Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

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residents Veto Of IAN Act to Prohibit
military Interference at Elections"
On Monday of last week the Presi
dent sent to Congress his veto Of the
bill to "prohibit military interference at
elections"
We publish below some of the express
slons of the press in reference to this
second veto of the President of bills for
bidding the use of troops at the polls.
The Lynchburg Trginian of last
Tuesday says
1.-THE President has vetoed the bill
passed by the two housessof Congress.
to prevent federal military interferen CO
in State elections. He was at first dis
posed to sign the bill, seeing nothing
improper in it. But the Stalwarts have
induced him to reconsider-have stiff
tened his backbone; hence the veto.
We see nothing therefore for Congress
to DO but vote him six month"; supplies,
to last till the 31st of December, and
then refer the question to the people.
Public sentiment can be invoked, and
and we shall know whether we are as
true to popular liberty as our English
ancestors were, or are worthy of being
descended from the men of 1776.n
The Alexandria Gazette of the 18th
says
''The President has vetoed the bill
prohibiting the presence Of soldiers at
the polls, though he and the leaders of
his party in Congress had previously
said that they would not oppose such q
bill if detached from the army appropri-
alton bill. The general Impression
among both parties Is that Mr.. Hayes
bulldozed by the ''stalwart" radicals,
and that he will now further their aims
with all the means at his disposal"
The Richmond Dispatch of the 18th
says
at is hardly necessary to comment
upon the acts of q man who in the grip
of the enemies of himself and his coun-
try is as clay in the hands of the potter.
Mr.. Hayes has become an object Of con-
tempt, we doubt not, to Conkling,
Chandler. Blaine, and the whole cabal
of conspirators against the peace of the
country. He vetoed a bill which he had
repeatedly declared he would sign, and
which was framed for the avowed pur-
pose of obviating his objections to the
army bill.
1t would not be hard task to show
that Mr.. Hayes has misunderstood and
misrepresented the acts of Congress to
which he refers. But, as we have said,
what's the use? The bill proposed to
| flo hia honds fO -
every two years; yet he speaks of it as
if it would have tied them never to be
unloosed. Such inexcusable misrepre-
sensations can deceive nobody in the
South We leave it to the northern pa
pers to enlighten the northern people,"
The Winchester Times of the 18th
says
'The reasons he assigns are too fiimsy
to conceal the real purpose he cherishes,
as the representative of the Radical
party, in regard to the employment of
troops at the polls. While protesting to
be opposed to such use of the military,
his vetoes indicate that he can be relied
on to have the army in readiness for
political emergencies, such as will prob
ably occur at the next Presidential Elec-
| ton.
1t is rather rough on the country that
a man who has no right to be President
should practically usurp the legislative
power of the Government. We hope
the democrats will maintain their stand
and allow the army to dissolve rather
than permit its use as the Radicals de-
mand."
The Rockingham Register Of the 18th
says
1.-THE want of sincerity in the Presi-
dent is clearly manifest from the fact
| that in his first veto message he states
that he did not favor the law allowing
troops to be used at elections, but when
the bill proposing its repeal was passed
hc vetoed 1t. Thus all his pretensions
of being a President of the people and
not of party have been swept away,
and he stands to-day the representative
of sectional party, insisting on right
which is not only inconsistent with the
letter of the Constitution, but in oppo-
sition TO the spirit of free institutions"
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| SPEECH OF Hon. ALLEN Ct. THUR
MAN.-This able Senator from Ohio,
who is prominent candidate for the
Presidency, made an able speech in the
Senate last Thursday. The Washing
ton correspondent of The State says =
He had occasion to refer often to au-
thorities and oftener to the Constitution
in the course of his remarks, and COnk-
ling and Window smiled family when
he begged to be allowed to refer to the
Constitution as an authority, ''if it was
admissible" to mention it without .
sneer from his friends on the other side.
| He devoted an hour to proving that the
| Jurors test oath il unconstitutional,
then tried the election laws by the same
standard, and came to the conclusion
that they won't do''-which is his pet
expression The deputy marshals' law
he proved had its origin in the Union
League club of New York, and was
pushed through Congress under the plea
that it was necessary for the protection
of the poor freedmen's" right to VOTE
| How the poor freedmen had been pro-
tected, he illustrated by showing that
about five sixths of the amount of
money paid as brides in the form of sala.
ries to deputy -marshals was expended
in four States of the North, and the re-
suit was a Republican gain of fourteen
congressman. He expounded on this
branch of the subject at considerable
length, and finally came to the Presi-
dents veto mess ges, which he handled
as severely as he could to keep within
the bounds of parliamentary language.
They were mere partisan subterfuges,
and unworthy of the Chief Magistrate
of the nation. He deplorabls sectional
ism, did not defend threats, regretted the
bitterness of speeches on the Republican
side, and acquitted Southern men of all
responsibility for inaugurating the pres
ent controversy. Not u line in the bill
twas written or dictated by Southern
| man.. Northern men had made the is
sue, and Southern men had supported
them for the sake of party unity"
| GEN. GRANTS ARABIAN ETERDs.-
Especial to the Baltimore american. l.
| Nea0 York, May 1l.=A-stsamer from
Constantinople, bound for New Haven
for consignment of arms and ammuni-
ton, has aboard two magnificent Ara
bian horses, the property Of Gen. Grant,
who received them as gift from the
Sultan of Turkey. One is dapple gray,
and is named 1.-THE Panther" or, in
Turkish, Dizzy tan; the other is coal
| h1aaE with q Whito ofa r IN his fovabood