The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-04-25
THE BEST YET.


If the gentlemen on the other side
were really anxious to preserve peace
and the purity OF elections they would
be the last to tear down the only remain
ing natural fortress reared tor that pur-
ppse. Did they desire an honest regisra.
ton? These laws provided it. Did they
want a pure ballot These laws secured
it. Did they want fair count? These
laws embodied them. Did they want q
true return? These laws enjoinedit. Did
they want peace and order at the polls :?
These laws commanded it. There is
nothing in these laws that was terror
to any man, save one who had committed
or who was meditating an attack on the
purity of elections. He referred to the
outrages on colored men in Louisiana,
and said that the Republican party had
been stamped out in blood. Free speech,
a free press, free emigration and free
ballots had been made impossible within
many portions of that state. In view of
this state of facts, he listened with i'm
patience to the hypocritical cant about
peace, protection and purity of the polls.
LNeu uOW, Muilc tuC HuhDciS VII :Iue
other side were protesting such jealousy
for the rights of the American citizen,
the whole race was fleeing from some of the
Southern States. as they would flee from
a pestilence. They were forced, not to
escape federal bayonets, but ruffianly
blud geons; not from federal bullets, but
from Southern bowie knives; not to
escape from federal courts, but Southern
fraud not from marshals, but from muir
derers not from registration, but from
masked raiders !; not from supervisors of
election, but from Southern shot guns
In word. they we're fleeing from a
country where every right was trodden
down and every wrong went unredressed.
With all your professions of desire
for the purity of elections, your chief
desire is the election of a Democratic
President in 1sS0-by what, you little
care. You want these laws repealed, be-
cause they stand in the way of the con-
of such a purpose; for you
know now and the country knows that if
they are permitted to stand and can be
forced, you can never elect President
in 1880 any more than you are honestly
entitled to your maiorities in either
House of Congress. Applause on the
side.
He continued to say, that at the last
Congress there had been Senate to
now, there is but the Executive
70 overcome. 1t was the programme of
the Democratic party to persist until it
had starved the President into submis- |
sion, or until Congressional and Presi-
Dental terms had expired by limita-
tion. That party now stood, bare to
public opinion, on its own plea, self>con-
vinced Of conspiracy against the life of
the government. The excuse for the
present attempt to coerce the President,
he characterized as compound of indig.
nifty and insolence unequaled. If the i
Democrats persisted in their present
course, in 1850 they would inject their
political Appomattox. 1t was revolu-
tiOnary to the sentiments of the Ameri-
can people and because it was so, Repub-
leans proposed to resist to the extent of
their power; for if they yielded now,
where were they to make a stand? Let
no gentleman indulge in an illusion that
there we're to be no further advances on
the part of the enemy. This was but
the beginning of series of assaults, to
be pushed with vigor, until every fort.
ress reared for the defense Of free bal
lot, for peace and purity of elections, for
national life and for individual liberty,
should be torn down; until violence,
fraud and murder should run riot in the
and. How long would it be before a
clause would be put on an appropriation
bill repeating the last three constitu-
:ional amendments. and the President
be told to sign or sts,xHee Quoting from
Mr.. Blackburn's .Ssalaration that this
Congress would die lhy natural limita-
ion, without passing appropriation bills,
f the legislation sought to be put on
hem was not adopted, Mr.. Burrows went
IN TO say that the event can't happen
until the 4th of March. 1880; and 80 the
rider is promulgated from the floor of
he capital, in the face Of this nation, by
IN ex-confederate soldier, to prosecute
he siege until this republic which he
ind his co-conspirators could not destroy
~ the sword, shall be reduced by star
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