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takes place. First, Tammany Hail may
some day fall of its own weight as it did
under Tweed; it may some day quarrel
with the nominations of the national
Democracy and knife the candidate. Sec
ond. the South may some day cease to be
"soiid" for the Democracy. There is no
present sign that any of these events is
likely to happen very soon, SO the Repub-
lican party will probably see Cleveland
succeeded in 1895 by David B. Hill or some
other Democratic statesman that stands
Democracy.
For the second time since the departure
of James Buchanan from the White
House We have the spectacle of Demo-
cratic president elected who will sit in the
executive chair by virtue of the successful
notification Of the federal constitution
and the laws at the south and the theft of
the suffrage by the Tammany Hall cleo
ton machinery at the North. The syste-
matte suppression of the suffrage and
robbery of the ballot box at the
South gives that section q number
of stolen seats both in congress and
the electoral college. The South steals
The stolen seats in congress make laws for
the North; the stolen seats in the electoral
college elect a president Of the United
States, who has been chosen not through
obedience to the requirements Of the fed
eral constitution and the laws, but by the
wholesale suppression of the suffrage and
the notification of the federal constitution
and laws.
This spectacle of successful theft Of the
suffrage at the South has not been lost on
David B. Hill, for by his gerrymander Of
New York state and his Democratic cleo
ton inspector law he has made New York
as solid for the Democracy as South Caro-
lima. In any proper sense of the term
Mr.. Cleveland was not constitutionally
elected president in 1884. and is not in
1892.
How many years will the North endure
the spectacle Of the South, through nullih.
cation of the constitution and the laws,
making laws for the whole country and
placing their obsequious tool in the execu-
tive. chair? The North loves peace and
pelf, and is likely to endure this spectacle
for a good many years ii the succession
of fraudulent presidents is occasionally
broken. but if it should find that the sue
cession was not broken and it was not
likely to be broken because of the ma
chinery of outrage and fraud, then
there would be danger of trouble. The
time may come when we shall have gov
eminent holding power through machine
methods for the wholesale stealing or sup
pressing of the suffrage. and bitterly op-
posed by the great majority Of the North.
When that time comes it may be too late
to save our country from another civil
war. The South rebelled, not because she
was not given her full constitutional
rights, but because president she did not
like had been constitutionally elected. The
North might some day feel that she would
do we'll to be angry at the election of
president through persistent nuillfaction
OF the constitution and the law. The dan.
ger is not near, but its distance would rap
idly disappear if the North thought that
the unconstitutional domination of the
solid South and Tammany Hall was likely
to give US a succession of uniawfully
elected federal legislatures and executives.