The daily gazette., 1879-04-15
The Coming Issue.

From the n. Y. World, 18th
The Army bill which the Republican
leaders IN the Senate rejected month
ago has now been returned to the Senate.
Unless we are very much mistaken, the
coming debate upon IL will show that
the bill was rejected at the close of the
last session. aud an extra Congress made
inevitable by that rejection expressly To
the end that the candidacy OF General
Grant, with all that candidacy inphes.
might be promoted. Tho
civil war was fought, as the Republicans
loudly uroiessed while II was lighting, in
order 10 bring the zeceded States back
into the Union. On that theory the war
was supported by the people and on that
theory the mon trlumphed. The seced-
| ed States came back on the terms pres
| cribed 10y the then ruling Republican
party, and one result of the meai>u ures en-
| forced by that party, after the murder of
| It's most sagacious leader set IL adrtt, has
been to make the South ">olid, ," in a vot-
| lug sense, against the Hepubhcan party v.
Hence when the Army bill came into
the Senate durihg tine last session the
Republicans, led by Mr.. Blame, struck
! the key-note of the new struggle by de-
claring that section 2,002 of the statutes
should not he amended as proposed, be-
| cause it was necessary for the safety and
prosperity of the Unno-- that the "eiuiP'
| Officers mentioned in section 2OU2 should
still have power to call bayonets around
! the polling-places as was done in Mary
land under Mcclellan and in Kentucky
uuder burnside during the civil war. In
that action, we repeat, Mr.. Blame struck
and was authorized to strike the keynote
of the campaign of 1880. The stalwar-
''juuta" working for the candidacy ot
Grant well knew that such rejection oi
the Army bill would make an extra SOS
SION heoes-ary, As it did. They expected
| and hoped that the discussions OF an ex-
/, | session WDul1 alarm tho Nnrtb
, that indeed was the very thing they
l aimed at The candidacy of Grant wa.
, aud is based on The theory that Iouge1
period OF military supervision and re
preston in the Southern States is need
. ed, or IN other words that the war for tn,
Union is not over, and this is to be tn,
; turning point OF the issue In 1880 TIL,
Y stalwarts make no hesi alton in declarin,
that in their opinion the South onl,
needs to be supplied with money an,
munitions OF war to begin again tn
: the North into dealing with.the Soather
, condition on the theory that wo must ex
u pect new civil war with new burden.
= Thai such is ,he line of police and O
discussion preordaincd in stalwart coun
CHS, the coming debate in the Senat
= Will, we think, Tully disclose, and uDo
8, the business men of the Northern State
will rest the responsibility of dealin
e with this disturbing policy and discus
e sion brought on by Republican leader
in order to promote The reelection {
l. General Grant. Northern business me
l. must bear in mind that up to 1861 tn
; Federal Government never pretended I
i interfere with State elections of men
}, bers of Congress This interference wa
+ born of civil war.
When the days of war were happil
l. passed and gone an effort was made i
1t 1868 to put stop to this use of the arm
and patriotic men supposed the remtd
'i was that year applied. But under tl
er pretense of keeping "the peace at IL
= polls" President Grant ordered near
y, i, 900 troops into the Southern States in
before the election Of 1876. A nd eve
r, after the election and while the return
y ing board controversy was going G
Or President Grant issued from Phllade
A. pfia this order to General Shern.an:
"Instruct General Augur in Loui>ial
d and General Ruger in Florida to be vis
is liant with force at their command - pr
:, serve peace and good order and to S
!" that the proper and legal boards of ca
40 vassers are unmolested in the pcrforr
ance of their duty. Should there be al
grounds of suspicion of fraudulent con
on either side, it should be report Il al
es denounced at once"
re The X. publican leaders in the Sens
-, viii begin this week TO contend tfat il
necessary to keep or to put on the st:
nd utt-book dec aration of the right a
,te power of the Executive to use the arr
at discreet On as Grant used il. That is
iai be the issue in 1879 and IN 1880, ana I
ms country may as well understand it
once and DreDare for 1T