The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-29
FEDERAL COERCION,
the hypoorit;cat Bargain Made to En-
slave the American people.

slave the American People.
1T has been the policy of the Repub
ucan press in Western States opposed t,
Federal coercion in State elections to as
sert that the force bill has finally beer
disposed of; that its postponemen
means its death, and that it will neye,
be taken up again.
Senator Vests disclosure of the agree.
ment under which the bill was post.
Poned shows how false is this pre-.
tense. THE agreement was made" he
said, in his st. Louis speech, "but mark
you, on this conditions:
Mr.. hoar, Of Massachusetts, who claims to be
The father of the force bill in the Senate ex.
acted OF his colleagues in the Republican eau
Gus mat an agreement in writing should be
siBhca ey them, or majority Of them, to the
eject mat on the first Monday In December
enc Iorce Dill should DO taken up and pressed to
fnal disposition in exclusion of every other
Dill or resolution upon the calendar Forty.four
republican Senators, a majority OF the Repub.
llcan caucus, signed that agreement, and to-day
the people OF the United States are confronted
WIN that agreement, and, unless they interfere
Win thelr sovereign votes at the coming No
Vember election with the certainty that this
force Dill, with all its enormty will be placed
upon The statute books rs the law OF the land"
This is the first full statement of the
agreement under which the Republicans
postponed the force bill. Mr.. Hoar de-
manded and received the signatures of
IT OF them to pledge that, from the
very opening of the second session, the
bill should be pressed to passage
The present intention is undoubtedly
10 refuse to recognize the majority, to
put ingalls, in the chair; thrust aside
the constitutional requirement. of roll
call allow the floor only to Republicans,
ana pass the bill for use in controlling
the general elections of 1892,
Unless the country speaks with de-
cislve effect in November, popular gov.
eminent in the United States will end
at the opening of the polls in 1892. From
on and after the date of tho MASSAGE ,f
the force bill majorities in the electo-
raj college and in Congress will be
made up by secret oaucuses of Washing.
ton politicians, from whose decisions
there Will be no appeal. With an armv
Oh mercenaries, employed by them and
paid from the Treasury, to carry out
thelr orders, as supervisors, return.
ing boards and deputy marshals in
armed possession OF the polls.
any President who pleases may re-
eject himself; any partisan majority in
congress may perpetuate itself Moth
Ing VIII remain OF the free Governments
OF equal States and free people. The
money of the combined corporations OF
the Northeast will have a hold on the
government against which no majority
OF the people can prevail in elections
L ne creatures of the plutocracy will sit
In the White House and in Congress-.
the will of the plutocracy will be regis.
.ereo III laws which blind on mems
packs burdens too heavy to be borne"
III thls power of incorporated money il
SO all-pervading, so audacious now
what limit could be set to its audacitv
when the reformatory force of the neo.
pie mad been taken from them: when
the control of the ballot had been
usurped, and power to loose and to bind
given TO a few office-holding politicians
In Inc District of Columbia, removed
rom the people, with the army at their
call and no responsibility to any power
except that of their own faction?
The people have tho power of Sam
son. Will they suffer their strength to
Do shorn from them that they may be
MADE mock to the chief men and lords
d the plutocracy, assembled to make
port with blind Samson grinding in
'helr mlils?-St. Louis Republic.