Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-15
STATE WRONGS.

the Electf0ns-Senator Schurz Exposes
the Iniquity of His Rule.
Senator Carl Schurz, in recent
speech at Mason, Mo-, made the follow
ing remarks on the correspondence be-
tween Grants henchman, Marshal
Packard, and Gen. Emory, in Louisi-
ana
1 notice that Gen. Emory, with COM
mendable spirit, repels the idea that
United States troops could be used for
! political purposes. No doubt he de-
scribes the sentiments of the honest
soldiers correctly when he says such an
attempt would be resented by them with
| indignation. For this honor him. l
should be the last man to cast q slur
upon the honorable spirit and good
faith of the true soldier. But l submit
that Gen. Emory's protestation does
not meet the case. He says in hls let
ter to Marshal Packard that he does
not see how United States troops can be
used for political purposes. Just there
is the trouble. venture to say that
Marshal Packard, in his capacity as
party manager, does see the many
things which Gen. Emery can't see, just
because the latter is an honest soldier
and not a party manager. Campaign
managers of the Packard stamp are apt
to see many things which the honest
soldier may find it difficult to appreci-
ate. We remember the use to which
United States troops were put in the
Kellogg usurpation in 1872. For
weeks they had to stand guard
over the State House, while State
government and Legislature were put
in power which had not the least evi-
dence of an election by the people, but
were virtually created by an act of the
| grossest usurpation on the part OF
Judge Durell. The honest soldier may
not have seen the character of that pro-
ceeding, or, if he did, he may have been
indignant az it, but he had to obey or
ders. And who procured those lamenta-
BILE orders? The party managers IN
Louisiana, and among them Marshal
Packard. They knew how to obtain
orders for the honest soldier then, and
they may try, on some plausible pre-
text, to obtain orders for a kindred
purpose now, which the honest soldier
will have to obey, indignation or no
indignation or they may use the att
tude of their power 20 make arrange
ments themselves. The soldiers will
have to play a part without being able
to see through them. 1 hope they will
be as successful as they were in 1872,
but however that may be, say again,
inasmuch as it is Of the highest impor-
lance that the people of Louisiana not
only should have a fair election, but
1 IL - .o,oJa 70 faa1 onA ho1iava fh of
they have one, the man who was an ac.
complete in the usurpation of 1872, and
who all this time is the manager of a
party in the pending election, and es-
pecially of that party for whose benefit
the usurpation of 1872 was accom-
plished, should have the least inhu-
ence over the employment of United
States troops in that election, because
such a man cannot inspire confidence.
But / go further. We learn through
the papers that the opponents of the
Kellogg government, who hut re-
Gently, after successful reyo
luton with 10000 armed mer
at their command, Immediately
bowed down before corporal's guard
under the national flag, and promptly
submitted to the reinstatement of Kel
logg, have been making an honorable
and loyal effort to secure fair election
! In their conferences with the chiefs o.
! the Kellogg party they proposed tina
the Returning Board should be com
posed Of two members from each party
, and that the fifth should be designated
: by the two parties together, as sor
of an umpire, and understand that tn,
i opponents of Kellogg agreed that Thu
: umpire might be taken from the Re
{ publican ranks, provided he have tn,
} character of fair and just man. Thi
was no captious demand, for it is wei
known that in Louisiana elections ar
apt to be decided, not by the peopl
, who cast the votes but by the part,
managers and their tools who count ant
return the votes. The granting of sucl
a request was, therefore, not onl.
r proper, but absolutely necessary, &
, produce confidence and good feeling
, Even many prominent men of the Kel
/ logg party recognized the fairness o
Z the proposed arrangement, but, as til
newspapers inform us, there was on
O man opposed to the last, even agains
: his party friends-one man who strenu
? ously insisted that the party and thei
: tools should keep the power of countin
= and returning the votes, and thus d.
! Gliding the election. That man wa
6 Marshal Packard. Mr.. Packard is q
: officer of the national government. A
such, and through his assistants, he e.
:. ercises in Louisiana great power. 1
/, the name of national government, b
- represents the authority, and is SUI
= posed, in a great measure, to represer
= the sentiments of the national govern
- ment; and when such Federal Office
at the same time plays the part of part
manager In State. and stands up 6
the principal, and perhaps the only
:. obstacle to an arrangement so necesaf
II for securing fair election, SO eminen
% " proper and just that every fair-mini
> ed man would unhesitatingly accept,
a SO evidently conducive to peace, orde
9 good-feeling, and good government thi
J. every friend of fair dealing, and {
!, democratic institutions, nay, ever
~ patriotic American, will applaud it,
- then such man does not only not il
70 spire but does not deserve confdenc
+ T and it is for the national governmel
70 to consider whether such a man, asiG
=, form the control Of troops in conteste
l '9 election, can be trusted as represent
~ ~ tive OF the authority of the national go