The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-09-16


ties, or destroyed, and it is asserted on behalf
OF one-half, at least, of the white voters of AL
ALBANIA that the officers to whom certificates
have been giver. were not honestly elected.
There is no security for the personal or polit
ical rights of any man in a country where any
other man is deprived of his personal or polit-
ical rights.
Ample Power I'm the States.
The power of the states over the question
or the qualification of electors is ample to pro-
tect them against the dangers of an ignorant
or depraved suffrage and the demand that
every man found to be qualified under the law
shall be made secure in the right to cast a free
ballot and to have that ballot honestly connted
cannot be denied. An old Republican battle
cry "a free ballot and a fair count" comes back
to us, not only from Alabama, but from other
states, AMI from men who, differing with MS
widely in opinion, have come to see that par
ties and political debate are but mockery IL
VIII the debate is ended the judgment of
honest majorities is to be reversed by ballot box
frauds and tally sheet manipulations In the
interest of the party or party faction in power.
Downfall. of the Gerrymander.
These new political movements in the states
and the recent decisions of some of the state
courts against unfair apportionment laws, en-
courage the hope that the arbitrary and parti-
son election laws and practices which have pre-
vailei may be corrected by the states, he laws
made equal and non-partisan and the elections
free and honest. The Republican party would
rejoice at such solution. as healthy and
patriotic local sentiment is the best assurance
OF free and honest elections
VIII Cal, on Congress Again.
shall ag in urge upon congress that pro.
vision be made for The appointment of a non,
partisan commission to consider the subject
OF appointments AMI elections In their re-
lation to the choice of federal officers.
The civil service system has been extended
w m
Partially There has been no partisan Jug
Cling with the law I'm any of the departments
or bureaus, as had before happened, but ap-
pointments to the classified service have been
made impartially from the eligible list. The
system now in force in all the departments has
for the first time placed promotions strictly
upon the basis of merit, as assertained by q
daily record and the efficiency of the force
thereby greatly increased The approval SO
heartily given by the convention to all these
agencies which contribute to the education of
the children of the land was worthily bestowed
and meets my hearty approval, as does also the
declaration as to liberty of thought and con-
science and the separation of church and state.
The safety of the republican intelligent citizen-
sh p and the increased interest manifested in
the states in education, the cheerfulness with
which the ne; essary taxes are paid by all
classes and the renewed interest manifested by
the children in the national flag, are hopeful in
dications that the coming generation will di-
rect public affairs with increased prudence and
patriotism.
Natural Rights of the Parent.
Our interest in free public schools open to all
children Of suitable age is supreme, and our
care for them will be Jealous and constant
The public school system, however, was not in
tended to restrain the natural right of the
parent, after contributing to the public school
fund, to choose other educati, nal agencies for
his children.
favored aid by the general government to
the public schools, with special view to the
necessities of some of the southern states. But
1t is gratifying to notice that many of these
states are with commendable liberality, de-
veloping their school systems and increasing
their school revenues to the great advantage of
the children of both races.
The considerable attention Of the farmers of
the whole country is invited to the work done
through the state department in the interest of
agricultural. Our pork products had for ten
years been nearly excluded by the great CONT |
mental nations of Europe, and their value dis
credited by the reasons given for this exclusion
All previous efforts to secure the removal Of
these restrictions had failed. But the wise leg.
islation Of the Fifty-first Congress, providing |
for the inspection and official certifcation of
of our meat and giving to the president power |
to forbid the introduction into this country of
selected products of such countries as should |
continue to refuse our inspected meats has en- |
our pork products. The result has been not |
only to sustain prices by providing new mar |
kets for our surplus but to add 80 cents per |
hundred pounds to the market value Of the in |
spected meats
Special Favors Secured.
Under the reciprocity agreements special |
favors have been secured for agricultural pro- |
ducts and our exports of such products have |
been greatly increased with q prospect of q |
further and rapid increase. The agricultural |
department has maintained In Europe an agent |
whose special duty it is to introduce there the |
various preparations of corn articles of food |
and his work has been very successful. The |
department has also sent skilled veterinarians |
to Liverpool to examine, in connection with the |
British veterinarians, the live cattle from the |
United States landed at that port, and the re-
suit in connection with sanitary methods |
adopted at home, have been that we hear no |
more about our cattle being infected with |
pleuro- pneumonia. A judicious system of |
quarantine lines has prevented the infection of |
northern cattle with the Texas fever.
Farmers and the Tariff Bill.
The tariff bill of 1890 gives better protection |
to farm products subject to foreign COM
petition than they had before, and the |
home markets for the products have been en-
lar ged by the establishment of new industries |
and the development of Others We may con.
idently submit to the intelligent and can
in any corresponding period 80 much has been
done to promote his interests and whether In
q continuance and extension Of these methods
there is not better prospect offered to him
than in the invitation Of the Democratic party
to give our home market to foreign manu-
facturers and to abandon the reciprocity pol
icy; and better also than the radical and un
tried methods Of relief proposed by other par
ties which are soliciting his support.
have often expressed my strong co victiol
of this value OF the Nicaragua ship canal to
our commerce and to our navy. The project
is not one OF convenience, but of necessity.
1t is quite possible, believe IL the United
States will support the enterprise, to secure
the speedy completion of the canal without
taxing the treasury for any direct contribu-
ton and at the same time to secure to the
United States that influence In Its manage
ment which Is imperative
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