St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
RACE WARS WILL RESULT.
Southern Republicans Denounce
the Election Bill.

WASHINGTON, June 30.-In the house
to-day the credentials of w. w. Dicker-
son as representative from the Sixth
Kentucky district, to succeed Mr.. Car
isle, were presented, and Mr.. Dicker
son was sworn in. The debate OH the
federal election bill was resumed, Mr..
Herbert, OF Alabama, addressing the
house. Mr.. Herbert referred to the re-
construction period, and said that
the result had been that the negro had
been taught to diStrust the Southern
white man, and during that period the
Southern states had been represented
in congress by Republicans.~ Now
they were represented by Democrats,
and hence the necessity for a national
election bill If the South were allowed
to work out the problem for itself, the
time would come when the negro, being
educated as the white man was, would
he able to take care of himself as a tax
payer and citizen. This bill would
have the effect of arraying race against
race again in the South. Mr.. Houk, of
Tennessee, Republican) said that it
had been his conviction since his earll-
est reading of the constitution that it
was paradox to leave to the states the
control of the election of national Of
ficers. Mr.. Houk quoted from re-
port made by Springer, of Illinois, in a
contested election case, in which he
claimed that Mr.. Springer laid down
the
Exact Principle Involved
in the pending bill: That the laws of
every state in the union should con-
form to the law OF the land. The OBJ
lection to the bill was not that the col
ored man was black, but that he voted
a Republican ticket. Mr.. Coleman, of
Louisiana, said that he was Repub-
lican both from conviction and from
principle: a Southern man by birth,
education and association, he was OPP
posed to the enactment of the federal
election law at this time. and, n0twith-
standing the fact that the promoters of
this measure aimed to secure the great
desideratum of a free ballot and fair
count, he did not think that this was a
proper time to make this political eX-
pertinent He was as certain that
| trouble and bloodshed would follow
| the enactment of the legislation. and
that the law would fail in its purpose
! as he was that he would vote against 1t
in this house. A federal election law
would be an expensive political blunder;
| the public money could be used to
| greater advantage in paying the honest
| claims of the people of the South, in re-
| imbursing the depoSitors of the Freed
mems Saving and Trust company; in
constructing leveeS on the Mississippi
river, and i'm educating the children OF
the South, black as we'll as white. Pass
| federal election law and the men now
ready to separate from the Democratic
| party would get back into what they
were told was the white mans party
rather than risk negro supremacy. Mr..
| Finley, of Kentucky, spoke in support
| of the measure. He asked if the South
| ern Republicans intended at this day
To Bully Anybody,
to scare anybody, to intimdate any
| body. The time for that had passed
Mr.. Turner, of Georgia. inquired what
the situation was which invited this
new crusade against his section. Ii
the time of profound peace, what eX-
| cuse was there for kindling again the
fires of political persecution? He as
serted that when the next congress met
the country would be under strain moi
| paralleled since the days of the dis
| puted presidential count. Mr.. Waddill
| of Virginia, favored the bill, and saiG
that Virginia was Republican with g
fair count. Mr.. Tracy, of New York
earnestly opposed the bill, which he as
serted was an attempt to continue the
| Republican party in power in the
Fiftv-second cohgress, in case the
| people in the election decidede
| otherwise. Mr.. Cultivate, of Ohio
said that one of the features of the
bill was to construct political machine
to control the representatives OF the en-