Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-01-21
HARRISON'S TALK.
The President Elect at Work on His In.
augural-Somo Of It's Points =
Outlined.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2l.--The Suns In
dianapolis special says: Gen. Harrison
has completed that part of his inaugural
address that refers to the south It's not
very long, but to the point. The under
the necessity for free and fair ballot.
The principle of control by the majority,
Gen. Harrison says, is the corner stone
OF our government system. The question
OF Tree and equal ballot, he declares, is
one dominating all others, because it in
wolves the question of free and fair
tribunal to which every question shall be
submitted for arbitration. He warns the
people that this principle of government
by majority has been, to certain extent,
overturned, and that the industries of the
country have been threatened because the
laboring vote in large part OF the coun-
try is suppressed. AS to the south direct
ly, he says no one wishes ill to that sec
ton that, on the contrary, it is the desire
OF every good citizen that her prosperity
shall not only be maintained, but shall
increase that "the streams of her pros
perity shall run full, as the president
elect once expressed it publicly. 1t is not
now question he insists, OF what has
occurred once upon time, but what is oc-
curing now. This is, he says, the almost
entire suppression of the colored Repub-
lican vote at the south upon national
questions.
He finds especially deplorable the evil
dence that the persistent suppression of
the votes Of the woukmen in one section
of the country has demoralized the trust
in the sanctity of the ballot. The general
belief that corrupt and improper in
fuences have come to have great in
auence in determining the results even OF
presidential elections, the tally sheet forg-
cries, and similar crimes in many states
outside OF the south, the revolutionary
proceedings in other states, whereby duly
elected officers have been prevented from
exercising the functions for which the
people had chosen them, are some of the
evidences of the danger that threatened
free institutions through the failure of the
general faith in the fairness of the ballot. |
The practice of gerrymandering states
in congress and legislative apportion-
ments for the purpose OF suppressing the
majority and giving to the minority
power and influence in the legislative
bodies to which it is not intended will
also probably be referred to, although
this part of the address has not yet been
fully considered. There will be other
references to the south in the address in
the part that deal with the tariff question,
and they will, it is understood, be of a
nature to please the business element of
that section, but they have all to be per-
fected. None Of the address will be alb
solutely finished until q few days before
it is delivered; certainly not until after
the president-elect has gone to Washing.
ton. What is now being is the drafting
of the various sections separately. An
other part of the address that is pretty
we'll under way is the part dealing with
civil service reform, and contrary to the
views Of his friend, Lew Wallace, the
president-elect will tiirt giddily with the
Chinese goddess, of whom the Mug
wumps are the high priests. Whatever
he may do in practice, in his address
Gen. Harrison will give utterance to SEN
timents upon the subject OF Office and
otiice-holders that need not call the
blush Of shame to the cheek even of
George William Curtis.