The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-04-28
they shall arise must DO our daily walk
and duty, or we cease 10 be. hanging
QUITO old tyaji!ions Ia the business Of the
Democratic party, and It does that busi.
ness well We can never rival II.
TRIALS OF TIE sopTII,

J
y. TRIALS OF TIE SOUTH
1t Is known TO everybody that tht
South denies that cheating Is part ant
parcel Of their elections. It Is equally
known TO everybody that that denial I.
not true. The South has passed through
many stages. The ku klux first de-
! ployed its midnight terrors TO intimidat
I voters. Then came the midnight shoot.
iuHs and hangings; then the bull,lozinp
and the driving Of the negro politicians
into the woods, in the darkness Of thu
night. AT present tho murders havn
nosny p'eeeu n"Ayf hnn ine lell9iIIHs
hnr s,"tI;ru nm % onf cbo",;nn ,I ~ ~. na nan,,,
, have taken their places. Throughout
all this variety Of wickedness, ! cali
,h", Ipon S;I, sHu 10 , no'G one singular iael,
.n;., ana. Willie ai ~ eA'siea every one OF THESE
s'.hes .ann asalhst tne ,novefnmeht was
mos' ssoaeuhnly uehled ny Soulhefn press
., anu eouil'ern peoPie' NO man denies
''Tni 'oaaY. ~, ;,
.,a net " coMe u. some pfinclples which
mv iuaualliensaI ~ .. ~ th's ihat!er a
IT, u.s,o ha 70 e,.,]sn q. !le onl'eu states;
@ mu a'Is JUST as lIucn lisht 10 vote ana
lay las r vote eounteu as anyoouy on
g"1sn. 1hat he is poor ana ignorlnt
uoes not' uhaet the Cohstl:uuon, put
upon MS neck Tue 1901 OF riches or OF
'n!elhEence. Manhood, anu not riches
hn;'an'ioou, h,n;a aEa nov learning, 10 ne
nnalS i;a o' our government we would
..hI ..:'', an our clt']gns 20 oe learned VIC
has misn sney were a.i flch nut until they
oGcolne ooth We wiil take tne average OF
sn AZ y, 'neh W 'hey are. Notning less
a yuan .nat ~oala 10 government cpy the
peop'e'
ENTITLED TO 1T AND NEED IT.
The Republican yot. of the Sou.h IN.
Rso,h,;;o, ,,r,, ;. o,,;,,a1 :. .,,,,n.
'.." :, pa''' 20 ''.''''ca W. unuef
t"e CONSTITUTION, whether that vote be
ignorant or sensible. II Ignorant. we |
need it to offset the Democratic irnor.
ance which votes in New York and
other large cities. Why should they
pol! their ignorance, and we not poll
ours? What is the: remedy? When,
last Thursday, in the Senate, the com.
mittee in Charge reported an enlarge
mcnt oil the powers and uscs of the
United States supervisors over, State
elections, the Senator from Alabama
took the unusual course Of. declaring,
then and there, that auch supervision
OF the State elections was uncons,itu.
tional, and would lead to bloodshed and
murder, and would be resisted by all
possible parliamentary tac.ics.
What, then, is the remedy i? 1speak
only for myself. What I say binds
nobody but me, and not even me, if the
Republican party prefers another poIicy:
but speaking for myself, it seems to me
that the only wise course is to take into
Federal hands the Federal ELECTIONS
Let ua cut loose from the State elections,
do our own registration, our own count.
ing and our own certitcation. Then the
nation will be satlstieh. Against this
course no constitutional objection can
be urged. The Marlborough. case, a de-
cision Of the Supreme Court, covers it
all over. No objection can be nrped
against it on account OF sectionalism, It
applies North and South, East aud West.
1t viii. put an end to all chickering's, The
Southern States will then by themselves
grapple with the problem of wheth.r