Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-05-16
HAYES VS.. THE PEOPLE.

According to the idea of the Radicals the
the veto power wherever such exercise is nee
essary to partizan interests, Notwithstanding
II may be in direct violation of the will OF
the people. BY strenuous efforts of the "stal-
warts Hayes sends in veto to the military
interference bill. In the message il is claimed
that it is direct attack upon the prerogatives
Of the President, and prevents his using the
army to quell instruction, &c. How ground
less his reasons are can best be judged by the
bill itself:
at shall not be lawful to bring to or employ
ut any place where a general or special cleo
ton is being held in a State any part of the
army or navy of the United States, unless
such force be necessary to repel. the armed
enemies Of the United STATES or 10 enforce
section 4, article 4, Of the Constitution of the
United States and the laws made in pursuance
thereof, on application of the Legislature or
the Executive of the State where such force is
TO be used, and so much of all laws as is in
consistent herewith is hereby repealed"
The sec. 4, art 4, mentioned here is that
part Of the Constitution which guarantees to
every State Republican form of government,
to protect them from domestic violence, &c,
through the use of the army. Here all the
proper privileges are acknowledged, and the
proposed law 10 its restrictions does not at all
conflict with these proper privileges. Such O
thing as military Interference has occurred in
the history of the Republican party, and the
purpose Of the bill was to go provide that
such thing in the future would be an utter
mpossibility, no matter what desperate
straits the party in power might be driven
to.
II such thing could have been done with
any showing of decency and respect the bill
would have been returned to Congress with
out any reason why the signature was with
held, except that it was the sweet will of the
party, and II is fair to say that no reasons
bad been given the act would have been more
ineligible as downright stubbornness than
II is at present, where only feint is made at
reason, and justice and respect to the people
are left entirely out Of consideration.
II Is an interesting spectacle TO behold the
infusion OF back bone into man who is too
weak TO have a will and to servile to the base
men who made him great to dare do the de-
sire Of the people who suffer him to wear his
stolen honors. Yet il will be found, that with
such man TO give semblance Of law to the
abuses planned by men OF brain but bad
genius, the evil results cannot be exagger-
,Ated. A President that needs must be gov
erned by dictates Of party council alone is
something until recent date little known TO
cur country. We have had Presidents who
were party men Of most pronounced type,
but an executive whose whole policy is abuse,
whose whole aim was domination of one party
over the Just demands OF the whole people is
something as strange as it is hurtful.
Congress has dwinded into a mere farce,
with only powers to propose such laws as the
President may deem proper and none others,
and the President has swelled into q power
little dreamed of heretofore in any Americans
idea Of the head Of the Nation. Clay must
have had just such a man in his mind when
he said, 81 would rather be right than Pres-
dentp