The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-09-13

Toe oaGy passage IN Ger ffa~~t.7a's
letter OF acceptance which sA4ltss..~itsx
Is that wherein he attempts 4 &.ssss.5-~s
the black spectre 81 Negro d6ens-sas .o,
With campaign Ca: Of whi.ewNsh -,
one miilinetrc ihia. Yesterday hrnarrd.
os thousands O! republicans read $40
disgust the candidates apparea, r~puaia-
ton OF thc force bill issue. psculssrlw A..
issue unit. fear took possession "a h,,
soul. and wondered what in the name ~
John l. Davenport the grand old party o.
| force and federal returning boards was
coming io. i few thousands II rcpuhli.
cans. better Informed ~ TO the emcrgrn.
cies OF the canvass. smiled silently and
went On eating their breakfasts.
The extraordinary suggestion Of a
non partisan Commission TO consider the
whole question Of bayonets a. the polls
IN calm. patriotic way, and 10 repor;
later on, is good until the fourth day of
November. Upon that date i, will dis
appear IN the darkes, depths of oblivion.
II the democracy elects democratic
President and democratic House OF
Representatives, Gen. Harrison will have
no further use for his calm and patriotic
non partisan commission. Ii Gen. Har-
rison can get himself elected, with a re-
publican majority in the Fifty third
House, the country will hear 40 more of
the non partisan commission There
are simpler and more direct methods of
establishing negro domination in the
South, aud Federal interference a, tb.
polls everywhere, with republican re-
turning boards To count and certify. The
means st hand will be employed by the
republican party with the promp,ness,
energy. and unscrupulousness which dis
tinguish that party wherever i, is a;
work Tor the perpetuation OF its own
rule In place Of the non partisan com
miss -, we shall have such philanthro-
pists aud students of abstract political
equity as the Hon. Thomas Brackctt
Reed, the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, the
Hon. George Frishie Hoar, and, chiefest
among them. Mr.. John l. Davenport.
busy as imps once more over the great
question of the best way to promote a
free ballot and a fair count
AS an attempted avoidance of the
main issue of the campaign. Gen. Har-
rlson's letter will exasperate a great many
earnest republicans, but it will deceive
not single democrat. II leaves the
force bill and negro domination still a.
the front. 1t pledges the republican
party to nothing. If it binds any one,
it is biuding on benjamin Harrison alone:
ard IS tsere anybody so sim ol~S - TO sup
pose that if the party has the chance TO
fulfil tbA promise - its D"nrecord and
its own platform, and to put before Gen.
Harrison, in 1898 or 1894. just such a
force bill as be was eager to sign in 1890.
he will withhold his signature on account
Of anything he has found it expedient to
say In this campaign document
But in another aspect, this attempted
evasion Of the main issue is without a
parallel. Never before, we believe, in
the history Of American politics, has y
newspaper forced a candidate for Prcsi-
dent to make a pretence Of abandoning
the political ideal which is nearest TO his
own heart, and to which the party which
nominated him has committed itself and
him In formal and unmistakablc terms
The Sun does not intend to allow Gen
Harrison's terror-inspired evasion TO sue
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