American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-31
SENATOR THURMAN.
His Argument for the Repeal of the Par
tisan Election laws and the Jury Test
oath.
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oath.
from the New York sun.1
WASHINGTON, May 1b.-The entire ses-
sion "t the Senate to day. after the expiration
of the mGrt.tnE hour, was occupied by Sena-
tor Thurman, WHO made ringing speech on
was a small attendance of SPECTATORS in the
galleries. but many Democratic members of
william N. Evarts, who had listened to most
OF the important speeches which have been
made on the .mRoTtant questions pending in
gallery: He seemed to be greatly interested
fn MI Thqrman's speech. Though complain
Phatic style. The speech was fun of informa
relative to the origin Of the Election flaws of
$50, Mr. Daveffport's political operations,
nna M and * ply
much r.tisfsstson as II did the Democratic
Gentlemen in theft irria CITATION had seen III
to suppose, he said, that there existed hinge
6g the msorty q the tb pePle 81
ststes@as Il 9ags aDa aserity, a. Il the Demo.
cratic people had not is ,nuch interest in the
Peri.y OF the country and tn. pefpstrity, Of
the Government as the members of the Ho-
ysde 81 ea e
fnHaiiinatorS and nninstiiiable attempt to
e q
eouhtry as permanent ana enduring as the
Sof Been ass and SdeS Ssa as
the jury PROVISION. Triai by Jury md always
gre2t shield against oppression by the Gov
enemy. tnl sa; !; the Jury izas. Ret e.
ienoe, snd ths sr" Was the danger se under
he statute sought to be repealed. He had
lawyer in Northern State saying that in his
district no mans name ever goes into the
tury-box unless that man Is a Republican.
alone. Section $40 had been repealed once.
Its temperance in the statutes was one of
stri.ine on. Of the word "%fite'' from the
naturalization laws, after Congress had re
ton of silver when Congress had not demon
etized it; one Of the marvellous things about
the revision of 1874, which lay on the desk
Wfappef aronnd L being " cut. In tbs way
section $40 stole back into the laws. -
sideration Of the clauses feIatire to super
visors and Deputy Marshals. The proposal
to repeal these laws. he said. was said BY their
elections, an endeavor by the Confederate
Brigadiers to shield themselves in their
e nOrmftfes, by which they suppressed the
vote of the truly loyal citizens OF African de-
scent. The fact is. the laws we're never made
to protect citizens of African descent, and
were almost unmitigated Observation-Disclosures
Of corruption. force and fraud. l.4 fffE, |
The laws originated in the Union League
Club. and were passed for party purposes,
and not at all for the protection of freedmt n
: In 1875 there were ]. $50 Supervisors of Flee
rs we're appointed In the state Of New YORK
nearly one half of the whole number. There
them in New York. The main point is, where
aid the money gos In that year there was
sd ee Rn
country where the Night Raider, the White
Lacquer, and the Ku klux oppress him? In
the Southern States there was expended |
s4s, 7l9 06, and in the other States $237 $50 was
disbursed; that is to say, about one-sixth OF
to the North That is the way the freedmen
were protected. They made the South give |
Ise the right to vote but
States. for every dollar they gave to protect |
him they spent s. to corrupt elections at the
North and to deprive men OF their right to
The senator from New York (dr Conkling) |
had carefully enumerated the different yari-
new \ rk City we're raked from Harlem to
worse set Of men than the Deputy Marshals |
selected in 1876 and 1873 to execute these |
is7s sI56, Oe9-being more than one half-was
sent to New York State. The roughs4 of, ad-
rem IN New FORK getting ali the he money. 50. to
pacity them, some was sent out of that State; |
s57, 600 went to Pennsylvania. That was
machine in Phiiadelphia knew how to man
age elections perfectly. and did not need any
election of Republicans. But $57 600 was
spent in Pennsylvania to satisfy the clannor
= the roughs Then they paid some at asten,
Maryland. Jersey City was a pretty Inn.
To pac the
So these four States-New York. Pennsyl--
yania. New Jersey, and Maryland.absorbed
other 80 States. In 1878 there were 4.ssl Su-
pervisors, of which .953 were in New York
ind ;ses in Pennsylvania, leaving only MY LoSe
Fhe expenditures were sss2 7l4.a2, of which
Republican party in New York, New Jersey,
md Pennsylvania will show why this money
ion s Il Repre e were rel gained, and,
'tngularly enough, the greatest gain was
Were the most money s was sPen nsye 70 s+ate
hat the Jersey City district which had for
many previous sessions elected Democratic
900 majority, was now represented by a Re;
publican. and most OF the money mentioned
Mr. :neh9 IN aSa Is gS1g to CITY had
Mr.. Thurman said there was evidence that
his money was spent corruptly In selecting
were sent for and asked if they
would work for the Republican candidate,
pointed Deputies. In this manner large
Democratic majorfties were destroyed in GER
ain power March 1, 1881. and there were such
blessing a Democratic President, the Re
,ublicans would clamor Tor the repeal OF
4gainst it. MrSThurman said it would sur.
rise some to learn how Mr.: Davenport had
It the 5000 afhdavits at 10 cents each which
e made out against people for false
egistration six months before they Of
dences of his corruption, because 1T was
light that this man should be held up to
aIx< nf
ecret service fund got into Davenport's
lands, and was never accounted for to the
soyernment. He hated to deal with such "a
he country. He could not turn up his nose
With Senatorial dignity and ignore this man.
ELEPHANT. He read testimony showing Dav
IMPORTS acquisition of wealth since his ap-
ointment to once. ana said J3h mn erp f25
# a very bad kind. He had intended to say
about the Army bill and the veto,
lis Judgment there was never so ineXcusa
lie an exercise of the veto power as In the
President has vetoed appropriation bill,
nd the first time bill has been vetoed be-
ause it repealed existing laws The veto pow
r was intended rs q check upon unconstitu- /
ional, hasty, and i'll considered legfslation,or
o enable the Executive Department to de-
end itself from encroachments from the
legislative Department 1t is also the first
lime a President in a message has quoted re-
congress to impute to them improper mo-
ives He enlarged upon the impropriety of
UGH references. There were otner strange
age the President was understood to say
roops could not be used at elections under
Governments might be overthrow If the mil
tary could not be used on election days.
We're there ever so thoroughly shallow-he
mt a sophistry as this?
BALsAM OINTMENT.-Two ounces of