The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-11-04
THE FORCE BILL.
SENT OUT BY THE IECTUxEr rv.
REAU OF THE NACIONA:
Farmers Alliance and industrial Uu-
ION, - r. TiliInan, General
Manager and Director.

Farmers Alliance and industrial Un-
lon, J. Y. Tsliman, General
Manager and Director,
Washington, ID. G.
Having been appointed by Presd ent
l. L. Polk and Chairman G. W. Macuue
to observe the political action of mem
bSrS OF Congress, and inAsmuch as some
of the papers are endeavoring to side
track the force bill, therefore | say to
you that the republicans do mean the
force bill, and they are determined to
fetfcr and shackle the people with it in
order 10 perpetuate themselves in power.
l therefore respectfully refer you to the
following for your careful reading, aud
ask you 10 impartlaliy decide for your
| selves:
At the supreme council Of the Nation
! al Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union ot Oeala. Fia., thuse resolutions
were passed, showing shat the order
tflicia'ly declared against this measure
Whereas. The president of the United
States IN his annual message to congress
has recommended the passage of meas.
ure known as the Lodge Elections Bill
| and
Whereas, The SAID Lodge Elections
Bill If enacted into law will be destruc
tive of the autonomy of the s. ates, anG
fatal to the cherished civil and poiitica
liberties If the citIzcas; and
Whereas, Ia the holy war which WI
have declared against sectionalism, tn,
iresides OF the farmers Of the north
east, south and west are the citadel:
around which its heaviest battles are be
i2g fought, and to the end that victor,
may crown our crusade sectional paac
and fraternity must reign; therefore
be it
Resolved, By the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union of Amer
lea in supreme council assembled, tina
we most solemnly protest against tn
passage Of the said Lodge Elections Bill
and hereby call upon and petition ou
senators and presentatives in the con
grtss Of the United States to employ a
fair and legal methods to prevent its Ell
actment into law; be il further
d Resolved That copy of these resC
I lutions be sent to the president of tn
United States, and to each of our sens
- tors and Representatives in Congress.
Do the people want a force bill? d
= they want sectionalism revived, trad
depressed, the judiciary plunged int
politics. and partisan federal returnin
boards, dealing with ongressional an
9 presidential elections, and incidental
: with state elections all over the Uniol
as the Louisiana and Florida retuGnir
boards dealt with the election in thot
states i'll 1S762 Do they want tn
methods of the infamous. carpet -bagge
i applied to the whole cOuAtry. Do tht
want the luxury of paying the campaie
expenses of the monopoly party out
the common taxes, and of maintaiuir
at the public expense vast horde of pa
!, tisan agents2 Is it fair to the dem
Il cratic party, or the peoples party, or t
q farmers party, or the workingmer
pcrty, q any other party that or>e part
and that the monopoly party, alreaC
fattened and enriched beyond comput
re- ton by legislation cruelty discrimin
rd ing g. aiESt the consuming multitude
behalf of the favorites Of that par
should be given free access to the CO
mon treasury. free use Of the fede
ia army, and the aid of the federal judi
AIRY to maintain itself in perpet,
power2 II the people want this, if tn
- want the force bill, to enable the Il
nopoiiots, in the language of Speal
81. Reed. to hold their own elections u
% 60 their counting and certifcation, tt
can have it by electing republic
president and republican congress.
~. Nothing can he more certain than
to purpose of the monopolists to revive {
ct odious force bill, if the opportun
on shall be given them Every benetici;
si 'eh Of monopoly taxes would favor it,
Of cause with the machinery of the 70
-ge bill il would make little or no d 'tfereI
le- what the people thought or how tt
ns us voted; they-the conspirators-wo
IN have the power TO count their parts,
':3t into Office and to hold on to the COVE
,dl' ment in spite of the popular will /
CHS oI6 is why the New York Tribune, the or
rd- organ of monopoly, tiercely demanded
lgs passage; because it would give the
val, val, nopolists absolute security for the futl
NJ because it would fortify them aga
alu- pubic opinion, and the verdict
aro- the ballot boxes, aud thus. as
Wn I11bu.e expressed 1t, ''carry hnnd
M
anG rs the go called republican party is
4nts on aggregation Of private monopol
az si- seeking only to employ the Governm
oge 70 support their private interest at
general expense, ana force is the shOr
and surest method of reaching the c
v the whole strength Of the party wo
again be bent to the passage of III +,
b bllI, if the monopolists should be sue
ss fu in the approaching elections,
's9 The following is an impartial and .
moderate statement of the scope
purpose OF the force bill, which distr
I'd the Fifty first Congress, and alarl
the freemen of the United States
de ocean 10 ocean.
Ire, re- The country beheld, defantly deve
mr. mr. cd in the Fifty first Congress and in
enl. forms of proposed law the most da
yed and desperate plot against the libcl
ap- of the people that could possible be
vi ceived. At no time in the histor
tant English North America was any ass
upon the rights of free election so d
r. and crushing as this one, ever conte
lated by any government however
an taut or hostile. In all the controVe
~ with the mother country, the rlgl
slV the colonies to conduct their own e
tions for representatives in their OwI
sembles remained unassailed. The
perial government sent among us
lnsolent agents, but they did not ass
+ to supervise the suffyages of the pc
or to ascertain and certify results acc
ing to their pleasure. 1t quartered tr
among some of the inhabitants, b
&c never proposed to distribute them t.
I'D polling places, or to put them in plat
under the orders of q multitude of
emissaries in the pay of a Tory adm
tratiOn.
The Force Bill, matured and urge
en- the last Congress with every prospe