The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
THE THREE VOICES.
Warnings Which the Democratic Law
Breakers of the South should Heed.


Breakers of the South Should Heed.
Three great voices were uttered SIM
ultsneously in different parts of the
country in the celebration of General
Grants birthday, which have been
caught by the ear of the whole country,
and can not fail to make great impress
sion on current politics .......
From Washington comes the msgnifi-
cent letter of the President of the
United States directing that steps be
taken to maintain the supremacy of
the constitution snd the laws Of the
United States in the recusant districts
of Florida This voice means business,
and if gallant Ben Harrison wants a
million of men to help maintain the
constitution in Florida or anywhere
else, let him sound his bugle, and he
can have them in thirty days
The second voice was uttered in
Western Pennsylvania, where the con-
fluence of the Allegheny and Mononga-
hela mikes the Ohio river, that pours
its increasing food into the Mississippi,
and through that past and through va
rious old rebel States, until il debouches
into the Gulf of Mexico, lined with a
population Just as hostile to the stars
and stripes now as in 1861.
That was the voice Of the Hon.
Thomas B. Reed. the Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives,
calling in no uncertain tones for the
enactment of United States law which
will give to the United States in all
parts Of the country. the control of all
United States elections.
The passage of such law will be the
first onward step to the music of the
Union for the protection of 7.0Oo, 900 of
our black fellow-citizens in the South
eastern recusant States, and for the pro-
lection of all legal voters for United
States officers in that as well as the
other three-fourths of the Union. That
voice means business 1t has struck
terror into the hearts OF the people who
have long been guilty Of perjury, fraud
and murder at the polls, and it tells
them distinctly that the kingdom has
departed from them. When such law
shall be enacted should gallant Ben
Harrison need two millions of men to
enforce it all he need do will be to
sound his bugle and he can have them
in thirty days. The Nation now knows
what was the subject Of the consulta-
ton between President Harrison and
Speaker Reed in their recent confer
ence. The coincidence of these two
voices was not undersigned.
The third voice was that of General
Wager Swayne, raised in this glorious
and patriotic metropolis. and it serves
as the undertone to the other two voices,
because, when he proclaimed the great
fact that it was owing to the quick reso-
luton of General Grant, after Lees
ignominious surrender to him at Ap-
pomattox, that the Empire of Maxi
milan in Mexico fell and monarchy in
North America came TO an end, and
when the aristocratic, oligarchic spirit of
the ruling class" in the Southeastern
States shall hear the rumble of this
voice, it will warn them to finally make
up their minds that this Nation is not
prepared to see them establish their
rule Of a very few over a very many, no
matter with how many periuries, bal
lot-box stuftings. tissue ballots. assassi-
nations, intimidations and groans they
may attempt to cover UP their designs
This speech of General Swayne's has
not been made enough Of Let US tell
some Of its points. At the great review
of 20, 600 veteran troops in Washington
in the month of May, 1866, by General
Grant and semi-traitorous President
johnson. one great soldierly character
was not present That man was Philip
Sheridan. He was not there because OF
orders which General Grant had given
him, brooking no delay. and sending
him post haste TO our Texan frontier.
Once there, this officer, who had there
tofore been most scrupulous in account
ing for every saber and musket that had
been issued BY the United States to
its troops, suddenly reversed all the
training Of his education and his hab-
its. and allowed something like 10000