Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-27

also in proportion to the legal inability
To use them il they were present, and
il the President is determined not to use
them at all to control elections, then the
necessity becomes absolute.
COrOiidrV hird-The revolutionary
and dangerous character OF law con-
sists in the fact that it is useless, there
being already in existence laws sufficient
to effect the purpose.
SckOium-In the above 1t Is assumed
automatically that the terms liberty
and purity OF elections" are synony-
nous with the term Republican par
ty." Prolonged laughter.
Proposition Second TbeOrem.-The
right of citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or any State on ac-
count of race, color, or previous condi-
ton of servitude.
SEC. ,. The Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by apprO-
pirate legislation. The fifteenth amend
ment quoted by the President
The Supreme Court in the United
States against Cruiksbank, and in Myers
IS. Happersett, have declared that the
only right guaranteed by this amend
ment is the right that citizens shall not
be Disseminated against on account OF
race, color, or previous condition OF
servitude. Hence national legislation
TO provide safeguards for free and honest
elections is necessary, as experience has
shown, not only to secure the right to
vote to the eniranchised race at the
South, but also to prevent fraudulent
voting in the large cities OF the North.
The President.
Corolary fra.-It follows that if John
Smith gets drunk at an electiOnin North
Corolina and punches negrO's head he
Immediately, by Presidential logic, be-
comes the State of North Carolina en-
bodied in the flesh, and he, or it, discrim
mates against the said negro within the
meaning of the Constitution and the
guarantee is called for at once.
COroHary &cOad.-If it he white man
whose head is punched by the embodied
State-oi-JOhn Smith-NOrth Carolina 1t Is
a discrimination all the same, provided
the said white man was about to vote or
had voted the Republican ticket, that
being the true meaning and lnterpreta-
ton OF the words race, color, and pre-
yious condition of servitude.'
COroHary Hrd.-It follows necessarily,
that il a New York repeater vote the
Democratic ticket five times in one day,
ne becomes likewise the great State OF
New York (including the SenatOr) or 2
conrerso. the great State OF New York be-
comes the repeater, and by so voting he
discriminates the Lord knows whO) to
vote on account ofrace, color, or previous
condition of Scrvitude; and the only
avenue opened up by which this guar
antce can be enforced is to send in the
Army and Johnny Davenport. Laugh
ter
&holium.-The previous condition
referred to in the foregoing Is that OF
Republicanism, and implies also pre-
sent condition; that is, being a Repubn-
can.
Nrholilq ssc0nd.-Enforcing the right
10 vote by soldiers is not an interior
ance with elections
ScLolium Hird.-This doctrine of "dis-
elimination" does not apply to the State
of Rhode Island where a white mans
right TO vote may be freely abridged on
account Of his present condition OF lmpe-
curiosity. ,
PropoSition third: TbeOrm.-"The prac-
tice of lacking To appropriation bills
measures not pertinent to such bills dld
not prevail until more than forty years
after the adoption OF the Constitution.
II has become common practice. All
parties when i'm power have adopted it.
The hubble welfare will be promoted In
many WAYS by a return to the early
practice of the Government and the
true principles OF legislation. The
President.
Hence the practice of lacking legisla-
ton 10 appropriation bills having been
practiced by all parties for more than
fifty years, it should be Immediately
abandoned when disagreeable to the
President or inconvenient to the party,
it's antiquity not being sufficient tn JUS
tiiv il. though greater than the period oil
its nOn-use.
Corollq.y frSi.-It follows, therefore,
that the practice of using troops ut the
polls. which did not prevail for more
than seventv-fve years after the adOp-
ton of the Constitution, should now
become of general and Indispensable
use: fourteen years being amply sutfi-
cient time TO legalize it, and it being
now absolutely necessary for the preser-
walton of the Republican party.
Srkolnun.-For the purpose OF the next
Presidential election fourteen years OF
military interference are equal to sew
entv-fve years Of free and unrestrained
elections, on the well-established prin-
chile "that circumstances alter cases. "
The LAWYERS Bull rs. the Farmers, l
WebSter's FL. Spell.
y. Bits said on high authority that
the Secretary of War and the Secretary
of State once held this problem unsound
but were coerced into asserting TO 1t by
party necessity. But q,tisR sabu, Laugh
ter
So much for the absurd deductions
which nav be logically drawn from the
premises contained in the veto mes
sages and the arguments OF Senators. -