The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-06-07

the full text Of the letter Of Mr.. PoifCr.
Iexplainin9 the action aud intentions OF
1.-THE democracy concerning the fraud iu-
Ivcstigation. AS Le had the resolution
In charge his utterances are matters of
interest 10 our readers. and we submit
that portion Of his letter bearing ON
| these points:
"You ask me why we would not let
the Hale amendment be attached to our
resolution. Because
1T WAS NOT 0ERMANE.
An inquiry into the frauds accomplish
led and which changed the electoral vote
lis proper 10 prevent repetition, but an
Inquiry into more attempts at f,aud
which resulted in nothing Is not. first.
because we understood il contained re-
citals to which we could not assent and
which would have forced Us to vote
against our own resolution: second. be-
cause we offered Mr.. Hale every oppor-
tunltv 70 have his amendment adoptcd
las separate resolution w that IL was not
50 offered shows that ii was really not
desired: third, becanse its ncorpomtiDn
into the resolution might have had TIE
lefiect Of preventing any report npon the
resolution AS il is tie committee will
have
BUT ONE OPPORTUNITY TO srporr
lin this congress. and this amendment
could, Il added 10 the resolution. he
made 20 prevent report at that time.
ana mus 70 deprive us Of AZ opportu-
nifty 70 report al an. Just al we cot
ready TO report we should boliable lo be
stopped ~ take further testimony III
Some Of the added states bronght for
ward for the purpose Of preventing n
report Again lie says: There was
mo danger ofa civil war growing on ot
the presidential dispute. The whole
thing wa q gigantic game. in which we
held the cards and
THE REprRLIcANs ELrrFEn rs.
Years hence. when il II remembered
that wc needed only one electoral vote
and That Your side conld not ret on
without every one Of the remaining sew
lenteen; that we lad 800 900 popular ma
|jority; that orr majorities were around
me capital, yours IN New England. ne
northwest and tho Pacific coast: thas
me moral sense Of the country was that
our man was elccIcd ana yours moi that
you had nothing on your sidcsbut
THE CONTROL or AN ARMY
|of which ten thousand men could not
be got together The priyatcs being
mostly IN sympathy with ne. and com
'nahnea hy officers educated to nnde.-l
stand me supremacy OF tie civil over
the military officer who. cx-
ecpting The leaders, Grant. sherman and
sheridan, could. believe, never have
neen generally used "a resist the dcclar-
aiion Of the house or fep~escntagives-N
am told this vii appear certainly When
ever the secret correspondence of the
war department il rcyealed) that
You were laden down with the care oil
the national credit the first shock to
which wenld have arrnycd against you
all the moneycd institutions in the conn
try that under such conditions. saw
your leaders confrived and were able to
carry through the capture or all these
seventeen votes will be regarded a. one
o. inc sreatestpoli,ical performances OF
history
ANOTHER BLOODY SHIRT YIELD.
After speaking Of the cry or rcvoln-
ton rs an other republican pretcnsc
like the bloody shirt yell. no continues !:
We must have very sorry sort ofpoD-
ular government if congress can not
even inquire into frauds in the choice of
the executive without cndangcring the
peace aud prosperity OF the country !.
II an administration can
DEFRAuD ITS OPPONENTS.
out Of the results OF an election nj which
they have seventeen electoral and three
hundred thousand popular majority.
and no effort Is made even to inuuirc in. !.
TO the wrong, there Is nothing thc next
time 70 prevent the same administration
cheating their opponents, even though
the latter baye forty electoral votes and
million popular majority. And this
viii go on time after time uuti. tho ont
rage becomes intolcrablc. Let us rath-
er, as Mr. Jefferson said, have jealous
care Of
THE RIGHT OF ELECTION
BY thc'pcoplc aud seek a mild correct
i've for abuses which, where no peacea-
blc remedy Is provided, arc Topped Nv
the sword Of revolution II has been
said that there was nothing more cow
ardly than Sl,0oO,UO0 except S2.UVO0OO
This Is natural, but il is
THE MISTAKE on CAPITAL
to magnify tho dangers Oh the surface and
overlook those that lie below. Jnstnow
your capitalists are troubling themselves
about the commune and oppose the re-
duction Of the army. which they would
have kept mp a. a national police. And
xnt -. ur a A.