Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-06-24
A FORCE BILL THE ISSUE
THE NEW YORK "SUN" SUP
PORTS THE TICKET.
Better the Devil Than benjamin.
Harrison with a Force Bill In
His pOCkct-A Call Oh Hill to be
Ku the thick of the, Fight


In the Thick Ofthe Fight.
New YORK, June 24.-Thc following is
the leading editorial in the Sun today:
There is ono question depending on
the election of the next president, which,
in its momcntous Importance and vital
imperativcncss, must seem to every phil
osophic observer to exceed every other
political question that the people are
now called upon to determine.
All differences of opinion respecting
the administrative reform, or silver coin
age or free trade, or protection, or the
personal qualities or antecedents of the
candidates; in short, the whole ordinary
array of electoral controversies arc, in
comparison, inferior, indeed of almost
trivial moment. We mean the question
whether those southern states which
have inherited a negro population sur
passing the number of their white citi-
zens, shall, by the federal law and federal
military force, be subjected to the poliii-
cal domination of negroes, to negro
legislatures, negro governors and negro
Judges in their courts, or whether they
shall continue to be governed by white
men as now.
Now it makes no difference who may
be president, whom the republican party
| clects-slncc Blaine is now permanently
out of he line of power. That party is
by its nature and traditions under the
necessity of cnacting and executing an
| election law whose purpose and effect will
be to put the negroes in control of sew
cral OF he southern states. There will
be the same unwilingness on the part of
the patriotic minority, among the rcpub-
lcans who will lrevolt at the conscquCr ccs
of such a measure, but their opposition
cannot avail The necessity of the sit
uation will suppress all such resistance.
| a force bill is the first and inevitable
result of sweeping republican victory
| in November.
On the Other hand, and bv the nature
and necessity of the ideas involved, the
success of democracy is death to the
force bill project. KILLED i'll his election
it can never be revived. In this view o
the contest what conscientious democrat
can hesitate about his duty. Better
vote for liberty and white government %
the southern states, even II the candid
ate were the devil himself rather thar
consent to the election ot respectable
Benjamin Harrison with u force bill ii
his pocket.
In another editorial the Sun quotes
from the first two sections OF Tho
platioIm down to the words "Dcicat o.
the force BILL" and says:
This is an essential part OF the plat
form on which Cleveland was nominated
at Chicago yesterday morning fairly
squarely and honorab|y, and by th'
votes of more than two-thlrds of thu
democratic delegates"
Another editorial quotes the fable o
the fool at PhiIlippi who gave advice tt
the Roman general Octavi,is, which wa:
not taken, and commcnds tie fable
to the attention of William {. Whltnc,
with the suggestion that he keep hi!
eyes peeled. Still another editorial say:
it is matter of Importance to the demo
cracy of New York that Hill should con
tnuc at the head of the army he ha
done SO much to organize, and says:
"Ncw York democrats are with nm
in failure as in success and lie will b
with them as long as there is a poIltIca
principle to defend, a republican anita
gonist to outgcneral, or an election Il
carry for the democracy.