Show THE HOAR ELECTION BILL About the most vicious of the political bills introduced in Congress within late years is the one presented by Senator HOAR from the committee on privileges and elections and referred to in our dispatches last week How an intelligent man could think that the American people would submit sub-mit to such an infamous measure is a mystery mys-tery If the law were in force and applied i as its author and champion wants it to be applied the most unhealthy offices in the republic would be those created by the bill And who could blame free men if they were to go to shooting down the scoundrels who would openly deprive them of their rights of representation and to be heard in governmental affairs Under a Republican administration an election would be a farce in a district that was at all close and such Democratic districts as the Republicans might need in their business would simply be taken in spite of the vote The bill provides that in a city or district dis-trict containing 20000 inhabitants if 100 voters shall represent to the chief supervisor super-visor of elections that danger of unfairness is feared the United States judge will appoint ap-point twice the number of supervisors the place is entitled to from these the chief will select three no more than two of whom shall belong to the same political I party These three are given all the powers requisite to the determination of the election True after an L election the local officers r appointed L for the purpose may canvass the ballots but theymust submit the returns to the partisan supervisors who will compare i them with the tally sheets then comes a federal board of three I canvassers and their certificate must he accepted as the lawful credentials of the candidate elected Thesa two men chosen because of their partisanship and political shrewdness have it in their Dower to say which of the candidates shailrepresent any district in Congress We all know how that power would be employedvwhen we see the Republican majority in Congress deliberately and defiantly seating men without credentials and whose votes are so few that one wonder sat their impudence in making a contest for the place Legislation like that proposed is what makes conservative men desperate and brings on revolutions It is not in the nature na-ture of men to sit down quietly and without with-out protest submit to the wrongs which this bill would inflict |