Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-08
srIoKs 10 ZEE FoRoE BlLL.

There is no security for the personal or
political rights of any man in community
where any other man is deprived Oh MS
personal or political rights. The power OF
the States over the question OF the quaIln-
cation Of electors is ample to protect them
against the dangers Of an ignorant or de-
PRAYED suffrage, and the demand that every
man found TO Oe qualified under the law
shall be made secure in the right to cast q
free ballot and 10 have that ballot honestly
counted cannot be abated.
Our old Republican battle cry, "a free
ballot and fair count comes back to US
not only from Alabama but from otner
States, and from men who. differing with
Us widely in opinions, have come to see
that parties and political debate are but a
mockery If, when the debate is ended, the
Judgment Of honest majOrities is 10 be re-
versed by ballot box frauds and tally sheet
manipulatiOns in the interest of she party
or party faction in pOwer.-HdTTison's Let
ter.
Stripped Of its can't and buncombe, this
is demand for the Force bill. HARRI-
son himself does not deny it, for he
adds:
I shall again urge upon Congress that
provision be made for the appointment OF
q nOn-Dartisan commission 70 consider the
subject Of apportiOnments and elections, IN
their relation 70 the choice OF Federal OIL
GERS.
In other words the President will urge
his pet measure for making Republican
rule perpetual at the first opportunity,
and fasten upon the South the whole
system Of arbitrary federal interference
in local elections, arbitrary arrests with
out chance of appeal, federal bay
onets at the polls, Republican
partisans managing the count,
ali the other infamous details Of HAIR
RIsoN's pet scheme devised by that
friend OF purity in elections. the
notorious JOIN J. DAVENPORT, Of New
York, for the demolition of the South's
political solidity and the preparation
Of Republican rule. All this would
mean negro domination again, the
bloody shirt, the carpet bag, the feder-
al soldiers dispensing, under orders
from Washington, the Legislature elect
ed by the sovereign people OF free
State, fraud, force, legislation for plum
der, taxation that practically means
confscatiOn, disaster and ruin to the
prosperous New South. The most
powerful pen is not powerful enough
to briug before the Northern people
the consequences Of the Force bill
policy to the South, once put into sue
cesSful operation by the politicians
who conceived it. 1t will turn the
hands of time back in the South and
place that section where it was in Re-
construction days with all their horrors.
The Presidents repetition OF his talk
about 'non- partisan" commission TO
consider the subject, aud his hypocrit-
zeal expression Of hope thet'the States
will themselves take hold of the matter,
is simply and plainly intended to de-
ceive and h%ie his real purpose and
mb8ulUAa 6aa0 - oOcA-us LOW NOuAO
such q commission be non-partisan?
Mr.. HARRISON knows that the Force
bill can be enacted only by Republican
majority IN Congress and his own re-
election. He knows that if the subject
was left to the decision. Of really non
partisan commission it would never
come before Congress.
Mr.. HARRISON, in any Of HIS acts,
never more thoroughly demonstrated
his Observation-Disclosures than he has in
his understandable, undigni6ed, cum
ming and pettifoRglng letter OF accept
ance. 1t is all through mere stump
speech, OF very low order, entirely
unworthy of a Presidential aspirant,
supposed to be outlining his proposed
policy.