Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-08-23
THE ATTEMPT TO AGAIN DE
FRAUD THE PEOPLE.

FRAUD THE PEOPLE.
The people are demanding reform III
our government, and the corrupt politl
clans satisfied that it cannot much !
longer be deferred ,are pretending to move
since the war, has engaged all his
powers to establish in the United
States an aristocratic government of
tyranny. with Grant as Presidential
| dictator, proposes $50 says the Bullet"
approvlngly) 10 have the constitution
of the United States so amended as to
form a new electoral college, which is
no improvement upon, aud is far more
complicated than the present one with
which the people are SO much dissatis-
fed. The plan proposed by this
political scoundrel is to divide up the
whole territory OF the Uuited States
into presidential districts irrespective
of State lines, and give each district
one vote for President and Vice
! President this is the sum Of lis
refo.m as VIC understand it.
| Now Who is 80 blind that they
cannot see that, this pretension at
atte upted reform Is grand humbus.
Why talk about Presidential districts
is DO, every State IN the union, "a
Presidential district under the present
system, for .he purpose of selecting
men To do the voting for the people in
the election of President and Vice
President What better wonld this be.
il proposes that each district shall have
one vote, instead of allowing the peo-
pie to vote directly for President; II
proposes Ia place the liberties Of the
hole people Of district in the hands
of one man. knowing that it IS much
easier to corrupt ooe man than II Is
10 control the masses but how does
Morton propose 70 diviie the States !
that is not yet disclosed.
The plan, SO far as dieclosed
proposes to make the districts Of equal
population, suppose then for eonven-
ieuce the districts are fixed at one
hunred thousand souls, and all States
and Territories containing a population
less than that number should be
entitled to one vote, that ould
give Oregon one vote for President.
whereas she now has three, then
suppose that vote was entrusted to
John Mitchell Hippel or John Ilippel
Mitchell, for wha. name would vote be
cast for President by man who dldn t
know what his own name was, this
would he reform with a vengance, or
as Lish Appegate would say, if radi-
calism is right, the more radical the
better. 1t IS not necessary to fix up
any such complicated scheme as this
in order to bring about the reform
demanded by the people upon that
, subject, it is only necessary to SO
J amend the constitution as to give every
, voter the right to vote dii ectly for
President aud all other Offices Of the
government whose duties are performs
/ ed within cur own jurisdiction. This
. is but another wicked scheme by
wicked men, to deprive the people of
. their sovereignty; tear down the great
superstructure of american liberty and
n disgrace and defeat the object for which
i the sainted fathers and mothers of the
: revolution, poured out their precious
4 blood SO freely. This is but another
. trick by political gamblers, to perpet
uate Grant in office and establish upon
. the ruins OF democratic Government. a
great moneyed aristooracy. which shall
i ultimately squelch out popular govern,
!, ment and reduce the masses to a State OF
dependence at which the proud
! american now revolts. The Senator of
! the United States who, in the nineteenth
n century, would openly and seriously
attempt an imposition upon the sacred
rights of the american people, so
gigantic as this, ought, if sane, to
! be hung as high as Haman, if insane con
fined in the proper ASYLUM.