The daily gazette., 1879-06-20

day, y complete possesslon Of the cleo
tion GROUNDS e do our legal voten Ct
ordinary elections, and that they voted
a. often ~ they pleased.
There was nothing to indicate that
they were soldiers Of Massachusetts, or
Indiana. only know that the general
understanding was that they were Massa-
chusetts soldiers. Frequent acts Of vio-
lence occurred, such ~ taking tickets BY
force from Democrats. and by the use OF
John X. Elder, Esq, one Of our most
useful citizens then a. now, was driven
from the polls because he was trying to
exercise his legal right to challenge, was
chased through the streets, and his life
saved only through the Intervention and
assistance OF personal friends. My own
experience recalls some soldiers who
about the middle Of the day attempted
that on each attempt when crowd OF
excited men would QUICKLY assemble
would retreat, and that finally was
enabled to leave the ground only under
cover Of . squad OF veteran reserves
whore commander / was fortunate
enough to impress with the idea that my
order ito form his men in line and permit
no one to passl should be obeyed. Un-
der this cover left the ground. For q
-
have asserted his rights a. citizen
would have been Of the same order Of
courage az the bull who faced the CON-
ing locomotive. / have talked to-day
with Judge II. Y. Newcombe, whose
high character you well know. He CAME
to my house very soon after the events
just mentioned, with = message from
Governor Morton, with whom had 80
long associated in the military affairs OF
the State,) and with his own assurance
that IL l would return to the court house
L should have protection. To have re-
turned there would have been useless, ~
q complete Generalization had taken
place, ard IS It was reported to mo by
friends that there was no longer a
Democrat on the ground-that IL, q
Democrat in the sense of one contest.
you, all that l have said can be cor
roboratec by hundred of our best
citizens. Very respectfully,
JOHN LOVE.
Mr.. Blaine then undertook to ridicule
the idea that a single Massachusetts
regiment could intimidate city Of co..
900 inhabitants; and that 1t was mert
folly in the Democrats to intimate sucl
a thing. Yet Mr.. Blaine knows thai
these Massachusetts, soldiers in Indiana
polls were encouraged by Morton ant
his Radical party friends, and that had |
Democrat dared to resist and assault on
Of the Massachusetts soldiers, sent Their
to do the very work they were doing
(they were three months or hundred da.
men, that Democrat would have beel
bounded down as a rebel and traitor
He would have been carried off and in
generated in some fort, where his friend
could neither see him or hear from him
while his home might have been pillag
ed, gutted, ransacked, and may be burn
ed, unless protected by other Democrat
with arms and in force, at the risk of
bloody civil war. And here is the tel
rible danger of sending soldiers to tn
election polls. All history proves this
it is dangerous to liberty, and according
ly under all forms of government |
these States, the presence of soldier
have been forbidden at the election poll
until their services were made necessal
to give majorities to Radical Congre
. sional candidates, to promote the Rad
, cal Republican party, and to increa
:. the Radical officeholders from $4,000
100, 1000 and add to their salaries al
!, keep them in office. And this is VIII
the Stalwart Congressman are conten
ing for now; and for this they oppose wit
all their power and ingenuity the repe
q of the Federal election laws.