Nevada County picayune., 1890-12-11
FEDERAL ELECTION BILL.
Expressions from Mr. Turpie, the National Alliance and NY. Sun.

measure, he said, rested for its sup port on what was called the sup pressed colored Republican vote in the South. The returns of the elec- tion showed an abstinence from vot- ing-an abstinence much greater in Massachusetts and other Northern States than elsewhere. The extrem- ists, with meager majority in both Houses, said that this was proof enough of the suppression of the col orcd vote, and thereupon proceeded to revolutiOnize the whole method of Congressional elections. There had been suppression-a suppression patent, well known, undeniable and widely prevalent. The recent census would show that the States of Penn sylvauia, Ohio and Illinois had about 250, ,0O0 colored people; yet in those States no colored man had ever served as Governor, or been elected to any department of State Govern mcnt. There had been not only no proportional division of the offices there had been none at all; the col ored men in those States had no more chance of preferment than the Ro- man Catholic would have had in New Hampshire or Great Britian hun dred years ago. The suppression of the colored vote in the South was tue thing manifestly in question, affirmed on one side and denied on the other. But the suppression of the colored voter of the North was thing with out question, actual, absolute, uncon- ditional. The supremacy of the white race was not peculiar to any portion of the United States. South Carolina was not more completely under it's sway than was Pennsylva- nia. Its supremacy was not one whit more firmly established in Tex as and Arkansas than in Illinois or Ohio. Much might be said of the justice or the injustice of this su- premacy. It was easy to write and print Aphorisms-even to give them in the shape of legislative formulas, that all citizens are equal. Political rights as between races might be granted, defined and decreed, but political capabilities could only be ad
 justed by action. That action was everywhere wanting; it was every where withheld. The supremacy of the white race had not been brought about by force or fear. It had not been wrested or seized from others, but it had been given, granted volun- tarily, ceded to those deemed for a time most worthy of it's possession, The man especially the man of the White Housewife sought to em- broil the white and black races for a purpose he could not conceal and dare not aY0w, was guilty of an out rage ten-fold greater than any of those he invented or described. The solution of the race problem was a process, not of abstract speculation, but of real experience. Wherever the people of the different races were living peaceably together under the same laws, members of the same body polite, without any other thought but that some must com mand and others must obey, this problem was being solved. The pur- pose of the National Election bill (so called) was, so far as related to the South, to wreck and destroy this pending condition of inter-racial ad- justment. It proposed not to main tain the will of the majority, but to overthrow it on the single issue of race; to make majority of black men because they are black; to es- tablish a Government of complexion, not of opinion. The kernel and pur- pose of the pending bill was that the law of the land must be suborncd to set enmity between the white man and the black man. The bill was not artfulIy framed. It's only art was it's absolute malignity. Pass this bill and the right of the people to choose their Representative-that right so precious and priceless to every lover of liberty-was lost-lost beyond recovery and beyond recall
 The National Farmers Alliance, in session at Oceola, Fla, December 3, passed the following resolutions denouncing the Federal election bill, introduced by delegate W. s. McAl- lister, of Miss.
 Whereas, the President of the United States, in his annual message to the Congress, recommends and