Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-09

iiot ds CoHHTcSS tlctate. O1ncltl uOcu
mentS show that the whole number OF voiun-
teers enlisted during the war was 2,67S ,967
Does any sensible man suppose that the l.
coin furnished 1868 967 volunteers, or that
his supporters alone could or did suppress Il
rebellion entered into. as Republicans pre-.
Electors and ls7 ;5a2 for Electors OF
Lincoln's majority over Douglas in the State
was only ,9I6. and over all only 5,f2I, and
yet Illinois sent 259,l41 troops into the field.
Do not these figures demonstrate beyond all
question that the Democrats well as Re-
pubicans united in the suppression of the re-
bellion? What think you, my countrymen of
party which to maintain itself in power can
thus belle history, and, like the unworthy son
OF noble ancestry, seek to cover up its cor
ruDtions and crimes by the halo which sur
rounds those from whom it claims descent?
But have not done with this false claim of
the Republican party l propose to-day to
the dupes of deniagogues can longer be guled
by it. The Democratic State of Missouri alone,
in which Mr.. Lincoln received but II OPS votes
in 1850, furnished I09,ll1 men to the Uuion
Army-a greater number than was furnished
BY an the Republican states of Vermont,
Rhode Island, Minnesota. Nebraska and Kan
sas put together. Neither Michigan Wiscon-
sin or Iowa furnished lnnny troops to the
Union Army as Missouri.
DESPERATE SCHEMES TO RETAIN CONTROL OF
THE GOVERNMENT.
During the war the National Government
necessarily exercised extraordinary powers
tor the suppression of the rebellion; powers
which in peaceful times properly belong to the
States, and thus the party having control of
the National Government gradually accus-
toned Itself to assume mole and more au-
thOrity, till in 1868, i'll order to remove the OBJ
stacle to its exercise OF supreme control, its
stalWart leaders undertook to impeach and
remove from office the President of the United
States for alleged political offences. FORUM
ately this unconstitutional attempt, by mad
dcned partisans, to uSurp the executive au
thoIity of the Nation was defeated. Had it
succeeded, the next step would have been to
of the supreme Court as stood in the way of
its exercise of supreme authority, and our
government Cover, would at once nave been con n
the partisan leaders OF the party in power.
Since then the party has sought, by Narious
devices to perpetuate its supremacy, and has
thus far succeeded against the declared will
OF the people. Ii this charge is true and can
be mace good, no man OF any party who be-
lieves in government by the people can
longer sustain it. Why should a freeman of
any party go to the polls if effect is not given
TO ms Vofe! Is not an election mockery
when the party in power has adopted ma
chinery for conducting it and counting the
votes by which it can perpetuate its supre.
What has the Republican party done unfairly
to perpetuate its control? Until 1870, it was
Of te National Haay t5
interfere with the conduct of elections
by the people OF the respective states 1t was
then that the Republican party, distressing
the capacity OF the people to fairly conduct
their elections undertook by an act of Con-
gress to provide for their supervision and con-
troll by ederal officials. This was done under
pretense of regulating the mode of clectng
Representatives to Congress, but as they are
elected az the same time as Electors of Presi-
dent and Vice President and State officers in
nearly all the States these Federal officials in
fact supervise nearly all the State elections.
Electors of President and Vice President their
acts are clearly unconstitutional, for that in
President and vice President shall be appoint
ed i'll such manner as the Legislature thereof
may direct. Any interference in the manner
of their appointment by act of Congress or
Federal officials must therefore be without
authority. But so far as Congress can inter
fere all viii agree that such interference
partisan. Tested by this rule. to which every
fair minded man will assent, what is the law
provides that the Judge of the United States
Circuit Court, on being applied to prior to any
election at which a Representative in Con
greSS is to be elected, Shall appoint two citi-
Zcns of different political parties for each
election precinct i'll the district, who are to be
present at the registration of voters, to scru-
tinize the same, and cause such names to be
Psopss; They "a, are 'ns also % rsSnirs% %sS to
any voter whose legal qualifications they may
doubt, and personally to scrutinizc and cOull5
This provision OF the statute if the National
Government is to interfere at ALL is apparent
ly fair, rs the Supervisors are TO be taken from
different political parties But what shall be
said of the other provisions of the act of Con-
gress which authorize the United States Mar
Shall, an appointee of the President and usu-
ally violent partisan, to appoint many
Deputies as he pl@ases all OF his own political
faith, in every city in his district of twenty
inhabitants or upward, with power
to preserve order at the places OF registration
and at the polls, to prevent fraudulent regis
tration, fraudulent voting or fraudulent con
duet on the part of any election officer, and to
arrest, with or without process, any person
who commits or attempts or offers to commit
any act prohibited by the laws of the United
tate MarShnIS ed
this extraordinary power to be exercised mt
their discretion are to serve ten days and be
readily see how such q power aS this may he
used to control elections in the hands of an
shals employed ut Government expense may
all be active partisanS of the party that ap
points them, and use their autnoiit y to arrest
and drive their opponents from the polls.
" hal party once i'll power could not perpctu-
ate itself with such machinery nj Its disposal:
Under the pretcnsc of Prev nting fraud ii
has the means OF perpetiating the grOsScSt of
frauds.
The speaker then proceeded to show the
and character of some of tie Deputy
Marshals appointed in 1878 to supervise the
elections in New York City and Philadelphia,
many Of them being notorious thugs and CON
EictS. IN New York, some thirteen hundred
of these officials were aDpOinted: in philadel-
phia there were seven hundred and seventy
three-sll Republican partizans. and appoint
ed and controlled for the sole purpose of fur
thering Republican interests, but paid five
dollars per day each out of the Federal Treas
lTN. III 'cN ~ IVY 'ihNNi Wv
John l: Davenport. just prior
to the election of 1876 twcnty-siX nun
bred natulalized voters were sumnalily
under. the pretence that their
papers were illegal, because
the Clerks of the Courts by whom they were
granted had not, i'm his opinion, made Il proper
of them. just prior TO the election of
1873, this process was repeated by Davenport, !
and some three thousand more were arrested, |
and their naturalization papers taken away
from them by this man Davenport who had
no more right to override the Courts and de- |
clare the naturalization papers they issued |
than had one OF YOU. But few OF
the persons arrested on the charge OF having
fraudulent papers were ever bl ought to trial,
and all who were were discharged, their ma
EQUALIZATION papers being held valid, the
courts deciding that all the records required
had been made by the Clerks, and if it had
not it was no fault of the citizen who had be-
come naturiizGd and that he could not be
deprived of his rights by reason of the failure
of IA clerk to do his duty. Davenport, how
ever accomplished his object, and by his arDi-
trary and lille gal acts prevented and deferred
of lawful voters from casting their
TOteS......
Call you an election conducted under such
auspices tree, fair or honest? And to pay all
these Marshals and Supervisors and for these
unlawful arrests the peoples money l. used.
One hundred and eighteen thousand nine
hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty
six cents was thus used in the City OF New
York alone in connection with the election OF
1876. Some of this money went TO pay for the
rent OF rooms. carriage hire and like Dur-