The Forrest City times., 1892-08-12

DE N&tC ifHEat VI AAiN AfAAtAAs Confronted, however, with a hostile senate and executive, we have beeR constrained to content ourselves with efforts to repeal some of the most per uicious and onerous features of that law. and even those measures of relief have not been accorded a hearing or consideration by the senate.
 We have passed bills reducing the duties on tin plate to one cent per pound after the 1st of October of the present year, and putting this article of prime necessity upon the free list two years thereafter.
 We have passed bill for the bene- fit of the cotton farmers aud laborers, admitting free of duty bagging for cot ton, machinery for manufacturing bagging, cotton ties and cotton gins.
 We have passed a bill admitting free of duty any ores containing silver and lead. in which the value of the silver. is in excess of the value of the lead.
 We have passed a bill forbiding tourists from importing free of duty wearing apparel and other personal ef- fects into the United States exceeding SlOoin value.
 We have passed bill placing bind ing twine, an article of agricultural necessity. upon the free list.
 And finally, We have passed bill removing the duties from wool and re- ducing the duties on woolen goods more than one-half of the present rate.
 This last measure is of paramount importance inasmuch as it deals with an article of universal and command ing necessity, an article which. under the present law, bears about one-tenth of all the taxes imposed for the support of the government of the United States.
 "Mr. Speaker, bill has also been reported by the committee on post offices and post-roads repeating the act of the last congress, which provides enormous subsidies to certain ocean steamship lines. This bill has been been reached on the calendar.
 "The house has also endeavored to pass bill providing for tbe election of Uuited States senators by the people, but action upon this measure was de- feated by the dilatory tactics of the re- publican minority.
 The record of the democratic house in reference to these measures, and some others which have not been pass ed by this body. is in favorable contrast to the record made by the last republi- can congress. This house has not at tempted to enact force bill or any other measure 10 take from the people the right to control and supervise theIr elections and give that authority to the federal judiciary. backed ty the military power of the general govern menit. We have not sought to control elections by giving thir control to life time officers. appointed by the presi- dent. We believe in the integrity and patriotism of the people, and distrust any measure which looks to federal control of elections by federal mar shals or federal bayonets.
 MT. Speaker, the liberties of the reo- pie would be put in jeopardy if the fed eral judiciary should be clothed with power to register, count and certify, as demanded by ex-Speaker Reed.
 The force bill, as the country knows, | passed the house at the first session of the Fifty-first congress, and but for the | patriotic efforts of democratic senators, | aided by a small republican minority in | the senate, would now be the law under which the approaching presidential 1 election would be conducted. It was | hoped, MT. Speaker, that with the de- 1 feat of that monstrous proposition by | the senate at it's last session no further attempts would be made to enact into a law measure so vicious, so arDi- 1 trary. and so revolutionary. It was, therefore, with profound regret that read in the republican platform, re- gently adopted at Minneapolis, the declaration of relentless purpose by l the Republican party to press this
 measure to successful issue, should
 that party again be intrusted with the
 control of the legislative and executive
 branches of the government. l quote | the following from the republican plat.
 form:
 "'We demand that every citizen oi | the United States shall be allowed to | cast one free and unrestricted ballot ir l all public elections, and that such bal | lot shall be counted and returned as | cast; that such laws shall be enacted and enforced as will secure to every citizen, be he rich or poor, native ol | foreign born, white or black. this sov' ereign right guaranteed by the cOnsti- | tuition. The free and honest popular ballot, the just and equal representation of all the people, as well as theic just | and equal protection under the laws are the foundation of our republican l institutions, and the party will never relax it's efforts until the integrity of the ballot and the purity of elections shall be fully guaranteed and protected in every state.'
 This declaration MT. Speaker, leaves
 no doubt as to the purpose of our op-
 ponents. We accept the defiant chal- lenge of the Republican party and ap- peal to the conscience, the judgment and the patriotism of the American | people. We are unalterably opposed to the centralization of power in the l hands of the federal judiciary, who hold 0ffice for life, or the standardization of 0ealth by legislation into the hands of the few.
 Upon these lines we will wage the approaching contest, for it is obvious, | to quote the language of the eloquent gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. l Wilson,, that republican success in this campaign, whether we look to the party platform, the party candidates, or the utterances of the party leaders, means that the people are to be stripped of their franchises through force bills in order that they may be stripped of their substance through tariff bills" XIX Liniment cured my wife of female trouble when 1 thought her incurable. Jas. l. Moody, State Lecturer Farmers Allianea