The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-25
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The note of alarm sounded fIom
Washington by Charles Emory smith
win not fall on iistIess ears. Mr..
Smith has discovered by personal ob.
servation that Mr. Cleveland proposes
to have a Democratic administration,
with all which that implies. This
was the opinion OF msny-of us months
ago, when the President accompanied
by the bland, consenting editor Of the
Tribune and the exacting editor of the
Philadelphia Times proposed that
Republicans should help him to make
assurance ofDemocratic victory doubly
sure by 'overthrowihg the financial
Legislation ofthe last thirty years, upon
which rests the credit of the nation.
No,one now sees with clearer eyes than
MIR. Emory Smith that the whole
Sherman agitation was q preteXt, q
flank movement upon the Republican
line. Mr. Cleveland owes his victory
in the, House to Republican votes
- without Republican votes he would
suffer ignomnious defeatin the Senate.
Yet these votes were answered by an
Immediate advance upon the vital
points of the Republican line,
We have no quarrel with Mr.. Cleve-
land because of the proposed Elections
bill Why should we complain? The
Democratic victory was based upon
the cry against "The Force Bill" Mr.
Harrison proposed that the elections
of Representatives and the Executive
should beunder Federal control. This
meant no war upon the suffrage ofany
honest voter, but the protection of in
nocent honest voters against antag-
onisms which they could not resist
The nature ofthese antagonisms will
be read in the from Roanoke, Va /,
and the dreadful incidents in Louis
lana. The cry was raised in North
ern Journals chat this meritorious bill
was a measure for The coercion Of the
South" that it was q Force Bill"
and its effect would be that "every
Southern white woman would be COM
PEELED to marty a negro" This un-
manly, despicable and un-American
cry more than any other concentrated
the Southern Eentiment which gave
Mr.. Cleveland his extraordinary vote.
Is there aDy reason why our South
ern friends should not come to their
own? They in the saddle. North
ern Democrats fbeped them there.
why should our Southern friends not
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That -is their affaiF,s Republicans
NORTH and south have other consider
ations. The South. today is under q
despotism a.sdarlz andpro ofomld So that
which rests over Russia Fhe suffrage
is coinedyl except When mobs al
their. Whim turuyjt int q tragedy.
There isnot a district seuths'ofDT
and Dixon's li1e which As not dis,
franelHsed, And yetthhs disfrancbfs,
ed}TepressnIing 'ps s4BHAu4ol arrogant
mineri les over eqwed sHd4ssilentma
jorities these distriotg have as much
powefid tbe1agislattve and executive
departments as, corresponding districts
in Pennsylvania and Maine. --
1t WAS. hgHeCl ztlIstL 3AisEH0uiaJ be
remedied4j5J p the HISl 6etioH bin. II
may be said tlHt anUh Southern mar
win ever be ruled by a negro. Let u
grant that propositions But if South
ern men fnsistupon thls1 and givei
practicalillhstratious at the seatioid anc
the stake, is that a reason why th'
other sections should allow these dis
franchised districts 10 be voted against