Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-07-05
Entered at the Postonice at Accomac
G ~ Va. rs Secnnh-class matter.

entered at the Postofiice at Accomac
& ~ Va rs Secnnl-clasS matter.
An address of the Northern dem
ocraric members Of Congress, cali
ing attention 70 the odlonS federal
election bill now under discussion
in the Hcnse Of Representatives, is
published elsewhere in orr columns.
The aim Of the Republicans who
roucocted the bill, being ia domi-
nate the elections in the Son;h
and in other democratic districts
of the country. and thereby to per.
petnate their lease of power, the
warning is II timely one. The pre-
posed election law, giving az it
will fit becomes a law, unlimited
power to the petty neighborhhod
politicians who will he appointedto
office under it. to browbeat and
tlomineer the VOTERS. with power
70 arrest any one that. re ISIS their
high handed proceedings, backed
hv>tlc Whole power Of the govern
rcnt mt Washington. will he AS
tile Northern Democratic members
of Congress say az most aerions
meEace to theSSery life of the Re
public" But infamous and vicious
as it promises to he, only three
Republican members of Congress
have had the courage so far to en-
ter their protests against it and
the name ofthe member from thlS
district does not appear among the
number. The tnll scope and iniq
uity of the measure will better
appear by the following from the
Baltimore Sun:
''1,he proposed law is uncOnstitu-
tional to begin with. Congress
has the right. under the federal
compact. to regulate the manner
of holding elections. but this hi,
as Representative Vanx. of Phila-
.lelphia. Yesterday pointed out.
provides that the federal govern
mpnt shall hold the elections. It
takes out of the hands OF the sew
cral States not only the regulatlon
of the manner of choosing Repre-
spntatives. but the act Of choosing
as well. The clause Of the eonsti-
tuition on which the Lodge bill is
based was intended solely to meet
the emergency of the refusal OF a
State 10 send Representatives TO
Conore Sc, Int the bill robs States
of powers they are perfectly will
inc 10 exercise. 1t is an manner
loan measure. tending clearly to
state OF things IN which Congress,
not the people, will choose the ma
tional legislature. The present Oh
iect Of thn supporters Of the bill is
undoubtedly +" perpetuatp the Re
Publican party's tenure of power,
inthe interest of the tariff lords
and the other parasites now fatten-
ing npoD the ahnse Of the taxing
power. Jfthey succeed our politics
will have been ,Mexicanized and
orr government will have become
thoroughly centralized. 1t seems
to be taken for granted by the tar
if lords that free people cannot
he trusted to vote indefinitely for
protective tariffs in the interest Of
one class alone. They are accord
ingly, it appears, bnsied now in the
work of modifying ne government
by slow degrees, each step Of their
programme bringing them nearer
TO the point where they will be in
absolute control. They controlled
the choice of President for 1883;
shey hope to control the choice of
congressman in 1890, after which
the further realization ofthcr sub
sersive schemes will proceed at a
more rapid pace.
A few minutes before going to
rreSs the news was received that
the Infamous bill has passed and
that only two republicans had vot
cd against it-and Mr.. Browne
was not one Of them.
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