The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-05-24
To What the Veto Commit. the Republicans.

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Sensible Democrats understand that there
is no more reason why the army should BE-
abolished temporarily OF permanently be.
cause Grant misused il in 1876, and the Stall.
warts by the help of Mr.. Hayes desire to misuse
j again IN 1880, than thore is why the Presi.
deney should be abolished because Grant
misnsed it in 1876, aud the stalwarts with the
help Of Mr.. Hayes desire to misuse il again in
1880. The armyis rart of the necessary ex-
ecutive machinery ofthe country, and the Pres
idency Is part Of the necessary executive ma.
ehinery Of the county. The stalwarts, under
theleadershipof ''iipsy' Chandlerand ssobet''
Chandler, perverted both the army and the
Presidency to partisan and corrupt purposes
IN 1876. They mean TO do this again il they
can in 1850. IL they could succeed ia exas-
perating the Democrats into cutting of the
supplies OF the army or into assailing the title
Of Mr.. Hayes to the Presidency they might
hope TO blind the people TO their own real
purposes. They cannot succeed in either of
these ingenious eontrivances, and therefore
they will not succeed in binding the people
TO their own real purposes. Chief among
those purposes, the central and dominating
and essential purpose Of them all OF course,
is the denomination Of Grant in 1850, TO be
followed by his reelection in 1881 10 nn.
dersiand this fully and keep firm hold upon
il, it viii he well for our readers TO bear
steadily in mind what President Grant did
with the army in 1876 to defeat the election
Of Mr.. Tilden, under the inspiration and d.
reetion of the very men, "tipsy' Chandler
and ''sober" Chandler, who are now bending
Mr.. Hayes to their work at Washington.
Gu the 10th OF August, 1870, the Prcsi-
DENTAL campaign being then at its height,
President Grant struck the keynote OF the
Republican campaign. The day was appro-
priately selected, being the festival day OF
Napoleon. On that day President Grant or
dered General Sherman to hold all the avail
able force under his command ''in readiness
to be used upon the proper call or requisition
of the proper authorities for protecting all
citizens in the exercise Of the right
TO vote" We had 'small army then,
aud there was sharp need oft all on our
Western frontiers to protect the people there
against the Indians, just as there is now.
Bot under this order OF the day OF st, Napo.
leon, General Sherman assembled no fewer
than 5000 Federal troops in the Southern
States.
After the soldiers had been assembled in
September, 1876, Attorney General Taft is
sued an order to all United States marshals,
which order was sent to General Sherman for
his information. In that order, destined to
be notorious in all future American history,
the Attorney General informed all United
States marshals and their deputies tina, in I'D
vance of the election day they might call ON
the army at will to protect "any voter against
violence on account of any vote that he mdy
intend 10 girs." BY these several orders, il
will be seen, at leas. 5000 Federal bayonets
urgently needed elsewhere were placed at
al &c no too, rk.n.1l... r.. l..
hackers of the Republican candidate, Hayes.
in the South.
But this is not all that President Grant did.
On November 10, 1876, after the popular
vote had been deposited, President Grant,
being then in Philadelphia and a guest of the
unsuspeeting Mr.. Childs, from tina, city order.
ed General Sherman to instruct Gen Angur
in Louisiana and General Ruger in South
Carolina ''io be vigilant with the force at their
command TO preserve peace aud good order,
and to see that the proper and legal boards OF
canvassers are unmOlested.n President Grant
added that "shoud there be any grounds of
suspicion of fraudulent counting on either side
1t should be reported and denounced at once"
by the army!
This was plain order to the array to inter.
fere in elections, and TO interfere in palpable
Of sections 1902 aud 5,5Sl Of the
Revised Statutes now so much discussed. for
how would the army get official
suspicion of fraud2 Grant did not pretend
to use the army then as a posse II he had
or imagined he had any authority thus TO use
the army to scruiinize counting, il must have
been under the words ''to keep the peace at
the polls which the Democrats have sought
to repeal and which the two Chaudlers insist
that Mr.. Hayes shall retain.
This tsRaaaa NJ tho t,nIisff 4
the attention Of those Democrats who framed |
the posse section Of 1873 which President |
Hayes approved. The attention Of Congress
and the country was called TO this omission /
by General Order, No. 40, issued from the /
War Office and inviting the attention of the \
army to the posse section of June Is, 1878. |
In this General Order the War Office recited |
all the sections Of laws requiring the army TO 4
interfere in civil matters, and distinctly in. |
formed the officers of the army that they must
interfere to "keep the peace at the polls.m
which meant OF course that they must inter
fere again rs President Grant and General 1
Sherman had made them interfere in 1876. |
This General Order No. 40. il will be seen, |
really nullihed the posse law Of 1878, and |
made necessary and imperative the efforts 10 |
amend section 2,0O2 which Mr.. Hayes, under |
the domination of the two Chambers, so vi. |
tlOusll NetOes.
Here is the situation in nutshell.
If President Grant was right ia 1876 Presi. |
dent Hayes can repeat the action and reissue
the orders Of President Grant 10 1880. Con
gress understands this perfectly well, aud so
do the stalwarts. Meanwhile there Is no oc.
casion for heat or defamation. Congress
will press forward patiently aud calmly to
prevent the repetition by President Hayes in
1880 Of the conduct Of President Grant in
1876. The personal pledges Of Mr.. Hayes
when confronted by the two Chambers have
been shown to be worthless. He must not be
at liberty to repeat 10 1880 for the benefit of
Grant what was done for his benefit by Pres
dent Grant in 1876. Congress under the
advice Of leaders representing the Democrats
Of the South as well as the Democrats of the
North, will make this plain issue plainly for
he people. Congress will not under any
provocation oblige the two Chambers BY adj.
burning without giving to the Executive all
he resources needed to carry on the Govern
nent, and the Republicans will find them.
selves called upon next autumn TO meet not
any side issue, not any fictitious issue, not
my irrelevant issue, bat the plain and very
relevant issue made up for them by Grant and
accepted for them by Hayes. IN L. World.