Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-09-01

should bee lected on the same day in al
the States so as to avoid the possibility
of colonization, they dare not say they
want to colonize votes and so they cal
it DECENTRALIZATION" So when a Re
publican Congress fixed the time and
manner of electing United States Sena
tors, so as to avoid the party tricksters
and frauds often practiced under the
old system, they do not dare to
want an opportunity to commit these
frauds, and so they crv "Centraliza
ton" Estate rights" was their cry
when they repealed the Missouri com
promise, although the purpose was to
make Kansas q slave State. So they
voted down the Wilmot proviso to
make California slave State, but they
shouted for Estate rights" They
shouted for Estate rights" in 1861 as
they saw the South seeding under Bu-
chanan. And during the whole war
they recorded their votes against Union
legislation crying Estate rights" no
''centralization," no coercion" They
smelled Capitalization in the greenback
and national currency, in the laws to
protect Northern citizens and the color
ed people in the South, and recorded
their votes against them.
So now when they are trying to re-
peal the laws which provide against
frauds in the large cities at the Presi-
Dental elections tLey do not dare to
avow their purpose to re-enact the
frauds in New York and elsewhere,
and so they declare they are only anx-
ious to vindicate State rights; but un-
fortunately for their sincerity, they
have been equally hostile to similar
State legislation. They have always
opposed registration and the prosecu-
tion of frauds and forgeries in Natural
ization, and all laws for the protection
and purity of the ballot-box Only last
April they fought the new constitution
for the State of Indiana mainly because
it provided for an honest election.
When they cry free ballot they mean
free fraud.
They have not always been so fear
full of Capitalization. Before the war,
when they contolled the government,
they welded the whole Federal power
with cruel energy for the propagation
of slavery. They made the whole
North hunting ground for pretended
fugitives and every Northern man a
slave hunter He was required under
cruel penalties to join the chase when
ever a pursuing master blew his horn.
When the master used the Federal
government to put his heel on the free
thought, free speech and free press of
the North, you heard no Democratic
murmur about State rights and central
ization. 1t is only when the north is
predominant and proposes measures for
the preservation of the Union, the pur-
ity of the ballot box, the protection of
the lives and property of all citizens
alike, that you hear from the Demo-
cratic wigwam loud wall for State
rights.
They had no fear of Capitalization in
1877 when they voted ON the Elector-
al Commission to set aside the action
of Sovereign States" in the appoint
ment of Electors They had no fear
of Capitalization when in the last ses-
sion of Congress they arranged the
machinery whereby the vote of State
in the coming election may be rejected
by mere party majority. They had
no fear of Capitalization when in 1879
they created National Board of Health
with large appropriations to be expend
ed in the South. Nor when in the last
session they agreed to waste $4,000
900 ~on trafficless streams and harbors
in the South. Their State rights fer
vor cools wonderfully when the South
makes her demands, and wakes hot
only when necessary, humane or Un-
MON legislation not in confederate in
terests is proposed.
The northern Democracy have ever
been led into error by their State rights
teachers in the South. They are COM
PEELED to acknowledge that in every
party issue since the Republican party
was formed quarter of century ago,
they have taken the wrong side. But
while they abandon their positions
year after year, they hold on to their
southern theories which still leads
them into new errors.
They are like the old trapper who
came very often to get the bounty on
wolf scalps. His scalps were always
young 1t looked suspicious, and he
was investigated and found to be keep
ing a couple of old breeders and draw
ing bounty on every litter.
Estate Rights" and Capitalization"
are the old mischief and treason breed
ers in the South. No matter what
wrong they are trying to perpetrate,
their Northern apologists appear in
ever campaign with lot of snarling
cubs in their arms. 1t was supposed
that the old wolves were dispatched at
Appomattox, but they managed to es-
cape, and now their allies are out again
with the cub scalps demanding more
bounty Let us scalp the breeders in
this section and cease paying tribute
to the South,
Leadville, from an uninhabited spot,
has become city of 40, 900 inhabitants
in less than three years, and has pro-
duced in bullion, from January l, 1879,
to April l, 1SsO-ffteen months-$l6,-
l47,131, or over one million dollars per
month.
At the beginning of the present CEN
tury there were 10000 copies of the
Bible in existence; since then ll6, ,OOO,-
900 more have been printed. The fact
that politicians are, if possible, growing
worse and worse is abundant proof they
have been iniudiciously distributed.