeated by the Democratic party.

John 8. Wise is making the fight for Governor of Virginia as a straightout Republican. In this he is taking a proper course, whatever the result may be. He believes that he can be elected as a Republican, and in that event his will be a triumph worth celebrating, while an election as a Readjuster, or Independent, or any other nondescript candidate would be of no significance. There are only two political parties in this country. Local issues may modify the relative'status of each organization, but States will be Republican or Democratic according to the preponderance of popular sentiment. If Virginia is Republican, as Wise believes it to be if cheating and bulldozing can be suppressed, then let the fact be signalized by the. election of Wise as a Republican. Such an event may be a broad opening for a permanent Republican foothold m the South, which will be the chief beneficiary of a breach in its? Bourbonic solidity. The result of the (election in Cuyahoga County shows how the Ohio Democrats love the negro. Tilley, a colored man, was nominated for the Legislature by the Democrats of that county, with a great flourish of trumpets, to show how Democratic feeling had changed toward colored men. After the election it was found that the white legislative candidates ran very closely together, and that the colored man was unmercifully cut in every ward in Cleveland ahd in every township in the district. He ran 2,500 votes behind his ticket. It is not likely that Tilley or any other colored man will ever take his chances again on a Democratic ticket in Cuyahoga, notwithstanding the change of feeling which the Democrats of that county claim to have experienced toward them.— Chicago Tribune. Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, says the condition of affairs in that State now is worse than it ever was under the so-called carpet-bag rule. He says “when the Republicans had the State the schools were supported, and they can’t do it now; the police were paid—they can’t do it now; the interest on the State debt was paid, and they can’t do that now.” . The Prohibition party was but a.. Democratic side - show—a part of the Democratic circus. Ohio is one of the 'Republican strongholds, and has never, since the Republican party was born, given any other than Republican victo- .< ries, except upon purely local issues which shattered party lines, and drove Republicans into the opposition.—Philadeiphia Telegraph. -