The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-05-30
TOO THIN.

The purity of the ball Iot-b box and con- gressionsl elections aud the vetoing of ap- propiatlon bills, means, under Rebubiican interpretation, the use of 4,S00 supervisors aud II 900 marshals at a cost of S2S5, 900 of the peoples money, of which fiye-sixths is expended m the North in well known Democratic districts, and one-slxth in the land where the poor freedmen are, accord ing to the Republicans, so terribly oppress- ed by the White Leaguers and Kuklux. The Republicans are determined to pre- vent the repeal of these obnoxious election laws, because it would prevent them from using these l5.000 paid strikers in defeat ing the will of the people at the polls They cause the appropriation bills to be vetoed. and by so doing prevent soldiers, sailors, end others depending on the gov ernment from receiving their just dues They disregard the constitution whenever they can gain political advantage by so doing- During their supremacy they have attached no less than 2S0 "riders" to bills which were passsd; but they now screech with horror that rider should be attached to an appropriation bill. They have for the first time in the history of the country caused an appropriation bill to be vetoed and are trying to fasten the responsibility, on the Democratic party. No one is de- ceiyed by such nonsense. When Congress passes appropriation bills and the Presi- dent vetoes them. It will require q good deal of lying to make people believe it is the fault of a Democratic Congress.
 Under the chaste, elegant and cultured heading of Too Thin," which we copy from the Tucson Star of May 22nd, the editor of that journal attacks the policy of President Hayes in vetoing the Army Ap- propriation bill.
 The heading "Too Thin probably refers to the arguments, thoughts and politics of our friend Mr. Hughes, who claims to be the master exponent of everything that per- tains, as it says, to ''the purity of the ballot box and Congressional elections" We think the Stars statistics are little of" We know that about one-half of the Marshals are used in we'll known Northern Democratic districts, but we say that the people of the North intend that if We have universal suffrage, we shall have honest elections if it takes all the peoples money. IL is not tke Appropriation bills that are vetoed, but articles that are tackled on to them, laws which bI their passage would condemn the colo-ed people to worse slavery than theIr race has ever been plunged into heretofore.
 tsays: They have, meaning the Repub- licans, for the first time m the history of the country, caused an appropriation bill to be vetoed.n Tue Star does not seem to realize taat it was by the action of the Democrats in tacking on the measure aim ing at the peace and prosperity of the coun- try, that these bills were vetoed. It speaks we'll for the President that he had the firm ness to resist this bulluozIng, unwholesome measure of the great Democratic party. pure and undefled. The New York pa- pers congratulate themselves and the coun- try, that these bills were returned without the signature of the President It speaks well for the Executive of the nation to 1 think and know that he has acted with wis., dom, coolness, and frmnesa, thus once more connecting himself with his party. It will require a good deal of false statements, such as the Star has evidently been induIg- ing in, to make the people from North to South, believe the whole fault does not res, on the shoulders of the Democratic party.