The daily gazette., 1879-05-15

ity, 1t says, ''has granted to the subjects
of tie Emperor of China certain treaty
rights which that State totally Denies"
From the N. Y. World.
TO what the Veto Commits the Re.
publtcams.
Sensible Democrats understand that
there is no more reason why the army
should be abolished temporarily or per-
manently because Grant misused it in
1876, and the stalwarts with the help of
Mr.. Hayes desire to misuse it again in
1850, than there is why the Presidency
should be abolished because Grant mis-
used it in 1876, and the stalwarts with
the help of Mr.. Hayes desire to misuse
1t again in 1880. The army is part of
the necessary executive machinery of the
country, and the Presidency is part of
the necessary executive machinery Of
the country. The stalwarts, under the
leadership of ''tipsy" Chandler and
''sober" Chandler, perverted both the
army and the Presidency to partisan and
corrupt purposes in 1876. They mean to
do this again if they can in 1880. II
they could succeed in exasperating the
Democrats into cutting off the supplies
of the army or into assailing the title of
MIR. Hayes to the Presidency they might
hope to blind the people to their own
real purposes. They cannot succeed in
either of these ingenious contrivances,
and therefore they will not succeed in
binding the people to their own real
purposes. Chief among those purposes,
the central and dominating and essential
purpose of them all, of course, Is the re-
nomination of Grant in 1880, to be fol-
lowed by his reelection in 1881. To
understand this fully and keep firm hold
upon it, it will be well for our readers to
bear steadily in mind what President
Grant did with the army in 1876 to de-
feat the election of Mr.. Tilden, under
tina inspiration and direction of the very
: men, ''tipsy" Chandler and ''sober"
Chandler, who are now bending Mr..
Hayes to their work at Washington.
On the 10Th of August, 1876 the Presi-
, dental campaign then being at its height
President Grant struck the keynote OF
the Republican campaign. The day was ap
propriately selected, being the festival
/ day of Nepoleon. On that day Presi-
dent Grant ordered General Sherman to
hold all the available force under his
command sin readiness to be used upon
: "proper call or requisition of the proper
h authorities for protecting all citi,
4 | ssZens in the
''exercise of the right to vote" We had
''small army" then, and there was
l. sharp need of it all on our Western from
r tiers to protect the people there against
70 the Indians, just as there is now. Bu
under thit order of the day of st. Nepo
leon, General Shermon assembled n(
If fewer than 5000 Federal troops in tn,
" Southern States.
- After the soldiers had been assemble,
in September, 1875, Attorney-Genera
III Taft issued an order to al United State
" marshals, which order was sent to Gen
m eral Sherman for his information. Ii
that order, destined to be notorious in al
" American history, the Attorney Genera
e. informed all the United States marshal
i'll and their deputies thai in advance of tn
k election day they might call on the arm
at will to protect "any voter against vic
''lence on account of any vote that i
ty ''may intend to give" BY these sewers
rd. orders, it will be seen, at least 500
m Federal Bayonets urgently needed els
-, where We're placed at the service of IL
hu two Chambers and of the hackers of Il
en- Republican candidate, Hayes in Il
to South.
ers But this is not all that Preside
49,. Grant did. On November 10, 1S7
'e' after the popular vote had been depo
ore tied, President Grant, being then
age Philadelphia, and guest of the unsu
wv pecting Mr.. Childs, from that city Q
dered General Sherman to instruct Ge
Augllr in Louisiana and Gen. Ruger
is a South Carolina "to be vigilant with Il
can 'storce at their command to preser
for "peace and good order, and to see til
''the proper and legal boards of canva
'he ssers are unmolested." President Ora
leet added that 4" should there be any grou
,ss 'of suspicion Of fraudulent counting
ia "either side it should be reported a
"denounced at once by the army
leu' This was plain order to the army
ex- interfere in elections, and to interfere
9 of palpable violation of sections 2,002 a
u,;a 5,53l OF the Revised Statutes now
mo much discussed, for otherwise h
'ard would the army get official suspicion
ON fraud? Grant did not pretend to
has army then as a posse. Ii he had or
agined he had any authority thus to
the army to scrutinize counting, it IN
,eful have been under the words ssto keep
,;.,a peace at the polls which the Der
'e'' Gratis have sought to repeal and WI
out the two Chambers insist that Mr.. Ha
" by shall retain.
,ner- This "peace at the polls power est
ed the attention of those Democ
'iNeu who framed the posse section of l
Y ork which President Hayes approved.
prop attention Of Congress and the coul
tha+ was called to this omission by Gen
~ Order, No. 40, issued from the War
re he flee and inviting the attention of the
3 still my to the posse section of June Is, /
sonal In this General Order the War Offic.
them cited all the sections of laws requiring
army to interfere in civil matters,
ak on distinctly informed the officers of
cable army that they must interfere to a
roads. the peace at the POLLS" which meant
,ad 70 course that they must interfere agai
President Grant and General Sher
stocks had made them interfere in 1876.
Field General Order No. 40, it will be $
e law. really nulltied the posse law of ]
and made necessary and imperative
,a'ins efforts to amend sectien 2,002 which
mould Hayes under the domination of the
ing a Chambers, so viciously vetoes.
n opJ Here is the situation in nutshell
:, If President Grant was right in
pelhg President Hayes can repeat the a,
and reissue the orders of Presi