Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-27
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 81. 1892
No Eederal Elections.

To, CONGRESS execute the will OK the peo-
ola "a EXPRESSED IN the elections OF last
,,optb and repeal all laws which provide
for the interference Of any Federal omciai
Of Anv sort in the elections OF the several
states. The most pressing duty WHICH
now calls tor the services oil every true
democrat in Congress is the repeal OF all
srch laws They will be harmless per-
hans as long as the Democrats shall remain
in mower. but will surely be revived forth
With whenever. If ever. the Republican
marty AGAIN succeeds % the control OF the
presidency and both houses OF Congress:
For nearly hundred years our Federh
Government moved in its own orbit. Let
ms see 10 it that it shall return to that
orbit, The Washington Post. an lnoe-
pendent Republican paper, says on TINS
subject:
/" The posf wishes 20 remind the leaders In
question that II is desirable 20 have some SORT OF
election law and that IL Is quite as inrumpent on
the Democrats 10 enact good one az u was
on the Republicans, some two years ago 10 oe-
font a bad one. The Post antagonized hr'
Lodges foolish and mischieVous proposiuoh AS
arrnh aticnllv rs IL deserved. We we're opposed
,hen IA We are now aud shall be
IN the future, TO any bill intended
20 secure partisan advantage and calcn-
lated 20 impair the citizen individual hberAeS'
Tho country seems 90 have tnken the same view
of the matter, for not in many years has any
party received 80 stern and 40 inpreSsiTe a re-
buke as was last month administered 10 ths
nar,v That first brought forth tho Lodge bill in
congress and afterwnrd refused 20 disown II at
Minneapolis. But the country viii Just as cer-
family rspudiate the Democratic party In It's
turn should IL assal tree institutions through the
medium Of an unfair ana dangerous election law
md the Post will 10 with the country then as II
was before
Not So There Is no hope for the coun-
try except in keeping the hands OF the
Federal Government out of the ballot
boxes Of the several States. If the Demo-
cats pass any sort Of election law. how
ever good IT NAV be, their course Will be
blended rs a precedent when the Republl-
cans return to power. and CHANDLER and
oil the Republican rascals" will JOIN
bnad. 10 pass laws intended TO secure
uartisaa advantages and calculated TO i'm
pair the citizens individual Liberties"
As there Is no good Indian but
dead Indian. 50 there can be no good
Federal election-laws except those
which have been repealed and thus
rendered harmless. There are some
things which cannot be improved in any
WAY nor By any means so as to make them
tolera5le. Among such things we class
Fed ral election laws. They constantly
grow worse. not better. They may be
tolerated for awhile. as we in this coun-
try have tolerated the little force bill for
twenty years, but they grow in objection
ableness and wlcke1ness year by year
until they become a CALLING yoke upon the
necks Of men who aspire to be freemen.
Away with all such laws. If the people
cannot get along without Federal troops
and Federal election officers it is time for
the Man on Horseback TO make his appear
ance without disguise.