The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-14

representatives treated with disdain-
rui Indifference. his message upon the
tar1n was covert appeal for free
trade that was received by every enc
my Of the United States with uncon-
cealed satisfaction. As contribution
to the literature of the subject, it was
only from the antiquity OF l
the debris industriousiy collected from /
the rubbish heaps OF political economy. |
and paraded with the conscious pride L
of the discoyerer of new planet in /
the new realms of space.
One OF the most profound and per-
Vading impulses of the American char |
acter is an intense pride in citizenship,
and in the institutions and the honor |
of the nation. The democratic party
will be called upon to render an ac-
count of its Stewardship in dealing
with foreign powers. It is an unpaF-
alleled record of Sycophancy and imbe-
cilty. No one can read its annals
without humiliation, shame and indig-
nation. The fiasco in Mexico, the sur
renderer to England, the disgraceful
exhibition of booriShnesS and ignor-
ance at other courts, form chapter OF
ignominy that fttingly supplements
the policy of selecting as diplomatic
personalities of the government
those who had only signaiized them
selves by efforts for its destruction.
In the Canadian fisheries dispute the
senate refused to authorize further
negotiation; but in defiance of law, and
without warrant under the constitution,
the president appointed commissioners
and consented to an arrangement
which is heralded by the other pow
erS as a concession by the United
STAGE of all the principal matters in
controversy, and which imposes condi-
tions upon American citizens to which
they cannot submit without degrade
ton and dishonor.
The generation of young men, born
since the close of the war, viii partici-
pate this year for the first time in a
presidential election. Their votes will
determine the result. To them the
war of the rebellion is as much mat
ter of history as the war of lndepend
ence. They must be instructed, and
one of the issues of the campaign will
be to teach them which of the two
great parties is entitled to their conf
dence as patriotic citizens. The de-
mocracy have been endeavOring insid-
iously to obliterate their own record
and to reverse the verdict of poSter1ty,
by claiming that they supported the
Union cause in the supreme crisis of
the national life, and are therefore
worthy of the suffrages of the youth of
the United States. It is an insolently
false pretence. The great majority of
the democratic party is composed of
the men who attempted to destroy the
Union and the constitution, reinforced,
now as then, by a Northern contingent
of renegades and apostates who are
ready to barter their birthright of
manhood and freedom for the pottage
of place and power.
But the issue that exceeds all others
in Importance is suffrage in the South.
There are 153 votes in the electoral
college assured to the democratic party
without any other effort than that re-
Quired to write the certificates of cleo
ton. Forty-eight more in the North
Will give Cleveland another term, dur
ing which the supreme court will be
reconstructed upon the basis of hostil-
ity to the constitutional amendments
and the statutes of freedom. Not only
among the white politicians, but among
the white voters of the South, there is
settled and avowed determination to
eliminate the negro as an element in
! the political problem, and to suppress
his vote. In the language of the sem
ator from Louisiana, the negroes are to
be persuaded" to abstain from voting!
There is no longer any disguise or con-
cealment of this purpose. They are
citizens entitled to vote, and generally
republican in politics, and in several
| states are the majority; but the election
machinery being in the hands of the
democracy, they are either excluded
from the polls, or their votes are sup
pressed and DESTROYED. The election
in Louisiana April II is an illustration
of the methods employed. The state
| is undoubtedly republican. and
WarmOth was unquestiOnably the
| choice of majority of the electors.
| The governor publicly pledged himself
to an honest election, admitting that
frauds had been committed in the past
which should not be repeated. Relying
upon these assurances the republicans
organized and entered upon the can
vass. The governor. becoming terri
| fed at the prospect of defeat, issued
| orders to fabricate and manufac-
ture Democratic majorities, and the
result was spurious majority so as
founding that the only reply that SEN
ator Eustis could make was, 1t is none
of your business!" That is to say, by
the suppression of majorities, by ballot
box stufhng, by forging certificates of
election, president may be chosen,
senators and representatives elected,
who are to decide every question af-
| fecting the tariff, the revenues, the
currency, our relations foreign and do
nestle, the taxes of every citizen, and
| guide and control the destiny of the
| naLlon 1or the coming century, and IL
is none of our businessl If such meth
DDS are to prevail, then constitutional
self government is at an end upon this
continent. Dahomey and Zululand
/ are no worse.
The South obtained thirty-eight ad-
ditional members of Congress by the
reimbursement of the negro. If they
wish to deny him the right of suffrage,
justice and honor demand that they
shall relinquish the increment, so that
the equality of suffrage may be re-
stored, and the equilibrium between
the North and South maintained.
This then is the paramount issue, sur
passing every other; before which tar
ifs, taxes. currency and surplus shrink
and dwindle into nothingness; impair
tial justice and the equality of all mer
before the law.
/ ''Of what avail
| Are plough or sail
| Or life, or land, if freedom fall"