Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-24
SATURDAY, JANUARY "a. 1891.
REPUBLICAN, BLINDNESs-THE FORCE
BILL BOOMERANG.


BILL BOOMERANG.
The judicial blindness into which
great parties are apt to fall at times is
one of the curiosities of political history.
The Tory party of England some years
ago was obliged to invoke an old and
even obsolete cloture law, in order to
repress that just movement in the
English people which now leans to-
wards fair play to the Irish nation.
Might in this case in England sup
pressed right. The cloture prevailed,
and brute force was for the thousandth
time successful. But such successes
have string tied to them. They are
liable to be drawn in and more than
cancelled at any moment. To felicitate
ones self on such brief triumphs of
brute force in this electric age is like
feeling secure on the edge of volcano
because it had shown no signs of erup-
tive violence for some time past.
Salisbury and his friends carried this
cloture in the house of commons, but
that did not in any manner prevent the
Gladstonian triumph at Hurtlepool,
day before yesterday.
The Republican fanatics are pressing
in the United States senate the same
proscriptive cloture measure that was
invoked to embarrass the Irish Home
Rulers. In its desperate clutch at con-
tinued power we first had the despotism
of Reed in the house of representatives.
We are now being treated to the spec
tacle of the prostitution of the United
States senate to the revolutionary pur-
poses of such feeble-forcible persons as
Senator Hoar and Henry Cabot Lodge
the latter man spewed out of the
mouths of his constituents.
This cloture despotism leads up to
political programme which, for despera-
tion and partizan turpitude, is without
= rival in the history of any people pre-
tending to live under a constitutional
government. Finding power slipping
out Of their hands, the later
eastern leaders of the Republi-
can party have concocted cum
ming scheme by which they hope
still to hold on to the official feshpots
and to be entrusted besides-a far more
important proposition-with the con-
tinued control of great country. This
imbecile aspiration is embodied in the
elections bill. The dotard Hoar and the
dilettanti Lodge are responsible for this
last refuge OF a moribund party.
Though its passage is deprecated by
every remaining sagacious Republican
leader; though house OF representa-
tives overwhelmingly Democratic will
succeed the house which passed it, and
by very slender majority; though the
whole southern people and three-quar-
ters of those of the north are opposed to
this immoral and lunatic attempt to
the will of the people, never
theless the dangeris is great that the in
fanny will be accomplished.
1t is always wise to take moderate
view OF things in politics. The natural
impulse of excitable people would be to
preach revolution in the face of such
revolutionary legislation as that which
is embodied in the Hoar-Lodge
elections bill. The blood-letting attend
ing the debate OF certain political ques-
tions which arose prior to the year 1861
will probably suffice for the American
people for at least fifty years to come.
II what is commonly known as the
''force bilp' should pass, what would
Simply this. There is such an over
northern protest against the
iniquitous measure that in all probable
ity, If it were successful, the only state
that would be carried by the Hoar-Lodge
element of the Republican party at the
ensuing elections would be Vermont. !
Ten years ago Iowa and Kansas could
also have been relied upon in such an
issue, but they could not be now. Not
by long shot.
In the south the tyrannical measure
would fall still-born. The American
citizen of African descent has long ago
had enough of the Republican party.
He has realized that he stands in rela-
lion to that august organization pre-
cisely in the position OF the In
dian who had a controversy with
both claiming to have shot
;he turkey, and both repudiating dead
The Indians rendering of the
White mans proposition has become his
:orical. To the insinuating suggestion
If "You take the buzzard while / take
She turkey, or I'll take the turkey and
vou take the buzzard," Lo, the poor
.borigine, replied, "You no say turkey
70 me once"
The Republican party has never once
'aid turkey to the negro in the south
.rn states, and the descendant of Ham
Knows it. If, under the inspiration Of a
successful Hoar-Lodge force bill. scala
wags and carpet-baggers attempt to
'ully the southern people, the thirsty
'outhern soil will simply drink up their