The Norfolk weekly news., 1900-10-18
Real alIinppriaiism.

Inc salt Lake Tribune, silver repub. |
lican, contains the following severe com.
ment on the tactics of southern dem.
ocracy;
Something very comical and at the
same time little sad appeared in our
morning contemporary yesterday. A !
headline with letters paralyzing in size |
announced that Georgia rolls up
30, 600 majority for the democratic |
ticket" Then the statment is made |
that the state had been carried by the
democrats by about 10000. But an ex.
planatory note threw light on the ques
tion. IL said "There being practi-
cally no opposition to the democrats, the
vote was light"
That was the comical part. Now the
sad part is that this is year when i'm.
perialism seems to be the awful dread of
the democracy. Imperialism can come
in more than one way 1t can come in
the way of an armed uprising, led by a
great chieftaiu, followed by an exhaust.
i've civil war. The other is by taking
one right after another insidiously from
the people until they are slaves.
The fathers left as heritage to the
American people the ballot, holding that
it was amply sufficient to settle all dis
putes, all troubles, keeping in mind that
the majority must rule and that the will
of majority of patriotic men must be
what is best for the country. Now, by
certain processes which the democratic
party has patent on, the vote of
Georgia is reduced to 10000 That
means that great many thousands are
in some way kept away from the polls
and that great many thousands more
have not interest enough in the country
and in the state to take the trouble to
express their wish at the polls.
That could be looked upon by the
country with comparative indifference
If it extended no further than the
Georgia state line. But in electing q
president and in electing congressman
Georgia claims the right to have eleven
congressman and thirteen electoral
votes. The state of New York has
thirty-six electoral votes. To get the
thirteen electoral votes in Georgia an d
the eleven congressman Georgia casts
80, 900 votes, but New York, to get her
thirty.six electoral votes and thirty -four
congressman, cast in 1896 ,37l 1851
votes. The increase over 1896 in the
vote this year will probably be more
than the total vote cast in Georgia. We
see then that it requires only 3,S46 votes
in Georgia to make an electoral vote
while it requires 1888 votes in New
York to accomplish the same thing.
In the old -bellum days when the
south was hot, the boast of some OF
its buffers was that one southern man
could whip five Yankees. That did no,
amount to very much, because it was
a mere matter of opinion; but when one
Georgia man i'll voting for president
or for member Of congress is equal tt
ten men in New York that is a doubling
| Va pAAO oooSVs anu phuV 10 u SCl AOuo uluVtCl
for that noe only goes to personal opin
ion, but it goes to the very foundation
of the government, and if continued
would signal the day when this woult
be republic in name merely and whel
imperialism would be established sur,
enough.
What pertains to Georgia extends t.
Alabama and Mississippi, and Louisi
ana and Texas, South Carolina an,
North Carolina, and Virginia ant
Arkansas, and Florida and Tennessee, il
: large measure. That goes to the yer.
integrity of the republic, and we hav
/, not heard Mr.. Bryan complain of it il
the campaign. He is frightened t
: death, apparently about imperialism
His party organs throughout the coun
try are frightened to death; those emf
I nent statesmen, Ex-Governor Altgeld
:. Webster Davis, ex-senator Pettigrew
d Boss Croker, Bourke Cochran, Cal
Schurtz and the Springfield Republica
S are all frightened out of their wits les
this country be given over to despotisl
y and ruled by the iron hand of the despo
y Mckinley. But that several states il
J. the south only have to cast about one i
;. ten as many votes to get an elector or
X congressman as the states in the nortl
k that is looked upon as a mere inciden
not worth mentioning. Mr.. Bryan
e who is thoughtful, who thinks of almol
e everything, has not even once though
!. of it, so far as we have heard, since tn
e opening of the campaign; neither ha
o Mr.. Schurz neither has that blathel
Is skite with the awful mouth, Bourl'
l. Cochran. If it were any other countr
3 but this, people would begin to conclud
If that of all the sorry frauds on the fat
II of the earth the democratic party in tn
d United States is the very chief