The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-11

On the 31st day of January, in the
House Of Representatives, while the
House was in Il Committee of the Whole
considering the appropriations TO the In
dian Department, Mr.. Linney, of the
Eighth Congressional District, obtained
the floor and made a speech on the North
Carolina election law, taking the ground
III effect thar North Cl"p iaa is denied II
Republican form of government" and de-
clal1ng that Congress had the right TO
give IL such a government. Republicans
from the South, of which Linney has
come TO be fair sample, when they read
in the Constitution the United States
shall guarantee TO every State Il republi
can form Of government" act as If they
thought it read: THE United States
shall guarantee to every State a govern
ment administered 10y the Republican
party" and call upon the Federal gov
crnment for troops to secure ii as pritch1
ard did in North Carolin in 1898 and as
Taylor has done in Kentucky this month.
In the course of his speech he said:
In North CaroEGa about 3D.
COO Republicans III every Con
grcsional district, under the laws
Of 1895, found their way TO
ballot box. although they sometimes did it
AT THE RISK OF BEING SINGED
AND SCALDED BY THE HEAT OF
PARTISAN RANCOR ON ELECTION
DAY OR DISTURBANCE IN SOME
SECTIONS AFTER ELECTION DAY
BY THE GENTLE DEMANDS OF
COMMITTEES OF LAW AND OR
DER"
Now the facts are: Under the laws
of 1855" the Republicans and their allies
elected eight OF the nine Congressman
from North Carolina, all the Judges in
nomination. the Governor and all the
State officers. three-fourths of all the
members in both branches Of the LegiS-
laturc and nearly all the county officers
in the State ',AT THE RISK OF Be
ING SINGED AND SCALDED," says
Mr.. Linney. The truth is that it was the
Democrats who We're cheated out of their
rights under the laws of 1885," the most
infamous election law ever put upon the
statute books. Under its operations
Linney's party had two out of the three
election officers at every precinct III the
State and by its corrupt use permitted
10000 unqualified and imported negroes
To vote i'm the State. thus the Democratic
ticket was ''signed and scalded" by dis
honest and corrupt manipulations of the
election law of 1885, which Linney lauds
in the House of Representatives, saying
The election law of 1895 was an abso-
lutey fair one" After this laudation Of
his partys dishonest election law, Mr..
Linney takes a dig at Judge Avery be-
cause the Burke juriSt recently, In de-
Tending the Supreme Court, said that if
the Republicans could find any Superior
Court Judge in North Carolina who would
grant an injunction dhe law gives him
no such pOwer) against the new election
law my voice would be in favor of max
ing an example of him at the June ses-
sion of the legislature L;nney proceeds
to say that if any lawyer, practising be-
fore Judge Avery, had made that state
ment, ''he would have been put in jail
under contempt proceedings Linney
is sore on the point because he had
advised immediate action along the line
that Judge Avery warned would MT be
safe 10 the judge becoming party 70 Il.
Then Linney touched on lynchings and
sought to show that lynchings only oc-
Cured where the negroes were deprived
Of the ballot In this connection he
said:
why, III Ohio, and all those States
north of Mason and Dixon's line. the
lynchings are no more than the insgnifi
cant flash of a lightning bug to the great
stream of electricity from the heavens
in comparison with sections where vot-
ing is suppressed"
Mr.. Burke of Texas, interrupt
ed by stating the fact that in
almost every instance the lynchins
occurs in consequence of the assaults
nf floA -f,+,1o Of 70,
women but Linney secuted this and
maintained that lynchings occurred
mostly in those States where the vote was
suppressed. At this point, the negro
White Congressman from the Second
district. arose, and this colloquy ensued:
Mr.. White: Since my race is as
sailed, please allow ME TO answer
The Speaker: Does the gentleman