Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-30
who Make the sectional Issues.

Democratic and Mngwump newspapers
and platform agitators cry out against
sectional issues. BY all means, we say.
do not make sectional issues. But who
have made them from the days of John c.
Calhoun to the present time? Democrats
and their dough-face allies. The men who
taught and made the rebellion. the men
who for years after they were beaten BY
Union arms evaded the constitution and
the laws, who committed all kinds of out
RACES on Republican citizens, who robbed
hundreds of thousands Of voters Of their
right Of suffrage. who have stolen scores
OF Congressional and Electoral votes, who
have forced themselves into the national
councils BY violence and fraud-these are
the men who raise sectional issues and
lift the bloody shirt. just how the power
thus gained by the Southern and dough-
faced Democrats is now being used, is
clearly shown by what has just rranspired
at Washington An illustration Of the
domination Of the old Calhoun and JEFF
Davis Democratic South is found in the
makeup of the Ways and Means Commit
tee Of the House Of Representatives., a
committee charged with the formulating
measures Of legislation upon subject Of
such importance that the President devoted
his entire message to its discussion. The
special Washington correspondent OF the
- h,.g l. lnc ~ bod
the makeup Of that committee as follows !:
The committee consists of eight Democrats
and five Republicans. Two Of the Democrats
represent districts in Indiana and Pennsyl-
vania, respectively. The other six, who, Of
course, control the action of the majority
which votes - a unit, and therefore the
action Of the committee itself, represent dis
tricts in the Southern States. In other
words, the committee 10 so constituted that
six Southern Democrats control the action Of
seven Northern men, two Democrats and
five Republicans. The six Southern Demo-
Gratis represent voting constituency of
1903, 249, according to the returns Of their
election, while FIVE Republicans represent a
voting constituency of ITO, o43.
The six Democratic members who control
the committee are from States in which the
total assessed valuation of taxable property
in 1886 amounted to 81, S95, POS ,002, while
the five Republicans are from States in which
the assessed valuation of taxable property in
1885 amounted to s6,77s, 422, 1856, or more
than three and onehalf times as much. The
great States of New York and New Jersey
with SO, 790, 270, 299 in taxable property, are
not represented in the committee, while the
six States Of Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky
Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia cas-,
six votes and control committee action on
revenue legislation, although the aggregate
valuation of taxable property is only one-halt
as great as that of the two States mentioned
New England has one vote in the committee
and the aggregate assessed valuation OF
property is twice as great as in the six South
ern States named. But the New England
representative in the committee will have nc
voice whatever in the framing Of tariff OIL
revenue bill and until the proposed measure
shall be submitted by its free trade framera
to the committee he will be permitted t.
know absolutely nothing Of its contents.
| 1t is the Democratic party thus
organized and controlled, that stands as a
solid Bourbon guard between the people
and cheap sugar.