The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-15
VOICES IN THE AIR.

The President condemns the measure because
ut is now proposed 10 deny to the United States
even the necessary civil authority to protect the
national elections." Pray who proposes to deny
this to the United StatesP Is the Presdent the
United states2 The Constitution confers upon
Congress the right to make certain regulations
concerning the election of it's members The
two houses have paesed bill designed, as they
believe, to prevent any undue interference of the
military at such elections. This action is most
certainly within their province. 1t is rot q de-
nial to the United States of the rights conferred
by the Constitution, but on the contrary it is the
| Exercise" by the Congress of the Uuited States
| with whom the pow is lodged of the very rights
| in question. The two houses Of Congress certain
ly represent "the United States' as much at least
| as the President, and when they deny to the
army the right 10 interfere at the polls they deny
nothing to the United States. 1t is the people of
the United States by their representatives in Con-
| gress assembled who i1slst that the right Of Citi
zens of the Unite States to vote shall not be de
MED or abridged" by the displav of an armed
force at the polls for partisan purposes If there
| is no ground for their apprehension, no harm is
done by rendering such a menace illegal, aud
thus securing TO all full and free exercise of the
elective franchise But the pretense that because
| the President is OF one political party and the
majority in Congress are of another he is the
UulleQ states, ana tley Dy L0e exercise OF tlelr
| legitimate powers are denying something to the
| UHited States, is most offensive and unwarrant
| able assumption that ought not Ia pass with Sc
we're rebuke.-J0arndI Of Commerce (DemOCrdt),
| april 30.
Rutherford B. Hayes has been captured by the
stalwarts. He has vetoed the Army bill, and
presumably has fixed himself solid" with the
ultra wing of his party, which has been wont to
Id. ,i.,g.t
contempt as being too mild and tome. Mr.
Hayes has been forced to do this by his party or
continue to have only small minority of it fol-
lowing him. He is evidently tired of his abOrtive
attempt to build up Hayes party out Of the old
Whig party or any other independent OTganiza
tiOn or number Of men outside the old parties
and so makes the best shift possible for man of
his ambition and caibre and goes over to the
stalwart wing OF his party and burns the bridges
behind him. A strong man, courageous man
an honest nan in the PreSiderti chair would
have boldly signed the bill IN obedience TO the
voice Of the people and IN defiance of the Repub
lican leaders Many of them in the last Con.
gress offered as compromise, to vote for this
same bill which the President now vetOes at their
beheBt proof that 1t was not regarded by them
as such a dangerous" bill az Mr. Hayes now
claims it to be.-BOsOn Globe (Dem) Aprl 8O
The lecture to Congress isstheIhelght of imper.
thence, A joint resolution, telling him how to
write his own messages would not be more out of
place than his drivel and drOol to Congress on
how TO pass bills or frame them. So, too bis
words about the independence Of the Executive
are rank bOsh An uneleCted President has no
rights an elected Congress is bound to respect.
The Independence and integrity of the Executive
| will be htssing and by-WOrd so long as the
Executive Is fraud. The only service he can
do TO the dignity Of his office is TO get out of It,
hang him like Judas, or at least not call attention
to the office and himself by name at the same
time. The beginning Of reform methods of leQis-
lation is made criminal, when that beginning Is
suggested by q thief of the Presidency His own
party passed these bills as riders. For some of
them he voted when he represented Vacuum in
Congress. His advice now to an elected Congress
is as impudent as advice from the inmates of
penal institutions to the people, to abate abuses
in pardons would be,-Abany argus (Den !,
Apra 3,
Because the President foreshadows and defends
Revolutionary policy for his party can be no ex.
ouse for a revolutionary policy in opposition by
Congress. On the contrary the folly Of the Pres.
ident calls for the wsest and most patriotic
craftsmanship on the part OF Congress II the tran
quiliLy and prosperity OF the country is to be
saved from the madness of revolutionary pRrti.
sans Philadelphia Times (Iad) april 80.
The Presidents veto opens the way, wide and
clear, to q popular Democratic victory in 1880
Congress calls upon him to accept the principle
Of free and honest elections uuclOuded and unco.
creed by the exhibition of Federal bayonets at
the polls. This principle he refuses to accept un.
der the cover Of formal objections for the most
part captious, uBsOund and Irrelevant Let Con.
gress now strip away the cover by Its own con.
serVative action and leave the refusal naked in
all Its political deformity to be judged by the
peOple.-N. Y. World, AprR 80.