Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-02-28

his presence gave countenauce
and aid to the conspirators.
Still they were one vote short
of a quorum, when Wright was
Joined by Senator Daugherty,
who took his seat. The tesol
luton declaring Sayler entitled:
to the seat was then put, and
the vote stood seventeen III
the affirmative and one.
| lWright) in the negative,
Daugherty refusing to vote.-
Still not d quorum had, voted,
but the conspirGtors held that
/ Daugherty, though not voting,
was present, thereby making
nineteen Senators inside the
bar, and quorum, and. for
this view therS Is some show
Of reason.
It is not difficult to see
where the final responsibility
Of this foul outrage rests. It
is upon the shoulders of Messrs.
Wright and Daugherty. Mr..
Wright is one of our own Sen.
ators, nominated and elected
by the Democracy of this coun-
ty, and responsible to them for
his acts. He has done that
which they do not approve,
but indignantly denol1ce.-
When a scheme was on foot to.
rob one-half of the citizens of
Ohio Of their representation in
the Senate, preparatory to the
robbing them Of their Congress.
Sional representation it,
too, by revolutionary and un4
constitutional means-it was
the bounden duty of Senator
Wright, as Of all of his col.
leagues, to resist it to the Bit
ter end. We regret that Mr..
Wright has proven himself In
ADEQUATE in this crisis, and that
he forms such poor contrast
to the Noble and manly attitude
of Mr.. Schiff and all the Dem-
ocratic Senators; Daugherty
only excepted.
Temporary Withdrawals from
Legislative sessions have often
been resorted to by minorities
to secure their legal rights, but
this is the first instance in his
tory where an absolute major.
ity was driven, by the tyranny
of a presiding officer, to such q
course, and more extraordinary
still, that it should have been
by the want of nerve
and backbone, and by the cow
ardice of some of those who
composed it.
While we condemn the con.
duct of our democratic Senator,
Mr.. Wright, for his timidity
in not resisting this ihsolent
act of injustice, a still heavier
censure should rest upon our
Republican Senator, Thomas
L. Young, who especially dis
tinguished himself by the zeal
and alacrity with which he did
the dirty work Of the political
ring. While others of his par
ty who sustained 1t kept in the
background, saying nothing
from a sense of shame, Young,
with brazen impudence, ap.
peared in front, and rolled over
in the partisan filth, as if that
was to him a delightful and
'congenial element.
1t is proper to say Chat our
Republican contemporaries, the
Gazette and Commercial, Bit
terfy partisan as they are, have
given unmistakable evidences
Of dissatisfaction with this act
of scoundreIism. The Com.
mercial says, at the conclusions
Iofits editorial on the matter,
80 Sayler was squeezed in
We fear it is an unfroftable
way to secure political majori.;
ties in the Legislative bodies"
The Gazette had previously
in an elaborate article, exposed
the folly and falsity of the legal
points which had been made
by the majority Of the judi
ciary Committee in behalf Of
Sayler, It's Columbus cores
.pondent asks: Are Che Re-
,publicans justifable in what
they did to-day? If So the
people will sustain them. Have
they committed a wrongp If