But for these crimes the boast attributed to you, that one hundred and thirty-eight solid southern votes would be cast for the Democratic ticket, would be but idle vaporing; but now we feel that it is a sober truth.
Sherman critiques the Democratic party's reliance on solid Southern votes, attributing it to the actions of the Ku-Klux Klan.
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