Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-12

tion more than twenty times" and shall
not vote for it because in his judgment "a
more infamous bill never passed the thresh-
old of the Senate, " it is time for Virginians
of all politics to give it the gravest consid-
Grafton. For Virginia, their State, is one
OF the States it is intended to be applied to.
Under the Force Bill a chief supervisor
of election is appointed for every Federal
Judicial district by the Republican Judge
thereof. You have no doubt of the politics
and character of the men that will be ap-
pointed and appointed for life. Under it
the supervisors may appoint an unlimited
number of Deputy .. S. Marshals at S. a
day. Under it the same court appoints the
subordinate supervisors, three at each cleo
ton precinct-two of the three being Re
publicans and the third somebody else.
These supervisors attend to the registra-
ton, challenge voters, keep Independent
poll lists, and make house to house can
vass of their district. The Board of Can
vassers is appointed by the U. S. Circuit
Court. These canvassers count the vote,
declare acho is elected and send their GER
tificate to the Clerk of the House of Rep
resentatives, and he is required by the law
to put the names of the men they certtfY,
on the rolls of the House, no matter whom
the State officers may certify are elected.
In brief it takes the election wholly out Of
the hands Of the people and puts it into the
hands of the Republican Judges of the U.
appoint as supervisors and marshals. Ii
the army of marshals is not sufficient to
carry into execution this law. it provides
in Section 80 that each and every section of
the Civil Rights section of the act Of 1870,
is to 'sapplv to this act with like force and
effect as if this act was specially mentioned
or referred to therein" Sec. 1899 of the
Civil Rights section authorizes the Pres
ident of the United States ''Or such person
as he may empower. to employ such part of
the land OIL naval forces of the United
States ''as shall be necessary to prevent
the violation, and enforce the due execution
of the provisions of this section" There
you have 1.-THE Republican Federal au
thorties backed by Federal bayonets are to
conduct your elections, count the vote and
declare the result, and their declaration is
by law required to be accepted as the result.
All the points of the bill are carefully
guarded. From the time the Federal Off
Ger invades the home of the voter to ''spot y
his politics, to the moment that the FEEDER
al bullet is fired into the body OF the citizen
SO imprudent as to protest, all is done in
''due form Of law" Is it very surprising
that MI. Teller should, while we yet live,
in free country and have a free ballot,
have declared this to be the "most infsl-
NOUS bill that ever crossed the threshold of
the Senate 90 1t is of such bill. so truly
characterized, that Messrs. Field, Beverley
and Page say it is only ghost and scare
crow.
Will the Republican party pass this
bill and put it into effect if they are sue
cessful in this election? Thirteen years
ago the Republican party found themselves
in possession of both Houses of the 46th
Congress and of the entire power of the
government and attempted to pass SINH
lar law. The determined resistance of the
Democratic members of the House under
the lead of the lamented Samuel J. Randall
of Pennsylvania, and the refusal Of MI.
Blaine, who was Speaker, to adopt revolu-
tionary methods, saved the South then. 1t
was fight full of vindictiveness and hate
on the part OF the Republicans, and in it
Gen. Weaver, now the candidate of the So
called Peoples Party made his mark as one
of the worst enemies Of the South, fol
when Garfield OF Ohio, afterwards Presi-
dent, offered an amendment amelioratine
the law, Weaver who advocated the bill
bitterly opposed the amendment. 1t was
then said that that would be the last at.
tempt of the kind ever made in the Repub-
lie. But the Republican party has strong
and vindictive memory. Eleven years af-
ter that, it found itself again in control of
both houses and the Presidency. 1t at once
introduced the Force Bill again. 1t was
passed through the House of Representa-.
tives by the rulings of Speaker Reed and
the unseating of enough Democrats to give
the Republicans good majority. 1t got
to the Senate and there came within two
votes of now being the law of the land But
there were found patriotic Republican Sena-
tors sufficient to prevent spassage. This
was only two years ago, and they have al
ready pledged themselves to pass it if they
carry this election. At Minneapolis the
opening speech by j. Sloat Fassett called
attention to the fact that it was the ''only
pledge of the party still unredeemed. ,
President Harrison himself fayors it and
sent message to Congress urging it. The
N. Y. Tribune, the newspaper Of his asso.
ciate on the ticket, Whitelaw Reid, says
its defeat III 1890 was caused by Re
publican Senators who loved the il ''purses
more than justice or patriotism. y and only
last week negro member of the Republi.
can National Committee having asked its