Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-09-21

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Senator Conkling's powerful speech ii
New York city, Friday evening. The
general issue confronting US In itsel
and It's bearings sectional. would
and you would, 1t were not So, but Il
10 80. Tin one portion of the country
one party outnumbers the other ever
| by overwhelming odds, the fact need
mot be llamable nor proof Of sectional
aggression. But II in any section q
lparty gains and keeps control, not by
plumbers, not by honesty and Law, and
then, sitting free discussion and 80
ton, attempts 10 grasp the Government,
Of the whole country, the proceeding ID
sectional, guilty and monstrous. In
twelve States Of the Union the ap.
preaching election Is to be no more
than farce, unless, a. has sometimes
happened, IL b. turned into tragedy.
There Is TO be NO free debate, no
equal rights, no true expression in
these States, and in several States the
clear minority Is to have no deciding
power-not even q chance In rsf1e
such as that in which lots were cast
and the booty divided the other day
between T&mmAny Hall and the up.
per sir and solar. walk reform Demoora-
cy. Senator Hampton largely promises
forty thousand Democratic majority in
South Carolina, where the actual ma
jority ia forty thousand the other way.
! liz several Southern States there "a q
llaree, we'll known, often assertained
Republican majority, bat all Southern
States alike, without exception or
doubt, are relied upon TO count on the
Democratic side, and to score 1873 cleo
toral votes-.ackiug but AZ OF all. The
causes Of such a condition, and the con-
seauenoe, II it succeeds, are matters
which no sane, intelligent man can put
out Of view.
THE soUTH's SECTIONAL PowBR.
Let US see how much national control
| ia now In the hands Of the South, scant
as It lie in numbers and interest. Up
ward OF thirty members cit in the
House Of Representatives and in the
Electoral College, by reason Of counting
the whole oolored population as citi-
Gems, with full political rights, equal
in all things with the whites. This is
double wrong and double robbery, to
Just the extent to which the freedmen
are Murdered or dsfrauded Of their vote
and their voice. To what extent this
Ia true the election returns too clearly
show. This representation, based on
stined rights, ia 4 plain violation OF the
Constitution aud Of common honesty
but there It Is, and there 1t votes and
speaks in the nations councils. The
sixteen lately slave States (lncluding
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and
Missouri, which did not secedr) have
thirty two Senators. Thirty-nine Is
majority Of the Senate; so that the
South needs only seven Senators from
the other States to make . majority OF
all. She will never fail to get them II
seven Northern Democrats are there.
There are twelve there now. In the
House Of Representatives there are
293 members. A majority 10 l@7. The
South has 106 members, lacking only
Al Of q majority Of all. The Electoral
college consists OF 1863 A majority ID
1856. The South has 1873, lacking only
At Of q majority.
"CoKVRDBRATR" CONTROL OF ooNaREss.
Consider the sway these numbers
have. In the Senate there are twenty
eight Committees, and Committees NOT
only prepare but virtually control leg
islation in both houses, and this must
be 80 more and more as the houses and
the business grow larger. OF these
twenty eight Committees the South has
the craftsmanship Of seventeen and the
control Of all. The Southern chairman
ships are Of important committees. Del
aware, with 40, 900 people, about as
many as the city Of Cleveland, o., or a
single rural county In New York, has
the Chairmanships Of the Committees
Of Privileges and Elections and Of FL
nance, both very important cemEAittees.
The great State Of New York, with five
million people, and her enormous in
terests and tax.paying, has for her
Democratic Senator the Chsirmanship
of the Committee on Patents. West
Virginia has the Craftsmanship Of the
Committee on Appropriations, which
holds the purse strings of the country.
The great State Of Psnnsylvanis has
the Craftsmanship Of Revision OF Laws,
committee whose business was finished
years ago. Virginia has the Chairman
ship Of the Committee on Pensions, Geor-
gia Of Commerce, Texas Of Post Offices,
and Post Roads, Missouri Of claims,
North Carolina Of Railroads and so on.
| have said the South has control Of all
the working Committee. This Ia true In
this way. On every Committee there
10 a majority Of Democrats, and Of these
a majority 10 all cases consists OF South
ern Senators. The same conditions
prevail in the House. There are forty.
two Committees. The Chairman OF
twenty two are from the South. All the
Committees are so constituted that the
majority Is Democratic, and Of the ma
iority more than halt is Southern.
During the two years while this abb
solute power in both houses has beeu
go lodged, the existence OF the veto
power and the approach Of the Presi.
DENTAL canvass have suggested urgent
reasons for "goipg SLOW" Many ex-
pected bills have not been introduced,
many that have been introduced have
not been "presssd," some that have
been oppressed" have run against such
obstinate opposition as to secure present
postponement or some modification.
But whenever the hour strikes that the
veto power is in Democratic hands--put
there by Southern votes-whatsver the
the "solid" caucus DEGREES will be