Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-19
a Grnve Issue.

Republican Congressman OF Ohio
has sounded the key note Of the
policy of his party in the ensuing
Congress, whep in an interview, after
mentioning the revision of the tariff
and some financial questions to be
legislated upon, he says;
"But not least 10 Importance, the
passage Of law to govern Federal
elections, in order that when man
casts his vote, it matters not in what
State, it will be counted. This will,
Of couree, bring up the race ques-
ton, and we might just as well fight
it out this year as any other, because
it must inevitably be settled on the
side of right, If the Republ can party
is to retain its influence, and the
confidence of the country"
1t is with striking cool seli-pos-
session that Nh Mckinley announces
the determination to take up a ques.
ton the like of whose import, has
never fallen upon the people since
the proposition to pass the four
'teenth and fifteenth amendments
Was first made, and at once estab-
fishes the continued existence of the
Republican party upon the issue of
the passage Of law to govern
Federal elections. -
In ther and plain words he plants
the Republican party on the ayowed
centralizing principle of withdrawing
from the States the power of electing
their own representatives in man
ner and mode they see proper,
vouchsafed unto them from the for
nation Of the government, and
transferring the power to the general
government.
W hatever outrage may be encased
in such an effort, it has at least the
virtue Of open mess and frankly an
nounccd intention, giving warning to
the States and the devotees Of pure
republication, as our fathers handed
it down.
Whatever may be the purpose Of
Mr.. McKinley's party's ceutrali5a-
ton scheme OF the zeal with which it
will undertake to carry it, the
strength of the Democratic party.
although in the minority, will sue
cessfulIy defeat such bold measures
and hurl the republication which
attempts it, back upon the North,
East and West who are not ready to
surrender their inalianable rights to
lift an inferior race in domination
upon the people Of the South.
With all the infatuation of republi-
canism the American people are not
willing to surrender so large a slice
of their State sovereignty as McKin-
ley, under the tuition Of the radical
ism Of John sherman will demand,
for when such bill is presented It
must cover with its provisions every
State in the Union.
However, we have fair warning of
what to expect, as Mr.. Mckinley has
announced the programme and what
ever fate may befall such bill,
which it is clearly the intention Of
the Republicans to introduce and
press, we may expect The btterest
contest upon the race question.
We agree with the Ohio man that
"we might just rs well fight it out
this year as any other" and we add,
Sin order that the North NAV
satisfy herself and the Republican
PARTY in particular, that there is but
one way to settle it, unless the
Republic of America is sacrificed
and transformed into a military des-
potsm to enforce the hideous
doctrine that ignorance can dominate
intelligence
Certain it is that tie leaders of the
Republican party have marked out
for the next Congress the stormiest
of sessions and are destined to
measure the full strength of their
Democratic opponents.
The coming congressional contest
between the two parties may end in
a different result than that antici-
pated by the Ohio representative,
and when the question is fairly
placed before he people, guide them
in the formation of opinions which
will prove disastrous to the party in
power.
We have an abiding faith in the
reason and judgment Of the Ameri-
can people upon an issue so deeply
connected with their interest and