Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-07-19
The COlored Press ON the Federal
Election Bill.


The Southern bourbons are greatly
exercised over the passage of the Fed
eral Election Law by the House, and
they f. ar that il may pass the Senate,
They have howled, ranted, threatened,
and eveL went so far as TO claim that
the elections in the South were fair and
impartial, which is the basest OF false
hood, and finding these to be OF no
avail they have now decided TO boycott
Northern merchants and manufacture
ers, and to discharge all their Negro
employees and substitute W hile labor.
This is the VOLS kind of bosh heard of
for many days.
III the elections are fair and honest as
they claim why need they care if a
safeguard be thrown around the ballot
box, tha' will make it more pure, but
the fact that Trey are so bitterly OPP
posed to the measure is conclusive evi
dence that there is something rotten in
Denmark. -l'ittsburg Pa, Af,o Ameri-
can Sp, he man.
IAN effective Federal election law is
necessary 10 give exemphfication aud
force to the fourteenth and fifteenth
articles of amendment to the Constitu :
ton. Ii it does not have such far
reaching effect, its enactment would be-
as farcial as dumping a bucket of water
on ducks back.
Congressman HEMPHILL OF South
Carolina expressed Tie true opposition
TO che LOL GE bill when he declared
that white men would not submit TO
Negro rule, majority or no majority
That is the true color of the milk in the
cOcOanuL.
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Mugwump quarters that the Senate will
not concur IN the Lodge measure, but
will hang il up. The Wish Is father OF
the thought. And yet there are men In
the Federal Senate, elected AS Republi-
cans, who .nnot be relied upon 70 sup
port this measure some of the mt a
who voted against BLAIR Educational
| bill. SIS.
The way to whip the enemy is to find
out what he does not want, and give
him as much of It as is sufficient TO Grip
pie him beyond his power 10 do HARM y
New York Age.
s''The decision % the House of commit
zee on elections not TO seat Jas. Hill, Oh
any of the Republican contestants from
Mississippi, so justly entitled to seats IN
Congress, will not only have very de-
pressing cucCJ Oh TIC OcpuDAiCdIS Ol
that State, but will be hurGful to the
party at large. IL the House is ready
TO say that ba'lOt box stuffing and muir.
der are legitimate political agencies In
Mississippi, the party may suffer for II
outside of Mississippi. New Orleans
| Crusader,
''Will the senate allow the election
bill to fail because the Democrats threat
en- to prolong the session into winter
month? We do not believe it. The
sc nate is quite as familiar with the
methods resorted TO at the South TO car
~ elections as was the House, when It,
| by a party vote passed the measure
We must not go before the country this
fall standing upon broken promises. y
Washington Bee
cit is not believed that with her large
Negro majority Mississippi will have
one colOred man in the Constitutional
Convention. This fact alone speaks
more eloquently against the damnabie
Democratic rule that curses the state
than anything that could be written
| And yet some fellows want no Federal
] election law. New Orleans Crusader.