Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-10-02

FEILow. CITIZENS: We are confronted
by questions as great as ever stirred
parties in this Government. They touch
not only good administration, honest,
wise execution of the laws, but they
touch the very groundwork of our en-.
tire system. These questions involve
elections, free from military and govern
mental interference, and currency and
trade, free from the control of gigantic
moneyed corporations. The Republi.
can party claims the right to use the
army at the polls. | will do them no
injustice. They do not avow the pur.
pose of controlling the votes. They say
it is only to keep the peace. We dem.
onstrate that the use OF armed force ut
the polls for any purpose is dangerous
that it degenerates into an effort to con-
troll results that it is OF itself a menace
and coercion that it subverts public
liberty. And these gentlemen all in
chorus, but in different keys, following
the brilliant conception of Senator
Blaine, who showed that our army, if
distributed pro rata, would give only
one soldier to many thousand people,
exclaim "Oh, il is such a little thing
We show that a people jealous of lib
erty will resist the very beginning of
danger, will permit neither great nor
little armies to interfere with free bal.
lots, and thereupon they answer that
we Democrats desire that election day
the day which above all Others should
be consecrated to peace and harmony
shall be given over TO turbulence and
violence. We Democrats, who repre-.
sent more than half the people of the
land-less of the money, it is true, but
half the virtue and honor and patriot
ism and intelligence, and more than
half of the bone and siuew, more than
half OF the poor and lowly and laboring
and aspiring, whose all for themselves
and their families throughout all their
lives depends upon the peace and order
Of the industries and the quietude of
civil society, who have the largest stake
in the well-ordered communicative de
sire that violence and intimidation and
lawlessness should riot in the land 1t
would be an offense to our manhood
and patriotism if it were not so palpable
n confession OF the weakness Of their
cause and the impossibility of an argu.
ment. 1t would be an offense TO public
an outrage on public deceucy.
We show that for 200 years Great
Britain has permitted no armed soldiers
under any pretence to approach the
polls; that no nation has ever permit
ted it and preserved popular govern.
ment, and they cry out, following in
this the example OF the President, that
this Administration does not now in
tend, and never has intended, to use,
never has used, and never will use, the
army at the polls.
Weput to them this question "Why,
If you never intend. do not now intend,
never did, and never will. use the army
at the polls, have you so strenuously re
sisted the repeal of the law :" And an.
nouncing at once their purpose and
their answer, they all exclaim-and
here the Stalwart comes to the fore
I'VE will never surrender this power,
which may become necessary to con.
tinue the Administration in our hands"
Mrs. Toodles, when she bought the
brass door plate with another mans
name on il, informed her inquiring
husband at is such handy thing TO
have about the house"
We point to the evidence taken in
Boston and Newport and Cincinnati
this very summer. We point to the
evidence of our candid and Just minded
marshal in Cincinnati.
lie does not believe in any new fan
gled civil service reform not he. lie
has no reason to do so. lie did his duty
as an officer OF the court efficiently, hon.
estly, impartially. lie did his duty in
the appointment Of deputy marshals &C.
cording 10 the spirit and intent of the
law. He says he appointed all Republi.
cans he associated with such people
and he knew them not Democrat, he
might be deceived in them. lie sta.
toned them all in Democratic wards.
He knew the Republican wards would
not need them. He knew that in Re.
publican wards there could not be any
Illegal voting, or hardly any certainly
not enough 20 hurt the Republican
party, and, therefore, he left them
alone.
We show by testimony, perfectly ir.
refrsgable, that by the intent and pro
visions Of the law, and its practical ap-
plicaticn, supervisors and marshals are
only partisan electioneers for the dom.
inant party. paid out of the public treas
ury and thereupon ghostly process.
sion Of fearful figures of State rights.
Ku Klux, Eliza Pinkstons, and, above
all, Republican defeats-more fearful
than those which struck terror to the
soul Of Richard, file before the eyes of
the Attorney General, and he cries out
"The war is not yet over, its results are
all imperiled." And q chorus Of voices
exclaim Confederate brigadier eau.
Gus dictation ! Starving the Govern
ment Payment Of Confederate debt ~
Confederate Brigadicrsi Whose fault
Is IL that Union brigadiers do not rep
resent Republican States Caucus die
tation When it is perfectly notorious
that Senator Schurz tried to extort an
answer from Senator Sherman on the
Finance bill, and utterly failed because
the Republican caucus forbade, Starv.
ing the Government Who refused to
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