The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-29
PLOT OF THE RADICALS.
EwART MAKES A sToNG SPEECH
AGAINST IT.

ao Opoake dS q Tlo1o O1 bno NokrO
and a Follower OF Grant - Lodge
Held Up to Contempt-The Bill De-
clared Proposal to Return to Car
pet Bag Days.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-The third days
debate on the force bill was characterized
by brilliant speeches on both sides of the
political aisle and ringing assault on the
bill from southern republican, Mr.. Ewart
of North Carolina. Mr.. Ewart's speech was
the feature of the day, and all through the
delivery of his arraignment of the repub-
licans for bowling to the dictates of King
Caucus in giving support to this infamous
bill he was repeatedly interrupted by ap-
plause from the democrats, and many Of
the republicans looked the approval they
dare not indicate in a more demonstrative
way. Mr. Ewart spoke as a friend Of the
negro, as southerner whose ancestors for
three generations had held slaves, and the
last of whose kinfolks died on the bloody
field of Gettysburg.
FOLLOWER OF GRANT.
lie spoke as republican whose first vote
had been cast for the peerless Grant, a man
who, Mr. Ewart asserted with emphasis,
would discountenance the passage of the
bill if he were living. Mr.. Ewart declared
that the members of the majority might
stultify themselves with professions of
virtue, but they knew away down in their
hearts that this was a damnably and revo-
lutionary bill He paid his respects with
biting sarcasm to Henry Cabot Lodge, the
paper-chasing statesman from Massachu-
sets, who drew the bill. He referred to
l. II i'll
former, and, who, nevertheless, rubbed his
nose up against and put his teeth in more
pieces of patronage than any member Of
his delegation.
GOING BACK TO CARPET-BAG DAYS.
With his high motives he proposed to set
back the hands of time and revive the old
period when the south was being plundered
by reckless carpet-baggers and scalawags.
He said he was sick of the hypocritical pre-
tensions Of the republicans that the negroes
in the south were prevented from voting.
He declared that the elections in his state
were as pure as those in Massachusetts,, and
called attention to the error the republicans
of the north were laboring under when
they asserted that the blacks all voted the
republican ticket. Thousands upon thou
sands of Them" he said, "voted the demo-
cratic ticket, and thousands do not take the
trouble to go the polls" He taunted the
republicans with betraying the negroes
with their platform professions about the
Blair educational bill "The refusal to
pass the bill was cowardly abandonment
of principle, and has no parallel except
when Hayes in 1876 abandoned the negroes
in order to secure the presidency"
MAKING SUCCESS IMPOSSIBLE.
He warned his colleagues that they would
make success in the south impossible by the
passage Of the bill. He said that at the out
set it would create distrust and bad blood,
mislead the blacks and lead to terrorism,
riot, disorder and bloodshed. "We don't
want any fustian and rot about the down
trodden negro and poor republican of the
SOUTH" said he dramatically, 1--WE want
more practical sympathy and less senti-
mental gush." Mr. Ewart's speech created
a profound impression, and Messrs. Lehl-
bach, Frank, Coleman and one or two other
southern republicans congratulated him
warmly at its conclusion.
PLANS OF THE REPUBLICANS.
The heated opposition of the southern re-
publicans, and their conviction that this
bill can't help the party, forces the con-
clusion that while this audacious blow at
popular election Is directed at the south.
1T is intended for use in the northern states
where, by the subjugation Of great demo-
cratic cities like New York. Brooklyn, Bos-
tOu, SnICtlBO duu SIuCluudbl DY 6Tu1l6S OF
prostituted partisan inspectors, the great
popular revolt which all republicans expect
to occur next fall will fail of effect. This
growing conviction that the republican
party means to continue in power by the
employment of thousands upon thousands
of federal hessians at the polls in
the northern states at the expense
of thousands, even millions, from
the federal treasury, has already
lad RI hxyt
to the people of the country to rise in mass
meetings to protest against the unparalleled
and gigantic crime against the ballot which
the party now in power proposes.
UBIQUITOUS FEATURES.
In the speeches against the bill to-day
many of its iniquitous features were made
clear. Amos Cummings in strong speech
developed the fact that the Judiciary sys-
tenn had been arranged previous to the
passage of this bill so as to give the repub-
hcans nineteen additional judges to prolong
during their lives the partisan machinery
this year to be set in motion. Ex-senator
as to the number of officials who
would be created to do the bidding
of their masters. In Ohio 1900 re-
publican supervisors and an indefinite
number of marshals would be appointed.
and under authority of this act be empow-
cred to make house to house canvass as
republican spies before the election. The
result of to-day's debate has been to shake
the faith of some of the republican leaders
in their ability to drive through the in
famous force bill on scheduled time.
THE DEBATE IN DETAIL.
By the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, June 2S-The House this
morning again went into committee of the
whole, with Mr.. Peel of Kansas in the chair,
on the national election bill.
Mr.. McAdoo of New Jersey took the
floor, and made vigorous speech in opposi-
tion to the bill. He based his opposition on
the principle of home rule and the right of
the people to control their own affairs with
out federal interference. He warned the
republicans to beware of the ex-
perience of Walpole, when prime
minister of England. Storm after storm
of protest had been made against the
excise bill which was pending in parliament;
but the minister, strong in his belief that
he could withstand the people, would not
give way to the "beggars" But finally the
wave of indignation grew SO great that the
people besieged parliament itself, exclaim-
ing, 'Libertyl Libertyl No. excise!" and
finally Walpole was forced to give up the
bill, and, to save his own life, go out dis
guised in a cloak, shouting ''Libertyl Lib
ertyi No exciseP' He begged the repub-
licans-he abjured them by their own sense
of manliness-to abandon the bill before the
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