San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-17
CLEVELAND'S SPEECH
Disected by One Of Our Local Pull
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verizers.
To the Daily LIGHT.
The speech recently delivered by
Grover Cleveland in New York, lik,
all of his speeches, was carefully writ
ten out and all its phrazes studied
and adjusted with the view of pro
ducing an impression by axiomati,
expressions, yet despite all this Ia
borious elaboration and study, tine
speech is vomiting both In the sub
sTance and tone of the real statesman
Depth of thought, breadth of view
ana comprehensive conceptions Of
public issues are nowhere apparent in
Inns speech, but the politician and the
Eeen scented aspirant for the presi.
dency crop out In almost every sen.
tence. y
Mr.. Cleveland arraigns the repub.
lican party of New York for gerry.
Wandering the state so as TO secure a
majority in the Legislature, but he
forgot to state that the gerrymander
was invented and introduced into
politics by Gerry of Massachusetts, q
warm ana devoted adherent OF
Thomas Jefferson, for the purpose of
securing majority in the legislature
OF that state. He also forgot the fact
that the democrats have resorted to
the gerrymander at one time or an
other, in every state in the union,
and that no democratic convention,
state or national has ever
dared to condemn this device
Tor disfranchising political opponents.
Heforgot the recen ttnotable gerryman-
0erins of Tie congressional distiic lets
IN Ohio, by democratic legislature
aided by Gov. Campbell, by which,
the districts were so arranged as to
place the counties giving large repub-
Iican majorities in few districts and
the rest of the districts so as to insure
democratic majorities. By this device,
the democrats gained about ten
members. And SO Keen was
the desire felt to insure the
defeat Of Major Mckinley that the
democrats pus him in a district hay-
ing $500 majority. Mr.. Cleveland
ought not to squirm and make wry
faces at having to take q dose of med
lclne invented and patente by full.
blooded democrat of the Jeffersoniap
stamp-Elbridge Gerry. "What is
sauce tor the goose is sauce for the
gander." If democrats never hest
rate :" have recourse to the gerry.
mander to promote party ends, it is
just as proper for republicans to pur-
snH me same system of political jug
glery.
Ny own Judgment has always con-
q aimed the gerrymander, as eunre-
publican and undemocratic and rad.
lcally unfair, and my idea has been,
tnat II should be prohibited by law,
put II II is proper and fair for one par
~ 10 use 1T TO gain q majority.
tnen 1t is not criminal or un-
patriotic in another party TO
resort to it. In 1910 the democrats in
several states, in order to prevent the
election OF wings in whig distric:s,
enacted law for the elections OF
members of congress by the general
ticket system-that is by the vote OF
the entire state in the same manner
thaI governor is elected-thus vir.
tually depriving the wings in whig
districts Of representation in congress.
lac history VI the country will show
that the democrats have used the
gerrymander more often than any
other party as well as that they in
vented and introduced it, and such
being the case, it was hyphocrisy in
Grover Cleveland to convey the i'm.
rression that democrats never used
the gerrymander.
DO edervesced with indignation
over the law, which the democrats
dubbed the "furce bill.n but which
was, In truth, a law designed to put
all end to election frauds. By fraud
In the south, Grover cleveland was
mace president. Legally he was not
elected. OF this notorious fact, Mr..
cleveland cannot be presumed to be
ignorant. His denunciations of the
election bill (force bill, in democratic
lingo only furnishes another proof
OF the truth of the lines, that
mo man ever felt the halter drawn
With good opinion of the law"
Mr.. Cleveland and the democrats
denounced and opposed the election
Dill from a consciousness of the truth.
that taIr election in the sOuth-an
election without methodiZed intimi-
dation and bulldozing, and the use of
false counts of the ballots actually
cast, and of false returns and certifi-
Gates, would destroy the solidity OF
the south by giving several states to
the republicans, and fifteen or twenty
congressman and electoral votes. The
negroes In the south are counted In
me apportionment of federal repre-
se9tation-by which the south gets 40
congressman and presiden tial electors
out In point of fact, the negroes are
IN effect DISTINGUISHED through in
tlmldation and fraud on the ballot
oox: Ii this shameful outrage on the
purity Of elections was committed in
Ihe Nortn the south would cry loud
ior federal election law and demand
IL In ali their platforms. "Circum
stances alter cases." but truth and