Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-10-05

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and charitable and beneficent in the
United States; bill which furnishes
the hospitals on our coasts and pro-
vides for our disabled and sick SAL
lors; bill which is meant to assist
our seamen from distant coasts to
their native land; bill which pro-
vides for your lighthouse system on
ocean, lake and river; in short, it is a
bill which contains an appropriation
for everything which is charitable,
kindly, and Of good report Now,
when that bill was under discssion,
up jumps a Democrat and moves for
a clause repeating the law Of 1859
providing supervisors at election in
cities Of more than 10000 inhabi-
tants when desired.
Let me digress for a moment. In
1868 it is known that the State Of
New York was carried by shameful
and sinful fraud, and John Hoffman
was elected over Seymour, and so
Grant lost the weight which fair
election would have given him. I
do not know much about the poll
tics of New York City, nor do I care
very much; but the last Democratic
candidate for President said that
the
FRAUD IN NEW YORK POLITICS WAS DE-
v1sED AND SUPPORTED BY THE PRES
ENr CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, NR.
| TILpEN.
Hence Mr.. Greedy set to work to have
something done in Congress to pre-
vent repetition of these frauds. he
wrote in the Tribune. went to Wash
ington, and under the supervision OF
tuition Of Greeley Congress passed
the above law In relation to supervi-
sors. No one but a scoundrel could
object to that law. AL that was
asked was that the supervisor should
be there and see that there was q
fair election, and an honest declara-
ton. Republicans have claimed the
privilege, but In New England, at
least, not a single Democrat has ever
said that they could not have q fair
vote and requested supervisor. /
undertake further to say that there
is not Republican In the city Of New
York to-day who is not ready to
swear that free vote could not be
had. In 1879 they kept down the
Democratic majority by the aid Of q
supervisor, and in 1876 they will do
the same. [Great applause.l
Well, when the sundry civil ap-
propriaton bill, which embodied the
charitable benehcence Of the govern
ment, when the bin was under con-
sideration, up steps q Democrat and
moves q clause OF amendment that
this supervisor law shalt be repealed.
This rule Of retrenchment was laid
down
IN ADVOCACY OF THE REPEAL OF THI
LAw-rr WOULD SAVE THE PAY OF YoUB
SUPERVISOR. N
[Laughter.l You might dissolve the
whole Government OF the United
States upon that ruling. The army
costs thousands of dollars; some
thing to abolish that would be q
measure Of retrenchment and the
same with the navy and the post
Office, and under that sublime ruling
OF the Democrats you might soon
have the nation under as beau tiful q
system OF govern ment as that exist
ing in the Black Hills under Sitting
Bull. [Laughter.l Well, this House
OF Representatives demanded this res
peal. I could never dream OF any
thing so Infamous as this. They took
these charities by the throat Hike q
band OF Cossacks and pirates and
said: You shall not have penny
to bring home from foreign ports an
American sailor, not penny to light
a beacon, not a pint Of oil to warn
the mariner from the rocky coast.
You shall not have a sent for uch
purposes until the supervisors law
shall be repealed, till we can cheat
as we like In the election of Tilden.
Laughter and cheers.] But. thank
God. there is Senate, and each
member sat back In his chair and put
his fingers In his buttonholes and
said, ,-asiilhA t'i.pf t
~eENrLEMEN, ALTHOUGH WE SIT HERE
TILL THE NEXT CENTENNIAL, THE Law
SHALL NOT BE REPKALEp," maii
and 30 the law of the supervisors is
on the statute book to-day. and it
win act very beneflcially in the COM
ing election. TApplause.] eao. :.
The army bill came up, and all
over the country came the cry from
the Democrats, ~The enormous
standing army" for our 40O00,000 Of
people. We have but 5000 men, the
smallest Of any nation on the earth
OF our size. You all know that Il
takes 5000 policemen In New York to
keep our pockets from being picked
in going between the depot and the
hotel. and then they do not succeed,
and that Is one-eighth of the army
Of the United States. Laugh ter.l
The the consulate bill came up for
consideration, and Il was moved by
this House to take the American nag
from forty-two places on the simple
ground that there were not fees
enough collected to pay the expen-
ses. This measure was passed. and
so that Confederate crowd ordered
that at forty-two points on this
earth's surface the American flags
flying there shall be hauled down:
andyou may go to those points to-
day, and you win find the English.
Spanish, French, Russian, German.
and even little Holland and Belgium,
represented by their national ban
ners: but you will fnd none Of the
United States, because the fees did
not pay FOR them. But I can say