The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-09-01

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E9sSMNW SSS for the reason that every
the Democratic powers
refer to rs sulking is
either at work Or ready to 60 to work. Every
man is declared to be in the proper frame of
mind for the party's success
The talk about President Harrison taking
the stump this year was set at rest last week
by Chairman Carriers statements to the con.
trary. There will be no formal speechmaking,
and there is no program arranged or thought
of for trips. The President, he declares, is too
busy, although he would be very valuable to
the arrangements for campaign speaking, is
now making the assignments.
McPhersons Handbook of Congress is now
ready for voters. In it ic ample material for
the Republican party to work from. A COM
parison is made between the First Session of the
Fifty-second Congress and the First Session of
the Fifty-frst greatly to the disadvantage Of
the s4atement that the present House has
shown itself to be feeble, incapable of accom-
plishing any great things in spite of its efforts
to make record.
Nothing more has been heard about the Re-
publican headquarters in Chicago. and it seems
probable that the idea will be abandoned. It
is understood that the political leaders of
Illinois advised against it, doubling its wisdom.
The policy of the Republicans seems to be to
make quiet campaign, and comparatively
little of what is being done is given out at
Headquarters in New York. If matter Of
hard work and long hours is to count the Re-
publicans are likely to make that feature of
their operations tell. Early and late seems to
be the rule.
The first Presidential candidate to make Off
cial acceptance of his nomination through the
usual letter is John Bidwell, Of California. the
Prohibition party's choice. Following are
some extracts from his paper:
The liquor traffic is an enormous incubus
upon the Nation, amounting in cost and con-
sequences to the annual sum of not less than
$4,000, 900, 000-four times the amount required
to pay the annual expenses of the National
Government. 1t 10 standing curse; danger
to public health; the source of untold political
corruption, crimes diseases, degradation and
death public nuisance and public immor-
atty; in q word, it is an unmitigated and
measureless evil without redeeming feature.
"1n the name Of right and humanity let not
free, enlightened and Christian America longer
injure and degrade women by Withholding
from her that which is her inalienable right |;
that which will elevate American womanhood !;
that which will enlarge her usefulness; that
which will impart to her greater ability to the
helper and co-worker with man under all cir
cumstanccs and conditions that which alone
will make woman mans equal before the law
and place in her hands the most efficient
weapon with which to defend her rights and
protect the home. allude, of course, to that
priceless heritage. the ballot.
I'm order to relieve the labor of the country
Of its abnormal and often econgested condition
there should be the earliest possible revision
and restriction of the immigration and natural.
ization laws of the United States. These laws,
so inimical to American labor and the best in
terests of ell, If not purposely enacted have
doubtlessly been kept In force for partisan con-
siderations-for fear of detriment to partisan
interests-till our country has become the
almost daily scene of riot, lawlessness and
bloodshed and not infrequenty on such scale
to portend, If permitted to 20 unchecked, the
possible subversion of all authority. The dis
cord between capital and labor cannot safely be
allowed to continue"
The opening of the campaign In Illinois took
place Saturday at Bloomington, where there
was gathering of the Democrats to hear Adlai
E. Stevenson and other representatives of the
party speak. All the adjoining towns and viii
lagos had delegations on the ground, and OK
cursions were run from points farther away.
There were not less than 5000 persons present.
Candidate Stevenson was the principal attrac-
tion, of course, and there was much enthusiasm
manifested on his appearance. Among the
points he made were these, in his own words:
"The tariff is the all-imp0rtant issue of the
campaign upon which we have now entered.
Shall there be revision of our tariff laws and
as consequence of such legislation reduction
of taxation, or shall it become the policy of our
Government to maintain. permanently, high
protection2 Our present tariff laws need care
f,l ray;r THAR ulariuu inn oil fa
should be corrected. 1t is to the interest Of
manufacturer and consumer alike that in the
main raw material be admitted free of duty.
Working the raw material into the finished
product would give employment to our skilled
workmen. The reduction of tariff taxes to the
minimum upon the necessaries of life is i'm
portant to al of our people; it would prove of
inestimable value to the millions who earn
their bread by daily toll.
Another issue of great moment is the Force
bill. 1t may mean the control of the election
of Representatives in Congress by the bayonet.
The Republican party, by its acts in the 51st
Congress and by its platform in its late Ma
tional Convention, stands pledged to the passage
of the Force bill. To all of the people-all who
desire the peace and prosperity of our common
country-this question is important. To the
people of the Southern States it is one of tran
scendent Importance. Shall they still have
peace and the protection of the law, or shall
the horrors with which they are menaced find
their counterpart only in those of the darkest
hours of the reconstruction period2
Dispatches from Atlanta, Ga, Of recent date
state that Congressman Tom Watson, the mem-
Der of the Alliance Party in Congress who re-
Gently gained great notoriety by accusing his
fellow congressman of drunkenness, which
charge was investigated just at the close Of the
late session, has been creating race prejudice
at Augusta, the old State Capital to such an
extent that considerable alarm Is felt among
the whites. The negroes are in the majority
in that district Watson is appealing to their
passions and prejudice to get their vote in his
contest against Black, the Democratic nomi-
nee.
According to these dispatches there were two
meetings at Sparta on Friday, Aug. 26. Gov.
Northen, Mr.. Black and Congressman Moses
addressed Democratic meeting, while Mr..
Watson drummed up the negroes and most
ignorant of the farmers, who compose the Third
Party. There were perhaps 900 of the negroes
and 200 whites listening to him. He told the
negroes he was in favor of wping out the color
line, and that the Third Party was in favor of
equality of the races. The negroes cheercd
him wildly. When the meeting was over a
burly black negro went to)the hotel at which
Watson was stopping and demanded accommo-
dations. He said Mr.. Watson had announced
the coIor-line wiped OUT The negro was put out
by force, and then he attempted to incite the
other negroes to riot. Batifor the large mum.
Der of white DemocHtssin the town there
would have been trouble. .