The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-11-18
,DRCE BILL.
h to the Baltimore san

IL u lut baltilllplt sun
on Sunday says;
today that the conclu-
nstration with reference
les in the Carolinas look
tude unless there should
ions disturbances present
'eS.
ent contemplates adverting
Ject in his annual message
What he says with recommenda-
suggestions as to the eNpediencv
,gislation. In the discussion over this
liter in the cabinet on Friday there was
more or less talk on the ACCESSIBILITY of
another federal election law, the statues
covering such sections having all been re-
pcaled during the second administration
of Mr.. Cleveland. One of the members
of the cabinet, said to be Secretary Gage,
is understood to have declared very strong
ly in favor of force hill similar to the
one which, after passing the House, was
| sidetracked in the Senate some wears
since
had anything to say about the wrongs and
outrages committed upon the downtrod-
den negro in Illinois. However, Mr..
Gage has struck the keynote of republican
| policy toward the South. If the radical
element of that party can succeed in fas-
tcning Few batch of political legislation
| upon the South it will be apt to remain
| for long period, rs under any but the
most unusual and the most unlikely cir
cumstanccs the enormous republican ma
iority in the Senate after March 4th., can
| not melt away under eight or ten years.
Movements in this direction are already
| i'll active progress. Several of the South
ern members of the national republican
committee have arrived and are talking
it up" Negro politicians, singly and in
delegations, are coming to besiege the
White House and the Department of JUS
tice. Congress will be deluged with
petitions, manufactured and genuine, and
the effort will be determined and unremit-
ting.
1t is not hoped to get any such legisla-
ton through this winter, as the Senate as
now constituted would throw it out. But
| the work will begin Immediately after the
meeting of the new Congress, which there
is strong probability will be called to-
gether in the spring.
There is no question it will be Il great
temptation to the republicans to enact
| legislation calculated to again make the
South solid for that party. The republi-
can Senators from the Northwest have
for many years helped materially to avert
repressive Southern legislation, as their
sympathies on the lines involved have been
with the Southern whites But now, when
the democrats will no longer have any
Senators of their own from any of the
great Middle and Northwestern States to
speak for them, whatever sympathy or
good feeling there might be on the other
side of the chamber will be borne down
by the overwhelming force of numbers
The New England Senators have never
to this day ''let up on the South. They
will lead the new crusade in a solid body.
1t would not be surprising should Senator
Lodge reintroducc his force bill immedi-
ately, so as to have it in shape when the
new Congress convenes. The Eastern
Senator, reinforced by the new recruits
from the far West, would be able in all
probability to overcome the conservative
influence of the Central Northwest
One of the arguments which has been
used with the President in the endeavor
to commit him to the support Of the prof
ect is the material assistance contributed
to his nomination by the white and black
republicans from the South at the ST. Louis
convention. His sense of gratitude is APP
peal TO as well as his sense of favors to
come. The President, it was said, could
by one stroke of his pen gather under his
banner the bulk, if not all, of the Southern
delegates to the next republican conven-
ticn.
Perhaps if tranqillity prevails in the
South from now on and there are no
more race troubles growing out of politics
this force-bill agitation may subside and
public sentiment in the North may not be
disposed to favor it. If otherwise the
South may have to face the immnedt pros
pect of another dark and dismal period,
bringing back the sad memories of the re-
construction era.