Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-09-27

S'c'ies lie .cprsont .tiYcs OF tho
,ipiaorro'ir parry q the United siates, in
Nuuonai mention assembled, 90 rcafirm
h,s - BE principles of the pnr-
" IS formulate by Jefferson ami ezempli-
red by q lotfr End illustrious line Of his sue.
ccs II. = lJenipc,Mic leadership lrcm Mad.
lscg 10 i,N Gland. We tslicye that the nub-
ic weiiste SifNHnl lhst these princlrlas he
applied 20 'hr conduct OF the Feceral Gov.
eminent th ourh the accession to power OF
the patti that advocates then; ,tnd wo sol.
emily declare that the need Of return to
these fundamental principles of free pop
ular COVE nment based on Eome rule and
naividual liberty was nevrr more than now,
when tue tendency to cen.rslize all power
Al tic Federal Capital has becom a menace
o tie reserved rights ofthe States that strike
a the worry roots OF orr Government under
= { Constitution as framed by The Republic.
~ 10 THE FORCE BILL.
See. 2 We warn the people OF our CON-
mon country, jealous for the preservation OF
their free institutions, thatthe policy of Fed
eral control OF elections, to which the Re-
publican party has committed itself, is
fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely
less momentous that would result from a
revolution, practically establishing monar-
oily en- the ruins Of the Republic.
1t strikes at the North as well as the South
and injuries the colored citizens even more
than the whites. 1t means horde of dep
uty marshals at every polling place, armed
with Federal power, returning boards ap-
pointed and controlled by Federal author
ity, the outrage OF the electoral rights OF the
people in the several States, the subjugation
Of the colored people to the control of the
parry in power and the reviving of race an
tagonlsm, now happily abated, Of the utmost
peril to the safety and happiness OF all; a
measure deliberately and Justly described by
leading Republican Senator "as the most
infamous bill that ever crossed the thresh
old of the Senate" Such policy, if sane
toned By law, would mean the dominance
of self perpetusting oligarchy of office
holders, and the party first entrusted with
its machinery could be dlslodged from pow
or only by an appeal to the reserved right
Of the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all self-goVerning communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
was emphatically CONDEMNED by the people
at the polls; but in contempt of that verdict
The Republican party has defantly declared
in its latest authoritative utterance that its
succe IN the coming election will mean
the enac ,ment of the force bill and theusur-
patton Of despotic control over elections in
all the States.
Believing that the preservation of repub-
lican government in the United States is
dependent upon the defeat of this policy OF
Jegslized force and fraud, We invite the
support Of I'll citizens who desire to see the
Constitution maintained In its integrity with
ihe laws pursuant thereto which have given
our country hundred years Of unexampled
prosperity;and we pledge the Democratic
party, if il be inti listed with power, not
only to the defeat of the force bill, but also
20 resembles opposition to the Republican
policy of profigate expenditure, which in
the short space OF two years has squandered
an enormous surp US and empted an over
lowing treasury after piling new burdens OF
taxation upon the already oyertaxed labor
of the country