The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-04-17

elling public for the purpose Of accom-
inodating our contemporary. We think
the present schedule suits the people of
the upper part of the State better than
any that can easily be arranged.
THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL.
The Army Appropriation Bill, which
lately passed the House of Representa-
tives, is now before the Senate for its con.
sidcration, with every probability that it
will pass that body substantially as it w.rt
from the House. This bill is one Of Il e
most important ones that has been befo.,
Congress for years, rs the contested pro-
visions Of the bill are designed by the
Democrats to secure fair and impartial
juries in the Federal Courts, the right of
citizens to go to the polls and cast their
votes unawed by Federal bayonets and
United States marshals and supervisors
and that these contested provisions will
form important factors in the Prcsidnn-
tial contest Of 1880. The bill making
appropriations for the army for the fiscal
year ending the last Of June, 1880, con-
tanned provisions repeating the sections
of the Revised Statutes Of the United
States which authorized the Judges of
{ { District and Circuit Courts of the
United States to administer to each Juror
before sworn the test or ironclad oath
the use of the United States my at the
polls on the day Of election and the ap-
pointment Of Deputy United States Mar
shals and Supervisors to attend at cleo
tions, with the power to arrest. This
bill, when it passes the Senate, rs it will
do, will go to the President for his ap.
proval or rejection. Will he veto it?
Tho Republicans say he will, and cry
out revolution. Should the veto come
Congress cannot pass the bill over it, as
there are not two thirds of each House
in favor Of it, and either Congress or the
President must yield, or the supplies for
the army will be cut off. Where will the
responsibility rest if the country should
be left without an army? 1t is the duty
of Congress to provide for an army equal
to tho exigencies Of the country, and it is
its right to say how and for what pur-
poses that army shall be used. Congress
provides for the army, and says it shall
not be used by the President to influence
and control elections; but the President
says to Congress unless you permit me to
use the army for the purpose of sur
rounding the polls with bayonets on the
day of election, I will veto the hill, and
the country shall have no army. Con-
gress represents the people and the
States, and for these to yield to the one
man power, in matters of such impor-
tance as the purity of jurors and the
rights Of the ballot, would be shame
upon free government. The RESPONSE
bility then would be with the President,
who, by his veto, would practically say
to Congress unless the army is used by
me to control the ballot and perpetuatc
in power the Republican party, there
shall bo no army for any other purpose.
Let the Republicans make this issue if
they desire they will find that the people
are not craven enough TO surrender to
any party their right to cast their vote
untrammelled by bnyonets and partisan
army of Deputy Marshals and Super
visors.
A few facts connected with the cleo
tions of 1876 and 1873 will show the dan
ger 70 Republican institutions of the en-
ployioent of soldiers, marshals and super
visors vt elections. In the election of
1876 there WIS an army of more than
eleven thonsand Deputy Marahais, all
belonging to and working lor one party,
clothed with the authority of the United
States, surrounding the polls and tyran-
nizing over the voters. In the single
city of New York there were twenty-five
hundred of these Marshals, men gen.
orally Of no character, and selected in
consequence of blind adhesion to party,
aud unscrupulous Us to the means used
W HAOSutO WV oaSSSoo Vi tnCil purity. Ill
the election Of 1878 there was appointed
for the State of New York upwards of
tweaty-one hundred Deputy Marshals
and for the city more than twelve hundred.
These, under the direction of the Chief
Supervisor, swore ont complaints against
more than nine thousand voters, had
issued thereon more than five thousand
warrants OF arrest, and actually arrested
under these warrants three hundred men.
The object wee te produce intimidation,
and not only to prevent the arrested from
voting but to deter others. 1t is the be-
ginning of the destruction of free elec-
tions, and, If tolerated by o free people,
will lead to a military domination more
to be dreaded than despot. Congress
need not fear the iosue with the Presi.
dent and the Republican party on the
repeal of the obnoxious statutes, for the
people viii stand by the party which
secures to the country FREQ election.
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Mr.. HENDRIcKs INTERVIEWED
New York World publishes report of
an interview with Ex-Governor Hen.