The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-25
THE CRIME AGAINST THE SUE
EKAGE.

The Florida Republicans in their recent
state convention decided not to nominate
any tickets, state, congressional or ma
tional, and in explanation OF this decision
recite in their platform the outrages in
fiicted upon Republican voters, the COM
plete denial of their political rights and
the inability of the government to give
them any protection.
What the Democratic party has done in
Florida il has done all over the South; it
has nullified the voice of 1000 900 people
and assumed their political power as ruth
lessly as thief might vote IN stolen stock
and forged proxies q, q stockholders
meeting. This stole1 vote has added 80
per cent. to the power of the Democracy
in the sixteen Southern states, and it is
used to abuse the very voters from whom
it was stolen.
The white population of South Carolina
entities it to three representatives in con-
gress, while its colored population entities
it TO four more representatives. The white
Democracy suppress the colored vote abso-
lutely and elect the entire congressional
delegation of seven. so that one white
Democratic voter in South Carolina counts
for more than twice as much influence in
making federal laws for the whole country
and in election of president as any voter in
Washington.
The Southern Democracy have stolen
and occupied forty seats in congress and
by virtue of this theft control the present
House of Representatives for free trade"
and for free silver. The Northern Democ-
racy has become an apt pupil of this robber,
r"fiian Southern Democracy; for David
b. Hill and Tammany Hall have recently
stolen the New York legislature, and
elevated one of the thieves to the highest
judicial tribunal of the Empire state.
In Florida and the other Gulf states of
the South any voter who, robbed of his
political rights, dares to seek punishment
for crime is either expatriated or assassi-
mated. New York can yet go to her ballot
box for redress, and when she does go
thither she ought to remember that David
Il. Hill and Tammany have been educated
to immoral audscity and systematic swim
ding in politics by the spectacle and ex-
ample of the Southern Democracy that
has stolen forty seats in congress and made
q single white vote in the South count for
twice as much as that of any voter at the
North.
Some day the Southern Democracy will
have 70 reform its ways or be denied any
opportunity TO vote on its stolen stock and
forged proxies. Nobody but Democratic
fool or knaye at the North believes that
the nation will forever submit to this
Southern stealing of stock and voting upon
it too. The wretched little demagogues and
dough boys, who play the part of Demo-
cratic editors" and ward caucus "ors-
tors" may fool themselves with the idea
that the business and political brains
OF the North considers the "blue
and the gray" bouquet annually
handed the North by the Henry Grady
type Of whooper is ample compensation
for forty stolen seats in congress, but they
are mistaken.
Some day the North will say to the
South, Keep your bouquet; business is
business; We can't, perhaps, prevent your
stealing that stock but We can hencefor;h
prevent your voting on it. If you sup
press the suffrage your representation
shall be reduced accordingly. fyou muir
der and rob the stakeholder you shant
vote hencetorth on the stolen stock"
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