Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-24
THE OLD ROMAN INTERVIEWED.

THE OLD ROMAN INTERVIEWER.
The Chicago Times has been in
terviewing the Hon. Allen G. Thur
man on the Lodge federal election
bill and reports the result OF the
interview as follows:
Allen G. Thurman, who is spend
ing his old age in the simple, quiet
way he so much enjoys, still watches
the political world with keen inter
est. Being asked what he thought
of the republican party he said;
s'The republican leaders are surely
madly desperate. They are ready
to dash to any extreme to perpetu-
ate their power. Their motto is,
Break Down This Solo South,
and mind you they are going to
carry out this principle to the ut
most letter. But this is fatal
error. Their party does not need
the solid South, nor any part of it.
1t is the solid South that has made
the solid North. When the solid
South is broken there will no longer
be solidly republican North. The
race issue has been the party's sole
one since the war; By Haunting the
bloody shirt and pointing to the
solid South, they have kept as many
Northern states in the republican
line as they can ever hope to gain IL
the South by such an outrageous
and Infamous measure as the Lodge
bill" The idenunciation Of this
election measure by prominent men
OF both political parties is causing
many senator to waver. Therecent
plain talk in Chicago by Frank Hat
ton. the well-known republican edi-
tor, has been published by republi-
can papers throughout the country
and is undoubtedly having its effect.
The longer the senate defers action
on the bill the greater are the
chances of its defeat.
The advices from Washington are
that Senator Edmunds, chairman of
the senate committee on rules, has
given repeated assurance that no at
tempt would be made to change the
rules SO as to gag members, as was
done in the house: but that the
Lfreest and fullest discussion of the
proposed measure on its merits
would be allowed. Senator German.
Of MARYLAND. who has the name of
being the most mastery and adroit
political campaign manager on the
democratic side, has been chosen in
caucus to lead the democrats in OPP
position to the bill, and if Senator
Edmunds' assurance holds good,
the probabilities are that the senate
will tire of being in session and want
to adjourn before a vote is reached,
or else enough of the senator's on
the republican side may be brought
to reason to defeat the infamous bill
before debate ceases. Like a hard
ened criminal, however, bent upon
murder with malice prepense and
aforethought, and with deaf ear to
right and reason and justice, the re-
publican senators may be able to
strange their consciences, to screw
their courage to the sticking point
and pass the bill anyhow. The bill
is certainly the most serious meas
ure thai has been enacted OF pro-
posed in several decades. Il is rev
dictionary in the extreme and is a
direct blow at the liberties of the
people. A subscriber of the New
York Star under date of "New York,
July TO-" in note addressed to the
editor writes: '.If you want to know
how we feel about the Fraud and
Force bill, call for men to resist its
execution; 100000 well armed, will
jump to get shot at the assassins