Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-05-03
REEDS ADDRESS.
REED DELIVERS A
MASTERLY ADDRESS.
BIOOd-Shed and Murder Must Cease.
Federal Control OF Federal Elec-
tiOns-The Power Of the
Government.

At the fourth annual dinner OF
the American Republican Club OF
Pittshurg, Pa, on the Goth ult..
gwen in commemora'ion Of the
6Sth birth day of Gen. u. s. Grant.
Speaker Reed in responding to the
toast "The Republican Parry"
said:
When, there ore, any southern gem
tleman however eloquent, seizes on
your race feelings proclsims danger of
Ignorant rule, and awakens your sym
patty for his 'sgovernment, do no.
for an instant forget that all that has
nothing 10 do with
FsDERAL ELEoTI )Ns
II Mississippi be in danger OF igno
raut domination the United States Is
not IL cheating at the polls be only
pious frauds In S,u; h Carroll a. excnsa
bic lecAuse he write man is superior II
Intellect though Inferior ia numbers
there can be no such excuse In United
States elections, where the white man
with his superior intellect is superior In
numbers also In her words, the ex-
cuse, whether it be bad Or good, for
cheating at state elections cannot be
spread beyond State elections. When
federal election is held it has nothing
TO do with the state government but Se
comes part and parcel al the Govern
ment OF the United States at large
where there Ia no possibility OF Negro
domination. ignorant or otherwise.
the Republican vote of the South the
Republican, party is entitled 10 under
the Constitution whether that voc BE-
ignorant or sensible. If iguorant, we
need iG TO offset the Democratic iyno
rance which votes III New York and
other large cities. Why should they
poll their < lprauce and we not poll
ours?
What is the remedy? When last
Thursday in the Senate the committee
In charge repO, ted an enlargement OF
the powers and uses of United States
superv sOrs over State elections, q senR-
tor from Alabama took the unusual
course of declaring then and there that
such supervision OF State elections was
unconstitutional, and would lead TO
BLooDsHED AND MURDER.
and would be resisted by all possible
parliamentary tactics What then ID
the remedy? 1 speak only for myself
What say binds nobody but me, and
not even me II the Republican party
prefers another policy but. speaking
for myself, IL seems 10 me that he only
wise course is TO take into Fedora
hands Federal elections. Let us cul
loose from State elections, do our own
registration, our own counting, and oul
own fertilization. Then the nation
will be satisfied Against this cours.
no constitutional obi -cti0n can b,
urged. Tue YArbort ugh case, the de
cision of the Supreme Court covers /
q i'm 90 ha
against it on account of sectiOnaIism
Ii applies NOrsh and South, East an,
West. IL will pat an end to ali bicksr
ings.
TIE SOUTH RN STATES
will then by themselves grapple witt
the probl IN Of whe her any state OF tn
X public eau permanently enthi one Ia
justice. Freed from all right of inter
ference, except moral and advisory
from the NOr,h, within their own boz
ders aud within the limits of their Ow
rights they will have what they hav
longeG f0r-the power to work out thei
own peculiar problem for themselves
and l venture the prophecy, as | sin
cerely entertain the hope that relic
from outside pressure will break dow
the race Issue, and as the southern PEE
pie diViue-not on the color issue, bI
on the questions which make up SCUM
politics aud good gOvernment-then, {
the Cons hutton Of the United State
and the principles If our American sy'
TEN always intended, the voter, whetf
er viii or black will contribute b
share to the government OF all, and Il
hopes which were sc the foundation
all OF our great sacrifices will be final
and completely fu flied.
Your toast strikes the only pOssib
note of continued victory for the X
publican party. COntiaued victory '
must have; not as partisans, but
patriots. Not on the past must be o
reliance, but on the future. II we a
not 10 day In the forefront OF huns
progress. TO have been the followers
Abraham Lincoln In years gone by