The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

HAYES MAKES A MISTAKE,

The blunder of Hayes in the recent
veto, extracts the following from the
editor of the Philadelphia Times;
"If the Democrats could have directed
the action of the Executive to serve
their partisan purposes, they could not
have made him better promote their
interests. They refused to make appro.
priations for the Marshals at the extra
session because the Republicans would
not consent to modify the violent and
revolutionary powers of Deputy Mar
shals and Supervisors. and the Marshals
have necessarily suffered serious embar.
rassment in performing their legitimate
duties. When the present session took
up the Deficiency bill for the relies of
the Marshals, General Garfield pre-
scented an amendment of such admitted
fairness that even those who worked
against it could not assail its merits. 1t
was accepted by the Democrats as a
measure of peace and it was believed
that all dangers of a conflict between
the Democratic majority of Congress and
the Republican President was ended.
The bill thus amended by Garfield
was finally passed by both branches, and
the President was so far forgetful of the
dignity of his office as to permit it to be
announced, before the bill came into his
bands, that he would veto it and on what
ground he would base his objections.
The bill reached him on Monday, and
yesterday he responded with his veto.
When it is considered that the Garfield
amendment or political rider 70 which
he now objects, is in substantial accord
with his veto o the extra session, and
that it is a Republican and not a Demo-.
cratic invention, the honesty and SINGER
ity of the Executive will be justly APP.
preCiated. There is not q line in the
veto in which Hayes does not directly
contradict Hayes, both as a member Of
Congress who uniformly supported Re-
publican Riders and ae the President
who asked for substantially the same
law that he now rejects. Whether his
Causeless veto is the result of dupliCity
or weakness, is of little moment to the
country, for the public wrong is the
came in either case and that it is the
logical fruit of one or the other is too
clear to admit of dispute. 1t is a foolish
veto, foolish in every sense. 1t is fool
ish because likely to distract the bust.
ness and peace of the country it is
foolish as a party m asure, for 1t puts the
Republicans clearly in the wrong, and
it is foolish as an attempt to obstruCt thu
enactment Of honest election laws.
The Democrats have now a plain path
before them. The President is to be
recognized as one of the integral parts
Of the law making power, and the rider
to which he pretends to object should at
once be sent to him as a separate bill.
II he shall veto General Garfield's cleo.
ton law, the responsibility will be fairly
upon himself and his party. The Mar.
shals Deficiency bill should then be re.
enacted with the vetoed rider retained,
and II he shall again veto it, Congress
will have done it's duty and all appropri'
atoms for that department of the gov
eminent should be re~solutely refused.
1t is the first time in an issue with the
present Executive in which the Demo.
Gratis have been clearly and tquarely
right, and they can we'll afford to go to
the country on General Garfeld's plat.
form for honest elections. II would
seem that the follies of the Democrats
at the extra session had been trans.
ferred to the Republicans, and if they
shall persist in their madness, they must
be prepared to accept the popular repro
baton that met the Democrats in 1879.