The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-07-16
THE NATIONAL cAPITAi.
Special Correspondence to the GLOBE RE-
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PUBLICAN.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. July 14th.
The leading members of the House are
working effectively to induce the Senate
to pass the national election bill before
the session comes to an end. Without
doubt there is a majority in favor of it
I in the Senate as there was in the House.
and could vote be reached the Lodge
bill would be law before the snow falls.
but the leading republican senators are
more than jealous of the rights and lib
critics of the Senate and will not do any
thing to cnrtail or abridge them. The
democrats have it in their power. there
fore. by ''talk against time" to delay
action on the measure until after the fall
elections.
The necessity for such law is so we'll
known that argument is unnecessary,
sometimes illustration is apt even when
the mind is made up. Colonel Edward
c. Wade, of Georgia. native of the
state but a republican in politics and a
prominent man in the party. says it is
the very thing the south needs most. and
that election frauds have been tolerated
long enough, and he gives this illustra-
ton of how big democratic majOrities
are piled mp in the black districts of the
South:
Take my own county for example.
it is Chatham county, in which l have
lived for forty years. Its population is
about 100, 900 and its extent is forty miles
one way and fifty the other. In all this
large county there is but one voting place
and that is in the court house in Savan-
nah. on the Savannah river, forty miles
away from the voters on the other side of
the county. This outrage was perpe-
trated by a democratic legislature of
Georgia by abolishing eight county pre-
cincts and establishing only the one in
the city. thereby DISTINGUISHING 10000
republican voters. You see that it is i'm
possible for all, or even one half of our
citizens to vote under such an arrange
ment. owing to the brute force with
which they are met in trying. and the
certainty that numbers of them will be
killed."
Two conclusions only are to be drawn
from this condition of affairs; either the
South should be compelled to count this
disfranchiSed republican vote, or else the
southern representation in Congress should
be so reduced as to represent the white
men who vote. and are citizens i'm fact
as well as name alone. AS the latter is
impracticable the only remedy left is to
enforce the doctrine of "a fair vote and
an honest count
While the Senate has business still
piled up on its table the House has fallen
into condition Of '.inOccuous desue-
tude. Even now the warm spell has
put to flight almost half of the members.
who have retired a little inglOriously at
almost the first fire of old Sol, and as "a
result barely quorum is present to do
business. The Senators do not care.
however. as they live in cool pleasant
homes of their own. surrounded by every
comfort and appliances for making ex-
istence agreeable. while the members
must fight for the breath of life in the
stuffy back rooms of Odorous boarding
houses or the lily ventilated apartments
of one of Washington's first class hotels.
1t is not the proper thing, however. for
these runaway members of Congress to
assert that the work of Congress is, 80 far
as they are concerned, finished for this
session. Congress comes together for
something more than the passage of APP
preparation bills, and by the way, not
half OF these have been finally consider
ed in the House. and the calendar of
business shows not one but dozens of
meritOriOus measures to which the
House can well apply its energies while
awaiting the pleasure of the Senate on
the tariff and federal election measures.
The democrats are the worse truants as
the attendance of republicans can easily
be secured whenever their presence is
absolutely necessary or when test vote
is reached. But Congress has plenty of
work to do in both branches and it won't
work for the legislative truants to make
out that the parliamentary school is over
for this term.
One of the few remaining members of
Mr.. LincOln's administration, Hon. Hugh
of Indiana, is now lying ill
at his country place near this city. Nc
CullOch was the first comptroller of cur
rency under the National Banking law
and was promoted to be Secretary of the
Treasury. He is quite old. and in poll
tics has about drifted through all parties
of late years. although now inclined to
affiliate with the democrats on the tariff