Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — A SOUTHERN MAN’S VIEWS. [ARTICLE]

A SOUTHERN MAN’S VIEWS.

Hon k’x f.»r K«Jorm in .South fn Ructions. General L. C. / Howk, of Tennessee, wlfo has represented the Knoxville district in Congress for ten years, and who was recently re-elected by a majority of more than 13,004,18 in the ci v, says the Indianapolis News, but he declares with much emphasis that he is not hereto beg appointments, propose Cabinet .ministers orauggest a Southern policy. He came on private business, but Friday he called upon General Harrison. While lie will not offer any suggestions to the President-elect, he says he would be glad to see the South represented in the Cabinet by some such men as W. O, Bradley, of Kentucky, Or General Mahone. In Tennessee there has teen some talk about W. N. Baxter, a young lawyer of Knoxvill, whose father, Judge J. J. Baxter, came near being taken into Garfielu’s Cabinet. General Howk, however, does not attach any importance to the talk. The General has views on {he Southern question. He believes that Congress should refuse to recognize the credentials of any Southern Congressman' elected by fraud, and if there is evidence that the defeated candidate was cheated but of his election the seat should be given to him. When the Southern people are made to understand that they will be allowed no representation in Congress until their elections are conducted fairly he believes that there will be something of a reform. To enforce fair methods, however, he believes that the right kind of inch should be appointed Federal Marshals, and that they should be made to understand that they must arrest every man violating the election laws. Their work should be followed up bj? the repeal of the law that requires that juries shall be drawn from an equal number of names of persons belonging to both parties, of which juries are easily packed in the interest of defendants. He! believes that Marshals should be allowed to select the jurors. That was the law for eighty years, and it worked well enough. When some such methods are applied to Southern elections he believes that, so far as Federal interests are concerned, it will be possible to obtain something like a fair expression of sentiment or choice at the bal lot-box, but there is 1 ’ little hope for bringing about reform in State and local e ections. It is his belief for that reason that the Federal elections should be held separately from those of the State and municipalities. w