The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-02-13
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publican party into the same space.
than does the self-constituted auto
GRAFT of all Minnesota journalists, in
his extatic rejoicing a few days since,
over the second killing of the Election
Law by the Democratic Senators with
the aid of half dozen recalcitrant
Republican Senators, who made them
selves the supple tools of the bull
doing ex-rebels to prevent the pass
age OF one of the most just and righte-
Gus measures that ever came before
the United States Senate. Nothing
less than law..to protect every peace
able, law-abiding, constitutionally-
made citizen Of the United States. in
the free exercise Of every American
citizens right to free ballot and an
/ honest count, in the states in which
they reside, the five or six millions of
colored citizens in the late rebel states
inclusive. In attacking. as it does this
law, the st. Paul edition of the Lon
don Times must needs bring in the
Tariff bill to keep in good standing
with its British senior, while abus-
ing the Election law and the Repub-
1cans who supported it, to please his
southern friends who oppose it. and
are determined at all hazards to nullify
constitutional amendments theythem-
selves have ratified, and forever hold
In degradation citizens of the United
States, because they are supposed to
be in sympathy politically, with the
party that elevated.them from chattels
to manhood. The editorial autocrat
commences his onslaught upon the
Republican party not only for the pass
age of the Mckinley Tariff bill, the best
we ever had, but for all the delays in
its passage as well as for the delays in
the efforts to pass the Election bill. all
Of which no man, better than the edi-
tor of the st. Paul Thunderer knows
is absolutely false. No man better
knows than the editor of the Pioneer
Press, that all the delays have been the
direct results of the Democratic plan of
action found in New York consul
tation in which Editor Dana's stuffed
prophet bore conspicuous part, and
before the beginning of the first ses-
sion of the present Congress and in
discreetly proclaimed to the world. by
his right bower, Mills, before leaving
New York, that there should be no
legislation by this Congress not
acceptable to the Democratic party
that could be defeated by resort
ing to all obstructive and dflatOrv
tactics known to Democratic parlia-
mentarians. This plan has been car,
ried out faithfully, and but for the
ffrmnesS and courage of Speaker Reed,
who deserves the thanks of every pa
triOt in the nation, it is doubtful if
either the tariff or any other honest
measure could have been passed to
this date. Whatever anathemast
Ihunderer may feel it is duty bound
to pour upon the Republican objects
OF its wrath the delays of the Tariff
measure or the Election bill i'm the
House or Senate cannot be charged to
the Republican party. The bill in
question is one which. while applic-
able in all states, is imperatiyely de-
manded in several of the late rebel
states, where it is an indisputable fact
that the cOlored citizens, from the
murder of the Chisholm children by
old Sitting Bull Gully and his gang of
desperados, have been Systematically.
persistently and brutally harassed and
prevented the free exercise of the
right of suffrage. Every means that
ex-rebel ingenuity could devise, from
.. S. Senator Buffers Hamburg's dis
gushing exhibition of Senatorial Sioux
ism to the Ku KluX red-shirt murder
ing and bull-whipping tactics and
effigy burning have been reSorted to
and encouraged by state and NUM-
cipal authorities to terrify the colored
citizens and prevent their exercising
the citizens dearest right, and when
all other means fail, to prevent, false
counts and tissue ballots have served
to nullify the votes of colored citizens:
made citizens Unconstitutional amend
ment duly ratified by the United
States, including the states in which
they reside. and this Election law SO
bitterly opposed by the eX-rebels and
the Pioneer Press. is simply and solely
constitutional law, which will. if
passed, enable the United States Gov
eminent to secure to the colored or
white citizens, of any and all states in
the Union, free ballot and an hon.
est count for all federal officers elected
by ballot, whether voting Republican
or Democratic ballots. 1t makes no
party or color discrimination and de-
mandS no federal control that is not
strictly within the limits of the con-
stitutional powers of the general gov
eminent. 1t is just law and five
millions or more American citizens
need and demand its passage and en-
forcement as an indisputable requi-
site to the enjoyment of their most
sacred rights. 1t is measure long since
pledged by the Republican party. A
measure they boasted in the last cam
paign was one of the nobleSt and most
righteous acts of the 50th Congress,
then already naSSad nv the lower