Présentation de l'éditeur
In the present campaign the American people are confronted by an uniqne issue. For the first time in tlie history of the country a great political party has come before the voters with a proposal to do an unlawful act in the name of law; a proposal to violate the Constitution under pretense of enforcing it; a demand that the legislative department shall usurp the powers of the judiciary and overthrow the published decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States; a demand that Congress shall summarily destroy the highest political rights of sovereign States of the Union, without even the formality of a legal hearing for the States concerned. These monstrous and revolutionary propositions are embodied in the following plank of the Republican National platform adopted at Chicago June 22, 1904: We favor such Congressional action as shall determine whether by special discrimination the elective franchise in any State has been unconstitutionally limited, and, if such is the case, we demand that representation in Congress and in the electoral college shall be proportionally reduced as directed by the Constitution of the Unite-! States. To this extraordinary proposal, evidently intended as a more economical method of holding the negro vote in line than has been commonly used heretofore, the National Democratic Platform replies :T he race question has brought countless woes to this country. The calm wisdom of tlie American people sliould see to it that it brings no more. To revive the dead and hateful race and sectional animosities in any part of our common country means confusion, distraction of business and the reopening of wounds now happily healed. North, South, East and West have but recently stood together in line of battle from the walls of Pekin to the hills of Santiago, and as sharers of a common glory and a common destiny we should share fraternally the
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