Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-04-05
DEPUTY MAR
sHHALS.

sHALS.
The measure on which the great ,
fight Is now to be made in Congress
is that Of repeating so much Of the
Of Elections bill of 1871
" as gives the United States Deputy
summary powers Of arrest
ing without warrant and inprison-
ing persons suspected of an intention
of fraudulent voting. We have
already shown how this power was
used by Davenport, the chief Super
visor In New York, and now we
give our readers a specimen of the
facts elected in Philadelphia by the
WalIace-Teller Committee /:
PHILADELPHIA, March 2s.-The sub-con-
rnittee OF the Wallace-Teller committee met
this morning in the Girard House and b gan
the examination Of Witness s. The inqul-
Ties were principally directed 10 the opera
lions Of the Deputy United States Marshas /
on election day. The first witness, resi-
dent Of the Second division of the twentieth /
Ward, testified that the deputy In that Oh /
vision was intoxicated and interfered with |
the electors. Complaint was made against /
the deputy in the second Division OF the /
IWHuAN-nlnll W lEus nc was
10 be a very bad character and had been IN
prison the year before. It was testified that
ne arrested a qualified voter ON the SUPPOSE
rion that he did not live in the DIVISION but
after his release his vote was received, II
bling shown that he was duly qualified
elect0r. Michael McGinnis, the Democratic
Supervisor or the sixth Division OF the
Sixth Ward, said the division was Dlocked
ell day by policemen who interfered eonsld.
erably with the voters. Witness called
Marshal HOueyard's attention to cOlOred
repeater who was endeavoring 20 vote, put
cI,oi1s1.>sd fhe vote Vras lr1shed away from
the window and surrounded by the dep
uty marshals and policemen. Timothy A.
Sloan, who lives in the sixth Division OF the
Sixth Ward, testified that during the latter
part OF the day the policemen surrounded
the poll and violated the instructions not TO
approach nearer than thirty feet The po-
lice and the deputy marShals acted in con-
cart during the day. Witness expressed the
opinion that the deputies were not neces-
Eary they broke the peace rather than pre-
served IL. There were persons who pre-
sented themselves to vote whom witness
believed We're not entitled 10 vote. 40 MI
Hoar. Mr. Sloan said that he did not know
any one who had been deprived OF his vote
He knew that there We're more Republican
votes pOllel in that division than there had
ever been before. Air. HOar and Mr.. Came
ron then questioned the witness as TO
whether Marshal HOmeyRrd had Illegally
voted at the February election. He an
swared that HomeyRrd had registered, hut
that q the best OF his knowledge he had net
James Morris, Of the First Division, Fifth
Ward, testified that one Sanno, the drputy
marshal o that poll, was drunk; too drunk
10 arrest anybody. Witness did not know
OF any Republicans voting who were not
entitled TO vote. Neither did he know OF
any Democrats being prevented nom yoting
nv -ither the policemen or the deputy mar
shals.
Fifth Ward, cOrroborated Morris as to the
condition Of the deputy marshal on election
day. The deputy marshal acted as q ehal-
Ienger after the Republicans had got their
vote in. This witness Thought that the
presence Of deputy marshals tntimidsted
voters
illegal arreSls and 20 obstruction Of the polls
BY the police and the Republican deputy
maBhals. a city detective named three
rnarshals who hid been convicted OF theft,
two Ind been tried for murder, ahd gave a
general bad reputation 10 a number OF 9TH
ers. The committee then adjourned.
It becomes sufficiently evident
from these statement and those of
the New York elections that the
powers of these Supervisors are
capable of being used by the execu-
tive departments in such way a.
to exercise unlimited control over
the election of Representatives t.
Congress; and that they actually
have been so used and are to be 50
used again If allowed continued ex-
istence. The peremptOry method
therefore in which the House OF
Representative demands their re-
peal, making the appropriations fol
civil service depend upon it, is ne
more than the urgency of the cast
demands.
Mr.. Garfield contends that suci
enfnrcementO of the demand for theil
repeal Is revolutionary, which is s
strange position for him to take, a
it was exactly in this manner, by
lacking them on to an apprOpria
ton bill, that he procured in 1877:
the passage of the obnoxious meas
ures which 1t is now sought to re
peal.
The tumultuOus way in which
the Radical party is resisting thu
repeal of these measures, their ex
element alternately furious anC
terror-stricken, Is in itself a. proc
that they rely upon the same meth
DDS as their main stay In the coming
elections, that they feel the will q
the people to be against them, anC
that their only hope of success Is il
everything that will by the inter
VentiOn of Federal authority il
State elections.
These obnoxious clauses of tn
Elections bill were originally drafte'
by that very Davenport whose scan
dalous dOings in New York haV
been animadvertedu upon, and force'
through the House by Garfield ant
his colleagues expressly that Daven
port might have the power to do a
ne did in the New York elections
If single Democrat shrinks from
the inf1exible demand for thei
repeal he ought to be secuted ignC
miniously from the party.