Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-28
SENATOR BLAINE AGGRESSIVE.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-One of the
unexpected but intensely excited half
hour running debates which are coming
to be of frequent occurrence in the Sen
ate, and which bring to the surface more
of the real essence of pending issue
than dozen of the formal efforts with
which honorable Senators are won't to
disguise their party plans, came off be-
tween 1880 and 8 p. m. today.
Early this afternoon Senator Blaine
withdrew his amendment to the Army
bill which makes it crime for any per-
son to carry arms within one mile of
polling place on the day when an election
for member of Congress is being held.
At half-past 4, when an immediate ad
jourument was to be expected, Senator
Blaine arose to give notice that he would,
at the proper time, offer his amendment
again. He said he withdrew it at the
request of several Senators who desired
to have direct vote upon motion to
strike out the political section of the bill.
Senator Blaine said that the Democrats
are endeavoring to work themselves up
into a state of alarm on account of
danger which does not exist They are
getting excited about an issue which is
not present, and they entirely ignore
fruitful and ever-present source of danger
to the ballot in the Southern States. Mr..
Blaine then picked up the volume con-
tanning the testimony taken by the Teller
Committee, and read brief extracts from
the evidence of several witnesses showing
the methods adopted by armed Democrats
in several parts of South Carolina to in
timidate and obstruct Republicans who
came to the polls to vote.
From this point the scene became al
most indescribable. Senator Blaine was
in his most aggressive mood. AS one
after another, aud sometimes two or three
at once, of the Democratic Senators ven-
tured to take issue with him, he dealt
his blows right and left calling up from
his remarkable memory facts so pertinent
and delivering them in manner so tell
ing that, single-handed. he remained alb
solute master of the field, while it seemed
as if he left no effort untried to provoke
further controversy. He declared that
there never had been such thing as a
fair and a free election IN the South
since the Democrats obtained control Of
public affairs in that section. He went
into details, and pointedly referred to
the murders, outrages and frauds II
Louisiana, to the bulldozing and the in.
iquitous re location of polling places in
, out-of- the.way corners in South Carolina
and the refusal by Wade Hampton tc
give the Republicans any representation
upon the Boards of Supervisors of Elec
, ton. He alluded to the war record o.
Mcclellan of New Jersey, and pointedly
; assaulted Senator Randolph for the posi-
: ton taken in his recent speech. HI
f called out vigorous responses from Sena
\ tor Salisbury in defence of the Demo
Gratis of Delaware, and from Senate
t Groom of Maryland in behalf of his owl
| State.
D An idea of the vigor and rapidity o
/ his movements may be gathered from tn
fact that within quarter of an hour b
had spirited contests with no less thai
( eight Democratic Senators. Senate
: Butler of South Carolina, and Senate
: Jones of Louisiana, made gallant attempt
e to defend their own constituencies fror
i. the scathing assaults of the Senator fror
: Maine, but they only served to make tn
demonstration, backed asst was with
host of terrible facts, the more damaging
After disposing of these gentlemen b
returned to his amendment and said