The daily gazette., 1879-05-12
THIRD EDITION
"a BULIDOzED PRESIDENT.
.Ths Free Election Bill to be vetOe
n sDtte Of Former Declarations.

-Ths Free Election Bill to be Vetoed
= In Spite Of EOrmer Dec'"r"'ioaaS'
Correspondence of N. Y. Woriu. g..
sfoas WASHINGTON, May 10, 1879.
!, Notwithstanding what the President
has said to many members and Senators
3 in favor of the new bill after he had care
sfully read its clear and terse declaration,
he has recanted and is again willing to
reverse his own engine, if plausible rea
sops can be invented. The stalwart
pressure and threatening have compelled
him to swallow at one guip MS own
a opinions and his own de ilaratlons, SO
far at least as to inquire II tnare De not
l"objections" which he can assign tor re-
fuslng his signature. MT Evarts seems
thoronghlv scared and dazed and cowed
@by the bullying tone of the party Pope,
who is, in a festive way, called the up
Nv" Chandler, To distinguish from Cham
dler of New Hampshire, who Is known
~ UBill." but is always sober in every
thing but political opinion and action. 1t
is really sad to watch Mr. Evarts as,
Wandering away from the State Depart-
ment. be listens so mournfuliy to stump
speeches of the stalwart orders in the
House and Senate. He is not trusted now
BY the Washington leaders OF the Re-
publican party, and he is suspected SIM
ply because manifests SO little ouJspoken
courage in the defence OF what he once
called his convictions about Grantism
and its methods. The Republican party
ia now a unit for "the bloody shirt" and
ali that symbol implies. The Adminis-
tratiou falls meekly IN behind the Chan
dlars and Rlaine and COnkllug.
The only serious difficulty which be-
sets MIR. Hayes and Mr.. McCrary 10 to
set forth COLLECTIONS" to the new msa-
sure which will fit in with those assigned
against the first bill. The outcome will
probably be, if the bill is vetoed, that
the President will say that TO use 5000
soldiers of the army as Grant did in the
South in 1876 to "keep the peace at the
polls'is not a. a'military interference" with
elections. Mr.. McCrary advises him TO
say that nothing is "lnilitary interfer-
ence" with voting except what Is thus
described in section 8, ,529 of the Revised
Statutes: I-
Sec. 5,529. Every officer or other per-
son In the military or naval service who
by force, threat, Intimidation, order
advice or other wise prevents or attempts
to prevent any qualified voter of any
State from freely exercising the right OF
suffrage at any general or special election
in such State shall be tiaed not more
than $1,000 and imprisoned at hard labor
not more than five years.
And yet ldr. McCrary warns him of
the effect of Senate speech which he
quoted and indorsed in his former veto
Tue one made in the Senate declared of
the posse section enacted in 1873:
Therefore / hope without getting into
any controversy about the past, but act.
ing wisely for the future, that we shall
take away the idea that the army can be
used by general or special deputy mar.
shal, or any marshal, merely for election
purposes or posse, ordering them about
the polls or ordering them anywhere
else when there is no election going on
to prevent disorders or suppress distur.
Dances that should be suppressed by the
peace officers of the State; or if they
must bring others to their aid they SHOULD
summon the unorganized citizens auC
not summon the officers and men of III,
army as posse comitatus to quell dis
orders and thus get up a feeling which
Will be disastrous to peace among til,
people of the country.
The President sees that therein ant
thereby he did concede that under tn
new posse law marshal cannot use th
army even to suppress disorder at a v OF
ing place. ysss