The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-12-27
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Whom the Gods mean to destroy,
they first make mad The history Of
mankind, from Priam 10 Napoleon,
from the English StuSris to the French
Bourbons, from Boulangcr, the mounte-
bank. to Tom Reed. the clown, furnish
cunlulous proofs of the truth of the
old saving. But for faiuty in folly.
for total blindness of intellectual
vision, for the completcst and sheerest
vieiousness Of lunacy. political litera
ture, ancient and modern, presents us
nothing quite SO fantastic, feeble aud
flabby as Grandma HOar. Old Dame
Partington, with specs on nose and
broom-stiek in hand, sweeping back
the waves Of the Atlantic Ocean. cuts
respectable figure by the side of this
senile Senator, with his little Force
bill, which is going to regenerate the
world by making the average black
man the superior of the average white
man, and to purify elections at the
South by debauchiDg the courts and
degrading the local governments.
We shall say nothing personally dis
respectful of the Senator from Massa-
chusetts. He may be fairly described
as cross between grind-stone and
an encyclopedia. The fairy god
mother who stood over his cradle gave
him everything except good nature,
good sense and good looks. Grandma
Hoar can turn pretty sentence. She
is well-read in poetry, Pagan and
Christian. She is up in the classics
in fact, walking cemetery of dry
bones and dead languages. But she is
such crazy, old cross-box of a Grand
ma that all her learning, and all her
gifts of speech turn TO sour apples off
dead fruit trees, missing Gods sun
light altogether, to drop at last mere
rotting cores on damned ground.
Yet, this is the leader under whose
spreading Bloody Shirt the Red Re-
publcans in Congress are about to
rally, vice Reed, disgraced, and Quay,
disfgured, and Mckinley, retired. This
is the tin soldier who is to assemble
forces in the desolate camps and to re-
organize the conec-coolers for a grand
and final assault. This is the wooden
nutmeg, which, painted sky-blue and
labelled "Moses,' is to steer the Cory
Old Party through the Red Sea of
Federal Intervention to the uplands Of
tariff robbery and agrarian rapine.
To such base uses has it come at last.
We speak the blessed truth when We
say that, as a partisan Democrat, we
should hail the passage of the Force
bill with exultation. II embodies the
most perfect and gigantic seoundrelism
ever proposed in any Legislative body.
Infamous In its motives and purposes,
dangerous IN Its portents and menaces,
false in its professions and conclusions,
il can not fail to react, and violently to
react upon its authors. II will not
secure the Republicans single Con-
gressional district in the South and
will lose them many In the North. 1t
will simply stop for time the flow Of
material well-being and personal good
feeling in one section of the country,
whilst the other section is bid to stand
and wait for Grandma Hoar's drum
majors and drill.masters, under tho
command of Poker Jack Mcclure, TO
work the miracle of making negro
white man, through the agency OF
debascd Federal Courts, flourishing IN
bloody triumph over the ruins of home
rule.
We repeat It. AS a partisan we
should welcome this mad and bad
measure of political chaos.
But we regard this question from no
party standpoint. It is full of danger
to the country. II will accomplish Moth
| Ing II pretends TO aim at. II will revolu-
tionizo our whole electoral system. II
will disarrange for the period Of Its
life our whole labor system. II will
drag the ermlne of our courts through
the mire ofthe most loathsome partisan
contention. 1t may entail race war.
1t may cost many human lives. II Is
equally needless and malign, an open
declaration of war by the leaders of
the Republican party, not alone against
the South, and Its responsible, white
inhabitants, but against our admirable
adjustment of Federal and local juris-
diction, with its century of happy
experience, the fair fabric Of our State
hood, tho sole bulwark of home rule
In America, and the peaceful operation
Of an industrial settlement, reached
only after years Of confusion and vast
losses of money and life.
The enactment will as surely kill the
Republican party as did the Alien and
Sedition laws kill the old Federal
Party. Is that Party to be another
Samson, pulling the temple after him
with his fall, or q second Aristides,
preferripg exile, or even death TO dis
honor2 Or, is it merely great dis
solving lump of lymph and Doodle,
given over to tho custody of Grandma
Hoar, as a sick kitten might be in
trusted to an old hen2 1t would seem
this latter.
Since this election bill was first pro-
posed the TIMES has contended that
as q party influence IL was unobjec-
tionable; that 1t would not hurt the
Democracy and would surely iniure
the Republicans in popular sentiment
because of its vicious motive, and evil
consequences upon the business inter-
ests aud moral sense of the people.
The Democratic Senators understand
the measure in this way. Their opposi-
tion to it is based upon sense of public,
not party, duty.