The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-24
8 p 40 FL
Delivered At Hamilesn. Ohio. Monday
Evening, September 10. 1879.


q :H seIP ~ach sn detect snd
n ions. TSey 0 throw light into oo dark and
crooked places where each others secrets are
kept thus enabling N, the people to see as Is
their interests Parties also form issues at
times Of the most momentus character for the
people to decide, Issues sometimes involving
Of political economy generally, while at other
snreive th issues most Vital Doctrines OF free
government Itself. No one party Is always
happens, too very ofsen, that Which party is
nearest right on given question tiS , becomes mesa
ever, venture to say that
THE REPUBIkCAN PARTY,
on the political issues as they now stand be-
fore the public, is further wrong, more abso-
nate s ne snd iniquty plain teach
ing of the American constitution than any
other party ever known ia our history. not
sustained the alien and seditien laws, and
opposed the war of 1872. Whatever the faults
In the past, The Republican party is the first to
Join issue against free elections; IL Is the first
% p sns aS ree
government a failure: it Is the first to clsmor
Tor an army at the voting PLACES Of the ps s
TO regulate the ballot; it is the first to ask for
supervisors at elections, appropriately
KNOWN AS ovHRsEERs
in the dictionaries: is Is the first to cal, in
shaIs and United States com
missiSnsIs and ,,c ether s appIis1S;e e
tate the results of elections. The leaders of
the Republican party have enacted laws and
popular elections. which show them better
lifted for despotic countries and barbarous
times than for the conduct OF affairs for . free
revolutionary reaction. and Il maintained it
w sns eopie an hess t q liberty sa
onists had as subjects of George
the Ill, and will render the achievements OF
their position is maintained, and becomes the
policy of this Government, then the cause of
century and a half. and the principles OF self
government will be trampled to the earth by
armed force.
THE EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
You all heard the furious outcry OF the Re-
publican press on sas., the subject of the
agonised, ysterical scream from Republican
sources all over the country against the Dem
ocratie party because we asserted our faith In
selves, and our determination that they
should do SO without let or hindrance from
of our offending, no more and no less. We
were true. absolutely true. to the bedrock
principles OF the constitution, while the lead
ers OF the Republican party, as all the world
knows, proclaimed on the floor of both
branches OF Congress doctrines so subversive
of the revolution would have been ashamed
to own them. Does this sound to some OF you
made rely for political effect? II SO, let us
examine tor a few moments, the extent TO
arrogated to itself the right by law to seize
upon every species OF local elections, control
them by force, and manufacture majorities
Is now law of Congress. enacted by the Re
publican party. in full force this hour, which
asserts the control OF the Federal Government
and the Jurisdiction of the United States
courts over every election OF every descrip-
ton that can possibly occur in any State or
city parish, township, school dis.
tricts municipality. or other territorial
Such is the fact Federal power has
CLgrcHED CONTROL
of every voting precinct in the
states and Territories. In proof of this, allow
me to read in your hearing section 55O6 of the
revised statutes of the United States:
Every person who. by any unlawful means,
blnes and confederates with others to hinder,
delay, prevent obStruct, any citizen fiom
him 70 vote, or from voting in any state, Ter
ritory, district, county. city. parish, township.
raj snail be- ned not e 1han
$50, or be imprisoned not less than one
month. nor more than one year, or be pun
Ished by b9th such hne and imprisonment"
What kind of I'm election escapes the provi-
sions of this sectionf
1t has been asserted over and over again In
Congress and elsewhere, by the Republican
leaders and newspapers. that the power of tn {
Federal Government has been applied only at
In Congress were chosen. Tnis Is all false, as
the section just read conclusively
election for mayor OF this city, or for Council
men in its various wards. and one person
stance, as a quarrel ON the street, hinder or
delay another In voting, the person SO Offend
ing oS sne .e sas o. snis section,
imprisonment not less than one month nor
more than one year, or 10 both such fia and
e1esiiSS CLERK az ou auaifo ner, d.
any other county officer of Butler
county the same insolent Interference by the
Federal Government is provided for by this
law. You are not free from its aggressive and
tasse ~ RIocsi sxsn IN me en- de
the law itself, an election in a township, or a
school district, Is subject to the domination OF
re>ts, and The monstrous and dlspro portionate
punishment of Federal courts. Are you in
temptioie in Your own view p Of yourselves Jve
that you feel the need of the restraining and
penal Influences OF such an enactment as this :
yourselves; that you are whoI y incapable OF
selfgovsrnment; that you can not even elect
your townships, or the officers of your school
districts unless the supervision threaten
extended over you. Have the American
people, in fact, sunk SO low as this: Have the
people ao Of ohio Oh. coasentea to this
can party say you have: Charles Foster says
you have, John Sherman says you have
They say that this usurpation ag sinst local
self government shall stand; that this leglsls
tive insult to you. this enactment of distrust
Of your virtue and intelligence shall remain
permanently in the statutes OF your country
say 1t ought to be repealed, expunged, torn
from the pages of the law with every circum-
stance of indignation and abhorreuce. What
do you sayf DO you believe in yourselves, OF
do You want a masterS
THAT Is THE HxAor ISSUE.
tits very old one, and yet it sounds new IN
our times Those OF you who think you are
not competent to manage your local affair
unless the club of the Federal Government /,
welded over your heads by United State,
marshals, district attorneys and partisan
judges on the Federal bench, will.of course
and with entire consistency, vote the Repub
Hcan ticket-vote for Foster, who has the
same opinion OF you that you have OF your
selves. Who do you suppose would VOTE
with you II they were here
Every Tory of the revolution. No
one Of them believed in the natural rights O
man to govern himself without q master. The