Show SPECIAL legislation logan republicans were 1 1 FO 10 0 averse to lo special legislation tit eliat a t t they bey are arc on record it as being opposed to the enfranchisement of a number of their licar fellow citizens for tile the late ato election they were c applauded in ill this by all republicans registration reregistration re would have deprived no one of ai any right rather it would have been the me means arks of restoring their rights to those who had lost it by reason of the snap judgment of ft a tricky bonind commission assion yet theo republicans were so BO particular arid and so pure that they preferred to sacrifice the sacred rights of suffrage to deprive their neighbors and brethren of their franchise rather than allow a bill to become a law which had bad passed both houses and only awaited the i igna kurc of the chief executive that said they would be special legislation and the bill was butchered special leo legislation f is that which offers to sonic what it does not offer to others tho the bill for bogans logons reri registration was for tile the benefit of nil all her citizens alike yet these republicans republica is oppose it mark alark their consistency every republican demanded a bounty for the sugar 0 factory they in ill fisted that the law should favor this factor factory v should id make inake it a p present resent front from tile the public treasury fron from the taxes of the people this factory pays no taxes but it shall relieve a part of the peoples say our republican friends if this is not special legislation what is it if taking 0 money froni from all the people and p passing assing 0 by a 1 hundred other factories and bestowing it upon a fai favored ored one is is not cliss class legislation then tile the definition C fini tion faila fail republican oracles tells us that lc legislation 9 isolation which offers the opportunity port unity of voting to nien men who have the right and only lack the P privilege legge i is special anil and that a law which takes from the many and ghee to tile the few which gathers ri from many places arid and deposits in in one pla place ce is not nok special we lve hope for the good of the country that the republican ideas of vice arid and virtue arc not fo founded unde S 1 11 4 i |