Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-09-14
ASSENT OF GOVERNED
ARMY OF A MILLION VOTERS
piSFRANCHISED IN SOUTH.
Govern ment by Force I'm posed by
the Democrats at Home, While They
Denouncs Republican Administers
ton in Our Colonies.
(From the New York Times.)

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in offering a resolution to denounce the
administration OF President Cleveland,
made an attempt to convert the cOnven-
ton to his view that the campaign about
| to begin was a sectional one, in which
the South and West were to be combined
, by a common sentiment against the North
and East, to overthrow those sections and
make their financial opinions odious, and
to destroy their domination in future
national financial legislation and opera
tons.
| Tilman has learned something since
that day, when he was deservedly Kissed
and hooted in a convention otherwise
none too sane or sensible, and the merit
ed rebuke administered by Senator j. X.
Jones possibly convinced him that sec
tonalsm is as hopeless an issue as Sc
cession to divide the country. But he
was still a man Of impulse at Kansas
City. Restored to favor after a civilizing
ordeal Of four years Of service in the
Senate, he helped to prepare a platform
exposing his party to the charge Of gross
inconsistency or insincerity.
| To Tillman was assigned the task of
reading the platform. He docs not lack
dramatic sense, and he has large voice.
|
he rolled forth the references, In the
opening phrases to "the inalienable
rights Of men guaranteed by the Declar-
alton Of Independence and the COnstitu-
ton. As a sweet morsel he mouthed the
language OF the declaration that govern
ments must derive their just powers
from the consent OF the governed. ANY
other government" he shouted with So
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pose upon any people a government Of
force is to sustain the methods Of impe-
riaism." The case of the Porto Kicans
was described as appealing with pecu-
liar force to our justice and magnanim-
| ity."
These sentiments were prepared and
emitted by Mr.. Tillman for application
solely to the question Of imperialism and
the conduct Of the administration in en-
deavorng to deal with the new problems
that vex the country. But they seem to
have a more interesting meaning, as APP
piled to Southern States, than they would
as interpreted only to denounce and en-
barrass the administration in it's effort to
establish free governments in the Phil
ppines, Cuba and Porto Rico.
Alabama's population in 1890 was L.
5l3.0l7. There were upon the common
calculation Of one voter in FIVE, 3O2, 2O3
voters in that State in 1896. Alabama
gave to all candidates for President 1884,
653 votes, Bryan receiving 13O,3O7. Lou
isiana's population in 1890 was 1,11S,597.
The State was entitled in 1896 to at least
223, 900 votes. 1t cast 1922 46, and Bry-
an had 1900 Of these. Mississippi had
1,2S9,GOO population in 1890, and pre-
sumably 257 800 males Of voting age. In
1876 there were cast for President in
Mississippi 7O,545 votes, Bryan getting
$500. North Carolina was reported in
lS9o, IN the census Of that year, as hav-
ing 1.6l7.947 population. The State cast
33l 10 votes in the presidential contest
OF 1896. or little more than the reason
able ratio for 1890. South Carolina,
with reported population in 1890 of
IDOL ,149, and with not less than go. 600
voters. cast for all candidates in 1896
GS,U7 votes, and 5S,79S Of them went to
Mr.. Tillman's man Bryan
What became Of the 6OO,O votes that
appear to have been missing from the
election returns of Alabama. Louisiana.
Mississippi and South Carolina? Were
these 6OO,OOO voters to be governed, in
case Mr. Bryan was chosen or defeated,
without their consent. thus subjecting
them to the tyranny" referred to by the
Democratic platform? Have those miss
ing voters been since found and required
to give their consent to the election of
Representatives in Congress in order that
they should not be taxed without nation
al representation fairly secured? Or has
their consent been obtained to new re-
strctions Of the suffrage? Has there been
shown any tendency in any Of those
states to exchange 1.-The methods of i'm
perialism for those Of a republic?"
How have Alabama, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina and South Carolina
Qualified themselves to reproach the ad-
mlnistration for imperialism? Have not
three OF those States formally and COM
pieteiy and the two others by progressive
steps undertaken to deprive some &c.,
W. or the governed OF the opportunity
to give or withhold that consent. guaran-
teed rs right according to the Demo-
cratic application Of the Declaration Of
independence, and secured by the Con-
4 sttution?
Why waste hypocritical platform senti-
ment on the people of Porto Rico be.
cause they have "a government without
their consent and taxation without rem
resentation.' when 100000 voters in four
States, all Democratic States, are depriy
ed of the right to consent, and about
l.op,OuO altogether. il we consider yir-
ginia. Georgia, Florida and Tennessee.
are in like manner subjected to .tyran.
n.y." Mr.. Tillmau's platform also do.
clares its opposition to "miitarism' for
the reason that ''it means conquest
Abroad and intimidation and oppression
at home. 1t means the standing army
that has always been fatal to free insti
tntions. What apology does Senator
!iilman oher to the standing army OF
lH'o,oo voters dsfranchiSed in Sou,h. |
ern states! Were intimidation and IN. |
preston at home" practiced to bring
about that result, peculiar only to ono
section OF the country Does not the con- |
ditlon of these sileneed voters "appeal |
with peculiar force TO our justice and |
magnanimity