Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — AN OUTSPOKEN BOURBON. [ARTICLE]

AN OUTSPOKEN BOURBON.

A recent editorial of the Nashville (Tenn.) American, which appeared the day before the election of sheriff and other county officers, very naturally attracts attention, both because the American is a leading Democratic paper and because it betrays the animus of the Bourbon hostility to the Republican party. After a few general observations the American proceeds to say: TEyery man who supports the Kepublicans is ipso facto an enemy to the South. He who is not for ue is against us, and the man who comes out before the people as a Republican, commended to their . support by a Republican convention, must starid or fall of such. When he dons a Republican uniform and takes’the Republican colors in his hand he must expect to be shqt at as a Republican. The American takes breath after this exhortation to shoot, but soon resumes in the same spirit as follows: Let us not be deceived—whatever is Democratic and whatever is Republican is at issue in this campaign. Jf a man loves the South and hates its enemies, let him not give a vote to any man who carries the block bannner of Rqblicanism. No mattery what office he may seek, if he seeks it as p. Republican, he seeks it as an enemy. No matter what professions may be on his lips, if the Republican flay be in hand shoot him without parley. Let the above be read in connection with the Indiana Democratic platform on the federal election bill.