Cleveland's Mandates
The Election laws bil], which Thomas J!. Iiecd tersely described as a law to legalize ballot box stuif ing, has been signed by the president. ïliere was special rejoitiug over the event. Mr. Cleveland ''signed it with a gold pen." It wlU go to the South as a trophy, another step toward the re(íbvery oí those rights which were unaccouritably iost at Appomattox and Gettysburg. Tammany Hall has ngain a free foot. ïhere is no reason why Mr. Croker should not revert to the happy- Barnard and Tweed days, when supreme court judges sat on the bench with a bottle of whisky at their elbows and "natiiralized" 3,000 voters in a. day. There is no reason why gangs of repeat-ers should not drift trom the Battery to Harlem and raake New York as surely democratie as Alabama or Texas. The federal government is paralyzed. There is not power enough in the army and navy to guarantee the humblest voter his suffrago. JRepublicans will see in thia other step toward a complete realization by Mr. Cleveland oí the famous mándate which he carried with him to "Washington, Thls mandate ombraced five pointe : First - Tliie destruction of the time honored parlty of the piecious metáis to please "Wall street and the Bank of England. Second- The absolute domination of fhe fëolid Sputh by the withdrawal oí tederal control from the ballot and the revival in its worst form of the principie of States rights. Third - The destruction o protection. Fourlh- The imposition of the income tax as a special impost upon the Xorth. Fifth- The revival of the shinplaster by the repeal of the law taxing the clrculation o' state banks. JOHX EUSSELL YOUXC!. HEre is in extract from a speech rcci'iitly delivered by Hon. Geo. L. tkmglass, speaker of the Kansas House o!' Representatives that would b'' g-ood reading for Hoke Smith, Eepresentative Kaynor, of Maryland, and others : "The historian who would measure the results of that war by the mere political fact of the preserva! ion of the L'nion, and the immediate emaneipation of 1,000,000 of slaves, is short sighted indeed. Vast as was the gift of freedom to 4,000,000 of black men, the gift to the white race by the consequent change iu the whoie oourse of American thought, education, civillzatlon and influence was infinitely greater and grander. and whfin I take the grayhaired veteran by the hand I reverently think of him not only as one to whom my devoutest thanks are due ior the pre- serval Ion oí the Union in its integrity and the flag in its glory, but as one of the grand army that did greater service bo the cause of Christian civiliza t ion throuahout the world than any other army that ever battled on American soil. It la no demagogy to say this ; it is but the acknowledgment of &n everlaetlng trúth. I care no! wiiat are the political afflllátlons oí ;i uy man, he honors himself ohly when he honors the men whose valor sa ved for him a country and a flag."
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