The daily gazette., 1879-05-09


what Wflls 1as NJ with me-
1t was Yesterday teported fiom WASH
inEton thst the President would sign the
Detnocratie caucus bill providlng against
use oftseofs at the polls, and that he de-
clared that he saw nothing in 1t trench
ing on the prerogatives of the Executive,
and that 1t was consequently harmless.
There is very much better reason than
that for signing it, because a bill may be
exceedingly Objectionable in character
without In any manner disturbing the
prerogatives of the Executive, they not
being the only things to consider. 1t is
related by member OF General Fre-
mont's staff that before issuing his cele-
brated proclamation of emancipation he
submitted It, affer dinner, to the officers
Of his military household, who found
the real emancipation clause preceded by
by a dozen or more clauses beginning
with "Whereas,r each containing rather
an excuse than q reason for making it.
"About midnight, however," says the
narrator, General Fremont came into
the room where we were assembled dis
cussing the document, and with a stroke
of his pen struck out every whereas and
excuse, saying as he did so, Il shall issue
1t because it is right to issue it," Plcsi-
dent Hayes can best initiate the example
of General Fremont, and sign the bill
prohibiting the use Of troops at the polls
because ii is right he should sign it. No
body needs a better or higher excuse or
reason than that, and any other places
the giver of it at a disadvantage.
1t is one of the good or bad qualities
of great communities TO forget events
and circumstances In their history, and
to profit by them as little as possible ;
and this country has already forgotten
the great abuses which but few years
ago resulted from conducting elections in
one section of the country by Federal
troops recruited In and despatched from
another section. The elections, so-called
were as farcical as farcical could be, ol
they would have been except for the in
justice they wrought. This injustic'
consisted in making governments a
home for communities or commonwealth
which were composed of alien politica
Adventures, who, in most cases were al
so political robbers, and in selecting "a
Senators and Representatives in Congress
other alien political alventurers, who al
so were most frequently robbers. 1t
true they voted with the dominant part
in Congress, but it was that party thu
sent the troops TO their districts in orde
that they might be elected and vote wit
and for it. The wrong was so great tha
it filled all sections with shame and il
. dignation against and the party that di
it, and the worst thing for itself that I'll
Republican party ever did was control
ing the Southern States by use of troops
II the polls. The calm, wise, honest, p
{ triotic sentiment of the country rebellt
y against the injustice, until when i'll Is
IL the Republican Presidential Conventic
W met in Cincinnati it incorporated in
> platform, in Difference to the demand
II the indignant North, a plank plcdgil
n the party to q new and different Sout
y ern policy. No other pledge was mo
d distinctly made than that, and the Pre-
e dent elected upon that platform declar
u ON the day of his Inauguration that
l. the name of and on behalf of his par
e he would carry out that pledge. Il
ie name was Rutherford b. Hayes, and I
y first step he took towards making
III promise good was to withdraw the troo
from these Southern States where tn,
-, bayonets had controlled elections a
ID defeated the will Of the majority. To
ne consistent he should now approve I
" bill which says that troops and bayon
ha shall not be used agein as they W.
A. used for years to nullify elections, a
n make the will of the minority appear
70 be that Of the majority.
tn | CfciJ Caihcoes oiheciC
ld can, we wish the people of the Sol
as would forsake the error of their polite
~ ways that they would cease to
Democrats and become staunch Rep
licans but, again, with every earn
Is sincere Republican we recognize {
IT, they are entitled to their opinions e.
ny though they differ from ours, and tina
ny is against good cons ,ience, good pol
hu and the policy and the spirit of our
lor institutions to compel them to vote
'h- we do, or as we desire they should
.eu A solid Democratic South is Domo
ieo tic blunder Of gigantic proportions ;
III it may be urged, with some show of
oi priety, that nearly solid Republi
oss North is also blunder, and we she
most earnestly protest against the ST
- if it had the power compelling Us
choose alien Democratic government
- the aid of troops where there is a dc
. ed Republican majority. We have
to put the tight-gtting boot, which
- compelled the South to wear until
years ago, upon our own foot to