The daily gazette., 1878-10-14
Special to the BALTIC. Gazetts.

Special to the BALTIC. Gazette.
WARRINGTON, Oct 13-The recent or
der Of the Attorney General to the Unit
cd States marsbals In various sections of
the South, commanding them to enforce
article $3.50 of the revised statutes, rela-
tive to the holding Of political meetings,
has an explanation that goes to show the
schemes the Republicans propose to re-
sort to in that section to influence the
elections. The history Of this order Is az
follows Some ten days or two weeks
ago delegation waited on the President
from South Carolina. IL was composed
Of Samuel Lee, probate Judge Of Sumter
county; Congressman Rainey and State
Senator Swalls, the two latter beink ne
groes. Judge Lee represented to the
President that the Republicans feared
intimidation In case they should under
take to hold political meetings In Sumter
and requested the President, In view of
these facts, to appoint co omnission, TO
be composed OF either army officers or
civilians, whose duty 1t should he to go
10 that region, inspect the political op-
,erations and make report to the Presi-
dent under the law which requires the
eN cutive 10 keep Congress informed of
the state of the country.
Mr.. Hayes, seeing that such n plan
would never go down with the country
at large, declined to grant the request,
but realizing the extremity of the party
in the South he told the delegation that
the next best thing he covld do was TO
have the Attorney General instruct his
marshals to carry out the provisions of
the statue mentioned above. This was ac-
cordingly done, and the delegation left
well plased with the proposition. Within
several days, as it. will be remembered,
the Attorney General had prepared
precisely such letter TO various march
ais, but the first was addressed to Marsh.
al Wallace, of South Carolina, who was
ordered to be present, In connection with
United States District Attorney n orthrop
and the United States commissi oner, TO
see that arrests were made in case ofthe
least show of Interference on the part Of
Democrats with the Republican meet
ings.
AS soon az this plan had been outlined
by the President, and the Attorney-Gen-
eral had issued his orders, the visiting
delegation, all representing Rainey's dis
trict, returned to South Carolina and an
nonnced Republican meeting at Sum-
ter, for October IL, which was last Sat
urday. The tone of the local press, after
learning the mission on which Judge
Lee went North became very defiant
and aggressive, and 1t was believed in
Sumter by Lee and his friends, and con-
fidentially expected by the radical lead
ers here, that the Democrats would be
goaded by this scheme of the forlorn
enemy and commit some overt act of
violence at the meeting that would revive
the cry of the bloody shirt, in the North
on the eve of the November elections,
and thus prejudice the cause of Demo-
cracy in the close districts of the north
ern states.
Upto the present time no reports
whatever Of violence at the meeting in
question have been received and II is
therefore taken for granted that the
radical plot was not successful. From
private advices rec oeived here tits learn
ed that Senator Butler, on learning the
outlines of the scheme, left his home
at Edgefield and proceeded TO repress
the Indignation Of the Sumter Demo-
Gratis. 1t was the Intention of the ad
mipistration, in case any violence had
been committed, to place that region
in state of Martial law, thus making
all elections that might be held invalid
and in this way reach the same partisan
result as might have been expected by
the use of troops, which was prohibit. d
by Proctor Khot'ts posse-comitdtus clause
in the last army-appropriation bill.
WHY REPUBLICAN WAS DEFEATED.
One of the curiosities Of the campaign
comes from Iowa, where the regular Re.
publican nominee in district usually 81
BOO Republican, rendered a verdict IN
favor of the Democratic and Greenback
fusion ticket. In this case the Repubh-
can nominee happened to be the man
who, as a Union officer during the late
war, had bodily stolen the law library of
Gov: John G. Brown, then a gene
raj in the Confederate army. Some
years ago, when the war had just closed,
this was looked upon as rather a COM
mendable piece of work, but sentiment
has changed since then, and it is stated
now by prominent Republican of Iowa
who lives in that district that the nomi-
nee OF his party was injured more by
the Democrats ringing the changes on
this old theft of the law library than by
anything else.