The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-06-06
A Warning.

Tho action OF the Republicans OF the
Uouse OF Representatives In unse@ing 30
m.nv Democrats and putting Republicans
into their places, was advocated upon the
ground that 1t would encourage the negroes
and other Republicans Of the South TO
make hereafter strenuous efforts 70 elect
their candidates for Congress. That action
might have the contrary effect, since 1t Is
such an easy matter for the Republicans OF
the House Of Representatives to give a
Democrats scat to Republican aspirant
that II might seem to be a waste OF time'
money. and labor for the negroes OF South
Carolina and Florida to try to have
their candidates chosen at the polls.
WILLIAM Nj. TWEED once said he
found II easier and cheaper TO buy Legis-
lature after its members had been elected
TO that body than to buy up the voters at
the polls. We suggest this idea to the Re
publicans oithc South: What is the use OF
aoipc 10 such an immense outlay OF money
and labor in the attempt to send Republi-
cans TO Congress when the House OF Rep
resentatives is ready and willing 10 seal
your candidates, let the Democrats protest
as they may? One thing may be set down
as certain-namely, that IL the Republicans
have majority in the next House there
will be fifty contested-election cases IRON
the South.
Fortunately, each successive House OF
Representatives IS the sole judge OF the
election, qualification, and returns OF It's
own members. As the Democrats VIII
almost certainly control the next House,
the Democrats Of the South have the
strongest OF reasons for putting forth their
utmost exertions to aid the National Demo-
cratic party in securing that control. For
not only will they thus circumvent the
efforts OF the Republicans to bulldoze the
southern people into supporting the Ad-
ministration, but tAey will secure a
House composed of true and trusty
friends, instead OF House majority OF
whose members take malignant pleasure in
dcnouncing the rebellion" as they are
pleased to term ii, seventeen years after
the war ended, and IN refusing to repeal
the statute which provides that no person
who ever served in any capacity under the
Confederate Government shall hold any
Office in the national army.
In word, the voters of the South are
warned that il they would be represented
in Congress by their own chosen members
rather than by such persons as the negroes
and their allies may nominate, they must
go TO work and elect their candidates by
such maiorities as will have the effect
to deter even Republican House Of
Representatives from unseatiDg men so
endorsed. But more important than even
that is the duty OF electing Democrats
enough to make up majority OF the
House Of Representatives when they and
the Democrats elected from the northern
States meet together. II will not do to
allow the Republicans to start with ma
iority Of even one; for i'll the present
House when it assembled they had barely
q majority, and yet they have managed TO
run that majority up to perhaps six or
more. Mr.. KEIFER received, we think,
only 14T votes-not one over a majority
although PAUL and FULKERsON both voted
for him.
If the unjust ruling of Speaker KEFER,
and the outrages committed under it, shall
have the effect Of arousing the Democrats
and causing the election Of Democratic
House OF Representatives next November,
the country will have reason to rejoice, and
to bless the day on which Speaker KEIFER
and his co-conspirators perpetrated those
olltrapes