The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-03-27
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Our DION Correspondent.

!nst rev & howl is going up about
the new Maryland election law, by the
terms Of which illiterates of whatever
color are disfranchised. 1t is charged
! that it ie q democratic pivt 10 recap
ture the State from the Republican and
fearful threats are made that the next
Congress will certainly "enforce the
14th Amendment" and cut down Mary
lands representation In consequence
all this in spite of the fact that the new
Maryland law is almost n copy of that
which has been enforced in Massachu-
setts for years and has won universal
commendation for it's workings. 1t is
semi officially announced here that the
Republican managers and the Repub-
lican Congressional Committee have
their eye on Maryland and are viewing
with "undisguised alarm" what is going
cn there. Chairman Babccch, Of tho
Republican Congressional Committee,
says that Congress must be influenced
by the action in Maryland to take
action reducing the representat.c &C
Maryland and all other States where
the negro is eliminated as voter. Mr..
Babcock further delivers himself of 8
plaintiye lament over the prospective
advantages to result to the Democratic
party from negro. disfranchisement.
This is the whole story. Not Repub-
lican newspaper and not O Republican
politician anywhere would give utter
ance to one sentiLfont of protest or re-
monstrance but for the apprehension
Of benefit to the Democratic party.
Possibly the next Congress may en-
force the 14th Amendment but the
chances are decidedly against it, as
It has been found that os such emf enfcrcs. yea.
ment will cut both ways. If the South
ern States should adopt the system
prevailing in Connecticut, for instance.
where ten Republican white voters
often outweigh 800 Democratic ones,
there might indeed be serious cauEe for
complaint.
Even government officers here are
General Weyler's methods to the island
of Marinduquo in the Philippines,
where the concentration of all native
in five garrisOned towns has been or
dered, all disobeying the order being
then declared disloyal. ''The severest
kind of warfare is directed against
them, their property is to be destroyed
|
s'devastated.n The inhabitants of the
island are said to favor these drastic
measures. The country has not for
gotten what Mr.. Mckinley said of the
Weyler proceedings: "It isnot civiliz-
ed warfare; it is determination. The
only peace it can beget is that of the
wilderness md the grave" Here he
Ie now, however, conducting through
his lieutenants the same sort Of war
fsre-crowding the non-f1ghting coun-
try people into few towns and sweep
ing the interior with fire ard sword.
It is the peace OF the Wilderness and
the grave which ne is begetting over
there. His own words can be taken
for it.
A most astounding bulletin has been
issued from the Department of State
in reference to the appointment of a
successor to Consul Hay, who has
wearied of we'll doing at Pretoria and
is about to return to the United States.
The State Denartment is therefore
confronted with the necessity of either
leaving the post vacant or of being
forced to decide whether the new con.
sui shall be accredited to Dom Paul or
to Edward VII. In this dilemma i
ias put forth the following extraor-
dinary statement. 'It is the rule to
recuynize de factO administrations, and
it is presumed that when O change is
made an our consular representations
In South Africa the application for an
exeqnatur will be made to whatever
authority happens for the moment to
be in de fact0 possession of the place
to which the consul is accredited.n
This is particularly astounding because
1t emanates from the United States, |
the pioneer of self-gOvernment, Of
human liberty, of free political institu-
tions--from q nation whose seat of
government has been in possession of
ON enemy more than once, and to
bic rule Would at those times have
been fatal. The British occupied
Philadelphia and New York during
great part Of the Revolution, and
later, after we had won our indepen-
dence and had it recognized by all the
civilized powers, Washington was, in
the war OF 1879, seized by the British
sucfl as England is practicing now in
South Africa. If the European courts
had then accepted England as the de
facto government; cent hither their
Official representatives accredited to
England, and generally united in |
ignoring the American republic; denied
our national existence. and admitted
political scheme in North America;
now proposed for the Beers BY a United
States administration had then been
accorded us by foreign governmcnts-
what, would have been our predica-
ment2 -
1t certainly seems that something
more than a denial is required from
Kepresentative. Mndd, of Mary land.
census frauds in HE district. v hen
Abel, the dishonest enumerator, was
frat arrested, he talked very freely of
the whole. affair, volunteering the
statement that he understood the law to
direct the enrolment of men who had
been dead not more than year and to
leave to the ennmerator,sjndgment the
o aionger period. When asked by whom
the law had been explained, he said.
cnhesitatingiy: ''My cousin, Enoch
Abel, the clerk of the CircniE Court M