Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-18
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put off without answer until the day of
reckoning. when answers will be of no
avail. The member who is wise will
put his ear To the ground and listen TO
the coming storm before il is too lat0.
CAicdg0 Nees Iadl
Since Speaker Reed has set himself
up as the dictator of the House, where
he cannot be reached at present. the
hope of the people lies in the Senate.
VIII not some OF those grave and rever-
end Senators talk that bill to death q?
Every device known 10 parliamentary
law should be brought to bear in order
To defeat so perniciouS a measure. II IS
a step towards Capitalization that should
be forbidden at every hazard.
Waterbury Americaa lIadi
Once said the Hon. J. 5. ClarkSOn,
First Assistant Postmaster General,
when compelled to support for Congress
a man whom he thoroughly detested :
In walking you cannot always avoid
offensive. ill-Smelling garbage heaps.
You have To pass by them-aud hold
your nose" We fancy that not few
of our esteemed Republican contempt
rarieS. who have TO pass by that Fed
eral Election law are busy holding their
noses.
Hartford Comaat lR-pl
The State of Connecticut needs no
supervision from the United States or
any other power in the selection Of her
officers. She has taught the whole
country the lessons of government and
can take care of her own affairs. So,
while the supervision of the election OF
CpngrcSSmcn is entirely within the
provice of the general government, pos
Sibly demanded i'm this emergency, the
supervision of our own State election Is
within the province Of the State OF Con-
necticut. and OF the State only.
1t looks now as if the pending bill and
our own election bill might not get along
quite so amicably together as Mr.. Lodge
predicts if they are both laws on the
first Tuesday of next November
Pi1sJprg Dispatch Rep)
It'll measure wholly designed to
legiSlate party success. How lnSincere
is the uretcnSG that 10 is intended To
give protection TO 4 suppressed vote IS
evident in the fact that the bill Writ
ualy holds out to the South the bargain
that it can carry its State elections by
what means it pleaSeS, so that like
liberty is given the National Admins
tration with regard TO Congressional
elections. Such legislation is vicious
i'm its very inception and is sure to eN-
pose fatally weak point in its opera
ton. II is 4 practical confession that
the party forcing it upon the nation Is
unable TO trust for its maintenance to
economical administration and leglSla-
ton for the public good, and therefore
seeks new lease Of life by Selling the
machinery of elections.
Christian Union tIad Re'igi0Vsl
If. ON the other hand, under a FEEDER
al election law. Federal officers take
charge of the polls ayowedly to protect
the negro vote, the inevitable result
will be- an Indictment Of race antago-
nism, delay in the progress towards
political equality which iSnow going ON,
and, not impoSSibly, substitution of
political corruption proceeding from
Washington rs centre, and diiTuScd
throughout the country i'm lieu of the
frauds and the violence which are now
local. epiSodical and steadily dccreaS-
Ing. We believe that on this issue a
consistent carrying out of the policy of
President Hayes is far wiser statesman
ship. and will in the end be far better
for the colorcd people themselves, than
an attempted recurrence TO the plan OF
Federal Interference with local self
government.
Hoypei's Wsetiy JAadl
The Election bill changes essentially
the present law providing for National
supervisors of election, extending it to
point which SupcrSedeS altogether the
State control of Congressional elections.
The State election officers, indeed, are
nominally recognized. but they are sub
ordinated entirely TO the Jnitcd States
officers. The result would be- that the
election of members of Congress in New
York, for instance. upon the request OF
a few persons in every district, would
be controlled not by officers elected by
the people, but by agents appointed by
National authority. The States, under
the circumstances. might naturally de-
cline To take any official part in such
elections. and the blow at the very root
of our system of local Sclf-goycrnment
would be disastrous. Those
who recall the splendid days and deeds
of the youth and prime of the Republic
can party cannot see the spectacle
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