Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-07
DAILY -IATELLlGEkCER.
,,RRyI%C THE WAR ISTo AFRICA.


For twelve full years political con-
tests in the United States in q national
campaign have been sectional; that Is TO
SAW tney have been confined to a por-
t.oa Only Of this Republic. During ali
that time the Republican party has been
confronted by a solid wall upreared
AGAINST it in fourteen Of the Southern
states. In nearly every one OF these
during the period named there has been
no contest IN a Presidential campaign.
The forms of election have teen COM
uued with, and States have sent repre-
ssutat.yrs to the electoral college,
9-teusibly elected by a majority OF the
whole people, but really selected by
minority thereof. BY methods that
need not be here reeapitulated, for they
are historical and known 10 every intel
lgeut man and woman il the whole ma
tiou. full and free exercise Of the cleo
..v. franchise has been denied large
portion Of the legally qualified electors
"a the South until Presidential, WITH
I,c-l elections, have been in some cases
tragedies and in all utterly repug-
uaut to the spirit Of free government.
Under these methods what is knowE IN
politics AZ tho Solid South has come to
DO regarded az positive factor IN all
us,itlcal calculations. contest that
should be universal IN the Republic Is
narrowed down to less than two-thIrds
Of the states, wherein free elections are
supported by public sentiment That
will tolerate neither intimidation, per
secutiou nor fraud therein.
It IL full time that this political solid
Ity. obtained, existing and fostered by
sucn methods, should be open to leRiti-
mate attack and disruption at q ballot
box open to all legally qualified voters,
and freed from terrorism, bulldozlng
and false returns. The 121 electoral
votes that in calculating Democratic
strength in a Presidential campaign are
as matter of course set to the credit OF
the Democratic nominee, should be open
to fair and honest contest by the kepub-
loan competitor. 1t IL now nearly
twenty wears since the negroes OF the
South we're endowed with the elective
franchise. They should have so i'm
proved III these years as TO DO able in
telIigently to exercise their right TO vote.
If they have not, the fault lies more
with the people among whom they
minole than with themselves. The
States wherein they live receive credit
in the apportionment Of ConRresstHen
and Presidential electors equally for
blacks al we'll as whites. IL is matter
of national justice that men who are
counted in representation shall have the
right to select representatives. A prac-
tical notification of the electoral rights
of any portion of the people is a fraud
upon the rest.
The public sense of the North, and We
believe the better Judgment of the
South, demand that the practices which
have in the last three Presidential cleo
tions, and in many State elections at the
South, combined TO prevent q full and
free expression of popular will. shall
henceforth be discountenAnoed, and
that IL shall hereafter be as safe TO vote
the Republican as the Democratic tick
ct in Mississippi and Virginia. A move
has recently been made in this direc-
ton. which indicates that the Republi-
can party is determined that such a re-
suit shall be attained. Headquarters Of
the National Republican Committee
have been established at Nashville,
Tennessee, and ringing address issued
TO the people Of the Southern States.
II declares that this step has not been
taken without elaboration. nor until
the Republican compaign in the North
and West has 30 clearly predestined
success without counting on single
electoral vote from any part of the South,
that this especial effort will be seen TO
have been born of other motives than
those Of political necessity" After re.
ferrisg 10 the fact that from the East.
ern and Middle States has come four.
ffths of the spare capital invested at
the West, while less than one fifth has
gone inte the South, and deftly abiding
81 the causes therefor. the address con.
oludes as follows;
II will be the browning glory aud tri.
umph of the Republican party il through
continued dominance, all wastes of the
war inaugurated 90 make labor free and
armed With suffrage shall be repaired by
the free and intelligent labor of the
South, protected against the pauper
labor Of Europe, and aided by surplus
and otherwise idle capital of the North.
Bnt IL would be- neither honest nor re-.
spectful 90 the intelligence of Southern
men to fail TO state In this connection
that the establishment of genuine and
lasting concord must be on the solid
foundation Of securitysof suffrage from
menace, fraud and violence. IL IL with
an earnest desire that all sectional diff.
ferences aud prejudice should disapps ar
A0ASNcit titt t1U AhCHuottuAu kNhttOuh
Committee urges the necessity for all
interests, of the disappearance OF these
obstacles to full and fair vote and an
honest count, that have deprived large
existing Republican majority in three
States of It's rightful power and weight.
The party, under the leadership and
Presidency of Dir. Blaine, il certain 10
make the South a most attractive re-
gion for the capital Of the country; 10
make Mexicans and other people south
OF us, under Blaine's peaceful South
American policy, our friends and ems
toners; 10 improve the Mississippi. as
Blaine has often urged, by works wor-
thy of the nation and magnitude of this
inland sea to make capital and labor
secure in the South by protecting sui
frage, and eliminate from the South lis
direct peril. that Of illiteracy.
The Herald Is in trouble. ID asked
Mr.. Voorhees, whether he came into this