The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1879-04-24
In the Senate Monday Blaine opened

In the Senate Monday Blaine opened
the debate on tAe Army ApprOpria-
ton Bill with Il powerful speech. A
few of the points are given below:
lie declared that the Democrats were
trying to impose false issue OH tie
contributing to make it appear that
the Republicans were attempting 10
keep themselves in power by the liber-
al use of the bayonet. He held in his
hand statement OF the number of
soldiers east of Omaha Looking to-
ward Bayard and salisbury, he asked
them how many were in Delaware =?
They could not tell. Not one, said
Blaine; and, therefore, the great State
of Delaware is not in danger OF being
crushed by the mailed heel Of military
power. In West Virginia how many 2
Not one. Yet without the presence of
soldier on the soil of his State Sena-
tor Hereford had worked himself into
i perspiration last Friday I'm his
speech about the army. HerefOrd's
face turned red and there was audible
laughter in the galleries IS Blaine
demolished his great speech in few
sentences.
Turning to the Virginia Senators,
Blaine asked them how many soldiers
were in their state, and if they were
afraid? lie showed that there was not
soldier in the State outside of the artil-
lery training school ut Fortress Mon
roe. In North Carolina there are
but thirty, South Carolina 12O, Georgia
twenty-nine, and in Tennessee and
Mississippi none. In the whole South
there are lbs, not quite one to a
county, and he might have said that
nine-tenths of these has been ordered
away to the Indian frontier.
why" cried Blaine, mo two Demo
cratic Senators can go into the cloak
room and look each other in the face
without smiling and blushing." He
showed that there were double as
many soldiers In New Eng
land rs in the South in proportion
to the population, yet the people of that
section did not feel crushed by the
mailed heel of power, and had nothing
to fear at elections. "Why," exclaimed
Blaine, advancing towards the Demo
cratic side, ~there is not in the whole
South one soldier to county, and on
ly one to each sixteen polling places.
Each soldier would have to be divided
up into sixteen pieces to get enough to
go around
Williams, of Kentucky, said that he
had seen soldiers at the polls. "When,"
cried Blaine. "In 1856" said Williams
at which Blaine replied that there
were probably a great many in the
State at that time trying to keep out
jeff. Davis Democrats, who attempted
to fight in the rebel army, and vote
Kentucky out Of the Union at the
same time.
Senator Logan arose and said that
at the time mentioned he commanded |
siXty-five thousand men in Kentucky |
that the soldiers were not allowed |
near the polls, and that the election |
was rs quiet and fair rs any held in |
the State since.
Blaine charged that the political |
measure on the Army Bill had not |
been considered by the COMMITTEES, but |
was matured by Democratic eaucuseS,
and then thrust into the House, and |
thence into the Senate. He showed |
that the country was virtually under /
the rule of the Southern Democracy,
they having thirty out of forty Demo |
and very large major
ity of the Democratic majority in the
House OF Representatives. As early /
As 1886 Alexander ii. Stephens had said |
that a united South and their North /
ern allies would rule the country. |
That was only thirteen years ago. 1t |
was true to-day, and Stephens was
alive to see the marvellous fulfillment
Jf his prophecy.