Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-06-06


Itself to be drawn into disastrous
position by its championship of
bayonets 1t the polls. Hayes has
not been happy in his vetoes. His
veto of the Chinese restriction bill
keeps alive the agitation of a mat
ter In which the welfare Of Califor-
MIA is bound up. His vetoes OF the
repeal Of the acts creating the Ju-
rors' test oaths and the inrermed-
ding Federal Supervisors of Elec-
tlons invites the attention Of the
country, in very marked way, to
The fact that the Republican party
relies for its ascendancy not upon
the sufFrages OF freemen but upon
un-Republioan and coercive meth
ode 1t the polls. The pretence that
Federal Supervisors of Elections
were created to protect the negro
voters Of the South was exploded
IN : consummate manner by Sena-
tor Thurman, In his speech sup
porting the repeal of the Federal
Supervisory act-an act precisely of
the character Of those which made
the administration of John Adams
90 odious. Mark the statistics:
In 1875 there were 4.s63 Supervis-
on OF Elections appointed under
these laws, of which LITE were ap-
pointed in the State of Now York
nearly ene-half of the whole num-
Der. There were II, $40 marshals,
more than one-fourth of them in
New York. The main point is, where
did the money 60? In that year
there were expended $2S5 .821 II.
How much was expended to pro-
tect the poor freedman down In the
country where the Night Rider,
the White Lacquer, and the Ku.
Klux Cypress him? In the Southern
States there was expended $48,-
718 06, and in the other States |
SYST, $50 was disbursed; that Is to |
say, one-sixth Of the money went
to the South, and five-sixths to the
North. That Is the way the freed
man was protected. They made the
South give the negro the right to
vote, but when 1t came to using the
money Of tho United States, for
every dollar they gave to protect
him they spent SIS to corrupt cleo
lions ut the North and to deprive
men Of their right to vote there.
Mr.. Conkling had carefully emu
merAted the different varieties Of
Thugs, shoulder hitters, and
roughs which formed part of his
constituency. If New York city
were raked from Harlem to the
Battery, there could not be found
In 1t worse set of men than the
Deputy Marshals selected in 1876
and 1878 to execute these laws. OF
the $257, $50 spent in the North in
1883, $3.50, 0o0-being more than
one-half-was sent to New York
State. The roughs of adjacent
States did not like to see
their brethren In New York
getting all the money, so,
to satisfy them, some was sent
out of that State; Sol, 900 went to
Pennsylvania. That was enough,
because the local managers of the
machine In Philadelphia knew
how to manage elections perfectly
aud did not need any help from
the Federal supervisors to secure
the election OF Republicans. But
$57. 900 was spent in Pennsylvania
to satisfy the clamor of the roughs.
Then they paid some attention to
Baltimore, and cent $4,000 to
Maryland. Jersey City was pref
ty important town and got $l2,276
mot much, but it helped to pacify
the brethren. So these four States
New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Maryland-absorbe
$2l7 900 of the $2S5, 200, leaving
SOS, 900 for the other thirty States. |
In 1873 there were 1881 supervise
0rs, Of which 1858 were in New
York and 1852 in Pennsylvania,
leaving only 1862 in all the other
States. or the 4,725 marshals,
more than half were In New York.
The expenditures were 1929, 714.22,
OF which only $1S,241 went South.
The gains of the Republican party
In New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania will show why this
money was spent in the North. In
one single election fourteen Repre-
sentatives were gained, and. singu-
larly enough, the greatest gain was
where the most money was spent.
Some day or other the Republic.
can party will be called to account
for its signal hypocrisy. Such facts
~ those detailed by Senator Thur
man would be enough to damn it
In any court where fair play and
truth were the rules of judgment.
IF we were Influenced by o friend
~ interest In the San Francisco
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