Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10


gratitude by presenting solid front
against this nefarious legislation. / am
not one OF those Southern men who be-
| lieyes its evil effects will last long or in
| jure the South eventually more than it
will the North. If there was provision
| in the bill that if one of
this army of supervisors used his
office to influence voters, or
certified congressman as elected who
didn It receive majority of the votes, he
should go the penitentiary. 1t wouldn't
naked difference of one congressman In
the South. The effect on the country at
large is bound,to be demoralizing. It ena-
bles the Republican party TO take directly
out of the treasury so much of their cam
paign fund as they failed TO Try out Of
the manufacturer or officeholder. 1t
enables them to pay 'heelers,' and
buy doubtful voters'' with the peoples
money. 1t permits the certifying up and
seating of o congressman by a super
visor on the vote he should have got in
stead of upon the vote received.
The Federal judiciary Is made a politi-
cal machine TO appoint and protect super
visors. When judge on the bench is
required by law to do a political job he
does il without reg ard TO common Law or
common honesty. What effect will the
| vote of the laboring or farming element
have under such system? And when
1t becomes necessary to perpetuate their
power they will work the scheme in New
York as well as Texas. Every national
election the Republicans find il harder to
hoodwink or buy the voter; so they fix
| up way to certify and buy him both,
out OF his own money. 1t is to make
~
OF course they will work the scheme
first and more extensively in the South
than the North, for they have educated
the voter North to believe so much of evil
against the South that the stealing of
make as much of row as an attempt to
steal one at the North.
THE SOUTH.
When they send their supervisors into
Southern districts it won be to see q
"free ballot aud fair COUNT 1t will
be to get the colored voter into secret
| midnight meetings, and ineite him by
| stories of slavery days, and make him
believe that the government requires
him to vote against the whites, and to
live without labor, and to raise as much
hell as possible. They will be there,
paid out of the treasury, to disturb
| social and business interests, as much as
possible, so as to manufacture political
capital at the North and stop the growth
of Democracy and the formation of labor
| leagues and farmers organizations look
| ing to q more honest and economical ad-
ministration of the government.
They will make government officers
out of ward heelers, pay them out OF the
treasury and clothe them with Federal
power to do dirty political work. The
| classical brain of the Massachusetts con-
gresham never conceived the bill or its
details; 1t is the offspring of a man whose
| only idea of politics is either to buy or
steal an office. Under 1t they need go to
| no extraordinary trouble or expense il
electing congressman, when little
certificate of an irresponsible supervisor,
appointed by partisan judge and
| backed by q partisan congress, will do
the work Corruption and tyranny soon
extended from the provinces to Rome
itself, and then came the fall.
Money can t be taken from the treas
ury to corrupt, or for force used to
| tyrannize over one section of this Union,
that sooner or later it won't produce like
results in other sections. Precedent and
The legal power to do evil is every thing
| in the destruction of free institutions.
Nobody in the South believes in q sever
ance of trade relations, or will hate the
entire North because of the passage of
this bill.
no BOYCOTT.
II we don't buy your goods aud pay
our debts IL will be because these super
visors will be so many emissaries, to so
| disarrange our social aud business inter-
ests that we can't make the cotton to
raise the money to pay with.
FAIR ELECTIONS.
II the Republicans want only fair
elections, and don 7 seek by this bill to
Increase their party machinery and grip,
and take their campaign fund from the
treasury, why don't they pass more
stringent election laws, applicable to the
whole country, and authorize United
States district judges to empanel grand
jurors from every county in their re-
spective districts. TO find indictments for
violation of election laws. They want to
use these supervisors to force the colored
voter to the polls and to vote him, and If
this don't do, then to certify up in spite
of the vote, as many congressman as
necessary to control congress.
This government has lived more than a
century and stood the test of civil war
without such legislation. If this bill
passes we won t do like the Republicans
in Kansas are dong, go to every depot
armed to resist the law. We won t hurt
hair on the negroes head, as he hasn't
asked for the law, and wouldn't unless
over persuaded or bulldozed petition for
these supervisors. We won't shoot him
down half as fast as Pinkerton men shoot
down striking miners or laborers with
Republican permission. But Mr.. Reed
can bet his last dollar, that the intelli-
gence of the South will find a quiet
peaceable way of preventing negro
domination forced by his supervisors.
We may in self-defense and for self
preservation in few localities do what
your manufacturers and mine owners do
to affect the market. We may turn our
mules out to pasture in those localities,
lock our plantation gates, and tell the
negro to take the public road with
Reed supervisors and get their bread
from them. If they are melted by these
supervisors TO take by force what is ours,
it is useless to tell any man with Cau-
casian blood in his veins what the result
would be.
We have O natural affection for, and
patisnce with our oolored people. Since