Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-10
THE QUESTION AND THE NAN.
Hon. John NJ. Langston Talks About the
Next Presidential Campaign.

TIE NECESSITY OF A FREE BALLOT WILL HI
TIE xATS ISSUE IN THE RKrupItcAS FLAT
foRM-PREsIpkST HARRISON THE FOREMOST
IN ITS DEFENSE
One Of the most conspicuous figures about
the District building today WAS Hon. John N.
Langston, the Representative in Congress Of
the fourth congressional district Of Virginia
He came TO consult Col. Robert on some per-
sonsl business. After his interview with Col.
Robert was completed a representative OF The
STAR interviewed him on his choice for the
presidential nomination of the republican
party. Mr.. Langston said:
The great need in America, according 10
my judgment. Is such education OF the people
In all sections Of the country that there viii be
Intelligent, hearty and generous regard for
law. Law Is the salvation not only
OF the general interest Of the Amer
lean people as &c property, labor, money.
prosperity, but IL is through law that we
are TO gain, promote and conserve onr political
interests and powers. The ballot il nothing in
TINS country without law. The moment that a
secuon OF the country, ne the south or the north
concludes that il can set aside the ballot
without the fear OF law then thore is no longer
any respect for the ballot; the ballot IL
no longer regarded the shield of American
liberty IN the hands Of the American citizen; 40
Is nothing more in the estimation of such CON-
munity and the people thereof thnn any other
useless thing that people won't to call BY
any name they please.
THE QUESTION N THE NEXT CANVASS
The question In the next canvass is not GO
ing to be SO much one Of tariff OF one Of banks
or the extension Of American commerce or navi-
CATION, or the adjustment of labor and in-
dustriai measures, as This important
question: Shall the American ballot in
the interest OF the American people
to sustain American citizenship. advance
American free institutions be sustained by Law,
and its use be enforced through the courts upon
consideration of wise judges AS they administer
the law in many cases. on the verdict of intelli-
gent American juries?
The man who represents this idea Of law as
| the shield of the American ballot is to be the
man who, nominated by the people liz 9 ma
uonal convention. shall be elected to the presi-
aency OF the United States to carry out this idea
through wise and Judicial enforcement by CON
stitutional guarantees in suck behalf Churches
are good. preachers are excellent bankers are
not bad in the United States and persons who
would build up our commerce, extend our navi-
CATION, provide measures for the proper adj
justment Of questions as existing between eapi-
tai and labor, are, indeed, all well enough. But
| the court house is the thing we need now.
The lawyer Is the person to administer nj the
altar OF our necessities. The law is to be our
our liberty, but our rights are to be sus-
| tanned.
THE RIGHTS OF TUE BALLOT.
1--WE are no longer debating the negro ques-
ton. There is no white and no black in con-
nection with this question. There is no north
and no south. American rights, the rights Of
all the people as secured through the
agency Of the intelligent American bal.
lot, is the thing which is in the next
President Of the United States must command
the attention of the American people. Now the
question naturally arises, what man among
the greas statesmen OF our country represents
s in the highest, he broadest aud the
question which shall constitute in my
Judgment the issue that we shall present
| in our next presidential canvass. Great names
crowd on us now, for our country is full Of
| great lawyers as well great statesmen and
wise politicians. But ON this subject there
is just one single man that has been
| little ahead Of all the others and his record
on this question will be brought out fully and
entirely when we come to consider the question
as to who shall be nominated by the republi-
cans to run against Grover Cleveland the only
man in the United States that can be nominated
by the democratic party, and who will only be
nominated by the democratic party to reach
| defeat.
CLEvELAND's DEFEAT.
with regard to the defeat of Cleveland
wish to refer here especially to an article
which appeared in the New York Sun the 9Th
day Of this month. in which an estimate with
calculation based Oh figures Of the
first elsetion-the election Of 1884.
5000 only in Virginia, and IN 1888 when
he received only according to democratic
| counts /. 600, when q matter of fact he did
| not receive any majority at all, for the state
\ g. u. mn
| IN connection with my own election In the
| fourth congressional district Of the state, in
| which it is shown that Mr.. Cleveland will
lose the state of Virginia, because he has grown
steadily unpopular in that state aud because
as the writer saws there has been a large influx
Of northern population and capital brought into
that state, and that these people who come
from the north with this capital are
not favorable to Cleveland, but will
be more favorable than ever before under
existing circumstances to republican Of large
ability large learning, real patriotism, know
ing the value of American law as enforced in
the American courts, and particularly ~ it re-
spects the American ballot
THE HAYES CAMPAIGN.
go back little in your mind to the election
OF 1876, when Hayes was our candidate for Presi-
dent, when the republican party was represented
by its great men in that canvass, when, perhaps,
the best speeches that republican orators ever
delivered were made and Giro ulated throughout
the United States by the candidates Of the repub-
lican party. What man was it that made the
strongest, broadest and most eloquent utter
ances IN favor OF the American ballot. rs pro-
tected by law, and police force, IL necessary,
to sustain the iawl Who is the man
who did that? If we can find him
we will make known his utterances
in connection with his name, and he shall be
nominated and be our leader, for he represents
| the American idea Of law and the power Of law
and the dignity of law and the
necessity Of law applied to our ballot.
But If he happens to represent all the other
good things mapped ont in the republican plat
form that shall be laid down by our next con-
vention. there will be no objection to him,
1 assure you. The man I have in my mind il
large man, good man and a veritable Amer
lean statesman. Now who is this man and IL
he in position to command the respect and the
admiration, and SO gain the nomination for the
presidency of the United States? And Ia he q
man who will be supported by the people OF
the north and the people Of the south, white
and black, as the veritable republican Of
power, availability and final successy
BENJAMIN HARRISON THE MAN.
"The man of whom speak is none other
than the President Of the United States, Benja-
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