Show BREAKERS AHEAD A cloud of trouble as big as a min mina mans a hand band which grows no smaller day by days day hovers bovera over the eastern coriz horizon n the question which has vexed the nation from the time that jefferson and hamilton clashed ideas on nationalism la in cabinet and which eventuated the civil war is as much alive now as it ever was and shows factor for mischief the question is whether a state has excle give ave sovereignty within its own lines that lot ie whether those linee represent a wall which must not be scaled edby by the general government without permission express or implied or whether they are of local 1001 significance and the local authority which they hedge about in s subordinate to the parent govern lugat whether in a word a state has full autonomy J within and of itself or jg is merely a NO factor tor in the makeup make up of the nation at large this has been a costly subject to the people 10 of this country the determination pool tion of one ph phase ase of it cost the ex pen deture of hund hundreds reds of thousands of lives a d thou thousands sands of millions of dollars added to the destruction of property altogether beyond computation this would seem to be enough to put all sections of the country at rest through a perfect understanding yet we find that in all respects respect it is not at rest any more than it was at any time before or during the dark days of the rebellion the present 0 cause ause of contention is the determination of the federal authority tho rity under the operation of federal jaws and pursuant to attorney general millers instructions instruction on the subject to take a hand band in the election next tuesday y in new york particularly where there is always more or less trouble beforehand a real conflict seems loom ing up it is in given out that united states deputy mare marshals balis are going to take charge chame of affairs at the polls exercising the utmost freedom in the matter ot of going into the booths or polling places from which all persons except election judges and these who are in the act of toting are excluded by the law of the date in opposition to this proceeding lieutenant governor sheehan Bhe ehan who is managing for the democratic party in the empire state has issued an address to bis bin partisans calling on them to resist encroachments encroach ments upon the state law and cites altos a decision of judge brewer Amo associate clate justice of the united states Ski supreme preme court in defense of his position that no one other than those referred to above bad the right to enter booths both sides eldea seem determined and it if both persist in their presently avowed purpose a collision would seem to be inevitable A similar case cornea comes upon the wires from dallas county alabama where a united states marshal has appointed deputies to look after the election the chairman of the democratic county committee at onoe once telegraphed to the chairman of the state committee asking for ins truo eions the burden of these was to have the sheriff and his deputies on hand and aad wherever a marshal IV attempts tempt to interfere to arrest him this thin causes the united states marshal for that state to defy a sheriff to arrest one of his deputies and it looks as an if here was another chance for a row there will be one certainly unless one or the other authority gives way which at present neither seems inclined to do the political atmosphere all around has baa a equally appearance but surely the good sense and better judgment of the people ill enable them to te devise some means of avoiding actual hostilities we are promised some surprises as the result of the election next tuesday but let us sincerely trust that bloodshed will not be one of them |