The daily gazette., 1879-06-17

Army Appropriation Bill, which is 30
brief and explicit that we present it to
our readers. Mr.. Cox admits in his
opening remarks that he is not in favor
of that part of the bill which provides
for 25,O00 men. He favored the reduc-
tion Of the army to fifteen thousand men,
as did the GAZETTE four years ago and
again two years ago. 1t is a burning
shame that the people are taxed with
Keeping up an army of $4,000 men with
1880 officers when there is no necessity
for more than ten or fifteen thousand
rank and file.
Mr.. Cox's speech was in reply to Mr..
Carrie I'D, and he answers and explains
briefly the motives of the Republicans
in desiring the large army increase and
its use at the polls. MIR. Cox said:
81 understand the motive OF gentlemen.
They want, if possible, to keep the Army
for one section and for one purpose;
and they will do anything, they will
sacrifice all that they have said In the
extra session, for that particular purpose.
They know now that they cannot use
the Army in the solid South. They are
willing to give up all that they have said;
they retreat ingloriously under the
shield of the gallant soldier from Ohio.
But they supplement the Army North,
and perhaps III other place, in the cities,
with this rake-helly rout Of ragged ras-
calls he supervisors. All, sirs, you
mean in 1880! You mean to carry the
ectidn then. You want the Army at
one point and the supervisors at another.
You lave no principle at stake. You
mean to strike do II the right of the
citizen to vote. You will do 1t either by
force Or fraud force by the Army where
you can use it, otherwise by fraud and
''civilT force-all sorts of masks and dis
gui,es. BY all uicks you propose to
carry the election i'll 1880. l would not
give you either supervisors or Army
for such purpose. Election, if it
| means anything, means the free will of
the people.
The gentleman talks here abont our
Army not being very dangerous and
| great when distributed among forty thou
sand voting places. But could you not
send them all to one place? 1t is true,
you could not take twenty-five thousand
men and distribute them among forty
Thousand voting places. You would
have 10 make vulgar fraction of some
soldier to do it. Laughter.] That is
not ii le way you did it at New Orleans.
That is not the way you tried to do it
in New York in 1870, and afterward.
| That is not the way you did it in South
Carol ina. You struck with your Army.
Even with your swagger, your sword
knot, yonr epaulet, with the insignia of
the Republic. Armed with your Fed
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power of this Federal Government to
bear through the Army at certain places
for ypur purposes. Is not one State
enough to carry the presidential election
under certain circumstances One
State did it. One county in one State
might do it; ay, one man in one county,
if organized under radical auspices,
might do it. All that is necessary is one
vote y
Of course, all the forty thousand poll
ing places cannot be reached by an Army.
With all your Army hitherto, you have
not reached enough to come home honor
ably and honestly into the pos ession OF
the executive department. The gentle.
man from Ohio Mr.. Garfieldl spoke o.
his voting under some patriotic circum
. stances, with shell flying around him, TO
= Governor Brough against Vallandigham
l have no doubt he did. / have II,
douut that such voting perhaps was some
: times honestly done. But l know tha
, when II ran for Congress in 1864, an,
when the soldiers undertook to vote 70
me as they did, they could not get thei
votes in, much less returned. Near tn,
: city pf Columbus, at Camp Thomas,
was driven out of camp three or fou
times while trying to rally my friend
AMONG the soldiers and the friends c
George l.. Pugh, then a candidate fo
= Congress in Cincinnati. That camp wa
! filled then with our regiments from a
points in Ohio. Were encamped there
y When the election was going on l wa
a driven out with the bayonet .wice If nc
: THRICE, while writing my tickets there
: but the republican central committe,
: protected by bayonets, wrote out repul
1 lican tickets under the auspices of fore,
e which the gentleman now deprecates.
y But, Mr.. Chairman, all this talk to-da
% of the gentleman from Ohio Mr.. Gar
= field is as insincere as the laugh of
II mailman. Laughter and applause O
it the democratic side. All this vauntir
n from him of our heritage and of our il
stut ons is like the flight of bat con
. pared with that of an eagle. Laugl
y ter. 1t has no more reference to pc
J. sonal or electoral liberty than whitene.
;, has to the queen of the Hottentot
) [ Laughter and applause.
l. One word more and | am done. v
IS undertook to brush from the statut
,f certain obnoxious PROVISIONS
Mr.. Baker, in his seat.) You d
) not brush them.
e. Mr.. Cox. The gentleman from Inc
Il ana spoke yesterday of my sonoro
:, voice. l wish he had spoken up wi
a more sonorousness to-day. Laug
lie ter. I He undertakes to tell me we ha
x not brushed them off. We cam
~ brush them off SO long as you have
= fraud in the White House. Applau
le on both sides of the House. Gent
IL men cheer sfraud'' on the other side ;
Y. do not wonder at it. Applause on
lie republican side. True we cannot ov'
ride the veto under the Constitute
III This we know. We have been endea
a orihg all we could under all sorts
Is, weather, under all sorts of legislati
ta disaster on both sides to vindicate t
nv heritage that trust we all love so we
y; We have endeavored to strike down t
hit bad laws which grew out of the "
he power. We have endeavored to stri
doJvn all obnoxious provisions agail