Judge — July 26, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PORTER aware that the Demoerat a fiend in human shape? party looks upon him as ITTLE MAHONE he is out of polities. could says We that many moons ago. have sworn to FE APPREHEND ro great race war south at this time. ! season of the soothing and - is the meliorative watermelon. ULLIVAN and Muldoon are calling each very hard names. Tut, tut, gentlemen! Do net resolve Yourselves into a mere state legislature. other HE TALK of sending Warner Miller to. Spain is as idle as an holiday, Warner's _ castles are in Herkimer county and chained to the ground. N ZW YORK is the great- estand best of summer resorts. Nearly all the boodlers are bac the city and its various institutions, ona PENSIV Hritnerrer — don'd pull him off Mrs, Heitierre Vy nod ? Ileimmerrek —" Dey vos vort’ a dollar *Sufferin’ Is: nid enjoying the freedom of RCHER of Maryland, defaulting treasurer, who prison, says the stolen money is all gone, but it d ¢ Archer! who was the other woman? ts. fiv in idn’t go in stocks. years HE EDITOR of the Rochester /erald speaks of “the fusil-oil end of a claret punch.” The who doesn't know the difference between fusil oil and a plain straw must have got hold of an enemy that stole away his hs man THE SILVER MEN are properly taken care of to be drowned in melted or coined bullion, ‘That is fair all around, and if anybody wants to complain let him preserve his self-respect. by holding his tongue. THAT MULTITUDINOUS MAN. ME: PLATT is supposed to have a desire to go to the senate; also to have determined to send Senator Fassett there; furthermore to have concluded to make Secrets y a senator in order to take the secretary's place in the cabine gain he will remain in New York to continue the management of his express company. Come up, Thomas! Take a few of those irons out of this sizzling weather, 1 nobody is going how dot hurts, Naomi FAIR BALLOT— FAIR REPRESENTATION. HE. enfranchisement following the emancipation of the colored race, deemed necessary then and proven since as essential to its freedom, gave a large increase to southern representation in the house of represent- The policy of intimidation, the resort to tissue ballots, and all the various additional devices to frighten the negro from voting or confuse him so as to cancel his vote have resulted in a small number of whites cast- ing a ridiculously scant vote representing themselves in congress—a rep resentation four or five times larger in proportion to the vote cast than in any congressional district in the north, A northern district polls from twenty-five thousand to thirty thousand votes for candidates for congress; yet in many southern districts five thousand, and even a number of votes, suffice to elect. In Florida in one con- gressional district it is claimed that less than a thousand votes selected a representative. So far as legislative representation and influence go A southern vote counts as five or six times the valuz of a northern. If the colored man is counted as a voter he should vote or not be counted for representa If he is to be regarded as a semi-intelligent gifted with speech, and is to be barred from the exercise of his , there is no more right to count him for representative pur- s than there would be for a western ranchman to ask that the farm be counted for the same purpose. If the negro is too ignorant to vote; if he is likely to be deluded as s been by political tricksters into voting for men or policies that work injury to the country and tend to a demoralization like that from which the south suffered soon after the war, is that any reason that the north- ern voter should be’ virtual four-fifths disfranchised by the inequality of represen- tation ? The bill before congress to guarantee freedom of the ballot is and has to be lim- ited in suffrage for purely federal representation, A state that reserves. its right in the selection of its legis- lative and municipal officers can regulate the qualifica- tion of its voters, and con- gress has not the inclina- tion or power to interfere. ‘The proposed law is confined in its jurisdiction to the guarantee of-an un- frightened vote and an hon- st count of all votes cast for federal officers alone and only, atives. smaller ion, The Democratic oppo- sition is based on the desire to continue the representa- tion of numbers and the suppression of a vote out- side of its party control. Its press denounces it as a force bill because it provides for a peaceable and unintimidated vote. There of protest against the shotgun policy used for the forcibl of its supremacy, These methods it and its mugw gard not as “ force,” but “ persuasion. It is necessary that some corrective be adopted. Let the south rule its domestic self in its own way. It is but just that the nation rule itself by the legitimate expression of a majority and not a minority of its voters. Tur don'd pull him off — 1 dozen in Nye Yorick no word maintenance mp apologists re- If, as it is claimed, the colored vote is a degraded one is there not also a northern vote equally The clannish immigrant, knowing little or nothing of republican institutions, is often hardly even con- versant with the national tongue, ‘The voter who, when asked which ticket answers “Vive tollar” is the equal in ignorance and the superior in venality of any “darkie” in the south, The bill before congress is in the right direction, and the good sense and patriotism of the country north and south by joining hands may some day, for the salvation of our institutions, recall its lavish gift of an abused suffrage. When in addition to the present qualifications of the voter there be also required a fair knowledge of our institutions, the ability to read and write, and an intelligent response to al catechism as an admission of membership to the political church, we may hope for a better government north and a safer government south. Juihs stupid? is to rec his favor, simple polit comicbooks.com