Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-04-09
THE SUPER VIsoRs or ELEc-
TTON.


There will DO an extra session Of
Congress. This question has been the
source Of much trouble to the country,
not that any interests suffer by u
session Of Congress, but because OF
tho hue and cry of the press against
one. Tho question is at last settled in
the affirmative by the proclamation Of
Hayes, and on March 18TH, the
members.olect of tho forty-sixth Con.
gress assembled in extra session at
Washington Among the important
measures that failed in the last Con-
gress are several Of the appropriation
bills, and that one particularly that
touches the pockets Of the fraudtes,
who are now administering the affairs
and drawing the salaries OF the offices
that belong to Mr.. Tildcn and the
Democratic party. This appropria-
ton bill failed because OF the great
and unblushing aflront offered the peo-
pie Of the country by asking a Demo
cratic Congress to appropriate money
for the purpose OF paying corrupt
party claims of the Republican mana.
gers. In the bill is charged s272, 10000
=
for tho purpose of defraying the ex-
penses of only sirty-nine supervisors, or
an average of about fre thousand DOL
lars 10 each of these handsomely paid
government officials, for but one days
service in preventing the honest scnti-
ment of the voters at the polls. This
clause in the bill was defeated by the
Democrats, as the country's demands
made Il tho Imperative duty Of the
House TO guard well the Treasury,
and close some of the large holes
through which the money has been
leaking away under the care Of the
Republican party. The Republicans
would not accept the amendment, as
their party debts must be paid, and the
result is just what the country has
dreaded, ,-an extra session Of Con-
grcss,-the entire responsibility of
which rests with the fanatica leaders
of the Republicans in Congress.
The act creating the office Of super
visors Of election is one OF the most
tyrannical results of Republican party
legislation that has ever been foisted
upon the country. 1t is oppressive in
its workings, and is measure that
would only be resorted to in the
hour of peril in the most despotic
government OF the world. 1t de-
nies the honest sentiment of the
people at the polls, and places the re-
1t OF an election in the hands of O
few INSCRIPTIONS partisans of the ad-
ministration, who can arrest honest
voters right and lett on the merest
pretexts, and be comparatively safe
from the strong arm of the law. 1t is
an act not alone applicable to the cleo
tions in the South, but TO the elections
of the whole country. AT present but
fourteen southern cities have supervis
ors of elections, while in northern
cities the number of these officials il
fifty-6ve, among whom are numbered
some OF the most corrupt Republican
party leaders to be found in the coun
, try. In New York city ii is estimated
that at the last general election over
three thousand voters were kept from
expressing their sentiment at the polls
through the indefatiguable efforts o.
little Johnny" Davenport, and biz
henchmen, who are paid handsomely
for just such work by the United
States Government. Is not such a law
a disgrace to the country? Each Stat,
should make its own laws to guard the
purity of the ballot, and every State
in the Union has laws of this nature
upon their statutes why then should
the United States in!erfereY
The prospects at present are, that
this miserable, disgraceful law, thai
+ makes you and ] or any qualified
voter subject of arrest on the merest
pretext or whim of some Republican
hanger. er.on-will be wiped from th,
statutes of the country. May th'
guardian angel of the Union speed the
work, and may all such reforms in be
hall of the liberties of the people
inauguratcd in the last House, be car
ried to a glorious completion. The
defeat of this intended wholesale rob
berry Of the United States Treasury,
and Of some OF the pet subsidy schemes
Of the Republican leaders, has alon,
resulted in this extra session of Con
gress, and for which the Republicans
alone are to blame, and to DO held &C
countable to the people.