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THE FORCE BILL
A Republican Measure Which President Harrison is Committed to llevive.
Republican Success Would Insure the Return of Tom Reed and the Success of the Force Bill.
The Most Infamous Measure Devised to Perpetuate the Power of the Party of the Carnegies.
An Army of. Piukerton Thugs to Bo Forcetl Upon the Country to Invade Homes and Take Possession of itlie
Polls—Hacked with Bayonets and an Unlimited Treasury Murder Might Be Committed by Davenport Heelers and No State Court Could Bring Them to •JiiKtice. For more than fifty years the invariable rule has been that the party which elects the president .also controls the house of representatives elected the same year.
Every time the Republicans have elected a president thev have also elected a Republican hou.se. Since 1872 the Republicans have elocted only two houses—in lHS-'O, when Garfield defeated Hancock, and in 1SKS when Harrison was elected. lit 187(1 a Democratic house was elected, but Haves although inaugurated by the aid of retu/ning boards was not elected by the people. This is generallv admitted now.
With this unbroken precedence it is reasonably safe to predict that the next president and the next house will be in accord, politically that if the people ratify at the polls next November, the nominations made at Minneapolis by the office holders of the north and the negroes of the south, then every branch of the government will lie under the control of the Republican party.
Once restored to power, in all the departments, the Republican party will never again let go. It will entrench itself behind a "force bill" and no tidal wave of popular disapproval .at the polls will ever be able to dislodge it.
Under the reign of "force billisin" the voice of the people will be nullified at the polls by the same anny that vanquished Blaine at Minneapolis, the office holders and the negroes. "We must do our own voting, our own counting and our own certification," said Tom Reed at a banquet given by the Pittsburg tariff roboers. Republican success would mean not only the retention of Benjamin Harrison in the White House for four more long years, but also the reinstatement of Tom Reed in the speaker's chair to count quorums in many billion-dollar congresses to come.
The wild revolutionary scenes of the Fifty-first congress would be re-enacted in the Fifty-third congress. It is true there would be no more surplus to squander and no reason for Corporal Tanner to proclaim, "Gold help the' surplus." But Oklahoma, with her "bob tail" population, would be made one of the states of the Union to maintain a Republican, majority in the senate as was (lone in the Fifty-first congress when a few mining camps in Idaho and cattle ranches of Wyoming were manufactured into two sovereign states.
The tarriif issue, the Republicans say, was settled when the McKinley bill became a law.
So there uild be no more "tinkering" with thetaiitf and relief from trn.-ts and national taxation would be remote beyond gei-"rations. The Louisiana sugar growers and the Vermont sup boilers would continue to fatten upon the bounty paid them by the government at the expense of the corn and wheat producers of Indiana and the other states of the west.
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The t'lriit having thus been settled to the satisfaction of the monopolists, tnere remains but one question for the Republicans to settle, and that is a national election law, which, throag'n treachery of the Blaine element of the party, failed to pu\-s the senate in the last congress for want of time. But with Bliiine crushed and his followers out of the way, and with four years more of executive power to starve out skulking Republican senators by the withdrawal of patronage, Benjamin Harrison and Tom Reed would surely drive the force bill through congress without opposition, and thus redeem the force bill pledge of the Minneapolis platform.
The platform upon which Hairison stands today before the people, means simply, "The McKinley tariff to stand and the force bill to come."
The force bill which President Harrison recommended in his messages to congress and which Tom Reed bullied through the house two years ago is the only interpretation that can be placed on the plank of the Minneapolis platform relating to the election laws. A review of the monstrous measure brought forward by Congressman Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Davenport, of New York, in the hist congress is therefore opportune.
Chief Supervisors for Life.
The bill authorized the appointment of chief supervisors by the United States circuit judges who hold office for life
are amenable to no person, and are election directors in the respective districts. There are now three United States judges in each circuit, all Repub. licans, \vith the exception of five judges who are in the minority and would be powerless in their districts when the appointment of supervisors were made.
Under the bill the chief supervisor appoints three supervisors for election precincts and he may increase the number of election officers without consulting congress and pay them without limit, the appropriations for this purpose being made in a lump. The chief supervisor may have as many deputy marshals appointed as be may deem necessary. The supervisors have full power of deputy marshals and may arrest a voter if challenging him does not accomplish all that is necessary. They can arrest and imprison at will. They have the United States treasury behind them and the army and navy are placed under the control of the chief supervisors, and bayonets may be used at the poll whenever the election officers decide to use military force.
As will be oeun by Section 5 of the force bill, the judges are obliged to appoint as many supervisors as the chief may desire. The chief has the power to remove or suspend any precinct supervisor or marshal. Of the three supervisors no more than two are to be appointed from the same political party. The other member may be taken from any party or from 110 party, but as the two Republicans constitute a quorum to act independently of the minority member, the latter is simply a cipher beside, if he should undertake to expose any rascality practice by the other two, the chief would suspend him without cause.
The chief supervisor is given authority to transfer subordinate supervisors from one precinct to another throughout a congressional district. This would enable him to send thugs from large cities to peaceful country precincts to intimidate the voters. For instance an army of negroes from Indianapolis could be made to invade Hancock county and take possession of the polling places whenever an election was held at which a congressman was voted for. By a recent decision by the United States supreme court these supervisors and marshals Would be exempt from prosecution in the state court for any crime they might commit under the color of office or while assuming the discharge of duties thereof. If one of the marshals or supervisors should kill a citizen an indictment by a state court would not reach murder. He could only be tried in a United States court and before the partisan judge that commissioned him.
The Secrecy of tho Ballot Removed. By Section 8 of the bill the chief and his subordinates are invested with the power to revise and supervise the registration of voters to examine state ballot boxes before elections begin, to keep a poll list and to number the voters to receive and count ballots rejected by the state inspectors: to make statements and returns to the chief supervisor in whatever form, manner and to the extent the chief requires.
The Inquisition Revived.
In a city of 20,000 inhabitants and upward the chief may require any of the supervisors and deputy marshals to make a house and house canvass which may begin five weeks before and be continued on to the day of election inquiring into the eligibility of voters: whether they had ever been legally naturalized, etc. As this provision does not require that tliis canvass shall be made by men of different political views it was intended for the purpose of placing Republican ward workers on the |foverainent pay roll to do partisan work and otherwise terrorize people. The force bill does not limit the number of supervisors and marshals to do this work, and in Indiana, in the cities of Indianapolis. Evansville, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, New Albany and South Bend, thousands 'of ward-heelers would be employed to invade the homes of honest people. In their domiciliary capacity these modern inquisitors are given absolute power, by the force bill, to search the homes of citizens for the location of supposed illegal voters. There is no provision in the bill limiting the jurisdiction of these canvassers to their own precinct or city. There is nothing in it to prevent the supervisor from sending 500 Indianapolis negroes to made a house and house canvass in the city of Fort Wayne with power to arrest any man or woman refusing them access to any part of the house, or for declining to answer any question propounded.
The liifiimoua Returning Board. The bill provides for the appointment in each state, by the judge of the United States circuit, of a returning board or board of canvassers who receive the returns from the precincts in the various counties and hear evidence, if they think, proper. Hero is where the Republicans would have a chance to do their "own counting and certification." as Tom Reed would say. For this board declares and certifies who is elected to congress and the individual so certified shall be placed, by the clerk of the house, on the roll of members elected and thus authorized to participate in the organization of the next house. A severe penalty is placed on the clerk of the house for failing to 00 place 0.1 the roll the persons certified to by the returning boards.
The board of canvassers has autocratic power far beyond the power of the Czar of Russia. It has the power to make the house of representatives of the
United States, the greatest legislative body in the world, whatever it please to make it. Under the force bill it can certify any candidate as duly elected a member of congress, no matter if he received only 5,000 votes while his opponent receives 20,000, for the board has the right to throw out votes, and from its action there is no appeal. The candidate so counted out could contest the election of the house after it had been organized by the members counted in by the returning boards. But no sane man would attempt such a contest before a body made up, largely, of men not elected by the people.
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State Authority Wiped Out. Under the existing system which has prevailed from Washington to the present time, certificates of the election to congress are issued by the governor. The state returning board can not go behind the returns. In Indiana, the election boards chosen by the people return the number of votes cast for each candidate to the county board, which board is composed of all the inspectors of the county. The vote of each precinct is tabulated as reported and certified to the county clerk. The latter certifies to the secretary of the state the number of votes received in the county by each candidate for congress. The vote of the congressional district is tabulated in the secretary of state's office, by counties. The secretary certifies to the governor the result and a commission is issued, by the governor, to the candidate having received the highest number of votes upon the face of the returns. There is 110 going behind the returns, and the man who bears the commission of the governor is placed 011 the roster of the house bv the clerk thereof.
It will be seen that under the existing system iill election officers from the precinct to the governor are the creature of the people. But all this is to be wiped out of existence, with a force bill, if the Republicans carry the next election, and the entire election machinery of the country will be placed in the hands of life long self-perpetuating federal office holders.
There is another provision in the bill which beats Knownothingism. It requires the supervisors when instructed by the chief to compile a list of all foreign born persons who have been naturalized with the date thereof, their place of nativity and present naturalization papers: and they are to examine and note the original affidavits and applications presented to the court and file the same with the chief supervisor for preservation. It virtually establishes political espionage over all of our naturalized American citizens, most of whom have been in this country for twenty or thirty years.
Cost of the Force Bill Army. If this bill should ever become a law it would create an army of election officers of about 275,000 at a cost to the country, for every congressional election of not less than $28,000,000.
To carry 011 an election in Indiana under this system would require at least 18,000 subordinate supervisors. If these supervisors were 011 duty twelve days, which the law permits, at £15 a day, which the law fixes as their per diem, it would cost for one election in the state the enormous sum of $1,080,000. To this army of Republican heelers another army of deputy marshals to be added at a cost of $0 a day, swelling the total expense indefinitely.
There is one man in this country who bears the same relation to politics that Pinkerton bears toward organized labor—and that man is the notorious John Davenport, of New York. For years this notorious political thug has been employed by the Republicans of New York to intimidate naturalized American voters of New York city. Fortified with a commission of chief election supervisor, this man has caused the arrest of thousands of honest citizens. and detained them in prison on election day. with no other object in view than to prevent them from exercising their rights, as American citizens, at the polls. The records show that not one out of a thousand of the men arrested by Davenport has ever been tried, and not one out of 50.000 of the arrests made convicted, for attempting to vote illegally. For this service, covering a period of more than a generation, Davenport has received from the treasury over if 1,000,000.
Yet this is the man that the Republicans employed two years ago to frame the force bill, which still tnreatens the country.
By reference to the files of the newspapers of 1890, the Associated Press reports from Washington will show that John Davenport consulted President Harrison, in relation to the provisions of the force bill, and that during its discussion in th«» house, Davenport occupied the speaker's private room at the Capitol, where Republican members «*ere steered before him and couched preparatory to the debates on the floor of the house. After the bill passed the house, Davenport moved overio the senate side, and from Senator Hoar's Committee room, conducted the force bill fight in the senate.
Had the force bill succeeded in going through the senate, then, John Davenport would in a few weeks be in charge of an army of 500,000 political thugs invading private homes, preparatory to turning the country over to the Republicans. And if the Republicans succeed this fall the Davenport gang will surely make its appearance in every precinct of the country in the election of 1892.
CARNEGIE
Knows a Good Thing When He Sees It, and Says So Too [By cable from Sunningdnle '•i Hand, .June 12, 1892. To President Harrison. Washington, America:
The people know a good thing when they get it. Heartiest congratulations. You deserve this triumph.
ANDREW CARNEGIE.
The M&nufaeturer Get* the Bounty. We believe that on all imports coming into competition with the products of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home.—National Republican Platform.
If the tariff should be revised and the schedule made to fit this plank of the Republican platform the custom houses would not collect sufficient revenue in a year to run the government a month.
Take the manufacture of steel rails for example the report of Carroll D. Wright, as commissioner of labor, on the iron and steel industry shows that the difference in cost of producing a ton of steel rails (2,240 pounds), from the time the oar is taken from the ground is as follows:
Direct labor #11.597 $7,817 *8.104 OMicials and clerks.. .605 .357 .531 Supplies and repairs. 3.410 3.417 2.043 raxes i'12 .150 .I'll! transportation 5.041) 4.207 3.894 limber 081 .479 .003 Blast furnace profits 2.W12 2.241 5.2!)! Cinder, scrap, etc... 1.031 2.GT3
Total, gross $25,873 $21,311 $21,322 Less scrap produced. l.'iiiT 2.727 1.087
Total net cost Sii-UHHi A18.014 ?.",:).(»35 The above table shows the (Inference in labor cost to be $3.78 as in favor of the English manufacturer, and $3.49 in favor of the continental manufacturer.
Of course this difference is largely due to the efficiency of labor in the various countries. Mr. Wright shows in his report that the efficiency of the workmen in the United Stares is .12 and .13 tons of product per men, per hour, while for the continent of Europe from .02 to .00 tons and .08 to .09 a ton in England.
But assuming that the capacity of the English workmen was equal to the American workmen then, according to the last Republican platform, the tariff on steel rails should be .$3.78 per ton, whereas, the McKinley tariff fixes the duties on steel rails at $22 per ton.
According to the Minneapolis platform the American workman receives $3.78 and the manufactures $18.22 of this tariff bounty. No wonder Carnegie is able to take an annual regal tour through Scotland and bestow public libraries right and left, and buy old castles.
No wonder the blood of American workmen has been shed at Carnegie's Homestead mills.
A few years ago Carnegie testified before a congressional committee that his own profit from the iron mills amounted to ft 1,500,000 a year. Today the men who earned for him these millions are fighting for bread. Great is the protection to American labor!
No lMiikurtons in Indiana.
Indiana was the first state to pass a law against the employment of Pinkertons. The Democratic legislature of 1889 passed the law at the request of organized labor. The same request was made of the Republican legislature of Pennsylvania, but it was ignored. The law provides that 110 man shall be appointed a special deputy, marshal, or policeman in Indiana, "to preserve the peace and prevent or quell public disturbance, who shall not have resided continuously in this state fofr the period of one year at least, and in the county where such appointment is made for the period of at least six months prior to the date of such appointment." The same law provides "that it shall be unlawful for any person, company, association or corporation to bring or import into this state any person or persons or association of persons for the purpose of discharging the duties devolving upon sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, policemen, constables or peace officers in the protection or preservation of public or private property or in punishment of any person violating the criminal laws of the state." Violations of this law render the offender liable to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a year. This is the kind of protection the Democrats of Indiana believe in giving the workmen.
The Republican state committee will not deny that the word was passed around among Republican county commissioners and township trustees not to reduce the local tax levy notwithstanding the increase of valuation of property. Over a $1,000,000 of local taxes were raised in excess of the previous year by the Republican commissioners and trustees. This was done to make the tax law odious, but the people are finding out that they are the victims of a Republican conspiracy. Most of these Republican trustees are leaving out this surplus at good interest which they pocket.
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