The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-10-05
REPUBLICAN LEADERS.
gNE FORCE BILL THE ONE ES-
SENTIAL OF KEPUBLICANlSM.
The President and the Great Body of
Republicans True to the PrOMfse---
The Mission of the Republic
can Party.

April, 1891, Senator Hoar in the ho
foregoing narrative that the republican
party had promised to do its best to Sc
cure honest elections, by the exercise of
the national legislative authority; and
that the purpose to keep that promise
is the one essential that constitutes
republicanism To that promise the
President and the great body of the re-
publicaAs in the House and in the Senate
have been true. The mission OF the re,
publican party will not be accomplished!
| until that promise shall have been kept.
Senator Hoars letter to Mr.. Eben D.
| Draper. chairman OF the MASSACHUSETTS,
republican State committee, written from
Paris. July 27, 1892: The purpose OF the
democrats to deny to the colored man
his constitutional right and to win power
by the destruction of the purity of our
national elections is disclosed by their
outcry against what they call the Force
Bill, simple proposition to give an ap-
peal to the courts Of the United States,
subject to the final power of the House
itself, in any contested questions of the
election of national representatives.
For every other right under the National
constitution there is a remedy under ma
tional laws. Why should the deare>,
and most precious right Of all be an ex
ception2n
House debate on the force bill, Jur,
26. 1890, Mr.. Rowell, Of Illinois, said
II approve of this proposed law. NJ,
judgment is with 1T, and am willing Il
stake my reputation in the future upor
this bill if it is enacted into the law o
the land | shall regard no act of N.
\ life, Mr. Speaker, with more approva
than the act which gives consent to the
, passage Of the BILL"
Senator Frye said in the debate on th'
force bill in the Senate on December l |
1890: Il, to whom this bill now pend
ing which so excites democratic ire is no
one tenth part stringent enough, no
one-tenth part drastic enough in its pro
visions. Why, Mr.. President, if it wer
necessary, in order that the ballot shall
be secured to every citizen Of the Unite'
States, and that that ballot shall be count
ed as he casts it, to put bayonet behin'
every ballot, I would put the bayone
behind every ballot, | would put tn
: bayonet behind it."
f Ia June, 1892, Senator Dolph, writin!
on the subject of THE Harrison Admin
istration, said: "He has not acted as
he regarded the declarations containe
I in the national platform, upon which h
was elected, as meaningless platitudes
= but as if he regarded them as control
ing statements of the priuci pies of tn
party, entitled to receive his careful cor
sideration and earnest support. Upo
the great issues of the day he has hel
no uncertain posi- ion He has. to Il
extent of his legitimate influence, adt
the party in its efforts to redeem i
pledges to the people, and ought to pr
mote its principles.
). Interview published in the Bostc
/, Herald, June II, 1892, Congressma
J. Henry Cabot Lodge said: THE renon
= inetion of President Harrison is the i,
4 dorsement Of his administration and i
o politics at home and abroad by the r
5 publican party His administration an
i the work of the 51st Congress constitu
:. !. the record of the republican party for Il
g last four years, and on that record v
Is ask confidently for continued power. v
o. have nothing to apologize for and not
/, ing 10 defend President H,
rison is renomnated as a faithful exE
Is nent Of the republican party and repu
= lican principles. He stands <
"a honest elections (Which have always h
: his hearty support
In the Forum for last July Senat
2 Hawley, of Connecticut, says, in spea
: ing of ''Mr. HarrisOn's Sound Admin
~ tration," upon which he bases the ella
sc of the President to re election: ct
- republican party can never forget
81 81 duty to exert national power to prot>
n national voting
Sees the Error of His Way and X etUr
BY Telegraph to the State Chronicle.