Show EFFECTS OF THE ELECTION BILL indications go to show that should the federal elections bill pass it will disrupt the country it will affect every material interest detrimentally already the legislatures of three different southern states have introduced measures looking to a refusal in the he event of the passage of the bill in ques question tiou to participate in the worlds world a fair of 1892 hence that propose I 1 great exposition is threatened with failure from home causes lc it would be an anomaly if a large proportion of the united states should be without representation at such an exhibition hibi tion the ground for the refusal is that the passage of the bill would paralyze business in the south as northern investors would no longer consider it il safe to risk their capital in that section As a matter of course the north would be sympathetically affected stagnation in the south would result in at least a curtailment of prosperity in the south then comes the perhaps still more startling question of 11 negro domina dionor death the southern whites whit would prefer the latter alternative hence the passage of the bill would mean a race war and maybe a conflict with federal authority or both the subject la in one of stupendous importance 4 |