The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
The Bitter End Programme OF the
Garfield Administration.

The Bitter End Programme OF the
Garfield Administration.
We have taken some pains to Gull
the opinions of the best informed papers
foreshowing the programme of the in
coming Administration of Mr.. Garfield.
These extracts are principally from Re
publican and Independent journals, the
writers of which are presumed to be in a
position to form correct opinions. Such
papers as the New York Herald, (Inde-
pendent) New York Sun, (quasi-Demo-
cratic) and the Cincinnati Gazette, New
York Times, Chicago journal, St. Louis
Globe-Democrat Republican, and the
New York Public, Republican journal,
devoted exclusively to financial CUES.
tions and an able exponent, especially OF
the financial views of the present Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
It is inferred from these expressions,
coupled with the known opinions of Mr..
Garfield as indicated by his record in
Congress and by the temper of the party
hat elected him, that the leading
measures of his Administration will be
as follows:
LIST. The apportionment of Congress
onal presentation, and the abridg
ment of the South's share of Rep
.resentatives on the ground trumped-
up for the occasion that the right to
vote in some of the Southern States has
been denied to part oftheir population.
1t has been assumed that the power to
make such reduction is provided in the
18th Amendment.
The continuation of what are known
as the Federal Election Laws interfering
directly with registration and election Of
members of Congress and Presidential
electors, and indirectly, with State and To-
cal elections when held at the same time
Congressman and Electors are chosen.
These laws arm u. S. Marshals and
their deputies and Supervisors appointed
expressly for the occasion, with extra
ordinary and alarming powers, and even
place the United States army at their
disposal. The programme is to make
these laws still more harsh and oppres-
sive, and to take a new stride in the
march over State lines towards central
ization and Imperialism.
The next important question in the
eyes of the Republican leaders, to Dor
row the language of Mr.. Charles NOrd-
hoff in the New York Herald, and of
the editorial writers on that journal, els
not of political or sectional nature"
1t is the repeal of the bill mOnetizing
silver, and of the act authorizing the issue
of silver certificates, and the destruc-
ton of the legal tender functions of the
Greenback currency with view to their
ultimate destruction as a circulating
medium.
The refunding of the 500, 100000 of
debts maturing at an early date into
long bonds so as to perpetuate the pub
lie debt for the benefit of capitalists who
pay no tax, federal, State or municipal
on their investment.
The continuation of the miscalled
protective" tariff for the benefit of the
subsidized corporations who have
grown rich and powerful upon the labor
Of the plundered yeomanry, and other
industrial classes.
If the deliverances of the opponents
and oracles of the Republican party are
to be credited, the foregoing will be the
leading measures of the Garfield Ad-
ministration. The picture is not
pleasant one to look upon.