Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-10-25
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 90, $780,
AS usual, the republican administers
tion and party are sailing under false
colors. 1t has been decided by the
bosses to have Mr.. Harrison issue
proclamation calling an extra session
of Congress to meet after the elections
next month, and fearing its effect
upon the voters they do not dare to
have the proclamation issued until it
will be too late to call the attention of
the people to what it means. 1t
means that, having control of both
the executive and legislative branch
es of the Government the republicans
have fully made up their minds to
enact laws which will enable them to
continue to control them, it means
that, for the first time in the history
of our Government, Congress is to
meet in extra session for the sole pur-
pose of perpetuating the power Of a
political party-the republican party;
it means that the Force bill is to be
passed and that the negro, backed by
the United States Army, is to be put
on top in the South, Notwithstanding
the remonstrances of thousands of
northern business men who have in
vested their money in southern in>
dustries; it means that an unjust ap>
portionment bill making it practically
impossible for the democrats to elect
a majority in either the House Of
Representatives or the electoral col
lege is to become a law; it means
that hundreds of millions of dollars
of the peoples money is to go into the
pockets of a ring already formed in
anticipation of the passage of the ship
subsidy bill; it means that the U. S.
Treasury is to be emptied into the
pockets Of the schemers who have
supplied the corruption fund used by
Quay, Dudley, Clarkson & Co., to
buy the election of Harrison and
Morton and the republican majority
in the present House of Representa-
tives, by means of appropriations of
one kind and another. And that is
not all it means; it means, if success
full, the sounding of the death knell
of the republic.
Mr.. Huston, Of Indiana, who by
the grace of Mr.. Benjamin Harrison,
Of the same State, is Treasurer of the
United States, drawing salary Of
$1,000 year, has publicly served no.
tice upon Mr.. Benjamin Harrison
that he must not expect the support
LOT the Indiana delegation to the re-
publican National convention of 1892
But perhaps this notice will LOST
some of its effect when it is learned
as l have reason to believe it sOor
will be, that Mr.. Harrison had pre-
viously served notice upon Mr.. Hus
ton that he must turn lose that Sc, 00
Government teat.
Attorney-General Miller has gon
to Indiana to see if he cannot placat
the republican opposition in tina
State to his going upon the Suprem
Court bench as successor to the lat
Justice Miller. If he can quiet tn
practical politicians" out there MI
Harrison will send his nomination t
the Senate as soon as it meets, if not
he gets left, as Mr.. Harrison's spina
column isn't strong enough to enabl
him to 60 against the "gang."
One would suppose that the Civi
Service Commission had suddenl
gone out of existence, to see the pal
taken by the big republican offiC
holders in compelling the small fr
to chip in their assessments to tn
campaign funds of the party. Publ
meetings of the various State reput
lican associations are held almoE
o nightly, at which speeches are mad
= = by Government officials, and pull
J, lished in full in the local papers
n which is punishable under the civ
], service law, if the Commissions
1t had nerve enough to see that the la
4 was enforced. There is an open an
y public rivalry between the State ass,
e Citations of Ohio and Indiana to 81
which shall succeed in raising tt
most money for campaign us,
among employees of the Government
and the names, not only of those WI
have contributed, but of those WI
e must contribute are openly read Of
at their meetings. In the meartim
l' Commissioner Roosevelt seems to
n. spending the most of his time sim
i l.