The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-06-05

to provide that at all places where there 10 liabil
ity OF interference from United slates officials In
elections the polls for the election Of all other
Officers save Congressman shall be held at least
three hundred feet away from whore the cleo
tons for Congressman are held.
Mr.. Wright made short and vigorous speech
In favor Of his BILL and Mr.. Foster OF Gle veland
opposed 1t, because Of the extra expense that
would be entailed.
Representative Sturgeon took the strongest pos
sible grounds against the Republican policy OF
interfering with elections, either by paid cleo
tioneeriug agents or by means Of Calling guns
and bayonets. The National leader was quite
vigorous in denouncng the despohc means taken
by the Administration 10 intimidate voters, and
predicted that 1t would lead the people to repu.
diate those who were engaged In the villainy. He
was opposed to the bill, because 1t was recogni'
ton Of bayonet interference he ssid, and because
he was opposed to even recognizing the right Of
the Administration to interfere with citizens as
to how they shall elect their Representatives.
The debate took a wide range the law author
izing the use of troops TO keep the peace at the
polls" and the test oath" being discussed In
connection with the Supervisors Law.
Mr.. Booth Of franklin, supported the bill In
two speeches, In which he claimed, and proved
by the record, that the supervisors laws, though
passed ostensibly to protect the freedmen was, Rs
executed, an unwarranted and partisan attack
upon the natuTalized citizen, that In It's enforce
ment thousands had been arrested in New York
city, all Of whom had been discharged without
hearing except one, who was acquitted at the
trial. No one, he said, had been convicted, al
though quarter of a million was spent annually
In carrying out this partisan and unjust measure.
Nine.tenths Of the money used In this way was
expended In the large cities Of the North, where
nearly all those who were arrested were OF for.
eign birth, while but little was spent the South
He claimed that II was as obnoxious, unjust and
oppressive as the alien and seditlon Of the elder
Adams Administration. That naturAlizsd citl.
zens were beginning to realize the scope AID pur'
pose of this iniquitous legislation. and would, at
the coming election, most signally rebuke as the
Federalsts had been rebuked for legislation
which had similar purpose. Nine.tenths of the
persons arrested under this law are foreign born
citizens. Such men as Davenport and his un-
scrupulous tools objected because Of their want
OF charaCter-Ihieves, burglars, pimps OF the low.
est dives, repeateTs shoulder 'hiterB receivers Of
stolen goods, and other criminals many of whom
in the Penitentiaries of the several Sates-were
not At persons to place at the polls to preserve
the purity of the ballotbOx
In nine or ten Congressional districts the result
had been changed by paid electioneers Of the
worst character who, while acting as Superyi.
sors and Deputy MaIshals, intimidated and ar.
rested voters without cause, and in many instan.
ces refused to release them, except on the prom.
Use that they would refrain from voting while
others were kept In confinement during election
day, so that they could not exercise the right of
franchise. Year by year the Republican party ia
becoming more desperate in using this election
machine, In Hamilton county the entire elec.
ton machinery is virtually turned over to these
paid tools every second year, so that now they
can control to la:ge extent State and county
elections. The voting places should be separate,
so as to avoid interference at such elections
In answer to the question he entered briefly in.
to discussion Of election laws and practices in
the South and claimed that no person ha d been
convicted in the south for intimidation or for
violating election laws, although many had been
tried before partisan judges and juries who were
compelled to take the test oath. in some instances
every juror being Republican.
Mr. Booth then referred to the second election
of Lincoln, saying an honorable member of the
House of Ohio Representatives had beea depriv-
ed from following his business for three weeks,
because he would not vote the Republican
ticket
Mr. WaSson asked II that was not the time
when halt q million OF Democrats were fighting
to overthrow the Government2
Mr.. Booth said It was the time when two. tn irds
OF the soldiers in the Northern army were Demo
Gratis fighting to sustain the Government, and
when such patriots as James G. Blaine, the
blo0dy.Bhirt orator, was bleeding and dying by
means OF substitute, who afterWard deseHed.-
lApplause.
Mr. Wasson required a more efFectual setting
down before he was satisfied, and asked If the
period Mr.. Booth referred TO was not about the
time q. L. Vallandigham was opposing the Gov
eminent.
Mr. Booth said that he was not so certain about
that, but he did not know that II was exactly at
the time Major General Longstreet and Key the
leaders of the southern Republicans, were in
open rebellion and when the murderer Mosby,
one Of Hayes's latest appointees, was cutting the
thrOatB Of Union captives In cold blood Tie
Democrats broke out In raptufous applause, and
the Republicans doubted the value of Mr.. Was |
son az an interrupter in debate.
Mr.. Booth went on TO read from the sworn test.
lmony taken by Congressional Committees show
ing that many OF the men employed under Unit |
ed States MArshals and Supervisors were prison
birds thieves, and utterly dsreputable eharac.
teTs who had been used TO intimtdate honest Yo- |
ters In New York.
p Mr., Dazell, the great American letter writer, |
discouraged at the reception the bloody shirt OBJ |
iectOhs from his side had received next branch
ed off into the COlOred exodus, which he said |
was due TO the oppression Of c00red voters In the
South.
Mr.. Bloom, after the Private's time expired, |
suggested that the wind be shut Off and that the
House meet at night and debate with the member |
from Noble until daylight
This sensible suggestion was not agreed to-
Mr.. Dalzell resumed, and without attempting |
TO reply TO Mr.. Booth in regard to Republican |
election frauds in the North, resumed Oh the col
Ored question. he said the cOlOred men in the |
South had been compelled TO work for the whites |
while their women, as the piOus Mr.. Hutchins Of
Columbus expressed 1t, were turned into a pas
ture ground for the lust OF the superior race. He
said thousands of cO0red men had been murder |
ed in the South because Of their devotion to Re- |
publieanism,
Mr.. Booth ask d Mr.. Dalzell to name q single |
instance or mention single conviction In Court |
or any other established case, where any body in |
the South had been murdered for being Repub. |
llcan. ."'"
Mr.. Daliell said he did not want to take up the |
time Of the House BY mentioning names but con.
tended what he said was history. he charged |
that there was an organization among Democrats |
In the South to murder every one who would not |
vote the Democratic Ticket He said the Briga' |
diers were now trying to starve out the army they
had been unable TO conquer, but that solid |
North would oppose them with a solid ballot, |
and If necessary, with solid bayoDet to see that
the Democrats should not overthrow the results
OF the war.
Mr.. Norton said that he was in doubt whether
he was to reply to arguments against the bill on
Its merits or whether he was to reply to speeches
written in blood and punctuated with skulls
Turning to the Republicans he said that nine.
tenths OF the braggarts who had been so brilliant
in their talk about cannons, swords and pistols,
had never faced frearm but had kkulked about
the hospitals and worse places during the war
He said that the Republican Supervisors Law
was a hypocriticsl measure. not for the protec.
lion OF the negro in the south but for the oppres-
sion and ir tImidatlon Of voters in the North The
twenty thousand Supervisors appointed were
used In the North. They received over $40 900
Of the money spent for United States Marshals
aud Deputies at elections and the South received
less than $4,000 The negroes are not coming
North because OF oppression, but 70 get tho many
AundSOds 0f thOuSinda Of thelR hard canned dol !