Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1890-07-05
ruE FEDERAL ELECTION BILL.

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And 90 the Republicans 10 Congress
have commenced the discussion OF the
Federal Election bill in all seriousness.
We wonder If any other thought except
partisan success ever enters the heads OF
these alleged statesmen With them
the good Of the country is 9 secondary
consideration. They care not IT the
whole theory and genius Of our msgnih'
cent form Of Government be totally sub
verted so long as they can find subter-
fuges for ~legislating to maintain their
desperate old party in control OF the
affairs Of the country. This Federal
Election bill is worse than q thief in the
night. The thief steals only your prop
erty. The proposed Federal Election
law will ultimately steal away the liber-
ties Of the people. II will revolutionize
our whole election machinery OF n
hundred and more years. Instead OF
the States conducting the elections in
the future, as in the past, they are to be
managed by the Federal Government
under the supervision Of Federal officers
from whose counts and returns there Is
no appeal. The law is intended, OF
course, for the South, but is to be OF
general application throughout the
Union. 1t will apply in Massachusetts,
and Nevada the same as in South Caro-
lima and Georgia. The chief aim Of the
bill is to count the Southern States for
the Republican ticket in Presidential
and Congressional elections. As a mat
ter Of fact it only assumes to control
these elections, but inssmuch as State
and local elections in about all OF the
States, are held at the same time, the
Federal Government will "round up" the
whole business at one swoop. Is any
part Of this scheme desirable, or is it
demanded by anybody except a few mar
row minded and hide bound Republi-
can partisansi We have long since
ceased to expect any legislation for the
good OF the people from that party. 1t
is owned body and soul by the monopo-
lists in every State in the American
Union. 1t legislstes solely in the in
terest Of the privileged few as against
the struggling many. 1t does so right
here in Nevada, and in Congress and
everywhere where it has control. We
do not write against this proposed new
device for swindling the voters in any
partisan sense. Chickens usually come
home to roost. We are not afraid
that the control OF the Government Of
this country will not revert to the Dem
ocratic party within a brief space Of
time. 1t must inevitably do SO, if our
present form is TO be preserved and tc
endure permanently. Republican pol
icy, il persisted in, will transform our
present system, with all of its admira'
BILE constitutional limitations, into an
empire, with all power lodged in Wash
ington, in less than twenty years. With
our elections taken out of the hands oil
the States and the people; with the free
school system placed under the controI
Of Federal authority, which we narrowly
escaped in the defeat Of the Blair Edu-
c%ational bill, and which is sure to be re-
viewed again; and with the Fedora
Courts assuming jurisdiction, without
warrant of law or precedent, of triall
for murder. as in the Nagle case. what
power, may we not ask, will be left tC
the States aud to the people thereof
We presume that Republican statesman
ship, for a few years at least, will per,
nit US TO have Justices of the Peace
clothed with power to try offenders fol-
battery and robbinp hen roosts.