The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-27

Ene Democratic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. lfV
for Election Grimes or Suspension al
Government.
clneinBaii Gtiplts et the .Olh.
{ What is the demand OF the Democratic
cOngtess7 What Is their proposed leeis.
lation for which they have forced an extra
session, and which they have determined
TO force the President to approve, by the
threatened alternative Of reiusinpapproprl.
atoms to keep the government going
What Is the measure which Is their ulti.
matum under the alternative Of anarchy ?
1t Is simply and wholly the repeal Of the
laws made to protect the elections from
fraud and violence. That Is the whole Of
this demand on which this party plants
itself, aud presents with tho threatened al.
tentative Of revolution.
And this comes from tho party whose
election frauds in New York in 1868,
which were the immediate cause Of the
enactment Of these laws, were open,
shameless, undeniGd, and monstrous;
from The party which makes a hideous
joke Of tissue blllsts, false regtstrles, false
tally sheets, and the electioneering shot.
gun in the South; from the party whicl,
in this city has It's list OF martyrs convict.
ed and contessCdly guilty OF procuring re.
peatinR and illegal voting, and yet in good
standing III the party; from the party
whose main principle Is to destroy Tia
peoples elections BY fraud and violence,
and which has always opposed every
measure to protect the honest voters.
What are the particular provisions OF
these laws, whose abolition they nut
against the existence OF the nation 2 They
provide, first, that in United States cleo.
lions Supervisors may DO appointed, two
at each poll, Of different parties, to view the
voting and count, aud report thereon to
the Chief Supervisor, TO be laid before the
House OF Representatives, Here Is a pro.
vision that the Democrats may unite with
the Republicans in choosing Supervisors
to see that the election is honest. But the
Democratic party abhors all provisions TO
obstruct illegal voting and false counting,
and II has assailed this as virnlently as the
rest. In this city, under the direction Of
Thurman, they refused to nominate Dem.
ocrats to these places.
Second, the law provides that special
Deputy Marshals may be appointed 10
keep the peace at the polls, to protect the
Supervisors, and with power to arrest for
acts OF violence done In their view, which
arrested person shall be Immediately taken
before q U. S. Judge or Commissioner for
examination. These Deputy Marshals
cannot touch single person unless he ia
in the act Of breaking the law, and thew
can be held to q strict accountability.
Without these Deputy Marshals, the ST..
pervisors would be without protection,
and might be hustled and violently mai.
treated and even murdered by spch
rutiisnly election judges as are had in this
city, And the public viii remember that
just before the last United States election
the Democratic paper Of this city, NOT be-
ing advised OF all the law said that the
Supervisors might be kicked and cutfed
like any other intruders.
Let II be noticed that the modification
OF the demand, which was favored by The
most moderate OF members Of the joint
committee OF Ihe Democratic caucus was
to let the provision stand for the appoint-
mGht Of two Supervisors at each poll, hut
to repeal all parts OF the act that provided
any protection forthem. This was a pro.
vision that they might be kicked and cuff.
ed by Democratic election Judges and re-
peaters. Third, they demand the repeal
OF section $500 Of the criminal code. vhirh
provides penalties for violations al he
electionlaws, by interfering with Superyi.
sOrs, Marshals, or their deputies. This Is
q repeal in order to give immunity 10 yio-
lent crimes at the election.
Against the laws to protect the integrity
OF the elections, the Democratic party, on
the morn Of its coming into control ofboth
Houses OF Congress, has pronounced that
the Government shall not exist unless
these laws are abolished. The party which
isCovered all over with crimes against the
elections demands immunity and n free
course for its crimes in the future as the
upon which tho Government
may continue. It fully Confesses by his
tRA! it Oontemplates the grasping and
keeping OF all branches OF Government
by ovsrthrowing the elections. This party
went out on the alternative that the IA.
tlonal Government should be devoted to
The extension OF negro slavery, or should
be broken up. 1t comes in, after eigh.
teen years, with the demand that the
laws against election crimes shall he
abolished, or the Government shall be
stopped. This is the true Democratic ma,
tUra