The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-04-01
From the N, Y. SUM-
The Cost of Supervisors and Deputy
- MarShals.

! The resolution o the Senate calling for
o detailed statement Of the accounts of
United States Marshals in the States of
New York, Pennsylvania. Ohio Massa-
chusetts, and Maryland, for the payment
of wages or tees charged for services per
formed by them or their special deputies
in relation to the conduct OF elections in
November, 1873, showing the amount
claimrd by or paid to. each of said
special deputies aud the aggregate claim
ed by the marshals for services, does
not cover the whole ground by any
means.
There is no mention ofthe Chief Su-
pervisors' sccounts for southern and
northern New York, which had been kept
back hy these officers. and were not-sin
possession of the department three
months after the election, for reasons
which may be easi'y supposed. This reso-
lulion is also defective in making no men.
ton OF the marshal's "generaldepnties,
the number of which is only restricted
by his partisan discretion, and which are
specifically named in the odious election
laws, and especially In section 1922 OF
the Revised Statutes, under which they
are clothed with the arbitrary power to
make ''instant arrest without process" OF
any person who "refuses or neglects to
aid and assist" them in-tbe work OF eear
rving elections by intimidation and
threats
The Comptroller OF the Treasury fur
nished statement to the Committee on
Expenditures of the Department of Jus
tice in the last House, covering the ac-
counts of supervisors and deputy mar
shals in 1878, which had been settled up
to the middle of February, "except for
for chief supervisors in northern and
southern NV York, which have mot
been sent to the department, those. Of
New Jersey, eastern New York, and Pen
sylvania not fully adjusted"
According to that report, excluding
the accounts which had not been returned
or closed, over two hundred and two
thousand dollars were expended for SUI
ptrvisors and deputy .marshals at the
elections last faIl. An. analysis of the
localities in which these, expenditures
we're M sde. shows conclusively that this
public money was used to aid the elec.
ton of Republican candidates for Con
gress, and that the deputy marshals were
electioneering agents at the polls. The
whole scheme was organized at Wash
ington by the Republican campaign com.
miltee, with an understanding in the De-
psrtment Of Justice by which the deputy
marshals were assigned to doubtful and
close districts. North aud Sauth, in the
hope of cspt1riag majority in the pres
ent House OF Representatives.
To aid that object, the assessment OF
otficeholders was openly made in all the
departments, upon Chandler's model OF
1876, with agents who personally visited
every incumbent, tariff in hand, fixing
the amount to he paid from the salary
Hayes, Evarts, Schurx. and the whole
Fraudulent Cabinet, all the chiefs of bur
eaus, and the bulk of the four or nvt
thousand subordipaies, subscribed TO this
campaign fund. And when clerk, who
was deluded with the belief that there
was something 10 the profession of civil
service reform aud in The executive or
der forbiddiug assessments, refused TO b,
taxed, John Sbermau,,or,lered his remova
instantly. @
More than one half Of the whole ex
penditurs for supervisors and deputy
msrshals in 1878 Was made in this State
as tollows:
Southern District e59 267 81
Eastern District 33,092 8;
Northern District $4,000 0,
Total .SlIO,360 q