Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-30
CAMPBELL A KICKER.
The Ohio Governor Denounces the
Federal Election Bill.
IT WILL CAUSE A TIDAL WAVE,
Which will Insure the Democrats 100
Majority in the Next House.
SOME DECIDED OPINIONS EXPRESSED
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COLUMBUS, June Ex-Governor Camp
bell returned from the East to-day, and in
| the course of an interview stated he was in
Washington Thursday when the discussion
opened on the Lodge bill to regulate the
election of Representatives in Congress, and
which he denominated bill to take away
from the people, especially of the South, the
| right to elect their representatives in Con-
gress and turn it over to the judges, clerks
and marshals of the United States courts,
who are appointed by Republican Presi-
dent. to the end that they may have COM
plete control of all the elections at which
members of Congress are voted for.
He heard portion of Lodges and Hemp
hill's speeches, and says the people of the
North particularly ought to give an en-
phatic expression on the attempt to destroy
self-government in the South, and ulti-
mately in the whole country. If the bill is
let alone and the question made party
issue, he states the next House will not con-
tain less than
A HUNDRED DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY.
In his opinion few districts in the country
would be able to elect Republican on this
issue. The Judges of the Federal Courts
are not elected by the people, not response
BILE to them, and the object is to take the
elections from the control OF the popular
vote. As to the machinery provided BY the
bill, the Governor says: Gas regards the
precincts the bill says two officials
shall be appointed from two separate
political parties, but the people of
Ohio who have seen some of the so-called
Democrats who were put upon boards by
the late Republican Governor of Ohio,
know what farce it is to pretend such
boards are non-partisan, appointed by
power not responsible to the people. Under
the bill no one can vote at an election un-
less these gentlemen, sent from 100 miles
off, see proper to put his name on the poll
list. There is no remedy. The returns 60 to
the Clerk of the United States Court, which
is the third means they propose for taking
the election out of the hands of the people
and placing it in the hands of the President
ATTACKING THE OFFICIALS
"The officials of the United States Courts
in some of the Southern States have been of
the most corrupt and lawless character
The Clerk of the House will accept the GER
tifcate of the Clerk of the United States
Courts in preference to that which may
come from the proper State officials that
some one else has been elected. The whole
plete that prosecutions for violations will
not be of consequence, as it provides that
even the juries shall be selected BY the
United States Courts in case of prosecution
'"This provision of the bill is not generally
known by the people. The prime and only
object of the bill is to select Republican
Representatives from the South and per-
petuate party usurpation by distranchise.
ment, and violating every principle of home
rule. I don't know how it would work in
the South, but any attempt to control the
election of Congressman in the North by
force of deputy marshals, armed with bull
dog revolvers, composed of such men as
were made deputy marshals at Cincinnati
in 1886. would result in bloodshed at every
polling place in the North.
OHIO WILL NOT SUBMIT.
"No respectable citizen of Ohio would
submit to it. wish to serve notice upon
the Republican majority IN the House that
the people will never submit to it. We went
to the country on the home rule issue In
Ohio last fall, and won in the country as
well as the cities. The people believe in
principle, and any attempt to interfere with
the South in this matter will be resented by
the North.
mo set of men will feel more outraged
when the extent of this monstrous measure
is known to the people than the soldiers of
the North, who are ready to rally for the
rights of their local government There is
no Republican party in the South. The
experiences after the war ended the party in
that section Of the country. The decay of
the party was not occasioned by frauds at
the ballot box or the suppression of the
negro vote"
ALLEGED HYPOCRISY.
The Governor devotes considerable space
to review of the speech o. Mr.. Lodge, and
refers to the alleged hypocrisy of some
people in supporting the bill, and especially
in Pennsylvania, whose representatives pro-
pose to vote for it. while in that State, he
says there is more fraud and intimidation,
under the leadership of Senator Quay, than
in all the combined States Of the South.