The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-04-30

as evidence in the Stanley Court
martial, and returned Wednesday
night. Ga bis way to the train, IN
the course of q conversation OF the
political situation with an old ac'
quain;ance, he said:
"rhe Democrats will soon ONE t.
the forks Of the read, where they
must take one of two courses. When
the Presidents veto comes IN they
must either proceed to carry GU, theiI
threat of destroying the Government,
or they must back sqaarely down. Al
the beginning of this session 4 harg'
ed them with the intention to break
down the G vernment by stopping
the approprIa ;ons 10 case the Prcsi-
dent refused g. yield to their de
mands- They could have disapprov-
ed my statement By simply denying
its truth. Ishouid then have been q
ruined man, for ! would have stood
before the country in the attitude Of
falsely attributiDs wrong motives to
the Democrats for d partisan purpose.
Forty.fye of them have attacked my
speech since, but not a man has vet
denied the intention | charged them
with
How will they get out of the
scrape they are 10? They evidently
have weakened 10 their purpose 81
starving the Government TO death '
Il think they will 10 the end Try
10 avoid The appearance of a back
down by throwing the whole question
oyer to the regular session aext via.
Ter, aud passing . siot resolution
continuing for Fix months pro rata
be appropriations made fpr sbs pres
cot fiscal year, WHICH would carry
me Government along untl Deem
Der 81. We prepared il advance fl
tier escape il thai dit.cuon, haweV-
OF. Before The last session expired,
I Grew and Mr. fos sr 1flsred @ res
olution 4 ;bat preelsa parPprl AID
We offered ii ia me Democrats a a
nleaDs If soidiag the extra session
Fney eontempguonsly rjected II
Now if they Introduce it as a loop
hole through which x crawl out Of
the Gx they are 10, we shall say
Very well ; we accept that; IT is our
resolution which You refused to pass
last winter. We are glad I'd see you
have come around 10 our prop lsitior
at last, eiter putting the country tc
all the worry AID expense of the ex'
ira session"
"TheAcou do not think the session
will drag along ill midsummer?
NO It looked thet way awhile
ago, bat the Democrats are getting
very sick Of it. | had al iRtiDs,
ton yesterday, from a Democratic
source, that they expect to adjourn il
about two weeks"
"0ar contest over the Army bill, F"
continued General Garfield, afteI
some further talk, docs not seem tC
be fully understood by some of The
Republican papers. We are not ma.
king q fight TO retain the law of 1865
whiee authorizes the use 0! troops to
keep the peace at the polls. When
offered the Democrats to accept 9
simple section repeslipg that law,
some OF OR friends ont OF Washing
ton thought | was ~retresiing. the
fact was, our Caucus Committee OF
Q Of the most oruden. Republicans in
tie House agreed with me that We
should Assem- TO the repeal CT that
law, and thus nnmask he real pur-
pose of the Democrats, which was to
secure legislation iEposing severe
penalties not only for bringing troops
to the polls, but for using IN armed
force Of citizens under the control of
civilian officers 70 pat ibis &c 3 test
we prepared cur repeating elsuse,
and il gas offered by Mr. Coager, d
Michigan, whose ~radlcalism nobody
eyer suspected. Oar 100 Rcpubil
caus yOted for il, bur the Democrats
defeated ii. Wbile loudly declaring
that their sole purpose gss to secure
the repeal of al obnoxious lay, they
voted against 8 proposition to accom-
plish just what they pretended they
all wanted to accomplish They sui
keep up an ado shout the lay OF
1865, sad have succeeded, TO some
extent, in delading the country into
the belief that they are merely seek.
ing to accomplish the repeal Of that
statote.p
Just what did the DeuoerRts iu-
tend TO accomplish by the extra seq
sion ~
Their real purpose was TO rspoye
all obstacles in the shape of United
States law TO election frauds in the
cities of New York and Cincinnati.
Boil il all down aRd it comes to this.
they believe they a carry New
York and Ohio and elect saeir Peesi-
dent 10 1889, if they al have 9 Gee
field in those two cities for repeating,
ballot box stuffiDg snd fraudulent
naturalization. | venture to say
that if New York city aud Cincinnati
could be exempted from the opera
tGas Of the Federal election laws, toe
Democrats gopld pass the Appropri-
suen bills sna 90 kome delighted
While they sre talking asoqt themes
of Government, the rights Of The
States, military interference at cleo
Mons, and sill that, they have a def,
mite practical purpose in view, which
ia to get -possessiop Of the Presiden-
cy against the wall Of the paople."
"How are the Republicans in Con
gress getting along with President
VERY pleasantly and hsrmoniouly.
The President is acting 10 full accord
With bis party
What is the feeling among Re-
Dubiicaas ct Washington about the
lext nomination %
1T is decidedly in favor ofGrant. If.
here should be no change 10 the cur.
'ent before next year Grant will be
dominated by an irresistible popular
noseme4i. The feeling is that we
aDst hare a strong, determined man
o resist The ~aggressions Of TIE Sopth-
IN Democracy"
A Ris er ON Fire.
New York, April sl--At IL o'clock