The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-11-03
c., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1892.
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Republican party has had no great
popular issue at all to be compared
with that which is involved in the
proposition to exercise the Constitu
tlonal right and power of Congress to
regulate the election Of its members. -
-New :, York Mail and Express
august IS, 1890.
''The people Endorsed the so-called
Force bill when they elected..Benjamin
Harrison President, and they have
not yet withdrawn their mittimus.
The Federal elections bill x x * is
comparatively mild and nerveless. =
x 1t is simply moderate attempt to
redeem the pledge SO emphatically
given by the Republican party in
1888. ."-Br00kIn Times, January,
Fl, 1891.
"The question of the free suffrage
and honest elections, is one that takes
hold of the foundation of our system
of government !; the Republican party
of to-day looks upon the question as
the most important before the country
the party is committed to the theory
that free and honest elections can be
best secured through Federal legisla-
ton and the protection of the Federal
government if Mr.. Harrison is re-
elected there is no doubt that the
most earnest efforts of his Administra-
tion will be extended towards the
passage of Federal election law by
Congress similar to that which passed
the House of Representatives of the
last Congress. ."-Neao Haven PaYa-
a1um, august, 1892.
al give notice now that l shall con-
tlnue to press my Force bill, and l
intend to pass it before l die, too.
shall pass the Force bill yet-you see
if | don't. t."-/0An l. Daueubort,
United States Supervisor of elections
in Ne70 York City, and author Of the
Lodge Force NX"
"l believe my Democratic friends
say that there is Force bill issue in
this campaign. | don't think there is,
but think there ought to be. i
This is the most important question in
this campaign, and l would a good
deal rather have negro domination in
the South than the domination that
prevails there at the present time -
Ex-senator ./oha !. ingalls,, Of Kan
sas, in a speech at Topeka, Oct. g.
1892.
Brayer Shepard rises to remark in
the New York Mail and Eabress
that since the days Of reconstruction
the Republican party has had nc
great popular issue to be compared
with the Force bill, and the New Haven
Palladium, Republican, declares that
if Mr.. Harrison is reelected there is
no doubt that the most earnest effort
of his administration will be given to
securing the passage of Force bill,
similar to that which passed the House
OF the SYST Congress. And yet there
are some men down in this country
who pretend to believe that the Force
bill is not an issue in this campaign,
and that there is nothing in it.-Wil-
mingtion Star.
Ex-Speaker Thos. B. Reed of Maine,
is Republican authority. In speech
at Albany, N. Y, last Saturday, speak
ing of the Force bill he said:
ssIt was said that we could not coerce
the sovereign States, and we coerced
eleven af them. Sometimes | wish
that our people had more pluck, and
would keep them more coerced, SO
that liberty could reign. The Demo-
Gratis say that the Force bill deprives
the people of the free will to vote.
x x We are ready to destroy these
so-called liberties of the South. We
have DESTROYED several of their liber-
ties, and will continue to compel them
to obey the law
We could add to these extracts by
quoting from ex-Gov Foraker, Sem
ator Hoar, Fred Douglass and others
who insist that this is ore Of the vital
issues for which the Republican party
is contending. 1t is only the simple
ton or dishonest politician who says it
is not.
Lastly we quote from an editorial
article in the Philadelphia Press,
whose editor Charles Emory Smith,
was rewarded for his partisan service
by an appointment as Minister to Rus
sia, by President Harrison. And it will
be observed that the article in question
embraces both politics and business
and is SO phrased as to influence
the politician and the manufacturer of
the North, who has been feeling the
effects of Southern competition. If
the Force bill should come before
Congress again the very same style of
appeal will be used TO influence SEN
timent in favor Of it.
.If the Democrats had never been
allowed to regain control of the State
Governments of the South, Northern
capital would never have embarked in
the development of Southern coal
and iron and the surest and speediest
way to put stop to this competition
from men who are our political enemies,
as we'll as our commercial rivals, is to
carry through and inforce measures
like the Lodge Election law. =
And if we can once more get them
into the condition they were before
1876 we won't hear any more about
cheap iron and cheap cotton goods
from the South. They will have
other things to think about. .'-EA-
toyiaI in the PAikaAeLphia Press,
edited BY one Of President Harrison
tlosest friends, Hon. Charles Emory
Smith, late Minister to Russia.
The CrOkerV is so pretty