Show GEN KEIFERS BOURBON ISM J Warren Keifer of Ohio has under undertaken undertaken taken once more the task of cutting down the representation of southern states in the national congress Gener General al has beeh such since the Spanish war during which President McKinley appointed him major general of volunteers in recognition of political been lighting fighting the south continuously since the civil war warIn warin In which he served as a Un Union ton soldier Commenting on a bill he has introduced in the house the WashIngton Post makes observations on th the tat fat and die dis distinguished that are worth reproduction The Post says Who has not mused with the Rip Van Winkle of Irvings fiction Who has not delighted in the tho Rip Van Win Winkle Winkle kle of Jeffersons art Then let us laugh at the Rip Van Winkle of na national national politics vz Hon J Warren Keller Keifer of Ohio whom an Ohio con constituency put to sleep twenty years yeaTS ago when the bloody shirt was the grand old garment of th the G O 0 P and who waked up the other day dey prepared to give the south another dose of recon reconstruction reconstruction Monday the Hon Keifer Introduced his bill providing a punishment for vet vot votIng Ing the Democratic ticket in certain southern states for it Is as certain as that the sun will rIse tomorrow that the Hon Keifer would not have abused Gods patience and American patriotism with this piece of sectional animosity If the constituencies aImed at sent Re Republicans Republicans publicans to represent them In con congress gross gress Not even the of hy by hypocrisy would controvert that proposition proposition tion Then this bm bill Is only to make it itan Itan an Offense to vote yote the Democratic ticket in certain of the cotton states It is peculiarly appropriate that Gen eral Keller Keifer should father this piece of sectionalism It Is in the interest st of the man and brother General Kelfer Keffer is from SprIngfield 0 where some of General Keifers constituents not a great while ago mobbed the negro pop population population of General Keifers town with great ferocity and dispatch and fol followed followed lowed It up by burning the dwellings of ofa 1 a great many of General Keifers col colored colored ored And so as Gen General General eral Keifer did not secure the rIght of the negro to live In Ohio he now pro proposes proposes poses to give to the negro the right to vote In Mississippi If General KeLler KeIfer will get McClures Magazine for for Febuary 1905 1005 and turn to page he will wUl had an account of the way some of his constituents amuse themselves lynching negroes It was written by Ray Stannard Baker and is isa Isa a very graphic narrative of the reign of th the prevailed at SprIngfield 0 a year or so ago about the time General Keifer was wasel el elected to the congress or perhaps earlier Here is a passage that General Keller Keifer should ponder vonder Mr Baker says It If you were to tell these men that the of Springfield at are disfranchised as absolutely as as they are any anywhere where here in the south the they would stare at you in amazement But a purchased voter Is 18 a disfranchised voter The ne negroes negroes groes have no more voice In the dhe gov government ot of SpringfIeld than they nave have In the government of Savannah or New Orleans In th the south the negro has been ed by law or by intimidation dation iii the north by cash Which is worse orse That Is but a single passage In Mr Bakers article that the Hon Keller Keifer will likely hear read It If his measure to recreate sectional animosity shill shall be debated If General Keifers bill bUl is but a salve for the outrages General Kellers Keifers white constituents visited on General Keifers colored constituents no southern man manwill will object but he should have put Jut it itin itIn in the title |