The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-05-07

But the Democrats Must SwaI-
low II.


The Pittsbaszh Chsonicle Telegraph
Speaker Reefs keynote speech at
Pittsburgh has struck terror into the
Democratic camp.
The Democrats now feel that the Re-
publican party means business in its a.
temps to secure i free ballot and an hon
est count at the South.
Realizing this. they are about ready %
throw up the sponge. They are gone,
aud they know they are gone. They
read the handwriting on the wall They
viii, Of course, keep upa howl and die
in the last ditch, as they have been do
ing right along ever since Appomatox;
but the Republicans win 90 right ahead
With the Federal Election law as they
did with the new rules in the House.
Up to this time the Democrats had con-
identiy counted upon controlling the
next House of Representatives through
their fraudulent counts at the South,
aided By the Ohio gerrymander. Ifthey
were let alone they would doubtless sue
ceed. They, Of course, regard Il as a
great outrage that the ConEressional vote
in the bulldozed States should be can
yassed by United state returning boards.
as j. contemplated in the Hoar bin. bot
they regard it as all righ. to have the
votes counted by the Ku klux Kan
The result Of Southern election methods
ia so far-reaching in its effects that the
Government may very properly step in
10 prevent the crime Of suppressing and
completely changing the expression os
the public will When whole States a.
the south, returning seven, ten aAd
twelve members, can send their delega-
tons to Washington upon a less aggre-
gate vote than is cast in q single Goa
gressional district at the North, our sys-
tenn Of representative government issub-
iect to a strain It cannot long endure.
Upon such vital economic questions as
the tariff il takes the votes Of sever men
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and
other Northern States to equal the power
exercised by one man in such lately re-
bellious States as South Carolina, Ala
bama or Mississippi.
THE SCOPE or THE SUPERVISION.
Besides in many Of the districts in the
Gulf States the negroes outnumber the
whites four or five to one, or even more.
Vow everybody knows that in these dis
tricts nearly all Of the whites are Demo
crats, while the blacks, almost without
exception, would vote the Republican
ticket if their right Of suffrage were not
denied. The black men have the con-
ssitutional right TO vote and have their
votes counted, and are just as much an
integral part Of American citizenship as
the blue-bloods and mugwumps Of Bea-
con street, Boston
What the Republican party proposes,
even at this late day, IS to secure the
rights Of citizenship to legal voters every
where, from Main to Texas. This, and
something more. It is not proposed TO
interfere with the election Of state Off
GERS, and separate ballot boxes are 10 be
used for receiving the Congressional vote,
50 that the Federal supervisors can have
no pretext for attempting to exercise a
supervision over the casting or the count
ing Of local tickets
This will secure to the Southern States
the full measure Of that @home rule
about which they prate 50 eloquently,
and leave them free 10 pursue their pecu-
liar methods to keep the negroes from
getting ''on top The state viii be SOW
ereign in those things appertaining TO
the State, but the Nation proposes % be
on hand to look after her own. in order
that the constitutional mandate declar-
ing that representation shall be equal
may be respected even by men who took
up arms to nullify that Constitution and
to destryy the Government.
The mills Of the gods grind slow. but
exceeding fine, and the Democrats might
as well prepare to take their medicine.