The Portland daily press., 1890-07-22


sad sad to us yesterday, Tom Reed would do well TO
4 Wp ms Force bill in the slot and see K X X
where there was one MAJ of the Khan in the six
ues mere Will be five in 1890, if The f. rec bill is
Exempted 10 be fully enforced, and the Bayunet
taxes charge of he Ballot IN the South.
we are no prophet of evil We merely read the
Sighs n the times as they appear to our vision.
wrong begets wrong. Evil is the father of more
evil The true progeny Of violence are death and
destruction. The South has white population
that ina possess as much innate, true, manly, I'm.
ninching courage as any race on this earth. Let
them see that only wrong is to be their portion,
aud that their liberties are in peril and they will
make things hum"
In 1868 this writer lived for some months in
Memphis, as headquarters. but travelled much
over the middle and western sections of Ten
neSSee. The Ku KluX were numerous in all the
counties, and General Bedford Forrest said they
numbered 10000, and were well armed and
drilled. In each State IN the South there will be
more han 10000 organized and disciplined men
II Bayonets are to become the law of the land.
North Carolina voted IL 500 white men in 1880.
There are quite 1885, 90 white men in the state
now. 1t will not be difficult to organize $4,000
otthese for mutual protection. Armed with
Wlnchesters they would be tremendous force In
time OF trouble.
The Southern press and Democratic ora
tors are making persistent and unblushlng
attempt to deceive the people OF their section
as to the nature of the federal election bill.
It is "force BILL" they say, forgetful that
men like Senators Hoar, of Massachusetts,
and Hawley of Connecticut, who were Bit
terly opposed to the force bill are among the
warmest champions of the present bill. The
fact that the Lodge bill proposes only to Sc
cure fair count in the Congressional dis
tricts and leaves local affairs entirely alone
is persistently put into the background by
the Southern press, and the people Of that
region are given to Understand that the yam
aas- knNwz
charge of the domestic concerns of the peo-
pie of the South. while in reality the yam
KEGS are only trying to get enough fair play
to make it sure that in the management of
the affairs of this country one Southern
white man shall not have twice as much
weight as Northern or Western white man
The same paper quoted above tells its read
ers that the evil example of Louis Napoleon
is to be followed, and that there will be blue
coats al every polling place. This is its ex-
travagant and abusive language.
Plebiscite under Louis Napoleon in France
was fairness in essence and liberty its strength
and purity as compared with our elections in
the South held under the espionage Of political
Coats and Bayonets. When Fat Tom gets re- HE
Senate to pass his bill of abomination and vio-
lence aimed at the South, he will indeed have
X. X. X. The teeth of Cadmus when sowed in
the earth brought forth armed men. The Force
bill OF Radicaism will bring forth double crop
Blue Goats at the polling places, and Ku Klux.n
all the counties. Then the scoundrels and con-
sprators in Congress smitten with blindness will
hide themselves as they succeed in 'agan unknit-
ting this churlish knot of a,l-abhorred war.
To perpetuate the rule. OF party many tunes
rejected by majority of the white voters of the
Union at the polls and by million majority to
extend indefinitely the life of Radicallsm as the
dominant factor the Tom Reed conspirators
desolate the South. If they can compass Their
vile ends then they will abolish elections practi.
caly in the South, and sit down to their feast of
triumph and ruin through the decades, until final
dissolution follows national decay ana decrepi.
tude.
Before taking these ragings for their face
value it should be remembered that just
the same kind of talk was made
when the supervisor law of 1871 was
passed, and probably will continue
to be made SO long as there shall be attempts
made to interfere with the Democratic party
in Its pleasant little pastime of manufactur-
ing majorities. The 1871 law rooted the
suffrage frauds out Of New York city, and
from the fuss made In the South it looks as
though the present bill would do the same
thing In other sections of the country.