The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-23


nsnissraslon is dependent IN the senate
for sill its hopes Of silver pnfchsse repea
on the Republicans Of that body. the DEM
ocrsfs In both honses Of congress pro
claim thesr purpose Of repeating the FED
eraI election law Of $50. There viii be no
Federal election tor more than . year 70
come
The attitude Of the Democratic majority
In the house we hare described as con-
temptible. When we remember that the
president in his proclamation, calling
congress together in a particular emer-
geney and fer specific purpose, said that
the matter rose above the plane OF party
politics. be tacitIy appealed TO The he
publican congressman aad senators to
stand By him against the majority of his
own party in delivering the country from
The evils Of a deprecated currency Presi-
dent Cleveland played a square hand and
spoke IN a tone OF patriotic appeal that
was promptly answered by the Repuoa-
cans of both the house and the senate.
The Republicans OF the mouse saved cleve-
Iand from defeat on the re-enactment OF
the BIand-AlIison law of 1878 and il Is the
Democratic majority of the senate. not
the majority OF the Republicans. that to-
day defer the enactment of the silver pur-
ctase repeal law and will probably de-
feat IT,
The Republican support enabled Pres'-
dent Cleveland 20 score splendid tri-
umph in the house. and il 10 the majority
OF his own party that today prevents Pres
idsnt Cleveland from scoring splendid
trium Oh In the senate. Yet at this mo-
ment, when the president Is dependent
upon the Republicans of the senate to pass
the repeal bill, the Democratic majority in
the house propose 70 repeal those Federal
election laws which enunciate the right OF
every American citizen. black or white,
under the Southern palmetto or the North.
ern pine. TO cast his one vote. as Gen.
Hancock. Democratic candidate for presi-
dent. said in 1850, ''in perfect freedom. and
have IL counted as cast"
The Federal election law was enacted in
1870 after the Wholesale frauds OF 1868 in
the city OF New York. by which the vote
OF the state vas stolen from Grant and Girls
void and given to Seymour and Hoffman.
This crime against the suffrage was directed
by Tweed, then boss of the Tammany
ring. and IL was impossible to prevent a
repetition Of these fraudulent practices at
national elections unless the national gov
eminent exercised its constitutional right
and provided for the regulation of national
elections by the national authorities.
Hence the law of 1870, enacted by Re-
publican congress. signed by Gen. Grant
ana enforced in the city of New York by
John /. Davenport. The late Samuel s.
Cox and other Democratic congressman of
distinction bore testimony to the effici-
ency Of the Federal law in putting an end
TO Tammany's suffrage stealing tactics of
| 1865.
This Federal election law. which the
| Democracy of the South are eager to
repeal, does not interfere with the action
of any honest voter. 1t does not interfere
| with. modify or suppiant the election laws
! OF the state in any way. It simply pro-
| vides for the national supervision and
| regulation of congressional elections. No
| body opposes il only the municipal scoun-
| drels In the great cities of the North.
who seek TO steal the sufirages of the
| people at the national elections free from
| Federal interference. So far as the South
IS concerned, the North does not care
about the law; the iawIess people of that
section regularly nullify every Federal
| law that seeks to protect the ballot box,
/ bat the law is of service at the
/ North. where We do not mob Federal
officials. nor treat the Federal authority
with contempt. The South, by the brute
force of political party that ~ as lawless
body of the Federal laws affecting cleo
tions. This piratical South knows that
laws cannot be nullilled at the North, so
they seek TO force their repeal today.
That saturnine political scoundfel, David
u. Hill. is shriekiug today from Che senate
for the repeal OF the Federal elections law
because il interferes with his Vaccinations
in the Empire state of the worth OF this
Law to the cities of the North the Albany
Fleming Journal says:
"No more perfect object lesson in favor
| of maintaining the Federal election law
could be conceived than that which was
presented here ia Albany last fall, where
the boss Of the Cleveland Democracy is
himself n judge Of the supreme court, and
whose creatures are the chief OF police of
this city and the district attorney of this
| county. The very avenues and sources OF
criminal prosecution and punishment
were controlled by this uncrapnlous boss
Judge. The usual preparations were made
20 poll a fraudulent Democratic vote OF a,
least zoo IN the Fourth ward of this city
alone. aud fully l,Sc0 additional in
the other wards OF the city. The
strong arm OF the Federal Law
reached into Albany. and despite the
pernicious activity Of the local Cleveland
ties TO protect the criminals who were
aiming TO dehauch the ballot, dozen roor
crestures--the things which the boss
judges machine employs IN doing its un-
[ sreakaoiy dirty work-Sere landed in the
. Albany penitentiagy.
Without the Federal election law, tho
contemplated crimes of the ringsters in
Albany last tail could not have been frus
! tratcd
Without Federal supervision ofnational
elections. IL is possible tor gang OF free
/ hooters such IS the Cleveland Democracy
az Albany or the Tammany Democracy o.
/ New York, controlling local courts. iurie.
and prosecuting officers 10 parpetrAts
wholesale political crimes and change al,
result in the state Of New Yerk, or even in
! the nation"
I Ii is 9 strange sort of Justice tha, At
| tseks Sander and enables Fifteen Huudres
Dollar Carson, whose duty it Was TO guar