The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-03-20
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THE IMPENDING STRUGGLE.
A Sound Democratic View Of the QrestiOnS To
Come Up in Congress Next Week.

Sound Democratic View Of the Questions to
Come Up in Congress Next Week.
Whatever Importance or significance
there might have been week ago in a
discussion about the prerogative rights
of the House as against the Senate un-
der the Federal Constitution, the ques'
tion will be as dead as Julius Caesar
when Congress meets next week. Both
Houses will then be Democratic. Mr.,
HAYES knows and his Prime M, Mr.. Ev'
arts. knows the issue which is looming
up between Congress and the Executive
The Administration can decide before
a week whether it will defy Congress in
the matter of using the army ITO keep
the people at the polls" and undertake
to maintain Mr.. Davenport and his iron
cages in New York city. Our esteemed
contemporaries, the Herald, the Tribune,
the Times, and the Evening Post, all
with more or less distinCtness urge and
egg on Mr.. Hayes to create an uproar
and to disturb the business interests OF
the nation by using his veto to compel
Congress to abandon the useful measures
of repeal which it meditates. They
practically encourage him to block the
the Government wheels till such dead
lock is caused as perhaps can only be
broken by the possible advent Of some
"epauletted emperor on horseback
What Congress means to do every one
knows. 1t means to strike out the
words cor to keep the peace at the
polls" from section 2,002 and 5,52S of the
statutes, and it means to repeal all the
sections from and including 2,0ll to and
including 2O3l, and all other provisions
"of law authorizing the appointment OF
or the performance of any duty by any
chief or other supervisor Of elections, or
any special deputy marshal or other dep
utv marshal of elections, or the payment
of any meney to any such supervisor or
deputy marshal of elections for any SER
vices performed as such"
To this action the Democratic mem
bers and Senators are irrevocably COM
mitted, and that Mr.. Hayes has, as yet,
given no positive pledges that he will re-
sist this action is evident from the per
sistent efforts of the stalwarts to force
him into the traces and under the whip
of Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. Conkling There
is no question of constitutional right or
treaty obligation involved in the repeal
The laws to be abrogated are not ancient.
Congress will demand the amendment
of the army sections, because these Sec
tions enable the Executive to use SOL
diers at the polls without the summons
of magistrate, or marshal, or State
Governor, or a State Legislature. After
the repeal the army will remain subject
to the call Of either of these four author
tiles, according to section 1884 and title
SO. And Congress insists on the repeal
of the deputy marshal and supervisor
sections, because even If Federal super
vision be constitutional aud proper, the
existing laws concerning supervision are
vicious in method, dishonoring to the ju-
dicial power, insulting to the States as
free communities, and in New York, at
least have been scandalously executed
For a series Of years the Circuit
Judges OF this city have allowed Chief
Supervisor Davenport under these laws
to assail and abuse our naturalized Citi-
zens. Thus tar, to be sure, he has only
ventured to challenge the naturalization
papers of the humble and the unknown
who have been incarcerated in his iron
cages, but if he is left unchecked the turn
of men like Mr. Ottendorier and Mr..
O'Gormah will come next There is not
naturalzed American in New York
whose papers may not be TECHNICALLY i'm
perfect. In the Northern cities the Su-
pervisor and Deputy Marshal laws are
aimed at voters of German and Irish
birth. Will Mr.. Hayes consent to join
in the stalwart falsehood that they con-
cern only voters in the South of African
desCentP What will Mr.. Evarts advise
his chief TO say and doP From the Sec
retary of State nothing of the doings Of
Davenport can be hidden. He knows
perfectly well that the Federal statute
declares that deputy marshals for Con-
gressional elections cannot be lawfully
appointed excepting "in any city or town
having upward of 10000 inhabitants."-
Such deputies are not to be appointed for
any other than Congressional elections.
For elections held solely for State officers
or for Presidential electors, deputy mar.
shals cannot be appointed. And moth.
ing can be clearer, from the reports of
the Attorney General, than that of $275,.
296 thus expended in 1876, $3.50 522 were
distributed thus: