The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-11-04
GNE FORCE BILL.
:. Republican Ieasure Which
President Harrison IL Com.
Eitied to Revive.
Republican Success Would Insure
the Return Of Tom Reed and the
Success OF the Force Bill.
Tho Most Infamous Measure
Devised to Perpetuato the
Power of the Party
Of the Carnegies.

An Array of Pinkerton Thugs To To
Forced Upon the Country tn Invade
Homes aud Take Possession Of the
poils-Iacked with Bayoncfs and an
Unlimited Treasury Murder Might Be
Committed by Davenport Heeiers and
No state Court Could Bring Them to
Justice.
For more than fifty years the invari-
able rule has been that the party which
elects the president only controls the
house Of representatives elected the
same year.
Every time the Republicans have
elected president they have also elect
ed a Republican house. Since 1872 tho
Republicans have elected only two
houses-in 1880, when Garfield defeated
Hancock. and in 1883 when Harrison
was elected. In 1873 Democratic
house WAS elected. but Hayes although
inaugurated by the MD Of returning
boards was not elected by the people.
This is generally admitted now.
With this unbroken precedence, it ia
reasonably safe To predict that the new
president and the next house will ne in
accord, politically; that If the people,
ratify at the polls next November, the
nominations made at Minneapolis by the
Office holders Of the north and the
negroes OF the south. then every branch
Of the government viii be under the
control Of the Republican party.
Once restored 10 power, III all the de-
partments, the Republican party will
never again let GO II will entrench
Ill. H. sn1 no idol
wave CT popular disapproval at the polls
will ever be able to dislodge it.
Under the reign Of force b:llism" the
voice Of the people vii, be nulliiied at
the polls by the same army that van
oui6hed Blaine at Minneapolis, the
Office holders and the negroes.
1--WE must do our own voting, our
own counting and our own certification,"
said Tom Reed at banquet given by
the Pi.tsburg tariff robbers. Republic
can success would mean not only the re-
tention of Benjamin Harrison in the
W hite House for four more long years,
but also the reinstatement OF Tom Reed
in the speakers chair TO count quorums
in many billion-dollar congresses to
come.
line wild revolutionary scenes OF the
Fifsy-frst congress would be re enacted
in the Fifty-third congress. 1t is true
there would be no more surplus to
suuandsr and no reason for Corporal
surplus But oklahoma. with her
hob tsiI- population. would be made
one Of The states of the Union to main
tain Republican majority in the senate
n was done in the Fifty-frst congress
when fow mining camps in Idaho and
critic ranches Of Wyoming were manu-
factured into two sovereign states.
The tariff issue. the Republicans
say, was settled when the Mckinley bill
became law.
So there would be no more "tinkcring"
with the tariff and relief from trusts
and national taxation would be remote
beyond generations. The Louisiana
sugar growers and the Vermont sap
boilers would continue to fatfen upon
the bounty ~ ia them by the government
at the expense Of the corn and wheat
producers OF Indiana and the other
states of the west.
Force hin the Issue.
The tariff having thus been settled to
the satisfaction of the monopolists,
there remains but one question for the
Repuhlicans to settle, and that Is a
national election law. which. through
\ treachery Of the Blaine element Of the
party. failed to pass the senate in the
last congress for want Of time. But
with Blame crushed and his followers
on. of the way. and with four years
\ more OF executive power TO starve out
skulking Republican senators by the
withdrawal Of patronage. Benjamin
\ Harrison and Tom Reed would surely
drive the force bill through congress
without opposition, and thus redeem the
force bill pledge Of the Minneapolis
platform.
Tho platform upon which Harrison
stands today before the people. means
simply. 1.-The Mckinley tariff to stand
and the force bill TO come"
The force bill which President Harri-
son recommended in his messages to
congress and which Tom Reed bullied
through the house two years ago Is the
only Interpretation that can he placed
on the plank of the Minneapolis plat
form relating to the election laws. A
review of the monstrous measure
brought forward by Congressman
Lodge. Of Massachusetts. and Daven-
port, Of New York. in the last congress
IL therefore opportune.
chief Supervisors for Life.
The bill authorized the appointment
of chief supervisors by the United States
circuit Judges who hold Office for life,
are amenable TO no person. and are
election directors in the respective dis
tricts. There are now three United
States Judges in each circuit, all Repub-
cans, with the exception Of five judges
who are in the minority and would be
powerless in their districts when the APP
pointment Of supervisors were made.
Under the bill the chief supervisor
appoints three supervisors for election
precincts and he may increase the num-
Der Of election officers without consult
ing congress md pay them without limit.
the appropriations for this purpose be-
ing made in lump. The chief super
visor may have as many deputy mar
shals appointed as he may deem ncces-
sary. The supervisors have full power
of deputy marshals and may arrest q
voter If challenging him does not accom-
plish all that is necessary. They car
arrest and imprison at will. They have
the United States treasury behind them
and the army anI navy are placed undei,
the control Of the chief supervisors anc
bayonets may he used at the poll when
ever the election officers decide to use
military fsrea