Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-05
SOME VIGOROUS LANGUAGE.
After sketching the course of the majo

SOME VIGOROUS LANGUAGE.
Alter sketching the course of the major
ity in Congress he continued:
Every one understood that the design of
these freebooters was to rob sufficient num-
Der of constituencies of Republicans to put in
men who could be utilized in the enactment
of federal election law to perpetuate their
power in defiance of the action and will of the
people.
Mr.. Bynum continued with review of
the bill, of which he said:
What a machine for oppression intimidation
and corruptionI The office of chief supervisor
is to be made the centre of political information
and political advantage. He will be the source
OF Information and power Our free institu-
tions have weathered many a storm; they have
majestically stood the attacks from the alien
and sedition laws; they triumphed over Know
nothtnglsm; they have survived the unbridled
passions and terrible influences of civil war;
they have received many stab, but never from
any source has such wicked and deadly thrust
at the very heart of the nation been made as
this. Be not deceived; this measure is not in
tended for the South alone 1t is intended for
New York and Indiana in 1892 1t is to enable
that "Original package" of political rascality,
John l. Davenport, to appoint an army of spies
TO invade your homes and drive you from the
polls.
A SOUTHERN STATESMAN.
Hon. Chas. F. Crisp, of Georgia, gave
long review of the work of the House, and
the result of the II contests for seats. and
made further analysis of the election bill.
Two letters of regret were read, and elected
great applause. Mr.. Cleveland wrote from
Marion:
Our fathers, in establishing a new govern
ment upon the will of the people and conse-
Grated to their care and just protection, could
not prescribe limitations which would deny to
political parties its conduct and administration
The opportunities and the temptations thus
wT1Tw ae0I
brought us to a time when party control is far
too arrogant and bitter, and when, in public
place, the true interests of the country are too
lightly considered. In this predicament those
who love their country may well remember
with comfort and satisfaction o. Independence
Day that the disposition OF the American
people to revolt against naladministratlon still
remains to them and is the badge of their free
dom and independence as well as their security
for continued prosperity and happiness. They
will not revolt against their plan of government
for its protection and preservation supply
every inspiration of true Amer1canism. But,
because they are free and independent AmerI-
can citizens, they will. as long as their love and
veneratiOn tor their Government shall last
revolt against the domination of any political
party which, entrusted with power. sordidly
seeks only Its continuance and which faith
lessly violating its
PLAIN AND SIMPLE DUTY
to the people, insults them with professions of
disinterested solicitude, while it eats out their
not in blind security deny the existence of
danger The masses of our countrymen are
brave, and therefore generous; they are strong
and therefore confident, and they are honest
and therefore unsuspecting. y ur peril lies in
the ease with which they may be deluded and
cajold by those who would traffic with their
interests. No occasion is more opportune than
the celebration of the one hundred and four
teenth anniversary of American independence
TO warn the American people of the present ne
cessity on their part of a vigilant watchfulness
of their rights. and Jealous exaction of hon.
est and unselflsh performance of public duty.
Governor Hill wrote from Albany on
Thursday:
This anniversary day will be dear to friends
of human libertym every land, but the observa-
tlOn OF II ought never to be ignored by genuine
Americans. Its celebration ought to be more
than usually serious. 1t ought to represent
Recommendation OF the people to the principles
upon which their Government was founded.
The beginning of the second century of our
eoeral existence has witnessed strange de-
parture from those pr nciples NThe party an
control of the Government is exhibiting in the
executive and legislative branches danoerons
tendency toward usurpation and Capitalization
of power, eliminating thus far in the passage
by the House OF Representatives of an election,
ball which a large part of the people have with
justice and propriety emphaticaliy denounced
IS subUersive of
THE POPULAR RIGHTS
and revolutionary in purpose and effect
Should such legislation continue unrebuked
our Constitution will become blank paper and
our country will need a new declaration of
Tammany Hall will bnt echo
the best senument OF the country when it ap-
peals to the patriotic instincts of men of ali
parties 20 oppose these tendencies toward cen
tralization and Governmental fayoritism It is
an organization with an illustrious history its |
influence Is powerful and far reaching. It is |