The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-22
A Good Poinr orerlooked.

/ A Good Point overlooked
In his speech IN the Senate on Monday, on
/ federal control Of elections, Senator Pasco,
! Of Florida, appears to have owe looked the
I present unhappy condition Of affairs in that
state growing cut OF the persecution Of
/ democrats for alleged election frauds The
/ synopsis Of his speech. which was published
/ in our dispatches yesterday, contained no
reference TO it. It may be that he ca He'd
! the attention # the Senate 70 it, and that
( that part Of his speech was omitted in the
/ synor sis which was sent out by the press.
I If he failed 10 make any reference to il the
| failure is 10 be regretted, because the demo-
Gratis of Florida feel that they are being
made the victims OF a political persecution.
Senator Chandler. in answer to Senator
Pasco, called attention 10 two or -hree al
legged political Outrages by democrats.
Something OF the kind was 10 be expected
from that Senator. He had not taken the
trouble, of course, to fad out whether the
alleged outrages had any foundation il fact.
It was enough for him to know that stats
ments had appeared in the public prints
that men who claimed to be republicans
had been ill-treated on account Of their
p litical opinions But why did he not say
what he thought Of Marshal Mizers letter
calling for tried and true republi-
cans 10 act as jurors in the
alleged fraudulent election cases! If Sena-
tor Pasco had read that letter during his
speech it is probable tbat Senator Chand-
Ter would not have been so prompt In re
ferriug to alleged political outrages. In
deed, he could not have cited any political
outrage so great as that of the attempt to
pack juries in the federal court with repub-
lican, because the effort TO turn the court
into pol teal machine could have had no
other purpose than to deprive citizens of
their liberty whether they were guilty Of
any crime or not
Senator Pasco made a strong point
against Senator Chandler when he referred
to the part the latter took in the great
fraud Of 1876. What that part was is a
matter Of history. OF course Senator
Chandler denies that he did anything
wrong, but unfortunately for him, the
world takes a view of his action different
from that which he does. He will never
live tosee the day when impartial history
will say that what he did to secure the
electoral vote of Florida for Mr.. Hayes was
creditable to him.
1t IS all nonsense to say that republicans
In Florida are not free to vote and talk as
they please. At the last national election
the democratic majority was only 200.
1t there had been any suppression Of the
republican vote, or any intimidation or
bulldozing of republican voters, would not
thousand respectable republicans have
made the facts known from one end Of the
country to the otherl Instead of being able
to cite the testimony of we'll known citizens
In support Of his assertion that republicans
in Florida are the victims of political out
RACES, he IS forcei TO rely upon the er parte
statements OF two or three persons who
have aired their grievances in the public
prints.
II Senator Chandler is anxious to know
who the victims of political outrages in
Florida are let him inquire what the United
States mar5hals who have their head
quarters at Jacksonville are doing. Let
him ask the democrats, who, in many parts
Of the state have been dragged from their
homes to answer in the federal court charges
OF which they are innocent, what they know
about political outrages. Let him inquire
whether there was not an attempt mads to
get grand jury of republicans and petit
juries of republicans who would indict and
convict democrats for alleged political Of
lenses II he does not fad that democrats
and not republicans are the victims of polit-
ical outrages we are very much mistaken.
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