Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-06-25
FEDERALISM REVIVED.
NATIONAL ELECTIONS HAVE NO
NATIONAL VOTERS.
TROOPS AT THE POLLS, TROOPS AT THE
RETURNING BOARDS AND TROOPS AT
THE CAPITAL ARE THE ELE-
MENTs OF NATIONAL
ELECTIONS.

VIM. A. Wallace, OF Pennsylvania, in
the Senate of the United States, Thurs.
day May go, 1879, on the veto mes.
sagcs;
Mr.. WALLACE said
Mr.. President: | hold In my hand
the veto message of the President of
the United States, sent to the House
of Representatives this morning. In
~ he thus discusses the subject Of ina
tional elections :"
II this bill Is approved, only the shadow Of the
authority Of the United States at Ae national
elections siH remain-the substance will be gone.
The supervision Of the election will be reduced
to mere Inspection. without authority on the
part Of the supervisors to do any act whatever TO
make the election 4 fair one.
Other quotations IRON the same and
from the two other veto messages and
from Senator Edmunds speech were
made, covering the same idea.
Here are the words national cleo
tions." With the import given to
these words | propose to take issue.
With the doctrines enunciated in this
in this veto message | propose TO take
direct issue, and to assert and prove if
| canthat there is under the Constitu-
tion Of this country no such thing as
national elections"
NATIONAL rIoNs-FEDERALIsM RE.
vIvED.
| quote these passages to show that
there is now again asserted the power
and the right of the Federal Govern
ment to control and dominate the peo.
pie while they exercise the privilege of
voting. "Ndtiondi duties ioithom ercep-
tons as to days, places, or occasions"
"Ihe securityo Of equal suffrage" are now
proclaimed as vigorously as these doc.
trines were in 1899, when Matthew
Lyon was prosecuted and a consoida-
ted government and the abasement of
the foreign born citizen where the ends
sought The enemies of peoples
government then tried to make the
Federal Government the vehicle of op.
preston and wrong, TO wrest il from
its mission as Republican Democracy
and convert it into consolidated aris-
tocracy. Mr.. Otis, OF Massachusetts,
a Federalist, in the House Of Repre-
sentatives, on the passage of the sedi-
tion law in June, 1898, summarized the
whole issue that divides your teach.
ings from ours when he said "The
whole question resolved itself into this
inquiry, Has Congress the polcer to pro.
vide for the common defense and 1elfdre
of the government And If so, do zoe
deem 1t essential to this end that the
proposed power should be given to the
President or to some other department
of the government ?" Robert Goodloe
Harper, of South Carolina, tho Feder.
al leader In the House, also grasped
the tencts you enforce through John l.
Davenport when he said, May 2, 1893,
on the passage of the law which fixed
fourteen years as the period of resi-.
dence before naturalization, this
Mr.. Harper believed that 1t was high time wo
| should recover from the mistake which this coun-
| try fell into when IL first began to form its Con-
stitutons Of admitting foreigners to citizenship.
This mistake, he believed, had been productive
Of very great evils to this country and unless cor
rected he was spprchensive thsse evils would
| greatly increase. He believed the time was now
come when ii would be proper to declare that
nothing but birth should entitle man to citizen
ship in this country.
Mr.. Otis said he would propose an amendment
| which be believed would be in order, which was
as follows, "ALd that no alien born, who is not
at present citizen Of the United States. shall
hereafter be capable of'hoidng any sfce Of honor,
trust, or profit under the United States"
Mr. Harper then moved to amend
by adding;
Or Of voting at the election Of any member Of
the Legislature Of the United States or of any
State.
THE FEDERAL'sTs INSISTED ON TROOPS
IN 1880.
1t was Michael Leib, OF Pennsylva-
MIA, a German Republican, friend Of
Jefferson, who, on the 18th of Februa-
nv, 1900, introduced resolution into
the House of Representatives in these
words:
Resolred, That q committee be appointed 10
prepare and report bill containing such Legis-
iative provisions as may be judged expedient
either ior removing any military force Of the Uni
ted States from any place Of holding elections or
for preventing their interference in such elections
This resolution after amendment by
the House, which was then controlled
by the Fcderalsts, was referred to a
committee which consisted Of John
Marshall, Leib, and Otis of Massachu-
setts, two Federalists and one Repub-
lican. 1t was reported back by Mar
shall, March II, 1900, and passed the
House as follows;
An Act to prevent the interference Of any mill
tary force in certain elections.
sEciios /. De Il enacted, ETC., That Il shall be
unlawful for any military force Of the United
States to appear around or be embodied at the
place and on the day Of holding an election for
electors Of the President and Vice President OF
tho United States, or Of any member Of Congress,
or Of the Governor or member Of the Legislature
Of any State, or In any manner to Interfere with
such election.
Sections 2 and enforces this duty
by penalties.
The yeas and nays were not called,
for the wisdom Of the measure seemed
plain. IL went to the Senate, was
debated, amended, and voted down,
April 4, 1900, by the Federalists,
who then had majority in the Senate,
which they lost in that year when Jet.
ferson was elected. The yeas and
nayes were as follows;
FOR the Bill--Anderson OF Tennessee, Baldwin
Of Georgia, Biooaworth Of North Carolina, Brown
Of Kentucky, Cooke Of Tennessee, Foster Of Rhode
Island. Franklin Of North Carolina, Langdon Of
New Hampshiro, Marshall Of Kentucky, Mason OF
virginia, Nicholas OF Virginia, Pnokney Of South
cafolina--i2. An Republicans or Jener'on men.
Against the Bill bingham Of Pennsylvania,
Chipman Of Vermont, Dayton Of New jersey,
Dexter Of Massachusetts, Goodhue Of Massachu.
tett,. Greene Of Rhode Island, Gum Of deorgia,
Billhouse Of Conn ectieut, Latimer Of Delaware,
Laufanee Of New York, Livormors Of New Hawp.
ship, Lloyd Of Maryland, Paine OF Vermont, Read
Of south Carolina, Ross Of Pcnntylvania, Tracy
of Conneeticut, Wells Of Deiaware-i7. An
eralists or Adams mea.
The Federalists OF those days were
for troops at the polls, as the iriends,
OF consolidated government who call
themselves Republicans in these days
now are. What a commentary on names
il Is for party wearing the name OF
aRepublican" TO contend for the en-
ployment Of troops in connection with
elections. 1t was the Federal" party
under John Adams that sent United
States troops riding through Pennsyl'
yania on political errands, and It was
the aRepubican" party under Thomas
Jefferson that arrested this crime
. against liberty. 1t was Federal
!, troops that cut down "liberty poles
. in Pennsylvania in the year 1909, anc
II was Pennsylvania "Republicans'
! that rose In wrath against this abuse
. Of power and swept Adams out Of Office
.nd Tho Federal party out Of existence