Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-10-29

the United States to the manufacturers fol-
the fat that was fried out of them. Ir
order to reimburse themselves these manu-
facturers will fry the means out of the
leanness Of the people. The more the
Republican leaders squeeze the manufac-
turers for the purpose of debauching the
people, the more the manufacturers will
squeeze their labor and the consumers
generally. At this election, voters of Vir
glnla, you must determine whether you ap
prove or condemn such methods. Surely
you will denounce in no uncertain tones
such despicable barter Of your prosperity,
such an Infamous sale Of the power of tax.
alton. Surely you will denounce this legis-
latlon OF trusts, this encouragement of com.
binations. If you believe that the manu-
facturers will refrain from forming comb.
nations to limit the output of an article and
raise its price, you have only to re- call the
jute-bag trust, the linseed oil trust, the
barbed- wire trust, and many others.
PRESIDENT HARRISON.
| If you Lave been deluded into the idea
that this oppressive tariff bill was not
passed for party purposes and with the end
in view of prostituting the ballot, you have
only to take glance at the Administration
and that idea will be dissipated. At the
head of the Republican party, and iu full
sympathy with its most nefarious acts, is q
President who surrounds himself with q
Tanner, who SO disgraced the management,
of the Pension Office that the nation de.
manded his removal; Raum, who sue
ceeded Tanner in office, and who is now
under investigation for dishonest conduct
in the discharge of his official duties; a
blocks Of five Dudley. who was saved by
partisan officials from being prosecuted for
aconspiracy to bribe voters; Wanamaker,
who raised 100000 with which to buy
votes in the last presidential election; and q
Quay, who has silently allowed himself to
be denounced bv his own party associates
as the s'Modern Judas Iscariot," as a
"branded thief" and as a Confessed
criminal. nd who on the eve of the last
presidential election proclaimed that the
result of the election was only question OF
money, and that he had suff1ciency there.
of. Added to all the other iniquities that
characterize the tariff bill is the fact that
many sections of it were rushed through
the House under gag-law and in contempt
of your right of representation.
| Of truth sit is condition and not q
theory which confronts us''-a condition
under which Indifference would be a crime
against patriotism and public morals.
! THE FORCE BILL.
| But the browning infamy of the Republi.
can party-the infamy that all others per.
petrated in its reckless, ruiDous, and sec
tional course pale before-was the passage
by the House of Representatives of the
| ''Force BILL" That bill is now pending in
the Senate and is measure 80 partisan, so
revolutionary, SO subversive of the rights of
the people, SO tainted with moral treason,
and 60 destructive of republican institutions
as to 'sdefy all codes to image or to name
them" Its ostensible object is to secure
| fair elections of members Of the House of
Representatives. Its real object is to in
Congress from the southern States. It has
been rightly characterized as "a bill to
perpetuate negro supremacy and the dom-
nation of the Republican party in the
House of Representatives" So dire would
be its consequences upon the peace and
prosperity not only of this State, but of all
our sister southern States that it alone
should nerve every true man to unceasing
work for Democratic triumph. It is
framed with all the Ingenuity that hatred
| OF the South could prompt and thirst for
power inspire, and every provision of it is a
death-blow at the rights of the people, is in
ruthless disregard of the spirit of the Con-
situation, and is an effort to shackle the
South to the car of Republicanism.
GENERALIZATION.
It is development in most malignant
form Of a tendency to Capitalization, which
Virginia rebuked in thunder tones nearly a
century ago, and is absolute in the en-
couragemeut it gives for lille gal voting and
in providing that the supervisors and others
charged with carrying it out shall be tools
OF the Republican party. Even the pre-
tences it makes to fairness are but SO many
factors in the sum of the great ipiquity, a
nockery of State laws, an insult to Demo-
cratic judges, and travesty upon the right
of suffrage In short, the bill makes a
United States circuit judge dictator as to
the political complexion of the peoples
representatives in Congress from the circuit
over which he has Jurisdiction; virtually
places the throat of every citizen in the
grasp of partisan myrmidon, and would
put the pecks of Virginia and her southern
sisters under the heel of the negro. From
the most flagrant outrage that could be
consummated by Republican henchmen, by
virtue of this latitudinous monstrosity,
there could be no appeal save from myrmi-
don to master.
| THE NOD OF PARTISAN JUDGE.
In this judicial circuit of the United
States Judge Hugh L. Bond would have
the appointment of the s'chlef supervisors
and their assistants, and tho control of the
host of deputy United States marshals,
that the exigenoies Of the situation might
demand for the purpose of terrorizing the
people, thwarting their sovereign will and
insuring solid Republican majority in the
House of Representatives. Judge Bond's
jurisdiction exiends over Virginia. Mary.
land, West Virginia, North Carolina, and
South Carolina. As Virginia is entitled TO
ten representatives, Maryland to six, West
Virginia to four, North Carolina to nine,
and South Carolina to seven, this man
would have it within his power to elect
thirty-six congressman. What spectacle!
Thirty~six representatives of the people
permitted to exercise their prerogatives,
not by the voice of the people, but st the
nod of partisan judge. Can the people
be Indifferent to this unparalleled outrage?
Let them remember that time alone pre-
vented the passage of the bill by the SEN
ate also, and thst escape from the curse
must depend on their own energies. Let
them consider that should they fail to pro-
test by overwhelming najorities against
the measure, Virginia will be quoted as in
different to i:s passage, and the party Of
rule or ruin will be stimulated to 60, if
possible, to still greater lengths in their un-
constitutional usurpations. Should the par
ty in power be encouraged to take charge
of the election of members OF tho House of
Representatives,, how long would it be be-
fore they would take charge of the election
of members of the United States Senate?
One act would be as constitutional as the
other. How long would il be before State
legislators would be under the scrutiny of
a chief supervisor and his deputies, who
would challenge their right to vote? The
pending force bill wo-ld furnish a preced.
ent for even greater ontrages than those
noted, if such thing could be conceived.
The only protection against these outrages
is the voice of the people at the coming
election.
| WHERE WILL VIRGINIA BET
| Thus does the force bill. with iss train of