Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — OPPOSE THE ELECTION BILL. [ARTICLE]

OPPOSE THE ELECTION BILL.

Banthern People Declare Emphatically Against lt» A meeting has been called by several of the snb-alliances of the Farmers’ Allianc * in Houston and other counties, Ga., at which meeting it is proposed to adopt resolutions to send to all eounty Alliances, urging the systematic boycottingof Northern products in case the force bill becomes a law. The President of the Worth County Alliance makes the suggestion that no cotton be sold to Northern mills, but that it be sent to England direct. Captain Clark, of the Merchants’ Bank, of Rome, Ga., and head of the largest wholesale house in the city, and who has for years been buying dry goods and shoes in the North, unhesitatingly pledges himself to the boycott. Public meetings are reported as being held in all the smaller towns throughout the south, at which the boycott plan Is indorsed. The Atlanta Constitution editorially urges Southern merchants who are ordering goods from the North to make their orders conditional, and to distinctly stipulate that the orders are to be canceled if the bill passes. The Northern trade centers will thus be made toappreciate the gravity of the situation. The Constitution adds: ‘‘Ourarrogant enemies will make the mistake of their; lives if they decide that the Southern! people are half-hearted or indifferent.! Better turn this fair land into a desert than have it plunged into endless race 1 troubles, or resting under the curse of negro denomination.” There is much alarm at New Orleans, over the prospect of the passage of the ! Federaljelection bill,[and there is a general demand that some action be taken in . regard to it so as to nullify the law should j it pass. But there is a wide diversity of ' sentiment as to what that action should i be. There seems to be an even division oni the subject of a boycott of Northern products. About half the people want a! convention called to arrange a course ofi action, so that all the South can act to-j gether in fighting and defeating the law. The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions declaring in favor of the proposed convention. The States and Delta warmly support the boycott proposi-j tion, and urge immediate action in calling! the proposed convention. The Picayunethinks that a boycott against the North! may become necessary, but that it is premature to propose it now. The Times-Democrat opposes both boycott and convention as being sectional and savoring too much of secession times. It expresses the opinion that the force bill can be beaten and nullified without a con-, vention. At Birmingham, Ala., on the 24th, several hundred Republicans held a meeting] and adopted a memorial giving many rea-| sons why the election bill should not hel passed by the Senate. This memorial will! be signed by several thousand Republicans! and forwarded to the Republican Senators at Washington. Dispatches from various sections of the< South show that there is a general feelingi of opposition to the force bill, but that* there is more or less opposition to the pro J posed boycott.