The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27

cal rights of republicans, against which
! the government has hitherto been I'M
| able to afford any adequate protection.
! 1t is q story which should kindle indig-
nation and resentment in the breast of
every fair thinking and honest citizen
of the United States.
The democratic party, by the most
| colossal crimes committed against the
| purity of the ballot and the freedom of
the suffrage, has practically disfran-
chised seven million people. BY such
means that party has added at least
thirty per cent. to its power in the six
teen southern states, and it uses this
ill-gotten power in direct antagonism to
both the interests and opinions of the
citizens it thus robs and defrauds. II is
| also true that by the peculiar COM
plieation of race influence, representa-
ton and prejudice, this stolen political
| supremacy, through wholesale suppress
sion, enables democrat in many of the
southern states to exercise power two
or three times as great as any man, re-
publican or democrat, can exert in the
north.
The white population of South Caro-
lima, for instance, entities that state to
three representatives in congress, but
the colored population entities it to four
additional representatives. The demo-
Gratis, however, absolutely suppress the
colored vote and then proceed 10 elect
the entire seven of the congressionalidel-
egation, and thus every democrat in the
state exercises two and one-seventh
times as much political power in the
making of the laws of the nation and in
electing the president as any voter, re-
publican or democrat, in New York or
in any other state outside of the south.
This is the crime which the southern
states are constantly committing
against the rest of the states of the
union and by which they regularly steal
at least forty seats in the house of rep
resentatives in every recurring con-
gressional election. These forty stolen
seats in congress have given the demo-
Gratis their supremacy in the popular
branch of the national legislature, and
enabled them to pass three free trade
bills, and only by the merest accident we
escaped at their hands a most fraudulent
free silver bill. In other words, they
uniformly use these forty stolen seats
20 war against the interests of our citi-
zens who reside outside of their own
section.
We may well be startled at the brazen
corruption and political briganiage of
Hill, Tammany and Maynard, but in re-
senting their periidy and fraud we are
reseuting the characteristic methods
and practices of the democI ats wherever
they are sufficiently intrenehed in power
TO give immunity and audacity to their
crimes.
In voting against the democratic par
ty. we are not simply expressing our
personal condemnation of these Grim
inal political methods, but rs well
welding the only weapon that has suf-
tic:ent temper of steel and keenness of
edge to decapitate the fiery and hid
eouS heads of this hydra of political OPP
preston, usurpatlon and corruption.
IF we would save the country from
the fatal poison of this democratic mon
ster. which seeks to envelop every state
in its crushing coils, then we must not
only seek republican success IN each
state. but, at the cost of any sacrifice of
comfort, . convenience and all selfish
considerations, see to it that republican
supremacy is maintained in the fedora
government.
There are democrats in Louisiana
who now complain of wrongs visiteG
upon them By means OF their favorito
methods during the recent factiona!
fight il that state. and they have
threatened to invoke the strong arm Of
federal authority for protection and
reparation. But they are withheld
from such course by the fear of the
wholesale exposure of their past
crimes and the probable injurious eff
feet upon their own future political
prospects by virtue of the precedent