Nevada County picayune., 1890-12-18
SEVENTY-SIX NINETY


 through the Force bill, is now at tempting to restore the Returning | Board system of controlling national elections, does not deny that under this fraudulent system 1t stole the Presidency in 1876. Tue facts of history in the case of that greatest political crime of modern times are so clear that even the intent to con- init fraud, even the criminal purpose of all engaged in the conspiracy, is universally admitted by all Ameri. cans of whatever party. The actual agents of the crime who still survive in the public affairs of country they disgraced have long ago ceased to offer in their own behalf anything beyond the silence of conscious guilt which has received condemnation from which there is no appeal.
 Yet these same men are now en- gagged in attempting to resurrect and fix on the country in perpetuity the system through which they accom- plished this crime, system which invites similar crimes and clears the way for them.
 It is not credible, it cannot be be- lieved by any one of any party, that their purpose now is more honorable than it wa, in 1876. For only last year the same methods were em- ployed by the surviving thieves of Seventy-six to steal the Senatorial seats of Montana.
 The Republic knows, as every sen sibIe person knows, that this is not world in which all the wrong is on one side and all the right on the oth- CT. It has never happened so yet at any period of the worlds history. Nor is it ever likely to so happen. But it frequently does happen that party loses all sense of direction and goes so far wrong that it makes ruin inevitable, either for itself or for the country it attempts to control. It is so now with the Republican party. Whatever the errors of the Demo- cratic party in the past, whatever the wrongs from which it cannot at once free itself in the present, it stands now as the only bulwark between the country and ruin, political, financial and social.
 The Republican party has lost all that made it strong-all except a readiness to resort to fraud under form of law and to make law vehi- cle for oppression through force where fraud falls short. This readi- ness it now shows in the Force bill. Could that bin pass and stand as law, giving the worst men of the party in power, whether Republican or Dem- ocratic, full opportunity and license of law to assert their baseness through law as it's vehicle, the expiring centu- " could not close without seeing the country once more rOnvulsed with civil war. The plain people of Amer ica arc fighting people, and though they restrain themselves admirably when betrayed and oppressed by the cOnscienceless tricksters who get living and stealing out of politics as a profession, yet when the limit of their patience is reached they are capable of asserting themselves with an explosive violence such as is seen in no other people.
 If this bill passes it will either ruin the Republican party or the country. One must survive at the expense of the country, and it is no more cred ible now than it was in the time of Lincoln that government of, for and by the people will perish from the earth.
 Whatever happens, the Demo- cratic party will be true to record 1, to which it has never yet been false It has always been the party of peace among Americans, of equality among the States; of justice and liberty fol the people. And on that record il P will appeal to the candid judgment of America against this scheme oi fraud and force, with an abiding , confidence that self-government vii be sustained and fraudulent despot. , ism rebuked. -[St. Louis Republic An Enormous Contraction.
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