The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-04-04
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FORTY"FlFTH CONGRESS-,
SENATOR HOWE FIRES OFF HIS
AMMUNITION,
Vents His Wrath on Hayes, Schurz and Others Of
Like Ilk.
SENATE.


SENATE.
Washington March 2j.
Mr. Wallace submitted an amendment to the
House bill to repeal the specie resumption act
which provides that on and after July LIST, 1875
United States legal tender notes shall be receiYa'
be for all debts and dues, both public and private
that any national banking association hereafter
organized, or any national banking association
now In existence, which may desire to increase
its circulation shall send over to the Secretary OF
the Treasury for cancellation any bonds OF the
United States, payable within ten years, and bear
ing six per cent interest," and shall receive In ex'
change therefore legal tender notes Of the United
States to the amount of the nominal value of such
bonds, which said bonds shall be treated as part
of the sinking fund and recorded and destroyed
under the existing laws but the whole amount OF
legal tender notes issued for this purpose, and
otherwise outstanding, shall never exceed $685.
100000 No tax upon circulation shall be imposed
upon legal tender notes Issued under the piovis
sions hereof and no reserve shall be required to
be kept for their redemption by any such nation
al banking association All laws or parts Of laws
inconsistent with the provisions hereof be and
they are hereby repealed, Referred.
HowE's BIG EFFORT.
At the expiration OF the morning hour, Mr.
Howe called up his resolution asking the Presi'
dent for information in regard to the alleged de-
falcatlon of Judge Whitaker Of Louisiana and
made his promised speech.
Mr.. Howe said During the past year we have
seen here and everywhere throughout the coun'
try small but active squads of political inquistors
,Ta tft,fr 1fnoT
party, gathering into hallowed garners all those
who avow themselves supporters ofthe Presidents
policy, and pouring unquenchable fire upon ali
the rest To the doctors of the nquisiton it seems
no longer question Of moment whether one bea
Republican or a Democrat. The absorbing qUes
ton is, Does he support the Presidents policy or
does he not2" l have hitherto answered to this
accusation. did not like to plead guilty, for l
hoped was innocent and did NOT like to plead
not guilty, for l feared l might be guilty. l
withheld no honest effort to elect Mr., Hayes, 1t
must of necessity pain me to be found not in &C.
cord with his views aud it must pain me still
more to find he was not in accord with mine. My
own policy is a very simple one, and may be brief
ly stated Toward the States of the South my
policy has been Identical with the policy l have
held toward the States of the North, l demand
only that every legally qualified eleCtor in every
State South or North Democrat or Republican,
black or white shall be permitted, undisturbed
by force and uuawed by fear, to vote at all elec
ions and at the place prescribed by law, and no.
where else just once and no more than once that
every vote so cast shall be honestly counted, and
that every person chosen by such votes to any of
fee shall be freely inducted into it, That is my
Southern policy and the whole Of it.
Cnupnrn inc pivil snruipa m nnlipv ir nnt hit
more complicated l would have that service
administered by the best men attainable and
believe Republican Presidentshould, as the Gin
cinnah Convention declared, select Republicans
for all those places where harmony and vigor of
administration require is policy TO be represented.
l believe as the President declared in his inaugu
raj address, that once commissioned the officer
should be secure in his tenure as long as
his personal character remains untarnished and
the performance Of his duty satisfactory. Some
things had happened since the Presidents in
auguratiOn not at all in harmony with the policy
have indicated. He has selected for his Cab
met one man who was not Republican, but a
Democrat
SEVERE REFLECTIONS ON sCHURz.
He had selected another, who, although not a
Democrat was yet not Republican, who was
equally at home with all parties and in all places
BY turns he had been everywhere and had eSpous
ed and deserted every party, He spoke like an
oracle and his iacile rpeech could be fitted to the
vCssitudes Of parties us readily as double faced
satin turned to hide the accidents of society
His critlqueS upon his political associates always
gave him popularity with his political opponents
and he resembled prophets iu never being with
out honor except where he happened TO reside |
InconStant in everything else he has been con-
slant to his trade, that OF politics, de entered up
on that before he was OF age, and he has pursued
1t since, without varlableuess or shadow of turn
ing. His first enterprise was to revolutiOnz9 the
government under which he was born. That fail |
ed, and he He'd. He was for short time lawyer |
in Wisconsin but without clients. He was Min |
lister at Madrid but did not reconstruct the diplo
macy of the world. He was a Major but perverse |
history refused to record his victories. He was |
newspaper correspondent, and was unsuccessful |
He was transplanted into Missouri and the gener |
al Republicans of that State bore him into this |
Senate, That elevation did not prove fatal 10 him
but his party died, not in spite of him but because
of him, and under blows which he inflicted.
Having outraged one party and not yet received
absoluiOn from the other he denounced both as
machines. Having failed as a dealer in legitimate
politics. he turned his attention TO the COutrabaud
article. In 1872 he helped tc lead Horace Greeley
and B. Gratz Brown to the Baltimore market and |
taught the Democracy of that year they shOnld |
call nothing common OF unCle6n II 1t promised 10 |
beat Grant For six years he Lraduced the Re. |
publican party probably throughout mole States
and with more rhetoric and in more Languages
than any man living. Upon that illuslriOus cap.
tain, who from the ith OF July 1863 to the 4th of
MhICut lOlii leu luG ht puu-lCdu party WHO al |
ways led his party to victory ana always lifted his
country TO TeuOWn, at whose approach out recent
ly the Eastern continent stood up and uncovered
he threw more mud than any dredge not worked
By steam ever threw in the same time
THE LOUISIANA CASE.
After reviewing still further Secretary Schurz's
career, he took up the Packard case and LOuisi-
ana election, and said When the President was
inaugurated, Stephen p, Packard was Governor
nf Inuigiana Within havg hot inc
guraton, he ceased TO be Governor. When he
disappeared the will Of Louisiana was subveIted
and trampled upon. If Packard was not elected
Governor nothing can be more certain than that
Hayes was not elected President of the United
States. Without the electoral vote of Louisiana,
the whole world knows that Hayes had not the
votes in the electoral college necessary 10 consu.
tute an election. II Louisiana did not vote for
Packard, the whole world knows that Louisiana
did not vote for Hayes. Packard received nearly
1000 votes more than some Of the Hayes electors
Under the Constitution, the President had but one
plain duty " discharge: that was whether the
constituted tribunals OF Louisiana had declared
Packard TO be Governor if so, then to defend his
authority TO the extent Of his ability when legally
required so TO do. II they had not so declared,
then 1t was equally his duty, not merely to have
have given all required support To the claim of
Packard's rival II was his duty to have done
that not merely on the 2Oth of April, but to have
done II on the Atm OF March immediately uDon |
his assuming the office of President aud if he |
found it his constitutional duty to require Pack
ard 10 surrender his office, he should also have
recognized the duty Of isurrendering his own Mr..
Tilden would have excluded Packard and Cham
berlain because he declded against their election
President Hayes excluded them because their
election was disputed. The former would have
given an erroneous judgment and would then
have seen 1t executed. President Hayes has
abandoned the judgment seat to the rifle clubs in
these States.
After referring to the Anderson case he said the
President Issued an order forbldding those EN-.
plOyed In the civil service from acting on political
committees or political conventions. Is that what
10 meant by reform OF the civil service the
President has already abandoned II or am mis-.
informed or If he believes that means reform he
Is the only man In the United States who does be-
leve 1t. That is not REFORM that is tyranny
tyranny which no predecessor of his ever attempt.
ed and no snGeessOr win ventura To imltate Onna