Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-26
PRACTICAL EFFECT oFTHE vEToEs.
trrom t he New York Sun. j


If the marshals of the United States
and their special and general deputies
should be compelled to live, on, short
commons from this time until next De-
cember, the experience would be useful
to them and employers, and profitable to
the public. They have had full swing
for many years, and the barefaced prof.
legacy and corruption in these Offices can
only be understood by the people atlarge
when the whole political machinery is
exposed to view by the howl Of the man
ayers Tor money. aeitExhI
The hypocrisy of Hayes vetoes as rep
resented IN his message, is made mani
test by his veto of the bill appropriating
six hundred thousand dollars tor the
marshals to carry on their legimate busi-
ness under the courts. he refused to sign
it and took the responsibility of obstruct-
ing the regular duties OF marshalss only
because congress exercised Its constltu-
tional right of forbiding the payment Of
any part OF the public money to deputy
marshals as electioneering agents at the
polls.
The five vetoes were intended to REIN
state Hayes In tho party which had dis
carded him, and to misrepresent the dem
ocratic demands and position. When he
sustained the republican claim of troops
to zee the polls and control cleo
tions. the stalwarts torgave the past,
granted absolutton, and welcomed him
without killing the fatted calf. The ve-
to of the legislative bill warmed the
hearts of Chandler, Blaine Logan, and
their associates, and everything looked
lovely for a perfect reunion. {.
But when public opinion began to
thunder about the white house over
these vetoes. and to threaten the fraud
ulent incumbent with its wrath, he took
the tremors aud signed the second ar.
my bill. Mr.. Conkling was unreser-
we'd in denouncing that act among his
friends and declared that the latter bill
differed from the first in the degree that
it. acted temporarily and would have to
be renewed, while the original restric-
tion would have operated permanently.
This inconsistency broke the charm OF
the new relations, and the two, factions
returned to their anlmosity.
Hayes, finding himself again isolated,
barely tolerated by small interest on
the republican side through patr
age and Office, despised by the princi-
pal leaders, deserted by the democrats,
sought to recover the lost ground by
this last veto, which has turned out to
be the worst OF all. It has solidified
the democrats in both houses of congress
far more compactly than the veto Of the
army bill did the republicans, and made
it certain that If deputy marshals should
be employed as electioneerers, they will
never get cent while democrats have
the power to prevent It. A i@'e
They voted the money for the court
service, accepting even the large esti-
mate Of a partisan attorney general
and if there be any interruption, because
Hayes obstinately refused to obey the
will of congress, and raised a false
issue. he will have to answer for IT. In
doing this he by no means satisfied the
wishes Of the republican chiefs whom he
thus thought to proptiate. i1
The vetoes first united and then dis
united the republican party in congress.
and reversing this order. they first dis
united and then unified the democratic
party. being exactly the opposite. in
both cases. of what the fraudulent pres
ldent started out to do. During this
protracted controversy, he. swung from
one extreme to another, like q pendu-
lum. and he still keeps swinging and
| changing position. with the contempt OF
| both sides.