The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-07
NATIONAL ELECTION LAW AND MR.
LODGE,


II the Republican party is determined,
through q general election law and
other oppressive measures, to make
Poland OF the South, it may rest as
sured that its visdictive tyranny will
only bind together the sufferers from
common wrongs in closer and more
sympathetic union.
By methods unbeard OF and revolu-
tionary, it secured an amendment to
the constitution which practically made
voters of former slaves, and because
thi, outrage has not fulfilled the dia-
boIical purpose Of its authors, to reduce
the white men Of the South to political
new appliances must be found
to secure this result. We have reason
to believe that the bill providing for
general election law will be reported at
an early period Of the present session OF
Congress, and in harmony with the
eternal fitness Of things, by the proba-
BILE chairman of the Committee OF Elec-
lions. Mr.. Cabot Lodge, Of Msssachu-
sett, n narrow minded New Highlander,
asmalI writer Of Colonial histories, and
probably lineally descended froi one
OF the cruel fanatics who burned the
witches Of Salem.
We would say to him and his follow
ers. go on and forge your letters and
pass your election laws, and in due
time you will find that you cannot
change the laws of nature, and that the
undertaking Of keeping the African
over the Anglo-Saxop, even in Congress
sionaI elections, will be as uncsasing
and as helpless as the labor OF Syslphus'
This Mr.. Lodge sees daily crowds OF
these unthrifty barbariaDs, whom he
would have as our rulers, filling the
streets of Washington and seeking
warmth and lounging in filth and rags
in the galleries Of the House, and yet
is so lost to all the deeencies of life that
he would frame election machinery
which he hopes will fill seats on the
floor with such creatures as representa-
tives of the South.
Can human malignity and hypocrisy
90 further, when we recall the fact that
the Republican allies of this Mr.. Lodge
pronounced by law the thrifty and IN
dustrious Chinaman to be so low in the
scale of civilization as to be unworthy
30 be clothed with the rights of citizen
ship, or even to be allowed to land on
the sacred shores OF the republic, and
vet the African, against the protest OF
nature. is to be made an instrument OF
torture to the white race and domi-
nant political power in an important
section of our common country.
We would say to Mr. Lodge and his
followers that any effort he may make
to manacle the South with African
chains will only recoil on his party and
the race which he seeks to make domi-
nant. The course of the Republican
party IS only ceDenting the South in
the bonds Of sacred memories and a
union against common and threatening
dangers. Less than ever will we dis
honor the memory of our dead heroes,
and would that commemorative sha I
could riss from the graves OF every
Confederate soldier.
We look, too. to the noble Democracy
OF the North and West to come to oui
rescue, and to the elimination OF the
rising storm of indignation in those
sections against the Republican party
with its trusts. its monopolies and III
high tariff, which are making poverty
more pinching and more bitter, anC
wealth more enormous, moro arrogant
and more corrupt.