St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-17
HARRIsoN's HoMILIEs.
That Part of His Inaugural Adj
cdress Referring to heSOuth Will
Declare for a Pure Ballot.

INDIANAPOLIS, luu., JdI. lO.-Utus
Harrison has completed that part of
his inaugural address that refers to
the South. 1t is not very long,
but to the point. The underly-
ing theme of the whole mat
ter will be the necessity for free and
fair ballot. The principle of control by
the majority, Gen. Harrison says, is the
corner store of our governmental syS-
tem. The question of free and
equal ballot, he declares, is domi-
nant one. embracing all others because
it involves the question of free and
fair tribunal to which every question
shall be submitted for arbitration.
He warns the people that this princi-
pie of government by the majority
has been to a certain extent overturned,
and that the industries of the country
have been threatened because the la
boring vote. in a large part Of the cOur-
try. is suppressed. AS to the South di-
rectly, he says no one wishes ill
to that section; 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 prosperity 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
occurring now. This is, he says, the
almost entire suppression of the col
ored Republican vote at the South
upon national questions. He finds
especially deplOrable the evidence that
the persistent suppression of the votes
of the workingmen in zone section
of the country has demOralized the
trust in the sanctity of the
ballot. The general belief that cor
great influence in determining the
results even OF presidential elections;
the tally sheet forgeries, and SIM
liar crimes in many states outside
of the South; the revolutionary
proceedings in other states whereby
duly elected officers have been pre-
vented from exercising the functions
for which the people had. chosen them,
are some of the evidences of the danger
hat threatened free institutions
through the failure of the general faith
i'm 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
a power and influence i'm legislative
bodies to which it is not entitled, 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
deals with the tariff question, and they
will, it is understood, be of nature to
please the business element of
that section; but they have all
to be perfected. None of the address
will be absolutely finished until few
days before it is delivered; certainly not
until after the president-elect has
gone to Washington. What is
being done now is the draft
ing of the various sections
separately. Another part of the adj
dress that is pretty well under way is
the part dealing with civil service re-
form, and contrary TO the views of his
friend. Lew Wallace, the president
elect will firt 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
sentiments upon the subject of Office
and officeholders that need not call the
blush of shame to the cheek even of
George William Curtis. Indianapolis
politicians who are near to him affirm,
however, that his affection for the al
first cousin to the famous
star-eyed dame Of Kentucky is purely
DlatOnic,