The brotherhood of man exists no
longer, because you shoot negroes in Illinois, when they come
in competition with your labor, and we shoot them in South
Carolina, when they come in competition with us in the matter
of elections. You do not love them any better than we do.
You used to pretend that you did; but you no longer pretend
it, except to get their votes.
"You deal with the Filipinos just as you deal with the negroes,
only you treat them a heap worse."
No Democrat rose to deny his statement, and, so far as I know,
no Democratic paper contradicted it. The Republicans, who
had elected President Harrison and a Republican House in 1888,
were agreed, with very few exceptions, as to the duty of providing
a remedy for this great wrong. Their Presidential Convention,
held at Chicago in 1888, passed a resolution demanding, "effective
legislation to secure integrity and purity of elections, which
are the fountains of all public authority," and charged that
the "present Administration and the Democratic majority in
Congress owe their existence to the suppression of the ballot
by a criminal nullification of the Constitution and the laws
of the United States.
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