Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-29
POLITICAL ITEMS.


eT-" Is there single thing the Demo
cratic party ever held to that they haven't
departed from ~ asked a Republican ora
tor in Marietta, Ohio, the other day. Yes,
whiskyl" answered voice in the crowd.
tY-The st. Louis Republican growing
over the late elections, says the Republi-
cans will be caught mapping yet, on which
occasion, in the future as in the past, the
Democracy will not fail to take advantage
of the situation. This is true enough;
and general knowledge of this Demo
cratic popularity of taking advantage of
the slumbers of the people, is what makes
the locksmith's business good Chicago
Post
EB-One sixth of one per cent. is the
proportion of loss By defalcation on the
entire amount of internal revenue collected
since the first organization of the bureau.
The Providence Journal, which makes the
statement, adds that some of even this
small per centage will be recovered from
the bondsmen of the defaulters, and doubts
If the annals of finance can offer a paral-
lei to such fidelity of collecting the reve-
nues of great country.
CE For ways that are dark, the Cali
fornla Democrats are peculiar. They
fixed up lot of Republican tickets in San
Francisco on election day, by erasing some
of the names and writing in those of the
Democratic candidates with solution of
nitrate of silver. The tickets were kept
from the light, and when they were ped
died out to the voters no writing could be
seen, as the solution is colorless and only
turns black when exposed to the lisht.
EEy 1t has been asserted by the Demo
cratic press and speakers during the pres
ent campaign that the War Department
has $12,000,000 or $13000,000 worth of
condemned arms, and failed to make any
return to the Treasury of the same, and
that this sum has been at the control of
the Secretary of War, to apply to his de-
partment as he sees fit, in addition to the
regular appropriation. An inspection of
the books of the Ordinance Bureau and
the Treasury shows that no foundation
whstever exists for the charge. These
show that the sales of ordnance stores
from July 1, 1870, to September 9, 1870,
amounted to $9,92S, ,36320 There was de-
posted in the United States Treasury the
proceeds of the above sale, to the credit
of the Ordnance Department, from July
1, 1870, to September 8, 1871, 1854 ,149,
and the amount in government deposi-
tories, to the credit of the d sbursing Off
GERS, from the proceeds Of sales, is $685.
214 90
C9y" Senator Morton made an address in
Cincinnati, a few nights ago, in which he
! controverted the arguments of w. s.
Groesbeck in his Steubenville speech.
Groesbeck, Mr.. Morton says, gives a con-
struction to the amendments which virtu-
ally destroy them. He says the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments can only
be violated by a State passing a law
ablidging civil rights or suffrage, and the
only remedy is by the Supreme Court.
| These, the speaker claimed, werc unfound-
ed, as he asked, How could the Supreme
Court prevent State from coming money,
which is prohibited by the Constitution?
The new amendments expressly provide
for their enforcement by appropriate legis-
lation by Congress. Groesbecks assertion
that the Ku-Klux bill was War, was untrue
i'll every line. So far from this, the bill
contemplated no such course. 1t was ju-
dicial proceeding from first to last. The
first section defines the offense and pro-
vides for indictment; the second does the
same; in the third section, where the Pres
ident is authorized to employ the militia,
the persons arrested are to be delivered to
the civil officers, to be dealt with accord
ing to law. Every section of the law
looks to a judicial proceeding and the
President is authorized to use his power
when the State authorities fail or refuse,
and the parties arrested ARE handed over
to the civil authorities for trial 1t is Just
what the Governor OF New York did in
the recent riot The President would
have had this power if it had not been
named in this bill The merit of the law
was that it extended all over the United
| States