Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27
No Federal interference.

ssfe Morning Ns,os sneeringly i'm
putns the sincerity of ''ths Democratic
ad fcates in this State of the Australian
ballet system" because they have not
ruahpd forward to endorse Representa-
tivst Lodges bill proposing the applioa-
tioa. of the system TO congressional elsc-
tions. We presume We would be safe in
going further and saying that there is not
o R'mocrat in the State who would not
feel Justly incensed at the usurpation by
the federal government Of this or any
othev interference in elections. It Is not
esssy man with the spirit Of freeman in
stlnotiyely spurns. If it were system sent
direct down from heaven-snd ii would
have to be sent long ways down in
dssd to reach this administration
a assumption of the government
a Washington OF the right to
fs o 1t upon the voters Of the several
st-ps would be equally repulsive. We
ceanot expect the NssoS to understand
this feeling perhaps-this jealous desire
of the people of the states to defend
TIT local rights against federal en-
of~schment-butt the Lodge scheme, IN
Objectionable and meritorious though it
mt5 be in details, is Of piece with that
arrogant policy of Capitalization, of
would-be imperialism, which has oharac-
teFized the Republican party all the way
through, and which would lead this ad-
udnistration, if il dared, to station SOL
{ rs and deputy marshals at the polls
to exact test oath from voters, as
{ been done in this State in days gone
1--we trust forever gone by. It ia OF a
piece with the came policy that has led
the same party to regulate from Wash
inston the commerce and the trade OF the
country; to regulate its foreign COM
merce almost out of existence, and TO i'm
pose heavy taxation on all the people for
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the few. 1t is OF a
piece with the policy that goes on rob-
hing the agricultural and the laboring
y'eter to enrich the speculative Paul; that
as made the exploitation Of Dakota tin
lines for example o public calamity in
| iead of public blessing. It Is federal
ism run mad, psternalism run mad, i'm
perialism that would, il 1t could, trample
the last vestiges of the autonomy of the
states into the earth to perpetuate itself
in power. We believe tina. ballot re-.
form Is strong enough in its in
herent power for good to commend
Itself to the favorable consideration
of the people of Delaware, acting fol
themselves and running their own cleo.
tions in their own way, irrespective Of
any attempt of the party OF domination
and usurpation to say lyon shall ehoost
your members of Congress by tie Aus
tralian system" We bellows further tina
the time whom the Republican party cal
say this with force has gone by, and tina
the day when 1t could take the con
sumner by the throat and extort from hin
tribute to the promotion of this, tina
and the other pet combination, monopoly
syndicate or protected employer Of i'm
ported labor is passing away never to re
turn. The handwriting is on the wall, AM
in the proposed increase Of the Tin plat
steal to ga, COO, 900 per year, no less thai
in the proposition to prostitute the Judi
cial ermine to the base purpose of keep
ing q party in power by foree-Rnd
failing that, by returning boar
tactics Of the 1876 order-we see th
last despairing kicks OF a policy Of patei
nAlism and Capitalization foreign to III
instincts of American freedom, fairnoe
and independence.