The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. Nav 8. 1880

Inc IreSIu0uC Has greatly plOaSeu
the loyal people of the country by We
toing the Deficiency Appropriation Bill,
because it contained q political rider
changing the United States election
laws. which the President truly be-
lieves is not the proper way of chang
ing laws.
The efforts of the Democracy to
change these laws. after the United
States Supreme Court have declared
them constitutional, shows their deter
MinatiOn to obtain such control of the
election macL merry as will enable them
to repeat the frauds inaugurated in
1893 by Samuel j. Tilden, by which
the electoral vote of New York was
given to Gov. Seymour, notwithstand-
ing Gen. Grant received large major
ity Of the popular vote; also to enable
the Confederate Democracy at the
South to again repeat their tissue
ticket system, and thus secure a solid
South for the Democratic candidate
There is no Indication, judging from
the past, that the Confederate Demo
Gratis of the present Congress desire an
honest election. but absolute freedom
for rifle clubs and red-shirt ruffians at
the polls. and no interference with bal
lOt-bOx suffers and tisSue-ticket opera.
lions is what this Confederate Demo
cratic Congress demands.
AS an illustration of the feeling in
the South in regard to honest elections.
| quote from the Yozoo Sentinel in re-
gard to the election held at Yazoo
City, Mississippi, last week, which was
carried easily by the Democrats; :. Nc
grOes may also learn valuable lesson
from the election of Monday, and that
lesson is. that they will no more be al
lowed to array themselves in u solid
mass against the Democratic party, or,
in other words. against the white peo-
pie Of this place. II is time for the
negro to see that as a political factor
he is dead. except as a means of increas.
ing the strength of the South in the
Electoral College and in Congress. 1t
is best, therefore, for him to take a
philosophical view Of the surroundings
and yield to the inevitable, for by so
doing both he and the white man will
fare the better
The effects of the Democracy refus-
ing to pass appropriations for the pay
ment of United States Marshals and
their deputies unless burdened with a
political rider in regard to their duties
in the United States elections is bear
ing legitimate fruit. The United
States Court in New York City was
compelled to cease trying causes, as
there were no funds to pay jurors or
the marshal and his deputies. Let it
not be forgotten that there has been no
money to pay United States Marshals
or their deputies since July 1st, 1879.
and that the services rendered by these
officers since that time have been upon
their faith in the United States Gov
eminent paying them in full for all
services required by United States
laws, which the present Congress. UNI
der Confederate Democratic caucus
rule, has thus far refused to appr0pri-
ate the money for, although the money
is IN the United States Treasury; they
very we'll knowing that not a cent of it
can be expended without an act of
Congress authorizing the payment of it,
This at first may appear strange, but
when we look back a few years. and
learn that the men who, through the
caucus, control the legislation of Con-
gress. were engaged in the effort to
destroy this Government, the only
wonder is that loyal people should ever
have been so extremely foolish as to
enact such legislation that would ena-
bic any set of men who had made war
upon the United States Government
for it's destruction, in the course of a.
few years, to dictate what laws should
govern the nation.
Senator Blaine made an earnest, con-
vincing and eloquent speech against
the unseating OF Senator Kellogg, of
and asserted that there was
an agreement that when Senator But
Ter was admitted to his seat, Senator
kellogg was to be admitted, which
Senators Bayard and Butler indignant |
ly denied; but Senator Blaine showed |
from the Record that, in the remarks
of Senator Thurman upon the admis-