Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-03-26
How the GrccnbackerS Stand.
( Special to the Tribune.

WAsHtNGroN. March 23.-The Grecnback-
united line of action in reference to the politi-
cal amendments to the appropriation bills.
They are not at all likely, however to divide,
as is generally supposed they would, and vote
on these particular questions according to
their own individual political antcccdents.
Nearly all of the delegation declare them
selves in favor of repeating the test oath and
forbdding troops to be at the polls. and all of
them with the exception perhaps of Mr.. Ladd
of Maine, are opposed to the unconditional re-
peal of the federal election laws. Mr. Ladd,
although he voted with the democrats to seat
Mr.. Hull from Florida, and has since entered
a democratic caucus, is still claimed by the
Nationals as one Of their party, and will. I'M
doubtcdly vote as the ma jority of the Ma
tionals may decide.
The grcenbackers assert, and there seems
to be good reason to believe, that the vote in
the House few days ago in the Hull case
showed to the democrats the risk that would
attend an attempt to force a repeal of the cleo
ton laws in the House; and the fact, no"
well known to democratic leaders, that none
of the Nationals of democratic antecedents
can be depended upon to support democratic
partisan measures. has influenced the demo
Gratis in recedng from the defiant position
they assumed prior to the adjournment of
the last Congress, and to offer the compromise
now being prepared by the Joint Committee of
| twenty-five.
! 1t may seem singular, on the first state
ment of it, that among the most earnest OPP
ponents Of the entire repeal of the supervis-
! tl,.. AL a.,
two Southern members. Messrs. Lowe, of
Alabama and Jones, of Texas. but such is
nevertheless is the fact. Onc of these gen
tlcmen (Mr. Lowe saw the wholesome effect
of this law in the canvass which resulted IN
his own election To Congress. and the other
gentleman Clones although he did not take
/ advantage of the law and select supervisors
| to watch the polls and secure Il fair return of
| the vote, sees plainly enough how his maiori-
| " might have been considerably incr,a ,cd
/ had he done SO. Colonel Loves opinions on
| the supervisor law. based on his experience
in the campaign in Northern Alabama last
Autumn. and his assertions regariin. the
Bourbon Democracy in that section of the
South are very interesting. He says that
/ the law rs it now stands on the statute book
is a Just and a fair one that the general ten
dencv Of the law everywhere must be to pre-
vent fraudulent voting by ballot-box suffers
and repeaters, and also to prevent unprnci-
Piled workers at the polls from decciving ig-
norant voters and that without it it would
be impossible for any opponent of the Bour-
bon Ring Democracy to obtain fair and hon
est expression of the will of the people, both
black and white, at the polls in Alabama.
Colonel Lowe is also of the opinion that
the United States Marshal clause should be
/ rptainpI in the Law and ha THINKS that
shals are needed more in the large Northern
cities than in the South. In large cities like
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore false
registration, fraudulent voting and repeating
are systematized. This is kind of fraud
comparatively unknown in the South, and
justties the presence of marshals and their
deputies at the polls to make immediate ar
rests for such violations of law and good gov
! prnmpnt