The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1890-12-06
spurning the Popular Voice.

The annual message Of President Harrison
was sent to Congress on Monday. Its leading
topics are an argument in defence OF the
Mckinley bill and recommendation TO pass
the Lodge Force bill, both of which were so
emphatically spurned by the people at the
ballot box on the 4th of November last a
more emphatic expression OF condemnation
Inv the people, was never heard of in this or
any other country. But it passes by the I'M
nersonation of obstinacy domciled IN the
White House, as the idle wind which he heedS
not. Is such conduct more becoming the
President of free republic, or the Gar oil
all the Russias. the veriest despot on earth
Such conduct is not craftsmanship, 1t is revo'
lutionary thus TO defy the will Of the people
Il is madness, the spirit of the bravado, stlm'
ulated by phrenzied brain, instead OF the
calm and dignifed submission to The public
will which should ever characterize the con
duct of the President. And on the same day
this mad can recommendation was made, his
followers, in the Senate, met in solemn con-
clave, and resolved to press this infamous
measure to final passage, in open defiance
of the sweeping and tremendous majority
given against it by the people! Whom the
gods wonld destroy they first make mad.
And was ever such madness seen since the
world began? The servants, the representa-
tives of n free people. in dark and damnins
conspiracy against the liberties of the people!
It. is nothing less, and ought to arouse the
whole people from the centre to the cIrcum
ference of this vast land. that the CataIines al
the Capital are plotting treason against pnbhC
liberty with the President al their head Ii
is well for us to inquire, just here, what would
have been the course pursued in monarchia
England, under such majority as that cast
at the polls on the 4th of November? Mon
archial though that government be, 1t would
not have dared to defy the people in ihi:
way. No, the ministry would have immedi'
ately resigned, and new ministry, more II
accord with the popular will, would have taker
its place But, here, in free and republican
America, a President of the United States
supposed to be the representative OF the PEG
pie, in the face of their most emphatic protest
at the polls, and in utter defiance of then
will, urges the adoption of measure which
strikes at the most vital principle of repnbll
can government, and takes out of the hands
of the citizens of the States the Management
of their own elections and places that manage
ment in the hands of Federal officials, so thai
elections shall be no longer free. viii {
people who have not yet the Federal mana
ces upon their wrists, submit TO this state o
things. In other words, are the American
people ready to surrender their liberties, 70
to this complexion it will come at last.unde
this Infamous Lodge Force Bill, il it become
n law.
If the bill should become a law, do it
friends fondly dream that ii can be executed
without force and arms and bloodshed? No
until every expedient known to the Consttu
ton and the Courts has been exhausted ant
not then until every manly principle of the
human breast is crushed, and American lib
erty is n thing of the past, and the object 70
which this government was founded-th'
liberty Of the people is lost in utter despotism
The principles which animated the founder
ofthis government still live in the breasts o
their sons They still cling to The old theor.
of the immortal author of the Declaration o
Independence, that governments are instituted
among men to secure life, liberty and tn
persuit of happiness deriving their Tvs
powers from the consent of the governed 80. -
- '''"'s"tu 10 destroy
American liberty, and to ignore the consent o
the people, can possibly exist while vitality
still warns the active limbs of her patriotic
citizens. A blind futuity seems 10 be hover.
ing over the Administration and its misguided
supporters, that will ultimately lead it anC
them to inevitable overthrow.
DO they want more amphalic pronuneia
mento against their nefarious schemes thar
that of November? They will get it,