The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-19
DEMOCRATS AROUSED
oRuMPAcKER BILL THE, TONIC
 NEEDED.
Leaders Think That the Pressing of
 the Plan Will Result in solidify-- 'r~ ing the Party Through out the Nation.

Washington, March 1s. Especial. )--5ince the, Republican leaders have. determincd to force through the Crumpanker resoiu- ton for an investig ation of the suffrags question as 1t affects the southern repre- sentation In the House. it has become clearly evident that this move of the ma jority means a repetition of the old foroe bill fight and revival. of the sectional bitterness of reconstruction days.
 The supporters of the measure have made no concealment If their desire to utilize 1t for purely partisan ends. This is particularly true of certain western representatives. who seek to solidifY. the negro voters in their districts. Corr 6rxa1 tive Republicans, such as Cannon. at first arraysd themselves etotaa against any such iegtsiation, ana tho ypeaker hfrz1eif took but q perfunctory intersst la the proposition and only ceased when a policy Of cohciliatfon becatne necessary on ac- count of the row over the Cuban tariff.
 The Democrats will fight the resolution vigorously. beginning with the presenta- ton of the, rule of the House. They be- lieve that If so radical a step is at once taken the majority will not hesitate to go even to greater extremes to insure control of the House in the next Congress. The Democrats will probably consider their plan of action in caucus tomorrow night. and 1t is said they may agree to stop the regular procedure of the House by fillibustering.
 The sudden change in the attitude of the Republicans toward this resolution Is regarded as full of significance, coming as it does at @ time when the prospects of the Democrats 'eiecting the next House are admittedly bright.
 The Post today publishes views on the action of the Republican leaders. as fol- lows:
 David B. Hill says: '"The proposed in- vestigation will be, fruitless. and will not in1ure the Democratic party. Of course it should be opposed because 1t is parti- san and unnecessary. It indicates a des- peration which is ominous. If the in vestigation should be followed by an at tempt to enact a federal election law. the effect will be to unite the Democratic party North, South, East and West as nothing else could do. It will work the beginning of the end of Republican national rule."
 W. J. Bryan says: "If the investiga- ton of election methods includes nothern elections as well as southern there ought to be no objection, but an investigation that Ignored the fraud practiced In the Hanna Senatorial election and in the
 
 The committee should also investigate the coercion practiced by employers and bankers. as we'll as fraud practiced on black men. An investigation to be valua- ble must not be partisan"
 Senator German says:
 'The entire country will be amazed at the extreme radical partisanship embrac- ed in the action taken today. It is pro- posed to stir up sectional animosities at a time when all thoughtful men of every party in the country recognize that the problem of the suffrage of the South must be adjusted by the people of the States where the negro population exists.
 The business interests of this country will resent this effort to create political strife as they did when 1t was attempted during the speakership of Mir Blaine and again in 1890. when the whole country protested against the force bill.
 This latest attempt can only be &C., counted for in one way. The Republi- cans fear the defeat of their party In the next congressional election on the issues they have made, growing out of the Philippine question and the enormous expenditure of the government. There fore, they have seen it to array the north agair st the south. Business interests will resent this wanton and unnecessary dBitdlAOh'
 ''The Democrats must fight this proposi- ton from now until the end of this Con- gress. They must fight, and fight. and fight"
 Henry Watterson says: 'I have thought and hoped the Republicans were done with the bloody shirt. at least as far as the South is concerned. 1t has always done them more harm than 1t has done us The only effect of it's revival now will pe to unite the Democrats and frighten the conservative element of the North and East Millions of dollars have gone South in the last five or six years. This movement will be regarded as a di- rect attack upon those millions, Both sec tions yearned for peace. At last they have got it, This proposal to rip open the old wound is an assault upon the 6eace of the country. and for what? Under what pretext? Why. the negro vote-a fungus vote-carrying no moral weight, but on the other hand. the oc- casiop of incalculable corruption
 Mjlt Saul.