Show I DEMOCRATIC CONSISTENCY The Kentucky Democracy are discussing discus-sing some proposed amendments to the Goebel law and they declare that elections I elec-tions must be absolutely free In Ken tons tucky That reminds ono of the remark of the stately old Georgian who carried a business scheme to New York city In search of capital to float It When of told that Northern men were shy Investing where a large portion of the population was denied the suffrage the old Georgian replied That Is a mistake mis-take salt all a mistake all colored men In Georgia are allowed to vote sah without hindrance sah True we do not count their votes sah but It Is a great Injustice to say they are not permitted per-mitted to vote sah t j Just now this country presents the singular spectacle of a great party making a light with imperialism as its chiefest slogan and with the chlef est insistence In its platform that It Is tyranny to establish any government without the consent of the governed while at the same time Its only possible hope of success lies in Its ability to disfranchise some millions of voters the right or whom to vote is guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States The picture of Senator Tillman In the Senate as he declared that the party in his State had tried by statute by intimidation by fraud and by murder to neutralize and make of no effect the guarantees of the Constitution toward colored voters and his other picture I reading the pathetic planks in the Democratic Dem-ocratic platform at Kansas City of the tyranny of attempting to govern murderous Tagals against their consent ought to fix the status of the Democratic Demo-cratic party and be enough to decide the campaign |