St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-11-01
Why A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE
SHOULD BE ELECTED.

SHOULD BIZ ELECTED.
The public god demands ths
overwhelming defeat Of the Repub.
lican party next Tuesday for several
reasons: te t-e
1.-The Fifty-first Congress ha.
been extravagant Its appropria.
tons are e6s, 600, 900 more than
the last long session Of Congress,
although NO appropriation vas made
for the payment Of spensions ande,
the new dependent pension law,
and this win amount to about $780,
0O0, 900 . year.
u.-In al the contested election
cases, but especially in seating
Langston, who A- defeated by
Republican opp6laees. and the
worthlessness Of who eass was
exposed on the door Of the House
by Mr.. Cheadle, Republican,
and in seating Miller from. South
Carolina, and in unseating Mr..
Beckinridge, Of Arkansas, the. Re
publicans Of the Fifty-iirst Congress
showed themselves to be .partisan
and unjust beyond precedent and
in their greed for power withou,
conscience or scruple. o!
HI.-The rights Of local self-gov-
eminent have been attacked and
the autonomy Of the States under.
mined by an election bal passed in
the House which will put it in the
power Of the party controlling the
national election to pack the House
of Representatives. In effect the
result Of this will be to defeat the
C Constitutional provision that the
House shall be the judge OF the
OF its members, and
make q clique Of party bosses in
Washington the judges.
V.-The Republican majority
In the Fifty-first Congress, with the
Speaker At its head, has been guilty
Of every abuse Of power that . ma
jority can commit. Members Of
Df the minority have had the floor |
to them when they rose to
points OF order, and the right Of ap-
peal from the Speaker to the House |
ms been denied to them. The op-
,ortunity to offer amendments was
'efussd to them. The most inn
'ortant and far reaching legisla-
ion has been rushed through the
House with ridiculously inadequate
ime for debate and with practical
y no opportunity for amendment.
v.-Ths House has sustained the
'peaker in the usurpation OF powers
'hich had never before been con-
erred on any Speaker, and
1hich no Speaker had ever be-
Dre assumed, and has denied the
|ght Of the minority, often exercise
d and defended by Republicans,
, compel the majority to furnish
. own quorum when attempting
olitical legislation; every cheek
nd safeguard that has existed for
'e protection Of the minority, md
y the protection Of the country !
ON the INSCRIPTIONS partisan
nip Of the majority, has been /
roken down. f.
Win the rearrangement Of q
Ration, every interest Of the Cow /
nment on the one hand, and Of :,
e individual on the other, has h
zen sacrificed to the interest of
nsts and individual capitalists. F
Ne tax which the people have paid 4
sugar, and which went to the !,
overnment to pay interest and pen n
ms and salaries and defray the I,
ct Of public works, has been re- n
tied, while the taxes paid BY q
public to the glass trust, the T.
seed oil trust, the lead trust, the :,
el beam trust, the starch trust, r
1 dozen other trust have been m
and in most cases in .,
'ased. In place Of . small tax in
ID to the Government on tin plate =,
re has been substituted . large
;, not one cent Of which will 20
Government, and the capitalists
D propose to absorb the whole Of
III Be able to import all their !,
orers from Wales. for, there =
ng no tin plate manufacturing =:
his country, persons who pro- ;.
e to manufacture it may import
their operatives. ~,
he Fifty-frst Congress stands :.
-eminent In its efforts to attack
foundations Of popular govern =.
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