The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-01


arson and other crimes. He had seen for FIVE
years after the war closed negroes marched to the
polls in Mississippi headed by leaders bearing
drawn swords and that had never been regarded
by Republicans as an invasion Of the rights Of the
people and Of the freedom Of the ballot box
This outcry of free ballot for the negro was
therefore all pretenCe In the last two elections
in Mississippi there was not single man who
had not been absolutely free to cast his vote as he
chose. He referred to Garhelds speech, in which
Il a. gentleman said to members from the South,
"You have been allowed to return to power In
two houses" What wonderful and gracious Ian
guage coming from Republican, Had Demo
Gratis come into power by permission of the Re-
publican paIty2 Thank God, they had come
here by the omnipotent power Of the people who
were shaking the Republican party from the
strongholds Of the power 1t had so long abused.
Mr.. Price (Rep. Iowa) inquired whether the
Republican party did not have two'thirds ma
orlty in both houses when the people Of the
South had been relieved Of their political disabil'
| tiles.
Mr.. Hooker (Dem Miss) gave the Republican
party credit for doing Its duty but If 1t had car
ried out the terms of surrender in the spirit and
| temper In which the DER had been mace, IL
| would have passed that law long before ii had.
Mr., Price-But we did voluntarily open the
door and allow you gentlemen to come in.
Mr.. Hooker-Toa certain extent you did, bat
| then you had solid South in the interest OF the
Republican party You never objected to a solid
| South as long as the sOidity was in favor OF the
Republican party. He said 1t was only after ten
| years submission to radical rule, which had I'm.
posed heavy debts upon the Southern States, that
the South had risen in opposition to 1t. Massa-
chusetts would not have endured for "a hours
what the South had endured for ten long years.
But now, thank God, the Democracy was In pow
er, not by the clemency of the Republican party,
| but by the omnipOtent power of the people, and
| 1t intended to sweep from the statute books
whatever measures impeded fair election and
| prevented free ballot. There was no conceal
| ment about It. He had read the protest OF the in
habitants IF Wyandotte, Kan, against the influx
| of C0OTed immigrants to that point, and remark
| ed that it was only when the negro was at safe
| distance that Republicans were his friends. They
| never had any use for negroes except to keep
| them like sheep in the shambles and run them to
| the ballot box In the interest Of the Republican
| party. They merely simulated an interest In the
Mr.. Haskell (Rep. Kan) denied that the people
of that State we're hostile to colored immigra.
| ton.
The session of Thursday was brought to a close
and that Of Friday commenced.
Debate was continued by Messrs. Manning
Goode, Reade, Price, Sparks, Hiscock aud Ne
Cook. The latter remarked that he was neither
alarmed nor disturbed at seeing these great ques
tons carried into the Presidential campaign He
believed "solid South" would be confronted for
a second time with a "solid North" as firm for
the right as it had been before in memorable Pc
riod of history. applause on the Republican
side)
Mr.. Ellis (Dem. La.) argued as to the unconsti-
tutionallty of the election law.
Mr.. Keifer (Rep. 0hio) referred TO the mad and
revolutionary career Of the Democratic party,
and said that that party could really boast of
nothing good that 1t did not owe to defeat in peace
or war.
Mr.. Springer (Dem. Ills.) argued that as under
the constitution the House had right to make its
own rules, 1t was not for the President to que
tion or complain of the forms Of legislation, If
the President should see fit to veto the pending
| bill he should have to find other reasons for his
action than the fact that two subjects were EN-.
bTaced in the bill He quoted the English House
| of Commons as authority for the proposition that
Il had the undauuted and sole right to determine
| ION supply bilO the end, purpose, conditions,
considerations, limitations and qualifications of a
grant The same exclusive rights inhered in the
| American House of Representatives. II was for
| the House TO say what would be the limitations
on appropriation bills.
EWING CLOSES THE DEBATE.
Mr.. Ewing (Dem Ohio closed the debate on
| the Democratic side of the question. He com
| menced by remarking that Republicans had seiz.
| ed on pending legislation as pretext for inaugu.
rating a Presidential campaign on the issue Of
sectional hate and distrust for the purpose of pre-
| senting their trial and condemnation at the bar
of public opinion for vicious legislation, for
| which they so richly deserved to be expelled
| from power. He would not yield one jot or title
| of the results of the war at the demand of any
section but q Union soldier, proud of his serV.
Ice and unwilling that anything won should be
surrendered, he denounced the legislation which
1t was now proposed to repeal as plague spot on
the body polite.
At this pOiut of his speech message announced
the passage of the army appropriation bill by the
Senate, at which announcement there was con-
| siderable hand .clapping on the Democratic side,
on which Mr.. Garfield quoted the proVerb that
"he laughs best who laughs last"
Mr. Ewing resumed his speech and said he
and his colleague (Warner), who had left the Re.
publican party to go into the army, had fought
not for party supremacy, but to preserve the
| Union unimpaired He referred to the offer
made by Mr Garfield at the close OF the last ses.
sion to accept two Of the propositions which that
gentleman now denounced as revolutionary.
Mr.. GaIfeld-Are you willing to give up the
other2 ~
| this Congress. notice you have given up one of
them, but little reluctantly
Mr. Garheld-Not at all.
Mr Ewing (resuming) asked what there was
| that justified the tremendous charge of revolu.
| tion made against the Democratic party. What
changes had taken place between the time the
gentleman (Garheld) offered TO accept the prOpO.
| sitiOns and the time he denounced them as revO.
lutionary. The pretext of the Democratic caucus
had been set up, but before bills had been report
| ed a Republican caucus had resolved that no
| general legislation should 20 through, so that
| Democrats were forced, II they wished to repeal
these laws to put repeal on appropriation bills,
| Referring to the reconstruction measures he de-
Clared their object had been to produce race an
tagonism, and that Congress, in that legislation,
knew perfectly well that It was "or ganizing hell"
| in the South That federal Intervention had
| been q cause OF great and lasting race disturb
ances in the South. The proof OF this was that In
the States of Virginia, Texas, Georgia and North
Carolina, from which federal power was first
| Withdrawn, there had been hardly any talk Of
race disturbance. Such talk had come from the
| States where federal arms were the longest Kept
| and where election machinery was most thor
| oughly organized In those States Republicans
| had kept up the hateful, iHpracttcable and mon
str0us organization Of party by color, Where the
| threat of black domination had been held over
the whites and where, under carpet bag direc'
| ton there had been rule of prohigacy ana cor
ruDtiOn. (Applause on the Democratic sldel
Must negro suffrage on this account be sbolished2
Not at all. But the color line must be abol'
| ished.
stitutionaity Of the election laws when the hour
to which the debate was limited arrived, and cut
| off further remarks.
The committee then rose.
The Speaker presented (as enrolled and signed
| by him) the army appropriation bill, and the
House adjourned until TO morrow.
Washington, D. c., April 26.
HOUSE.
Immediately upon assembling the house went
into committee Of the whole on the legislative ap-