The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-06
The Third Party and the Force Bill.

The Third Party and the Force Bill.
The third party does not make any refer
ence to the foroe bill In Its platform. but it
does refer to 1t In a series of resolutions,
which we're intended to express the vie VS.
OF the convention on various subjects. The
resolution referring 70 the force bill is as
follows:
THAT we demand a free ballot and fair
count In all elections, aud pledge oursel YES
TO secure it to the legal voter, without
federal Intervention. through the adoption
by the states OF the upper verified Australian
secret ballot system"
This extremely mild reference outside of
its platform to a matter in which the south
is 30 profoundly interested shows that tn q
third party does not purpose to devote a
great deal of attention to the force bill
issue. The difference between what It says
and what the Democratic party says with
regard to it is SO great that no southern
man ought to have any hesitation with re-
gard to the party he will support. Here is
what the Democratic party says, and it
makes its utterancs a leading plank IN its
platform:
1--WE warn the people Of common country,
jealous for the preservation of their free in
situations that the policy of federal control
OF elections, to which the Republican party
has committed itself, Is fraught with the
gravest dangers, scarcely less momentous
than would result from revolution practi-
cally establishing monarchy on the ruins Of
the republic. II strikes at the north as well
as at the south. and Injuries the oolored oiti-
zens even more than the whites. 1t means
a horde of deputy marshals at every polling
plapa ary1,od with fadaral
boards appointed and controlled by federal
authority; outrage of the electoral rights Of
the people in the several states the uDjuga-
ton of the colored people to the control OF
the party in power, and the reviving of race
antagonisms, now happily abated, of the
utmost peril to the safety and happiness Of
all; "a measure deliberately and Justly de-
scribed by leading republican senator
as the most infamous bill that ever crossed
the threshold of the Senate Such a policy,
| il sanctioned by law, would mean the DOM
| nance Of a self-perpetuating oligarchy OF
| office holders, and the party first intrusted
with Its machinery could be dislodged from
power only by an appeal 70 the reserved
rights of the people 60 resist oppression,
which is inherent IN all Safeguarding com
munities. Two years ago this revolu tionary
| policy was emphatically condemned by the
| people at the polls, but in contempt OF that
| verdict the Republican party has defiautly
declared, In its latest authoritative utter
ancs, that its success In the coming cleo
lions will mean the enactment of a forcs
bill and she usurpstion Of despotic control
! over elections In oil the STATES. Believing
| that the preservation Of republican govern
ment In the United States is dependent upon
the defeat Of this policy Of legaliEed force
and fraud, We invite the support Of all citi-
Esns who desire 90 see the constitution main
tanned IN its integrity with the laws pur-
suant thereto, which have given our country
hundred years Of unsxamplsd prosperity.
We pledge the Democratic party, II il be
Entrusted with the power, not only 10 de-
feat she force bill, but also 70 relentless op-
position to the republican policy Of profit
gate expenditure, which, In the short space
Of two years, has squAndored an enormous
surplus-emptied an Overlooking treasury
after piling new burdens of taxation upon
the already overtaxed labor of the country"
II the southern delegates to the Omaha
convention had alone been consulted the
third party platform would have contained
probably strong plank condsmning the
force bill policy OF the Republican party.
The mild resolution expressing the views
Of the convention relative 60 the force bill
was doubtless all the concession they could
Obtain with regard 10 that matter. 1t