The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-24

"44A oe 'o HelpleSS d9 u pdIuleO Sulp
upon painted ocean. This Republi,
can Congress under the cast iron rules
of Tom Reed began early to unseat
Democratic members so as to have q
good working majority. Judge Jack
son, OF West Virginia was the first to
fall. Next Pendleton had to retire and
then in swift succession they turned
out Cate of Arkansas, Wise of Virginia,
Turpen of Alabama and Venable of
Virginia. Turpen had thirteen thou
sand majority but they said that four
teen thousand negroes were intimi-
dated and didn't go to the polls. In
this way they have increased their
working majority from eight to twenty
and now seem satisfied for awhile.
Then they passed bill requiring the
president to appoint seventeen new
circuit judges, who, of course are to be
all partisan republicans and will hold
their offices for life And next came
the crowning infamy-the force bill
that clinches all the nails and makes
fast and permanent our humiliation.
These circuit judges are to be election
supervisors, who will hold their Offices
for life. The chief supervisors are to
appoint three subalterns for every elec-
ton precinct, and two of them are re-
quired to be Republicans. The other
may be anything or nothing or a man
of straw. They will hold the election
and count the votes and make returns
to the chiefs in that district. The
chiefs selects one of the circuit judges
to appoint a returning board for each
State in the circuit. This board holds
office for life. The chiefs appoint all
the marshals and deputy marshals
and the subalterns who hold the
elections are also made marshals
with power to arrest and sum-
mon the citizens to assist them.
Federal bayonets are to be on hand
when wanted. This is the substance
of the Lodge bill. The force bill, as it
IS called. is intended solely for the
South and is to be enforced On the pc
tition of a hundred men in any con-
gressional district. This bill means
Republican power without end, and
Southern degradation to the extreme.
Under this lay the most corrupt men
can hold the House of Representatives
without limit, though the people were
against them, for they can conspire
with the supervisors and be always re-
turned, and of course their own body
would not impeach them. This bill of
iniquity that was conceived in sin and
hate was passed in the darkness of an
awful night during a terrific storm,
while the thunder was peAling and the
lightning was flashing. It was passed
amid the eXulting shouts of the Repub-
licans and loud cheers of the negroes
who crowded the galleries. This bill
will cost the country millions and mil
lions of dollars to enforce it, even if it
is enforced peaceably and without dis
turbance. If it becomes a law, as it
will probably do, then Judge Stewart
and Colonel Livingston can shake
hands across the bloody chasm and
retire to the peaceful bosoms of their
families, for the motto of the returning
board will be, "No democrat need ap-
ply" There will be hundred negroes
sent to Congress from the South, or a
hundred white men who will be more
odious or revengeful.
Bishop Potter said in his great speech
at Harvard: "The resemblance be-
tween ancient Rome and America are
tragic and significant. It was huge
military organization that put Rome
up at auction and knocked her down
to the highest bidder, and to-day the
party that bids the highest for votes is
rewarded with all the power. 1t has
come to pass that not alone the Scared
veteran and MANNED soldier draws
pension, but every skulking camp fol-
lower and deserter, every fraudulent
and tainted claimant who demands a
bribe, can get it for his vote"
A friend told me that he was domi-
cled for a month in little village up
north, and the town talk was about
trifing fellow who had just drawn
$1,000 of back pay, and was put on the
pension rolls for a sore toe, which he
swore become so during the war. The
village gossip declared that he was
never in the war; and if he. was, he
never marched, and if he did, he had
no sore toe; and if he did, it didn't dis
able him from work, nohow, toe or no
toe; and it was nothing but a swindle
from beginning to end, and lawyer
was at the bottom of it.
But that don't matter, for Ingalls,
says he will introduce bill to pension
ali the well ones as we'll as the sick,
and member from Colorado has filed
bill to pension all the negroes who
were in slavery at the beginning of the
war. Take it all in all, the outlook for
peace and justice and States rights
and the constitution of our fathers is
bad, very bad. But maybe the ALI
ance can help us and save the country.
I hope so. BILL ARP.
The Name William. e.
The name William was not first
given to children ; it was name con-