The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-17

letter IN the Telegraph of Sunday the lotn iusts
referring to his visit here two weeks ago. II
appears to me al though he is trying 10 make
political capital by his course OF agitation
will give him few facts that will snow JUST
how much equal and exact justice the Demo
Gratis have given to ali Republicans, DOH Wnite
and colored. When in the economy OF frovi- I
dence this land was to be purged OF human
slavery, and when the strength OF the govern
ment OF the people was to be demonstrated. the
Republican party came into power unoer Ian
coin What did II find but an empty treasury,
disordered banking system; no money IN any
state OF the Union that would purchase pubic
lands or pay public debts or dues; the possoMcs
department an imperfect and costly puoilc
servant; congress unable to pay the salaries OF
its own members: several states In arms
against the government, seising al the
postage stamps, mailbags, postal re-
ceipts, customs income and pubic prop.
erty in the rebellious section. And the great
Democratic party, comprising one-third OF the
people OF the quaking republic, resorsed 70
every known means to hamper ana olocksoe
the administration and dismemoef the Union.
Whatever, therefore, there is In tie achieve-
ments and progress OF the American fepuplc
during the last two decades-the most remark
able In all her history that Is honorable or
creditable, belongs in conception and consum-
nation to the Republicans alone. The Demo-
Gratis have no lot or part in It, except q Cd
structionists, disturben and destroyer There
are no complete records OF the atrocities OF the
south: but from coroners returns ana the re-
ports Of investigating committees We know that
1900 persons have been killed or seriously
wounded In the late slave states since 1865 on
account of politics alone. The ASSASSINATION Oh
Republicans has continued during period OF
twenty-six years. II not that long enoughf
Murder is less common than 1t was ten years
ago. we must admit: but it is still resorted to
without hesitancy for the purpose OF carrying
elections, wherever whipping, burning, intimi-
datiOns and the more recent methods OF force
and fraud seem to fail. What has been the
practical effect OF thisf The partial or complete
Acknowledgement of several states. 1t from
two-ffths to three-hfths Of the electors OF
state are either prevented from casting their
ballots or their ballots are nullthed after tney
have been cast, has that state republican
form of government? Is it ruled by free
popular majority, as the constitution contem-
plates? II the several states thus disfranchIsed
fraudulently return such q number OF Demo-
cratic congressman, a., added to those OF the
same party chosen in other states, places the
control of congress in the hands of the Demo-
Gratis, when otherwise it would have been con-
trolled by the Republicans, 10 the national gov
eminent republican, a. contemplated BY the
constitution? If the fraud Of nine or ten states
results In giving the presidency or the control
of congress to political party which could not
otherwise have been successful, are not the
people of the entire Union cheated, defrauded
and practically disfrsnchised? II 80, may
they not act? If they have the courage
for their own disenthrallment, has the
time arrived when q fraud shall be al
effective as a majority, shall thirty-two states
representing the wealth, power and population
of the American republic stand before the world
disfranchised and emasculated by the fraud OF
ten states? The constitution says no; civiliza-
ton says no; equity and natural law says no.
The Democratic house OF representatives In
1879 tackled rider to the army appropriation
bill declaring that no part of the army could be
used to keep the peace at the polls or election
day, and threatened that unless the Republicans
should consent to the passage OF it, no appro-
priations would Be made This measure was
framed in the direct interest OF the Southern
Democrats, whose violence and bloodshed at
the polls had made Southern politics reproach
to civilization. The bill passed. and IL con-
spicuous part of the statutes of the present day.
Thus, the federal authorities are poweriess to
protect the colored votes, while the election
officers, judges jurjes, returning boards and all
other legal machinery OF the Southern states
are in the hands OF the Democrats. This leaves
the freedman without any remedy and without
hope a. equal citizens of the United States. and
so they must remain until the Republicans
shall have effective majorities in both houses OF
congress- At the coming election there does
not deserve to be single Democratic congress-
man elected in the Northern states. The people
who love Republicanism, freedom and fairness
should rise as one man and vote the Republican
ticket Then the next congress could take such
steps as the deplorable condition of the South
demands, refuse to admit representatives elected
only by means of fraud and bloodshed, and
when such a course shall be entered upon there
should be no retreat until civil equality and
safety shall be perfect and universal In the
South as in the North.
No Union soldier or colorsd man can vote the
Democratic ticket and have q consistent record.
Ii it was right to throttle secession, put down
the rebellion and save the Union in 1861 1t IL
right today. That right cannot be maintained
and preserved, and the acts done in its behalf de-
tended, except by keeping the government In the
hands of those who saved 1t until those who at
tempted its destruction shall have passed away.
In short, what valid reason can be urged why
any patriotic and honest citizen OF the United
States should vote the Democratic ticket?
What valid reason is there for placing the con-
troll of the government in the hands OF the De-
mocracy? The people want no change; the
business men want no change; the manufac-
turers Of the South, struggling to keep their
Democratic representatives on the right track in
regard to the tariff, want no change. If all the
office-seekers were either provided for or re-
moved from the country the industrial. pro-
fessional, producing, manufacturing, farming
and commercial classes would be unanimously
in favor OF retaining the Republican party IN
power. That party saved the Union, wiped out
slavery, gave free lands to settlers, liberal PEN
sions to soldiers, civil and equal rights to the
freedman, good money to every state in
the Union, the best banking system in
the world, q tariff policy that fosters
manufacturing and protects artisans and
producers, cheap postage and perfect postal
facilities, money that will buy land anywhere
and everywhere, and forms OF taxation that are
least burdensofne to the poor.
The revenue necessary for current expendi-
lures and the obligations of the public debt
must be largely derived from duties upon i'm
portations which SO far as possible should be SO
adjusted as to promote the interests of American
labor and advance the prosperity OF the whole
country. Against all these things the Demo-
cratic party has interposed its persistent objec.
ton and opposition. Who then can vote the
Democratic ticket? Would to God the dark
record of the Democratic party for the last fifty
years might be written across the face of the
sun 30 that all mankind could see how mighty
have been its sins and crimea
JAMES II. ORR
NORTHWEST NEWS.
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