New-York tribune., 1900-11-03
A UNITED GOVERNMENT NEEDED
IMPORTANCE or A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
TO SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT


TO SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT.
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t Is obviously OF the most vital i,,ro-,..
that Republican majority in both houses q, cor,
sress should be returned at the coming election as
Wen as that the Executive should be a Republican
our Government has to deal. ir the immediate
Iufure not only with the usual economic question.
"ue win ne" and Intricate questions OF foreign
pohcy involving both novel and important pronosf
uons At no time in the history Of our country
SINCE the end Of the Civil War have our people
round themselves In a position where IL became
lnore necessary that the entire administrative
force OF the Government should be united In order
'nd' we shouid maintain standing among the
nations OF the earth II is impossible for coun-
Try 10 ne properly represented unless We can work
'osether ana unless the Executive has the fun
support. or at least goodwill. OF Congress Again.
a divided Congress Will tend to keep alive Bryan-
ism, which is another word FOR prejudice and hate
ana the existence OF which retards the resusctaton
of the better element of the Democratic party thus
depriving the country Of responsible minority a
condition which is already responsible for the
prominence OF these political cuckoos who have
stolen into the Democratic lay therein the
eggs of anarchy. socialism and every selfish end
that leads 10 the subversioE of good government
and all under the title OF once and RESPONSE
necessary and essentIsl check and bsianc4 w5ss !
TO any party in power. II would be a element Oe
And again. with the Administration. Senate and
House all Republican, the country has the best
system of fraud and terrorism practised upon
the black man throughout the so-caIed solid
South" 1t goes without saying that practically
the entire Southern colored has always been
Republican. 1t is equally historic that since the
time the franchise was first given to the negro he
has been deprived of that vote by fraud and his
vote systematically counted out in practically all
of the Southern States This suppression OF the
colored vote in the South has been practical and
actual II was not formally done. Hence the prac.
uce could not be successfully restrained Lately,
as We know, ooth In Louisiana and North Carolina,
the Democrats have passed law to all intents and
purposes multiplying the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
forbid discriminating against the negro and the
reduction of black votes Yet under the so-called
'grardfathers clause" the illiterate white descend
black Is not allowed This is direct dis
frauchisement and actual perveTson OF political
system 1t is the expression or the pent Up and
rancorOuS feeling of defuuct Oligarchy and IN In
direct opposition to the law OF the land-the voice
result of such overthrow OF the rights OF SUI
frage will be- where II will stop The insidious
against other classes or citizens and no rights
would be under the Constitution. Gov
ernment republican In all its branches would PROB
ably 20 ii that this formally Illegal dsrran-
chsement OF black votes under the laws OF the two
States / have mentioned, As well as the practice
of not counting the black votes IN any OF the oouth-
err States no longer prevailed. and that those
States should be barred from sending their full
number OF ativeS TO Congress and also 10
the Eiec,oral College the basis OF those repre-
sentatives. In other words. a Government repupI-
can In all its branches could regulate that repre-
sentaton so that oae white in the South
should not have murh representation IN con
gress and in the Electoral College as two IN me
North For Il must be admitted. that II exceeds
all patience further put up with the propoStlon
that the solid Democratic South should be allowed
be so far permitted encrOach upon our system OF
popular government that So1thern voter mas
twice much TO say about manaslns f Ins anSts stS
OF this Government as a citizen Who owens nortn
of the Mason and Dixon line. A great statesman
said that this was the primal qqes{I9n OF
American manhood Gr-ONS'E- H. l. nan
Boston, Oct. 81. 800