Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-11-19

.grets that the Solid south ShOuld Come
Into Power By supprcssins the Coiorct
vOte-PrObable Effect Of the change
His Wish In Regard % MI. ClevelanA.
Alarge number of the devoted personal and po,,-
uca friends OF MI. Blaine serenaded him at Aurus-
Ia, Ne, last evening as an expression OF personal
good win and admiration. Their friendly senti-
ments were expressed In speech by Nj. Herbert
lows
FRIENDS AND NrreupoRs: The national contest IA
over and by the narrowest Of margins we have lost
congratulations, Is one am sure, OF confidence and
OF sanguine hope for the future ] thank you for
sense Of obligation. not only 10 YOU but to all the
republicans OF Maine. They responded to my nomi-
nation With genuine enthusiasm, and ratified II
oy superb vote. count IL as one OF the honors
and Qualifications OF my public career that the par
" In Maine, after struggling hard for the last six
and twice e. within that period the state
SOoo plurality. No other expression Of popular
confidence and esteem could equal that Of the peo-
70 whom am attached by all the ties that ennople
human nature and give Joy and dignity TO life.
After Aaine-indeed, along with Maine-my nrst
thought Is always OF Pennsylvania How can
nttingly express my thanks for that unparalleled
majority or more than $1,000 votes, q popular In
Which sas Mn, na aSs ae so1Sneo my nsa a mo
the grand old commonwealth-an affection which
l inherited from my ancestry, and which shall
thanks to the state of my residence and the state
OF my birth. owe much to the true and jealous
friends In New England who worked so nobly for
the republican party and its candidates and to the
eminent scholars and divines, who, stepping aside
from their ordinary avocations, made my cause
sne5 and to to principle added the
resentatives in the national struggle.
But the achievements for the republican cause In
ries in the west In that magnincent Gordon OF
states that stretches nom the OF the Ale.
gnenies to the Golden Gate OF the Pacific, Begin
ming with Ohio and ending with California the re-
publican banner was borne so lofty that but a
single state failed TO join In the wide acclaim OF
triumph. Nor should do justice to my own feel
ingS II failed to thank the republicans OF the EN-
pire state, who encountered so many discourage
ments and obstacles, who fought foes from within
ana ,oes rom without, and who waged 50 strong
battle that change OF one vote In every 1900
would have given US the victory In the nation. In
deed, change OF little more than 5000 votes would
have transferred New York, Indiana, New Jersey
and Connecticut TO the republican standard and
would have made the north as solid as the south.
My thanks would stll be incomplete II should fail
Of workingmen, both native and foreign born, who
gave me their earnest support, breaking from old
personal and party ties and finding, in the prnci-
pies which represented In the canvass, the safe
guard and protection OF their own resIde interests
The result OF the election, my friends, win be re-
garded in the future, 1 think, as extraordinary.
The northern states leaving out the cities OF New
York and Brooklyn from the count, sustained the
republican cause by majority OF more than
The cities OF New York and Brooklyn threw their
great strength and influence with the solid SOUTH
api were the decisive element which gave TO that
section the control OF the national government.
speaking now not at all as a defeated candidate
but as loyal and devoted American, think the
transfer OF the political power OF the government
to the south is great national misfortune. Ii is
misfortune because 1t introduces an element which
cannot insure harmony and prosperity 10 the peo-
pie, because il Introduces into the republic the
rule OF minority The rirst instinct of an American
Is equalty-equaiity OF right equality or privilege
equality OF political power-that equality which
says every citizen your vote is Just good Just as
potential as the vote of any otler citfzenn That
cannot be said to-day In the United States. The
course OF affairs In the south has crushed out the
political power OF more than 6.000,Gl0 American
citizens, and has transferred IL by violence TO
others Forty-two presidential electors are as
signed to the south on account Of the colored popu
lation, and yet the colored population, with more
than 100000 legal votes, have been unable to
choose single elector Even in these states
where they have maj rtty OF more than 100000
they are deprived OF free suffrage and their rights
as citizens are sc0rnfully rrodden under foot The
eleven states that comprised the rebel confederacy
ton and 100000 colored population The colored
population, almost to man, desire TO support the
republican party. but by system OF cruel int1mi-
datl0n ana by violence and murder, whenever vio-
lence and murder are thought necessary, they are
absolutely deprived OF all political power II the
outrage stopped there ii would be bad enough But
1T doesn't stop there for not only is the negro popu
lation diSfranchiSed, but the power which right
fully and constitutonally belongs to them is trans
t-ittU " Tue Wlllt pUpuldllOn, cnaUllQR The
white population OF the south to exert
an electoral influence far beyond that ex-
erted by the same number OF white people In the
north To illustrate just how IL works 70 the de-
struction OF all fair elections, let present to you
i've states in the late confederacy and i've loyal
states OF the north possessing in eacn section the
same number OF electoral votes. In the south the
states OF Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
and South Carolina have ia the aggregate forty
people and over 5000 600 coored. In the north the
states OF Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and
California have likewise In the aggregate forty
eight electoral votes, and these have white popu-
latOn OF $500 OOO or Just double the I'VE southern
states which have named. These northern states
have practically no coored population. It is there
fore evident that the white men in those southern
states, By uSurping and absorbing the rights OF the
coored men, are exert1ng just double the political
power OF the white men In the northern states. I
submit, my friends, that such condition OF affairs
Is extraordinary. unjust. and derogatory to the
manhood OF the north. Even those who are vim
dicfyely opposed to negro suffrage, will not deny
that If presidential electors are assigned to the
south by reason OF the negro population, that
population ought to be permitted free suffrage In
the election. To deny that clear proposition is TO
antrim that southern white man In the gulf states
Is entitled TO double the political power OF q north.
ern White man In the lake states-it is to affirm
that confederate soldier shall WELD twice the in
6uence in the nation that Union soldier can and
that perpetual and constantly increasing supe-
rortty shall be conceded to the southern white
man in the government OF the Union III that be
quietly conceded in this generation it will harden
into custom until the badge OF infer1orty will at
Norman noble stamped IL upon Saxon churl. This
subject is OF deep interest 10 the laboring men of
the north. With the southern democracy tri-
umphant in their states and In the nation the ne
gro Will be compelled 10 work for just such wages
as the whites may decree, wages which Will
amount, as did the supplies OF the slaves to a bare
subsistence equal in cash. perhaps. to IS cents per
Gay, II averaged over the entire south. The white
laborer IL the north will soon feel the distinctive
effect OF this upon his own wages.
earliest days OF reconstruction, that wages IN the
south must he raised 10 just recompenSe OF the
laborer, or wages in the north ruinouSiy lowered
and the party have steadily worked for the former
result. The reverse influence viii now be set In
motion, and that condition OF affairs produced
which years ago Mr.. Lincoln warned the free labor
ing men or the north viii prove hostile to their in
dependence, and Will Inevitably lead to a ruinouS
reduction OF wages. A mere difference In the color
or the skin Will not suf1ice to maintain entirely
adjacent states, and the voluntary Will be CON-
PEELED to yield 70 the Involuntary. So completely
have the colOred men In the south been already
deprived by the democratic party OF their consIi-
States that they regard the advent OF that party TO
national power as the signal or their reinstatement
and are anrighted because they think all legal
protection Tor them Is gone. Few persons In the
north realize how completely the chiefs OF
the rebellion WELD the political power which has
trumphed In the late election. II Is portentous
fact that the democratic Senators vino came from
the states OF the late confederacy, all, and mean
ali, without single exception, personally partici-
pated In the rebellion against the national govern.
those states no man who was loyal 70 the union,
no matter how strong O democrat he may be to-
day, has the slightest chance OF political promo
ton. The one great avenue TO honor In that sec
against the government II is certainly an astound-
ing fact that the section in which friendship for