The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-08-07
THE REPUBLICAN PLAN.

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rush through the tariff bill in the great
est amount of haste, and in order to do
this resolution was adopted to day that
hereafter the senate shall meet at 10
o'clock q. M, and adjourn at 6 o'clock
p. m. daily. This means eight hours
of solid talk in great heavy chunks daily,
the burden of which they calculate will
soon wear out the members, and by which
vote can be had probably ten days
earlier than otherwise.
Then the force bill will be landed in
the senate, and the great fight will COM
mence. However, the republican lead
ers do not anticipate much trouble from
the democratic side. They concede tnat
the democrats of the country have already
won partial victory in the modification
and toning down of the bill, and believe
that the democrats will accept it as the
inevitable after short fight.
TEE HOAR SUBSTITUTE.
The republicans are unanimous on the
Hoar substitute, which in the language
of the 'grandmas' lieutenant, is both
conservative and mild, applicable to all
sections and all States alike. Under these
circumstances, and with such a fair bill /,
they say the democrats will hardly make
the bitter partisan Gght expected. How.
ever, the Hoar substitute, which is more
conservative and milder than the house
bill, is yet rankly partisan, Its conser
vatism and mildness only goes to the ex
tent of doing away with troops at the
polls, the jury system and the house to-.
house canvass by supervisors provided
for in the house bill. It still retains the
returning board clause, which, is, indeed,
the meat of the bill, and throws the cleo
ton of members of congress entirely
within the hands of the republican par.
ty. Indeed, under this bill the senate
proposes to pass, and will pass, the federal
republican returning board for each State
has the power to return, as elected, a
republican congressman from every dis.
trict of ever State in the union, provided
few votes are cast for each republican
candidate. Indeed, the bill, like the
Lodge bill, makes it so that the republi-
cans will have the power to organize
every congress and retain g majority in
the same.
Yet, the vigorous protests from the
South have been effective. But for them
the senate might have passed the Lodge
bill, aud had every polling place in the
south surrounded with network of fed.
eral bayonets. But for the south's Wig:
orous protests, federal officers would
have visited and inspected all southern
homes in order to learn if registered
voters were truly residents of the towns
or counties. But for the south's protests
democrats, who the federal republican
supervisors might claim had violated
some petty federal law at the polls, would
have been tried by packed republican
juriea, and imprisoned or fined, whether
guilty or iuEocent.
While bill-a republican party
measure-will pass, yet from it many
Objectionable and obnoxious features
have been eliminated, because the south
has been aroused to its peril, and has
protested in meaning and vigorous Ian.
guage. Were it not that the republican
party is committed to this bill, the oppo
sition might have killed it. The repub.
lican party, is however, so thoroughly
committed now that they must pass it
They have modified it, and, indeed, the
senate might yet Zone it down more.
THE FIGHT AHEAD.
In whatever shape is passes, however,
many conservative republicans do moi
believe it will be operative in more than
one election. When the senate passes
the bill amended, to become operative
in all sections alike, there will be trouble
in the house, as was shown by the vote
in the Lehlbach amendment. The ma
jority of the house republicans will moi
submit to the bill being applied in theil
districts, and will consequently insist OF
that portion of tue original house bill
making the provisions only operative or
petition of one hundred citizens. Their
the senate will either have to accept this
or kill the bill The tight, indeed
already shows signs of much interest
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