San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-28
THE GEoR6IA PLAN.

l. THE GEORGIA PLAN.
Under this caption, the Galveston
News Of Wednesday has a very time
ly and sensible remonstrance against
the proposition of the Atlanta Consti.
tuition, to boycott the north in case
congress passes a federal election bill,
The News shows very plainly that
this course cannot be adopted with
out infiicting injury on the south no
less than on the north, because an
impossible wall cannot be erected be-
tween neighbors without mutual in.
jury. The News, in this connection.
says most pertinently:
with the Constitution all is rosy;
the boycotting south will have things
all her own way and the boycotted
north will soon come to terms like q
whipped truant. The boycott is such
q glorious thing and is to do 80 much
for Georgia manufacturers and cities
that the election bill, seen through
this glass, begins to look like q bless
ing in disguise. ,Greenhorns will
wish that 1t may pass ii the Consti-
tution's plan is thought good. The
bill gives the excuse for
policy which is to open, an era
Of unparalleled prosperity. Such
suggestions may gull the credulous,
but whoever thinks at all will per-
ceive that the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
has forgotten or blindly ignored all
that the northern republicans with
the United States government at COM
mand can do in prosecuting the boy
cotters. The interstate commerce law,
conspiracy laws, the administration
of the custom houses, subtreasuries
and postoffices. the federal court and
the army are effective anti-boycottiug
agencies when bent that way"
The New Orleans Times Democrat
deprecates the course of the Constitu-
ton as strongly as does the News,
and points out with unerring instinct
the natural effect of such threats in
inducing the very action on the part
of Congress that is so much deplored.
But what is this contemplated action,
which 80 arouses the Atlanta Consti-
tuition to declare non intercourse with
all northern states? Simply the ex-
ercise by congress of its constitution
al right to provide for the election of
its W members, entrusting to feder-
al officials the machinery OF such cleo
tons. Were it not that the frauds
now perpetrated upon the. ballot
box in Georgia are likely to be pre-
vented by this new regulation, the
Atlanta Constitution would never
have opened its mouth in remon-
STRANGE. 1t is a little unfortunate that
the democracy have so generally
opened their batteries upon this mea-
sure, for it leaves room for very grave
suspicion that they are interested in
perpetuating the frauds so long and
so loudly complained of, and which it
is the purpose of this bill to prevent.
1t seems to the uninitiated that the
control of federal elections, and fed
eral elections only, by federal officials
is not SO grave q usurpation of state
over state elections as to call
for the threat of Don-intercourse so
made by the Atlanta Constitu-
ton. 1t is only to the initiated that
the real reason becomes apparent.
They see how the suspension of frauds
in federal elections mean the return
of a score less democratic congress-
men from the southern states, and
the fear of this loss makes them fran
tic, as a she wolf robbed of her cubs.
In this light this threat of non-inter-
course becomes luminous, but the
right of the citizen to cast his bal
lot as he desires, and to have 1t
counted as cast, must be maintained.
PRINCE GEORGE, the younger
brother of "Collars and Cuffs" is ex-
pected at Newport this week, and
the swell society OF that swell tide re-
sort, are in a fever of expectation.
George is not so correct rs his pomp-
GUS brother, but he is a deal nicer
and pretends a dislike to American
girls. His dad had better taste when
he visited this country as a young
bachelor some thirty odd years
since.
THE position taken Dy the demo-
cratic journals of the south, on the