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

the law. They have inherited this dis
position from their Anglo-Saxon fore
fathers, in whom for generation after
generation these principles have become
deeply rooted.
With the negroes at the South 1t IS
different. They do not know and feel
the desira bility and the necessity OF
observing the law and the constitution
like the Anglo-SaXon people.
And the same difference is observed
in respect to the political parties which
take their coloring from those who com
pose them. The Republican party at the
South. composed largely of negroes, has
often set constitutions at defiance; while
the Democratic party, composed entire
~ Of white men, has always stood up for
the constitution and the law.
In our own State, it will be remem-
bered that the constitution which was
adopted in 1885 was On regular opera
ton after the war, and that at first GOV
ernor Holden was Governor; and then
Governor Worth was elected Governor
and was carrying on the government,
peaceably, orderly and constitutionally
when in the spring of 1868, the con-
stitution was subverted by the Repubh-
cans, and another election was held.
Governor Worth was turned out during
his term, and Governor Holden was de-
clared to be Governor. Two years later
Governor Holden and the Republicans
set the constitution at defiance, and
Chief Justice Pearson and the Supreme
court, all of them also Republicans, SAID
that the judiciary was exhausted;" and
the central counties of the State We're
overrun by military force brought
chiefly from East Tennessee; and the
writ of habeaS corpus was suspended,
and it was proposed to try private citl-
Zens by court martial and shoot them
to death, without letting a jury say
whether they were guilty of any crime or
not. For this, the people, acting under
the constitution. impeached Governor
Holden and turned him out of office
DESPOTISM IN LOUISIANA.
In Louisiana in 1915, the Republicans
were in power and had control of the
State Returning Board The Republican
Returning Board counted out Demo
crafts elected TO the Legislature. and
there arose dispute as to which party
controlled that body. AT the instance OF
the Republican Governor General De
Trebriand carried troops into the hall OF
-sri1e Louisiana House of Representatives.
seized possession, and cleared the leglsla~
tive chamber of the Democratic members
according to the directions Of the Repub
ican Governor. 1t was like Napoleon
driving out the French Assembly: like
Cromwell in England dispensing the
English Parliament when he meant to
rule without the restraints they were
proposing to put on his despotic power.
AS the news of this great outrage on
constitutional government flashed over
the wires, it fell on the ears of the
American people like frebell at night.
Many Republicans at the North joined
with the Democrats in denouncing the
outrage on constitutional government
At a great meeting held in New York
city on the very next day, January IL,
1875. Hon. William NJ Evarts, one Of
The greatest men in the Republican
party, took the lead in denOuncing 1t;
and he declared that if the Republican
leaders shall put themselves upon the
country on the proposition that Il tile
of soldiers can empty State house as
in Louisiana. they will find that they
will have as few supporters IN their
own party as they have in the Demo-
cratic party"
And so it has been in nearly every
Southern State; the Republican party
when it got into power would not quiet
" submit to the restraints of the law
and the constitution.
A PARTISAN JUDICIARY.
Even here in North Carolina, of late,
the Republican members of the Supreme
court have been astute to prevent the
operation of laws passed by the State
Legislature; and they have gone to such
an extreme that Justice Walter Clark,
one of the members of that court. elect
ed by the voters of all parties, has felt
Obliged in his dissenting opinions to
make strenuous opposition to their
course, as being unwarranted i'll law and
by the constitution, and some of the best
and most conservative lawyers in the
State have declared their course revOlu-
tionary and impeachable.
But the latest manifestation of Re
publican defiance of constitutional gov
eminent is their action in Kentucky.
Governor Bradley, Republican, was
Governor of Kentucky at the last cleo
ton The contest was very exciting.
Many Democrats did not support the
Democratic nominee Senator Goebel
and the result was doubtful.
In Louisville, notwithstanding the great
interest, order prevailed; but Governor
Bradley, nevertheless, caused a large mil
itary force to meet there, although the
mayor and local authorities demonstrated
against the action. The troops brought
there by the Republican Governor sur
rounded the polls. When the result was
ascertained it was found that much
larger number of ballots was counted.
as being cast at the election, than there
were voters on the registration books.
Similar frauds and irregularities occur
red elsewhere throughout the State In
the large Republican mountain counties
MANY thousand tissue ballots We're cast
and counted for the Republican candi-
date. The State canvassing board had
no authority but to declare the result on
the face of the returns, and they found
that on the face of the returns, Taylor,
the Republican candidate had majority
over Gocbe, the Democratic candidate.
And Taylor was sworn in as Governor.
Bur Goebe asserting that if the fraudu-