Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-09-29
Force Bin vs. Princspic.

Force Bill w. PrtnCspue.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM OF 1860 ON
WHICH ABRAHAM LING LIN WAS
ELECTED.
"F. That the maintenance
inviol.te of the rights Of the States
and especially the right of each
State TO order and control it's own
domestic institutions acco, ding to
it's OVID judgment exclusiv :ly, is
eseential to that balance OF power
on which the perfection and endur-
ance of oIr political faith depends;
and we denouuce the lawleas inva-
sion by armed force, of any State
or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest
of crimes"
DEM, CRATIC PLATFrRM CT 1892 ON
WHICH GR"vER CLEVELAND STANDS
FOR NE ELECTIoN.
"Sec nd. We warn the people
of our common country, jealous for
the preservation of their free instis
tutions, that the policy of Federal
control of elections, to which the
Republican party has committed
itself, is frAught with the gravest
dangers, scarcely less than. would
result from a revolution, practical
ly establishing a monarchy on the
ruins of the Repnblic. 1t strikes at
the North as well 40 the South and
iDjures the colored citizen even
more than the white; it means a
horde of Deputy Marshals at every
polling place, armed with Federal
power; returning boards appointed
and controlled by Federal autbori-
ty; the outrage "f the electoral
rights of the people in the several
States; antagonisms now happily
abated of the utmost peril to the
safety and happiness of ala mea-
sure deliberately and justly de-
scribed by q leading Republican
Senator as "the most infamous bill
that ever crossed the threshold of
the Senate"
Such q policy, if sanctioned by
law, would mean the dominance OF
Q self-perpetuating oigarchy of
Office holders, and the party first
entrusted with it's machinery could
be dislodged from power only by
an appeal to the reserved right OF
the people to reeiet oppression.
which 10 inherent in all self gov.
erning communities. Two years
ago this revolutionary policy wa.
emphasically condemned by the
people at the pollf; but in con
tempt Of that verdict, the Republic
can party has defi.ntiy declared,
in its latest authoritative utterance,
that it's success in the coming elsc-
tion will mean the enactment of
tive Force bill and the usnrpation
of despotic control over the elec-
tions in all the States"
Can any fair-minded, impartial
man draw any tangible, practical
and substantial distinction between
the above plank in the Republican
platform OF 1860 and the plank
quoted in the Democratic platform
oc 1892, exs.cpt that the position OF
the two parties is exactly reversed?
In 1860 the Democratic party
sought by constitutional Legislation
TO force slavery upon the people of
Kansas, then Territory of the
United States, and just about rie-
ing TO the dignity OF q State in the
Union, andRepublicans denounced
them for it. And now in 1892, the
Republican party seeks by legisla-
-tion to inaade and violate the
rights of the Statee held by them
20 sacred in 1860, and practically
destroy s.that balance Of power on
which the perfection and endur-
ance OF our political faith de-
pende."
myself In 1868 voted with the
Republican party for the recon
sfruction of the Southern States
under tbs act Of Congress oi
March 2nd, 1861, which pnt the
ballot In the hand ofthe negro, and
I did 90 % q choice of evils be-
tween civil government with negro
suffrage, and military government