The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19
THE FOURTH OF JULY AN AMERI.
OAN GRAFTON.
From the New York Sun. |


The dominant will IN the republican
party is the will OF Speaker Reed. The
master Intelligence OF the party at pres.
ent Is Reeds mind. His PURPOSE il the
party purpose, and il is clearly detn.
ed' Secondary issues, subordinate
measures. unessentiai differences OF
"pin'on and projects of policy are swept
aSide bv the magnificent audaclty which
does not hesitate to challenge the unit
ell democracy TO Il new struggle for the
preservation of the government whose
birthday is to-day.
Inc course Of political events is not
difficult to tOrsee. The Man on Horse.
oack will ride across the senate cham
Der Inst as he has Ovarrldden tho house
of representative. After au indigus Mt
protest on the part of the democratic
senators, and an earnest but futile en-
deaVor to check the career of federal
aggression, the Lodge bill will be forced
through by narrow but sufficient ma
Iority of votes. Then it will 90 to the
president. 1t will only remain for the
feeble but obstinate gentleman who oc-
cuples the white houses to affix his sig
nature. lie will sign the bill, and the
approval written at the foot of the new
measure OF Capitalization and usurpa :
non viii count for as much as if the
name were Ulysses 5. Grant.
The Lodge bill having become law
the congressional elections of this fall
WILDE held under it's provisions .Thedes-
perate purpose of the party of centrali-
Zatlon Will manifest itself at a hundred
points and in thousand ways. The
local elections OF the peoples represeu-
tatives in congress will be held with
federal spies posted at our house doors,
with federal bayonets in sight in the
background. and the beat of federal
drums within easy hearing. The mean.
ing OF the new scheme of federal inter-
terence at the polls will become pain
fully apparent. The fog bank of ver-
biage in the law, said TO have been
drafted by John Davenport, will melt
away, and the republican outrage of
1870 will stand forth in its naked out.
lines and fulI dimensions.
Thus, the first attempt at the enforce
ment OF the republican election will be
the beginning of the great democratic
campaign for its repeal. The eternal
issue of home rule, of state rights, of
freedom from the lllegitimate interfer
ence OF a central government described
by Thomas Jefferson as government
charged only with the external and
mutual relations OF these states," will
be sharply defined. Once again the
democracy will be found contending in
patriotic unison for the glorious Ameri.
can principle which has been for a
hundred years the handspring of its
energy, the very heart beat OF its exls-
fence.
Eow small, then, will seem all differ
ences OF opinion concerning tariff rates,
or competitive examinations iOr clerk
ships, for currency and coinage, or ballot
booths and pencil scratches! How
paiiry the pretensions of any individual
who, in the presence of danger threat
ening the life of the republic, assumes
TO say what question shall be the Issue
of the next presidential campaign and
what questions shall not enter into
public discussion among our eixty five
million peOplel
Such is the programme laid ont ior
the immediate political future by
Speaker Reed and the republican CEN
traliZers. The democracy is ready for
the contest. Every where that the
declaration of independence is read to-
day, il will sound like q campaign
document and call to duty.