Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-10-21

and ID eHeciing these arrests. ssslUev
we're Instructed. mBdnr advice fsusm glA@
Attorney General of ihe Unifed Saageus
10 submit 20 no interference from any
quarter under State eF municipal an-
thuFity." Can such things be I and yet
Amenean citizens talk calmly oF that
party not daring % resort % dssperala
measuFes
But dizress. NJ. Edmunds 20 ID
IN the Seuate Hnd. - 6sou. asued ~
elFuktsons 20 the Executive braaeh IS
lae Government. Mr.. Hayes accord
xstoed Nh BasaF2 bill alssE j
had passed both Houses.
Later. Mr.. Garfield introduced bin,
Substantially the same as Mr.. BayaFsPa,
providing that the appointment OF dep
uty-marshals and assistant supervisors
be taken out Of the hands Of the Fede.
ral authorities and given 70 the local
Estate, beIieve,) Judges. and provid-
ing that these Offices should be divided
between Republicans and Democrats,
and that these should be citizens Of the
Congressional districts in which they
were respectively 10 exercise their
functions. When this bill was brought
to a vote, the Democrats having taken
il up and Representative S. s. Cox hav-
ing roweled every Republican OF any
distinction in the House to bring the
party mp to consistency, Il was voted
down. the Republican caucus bull-dox-
ing Mr.. Garfield into Votiag against his
otca measure.
Now, this sction seems at FIRST sight
only accountable to insanity or idiocY,
unless there was an after-thought de-
veloped in the caucus which has not
yet been promulgated TO the world.
And yet the innocent Democratic rsh-
BIZ seems content 10 view II compla-
Gently as an intellectual breaking up Of
the Republican fox. ra't
The Republicans are not insane nos
idiots. Given.
What was the determination arrived
at in that caucus, so momentous
that the party afterwards had the un-
blushing aArontery TO put up for their
exponent The very maa they then forced
under the party lash to stultify himself?
Answer. To retain this election law as
an instrument Of force, without even
technical Legitimacy 10 hold themselves
IN power II the tvOrst should come 10 tke
worsf, and 10 arrest enough Of Demo-
Gratis at the polls on the 2nd OF Novem-
Der 10 prevent Democratic majority.
Absurd as the question may seem, what
is to prevent them z
Public opinion BAIL What Fes-
spect have they forpublic opinion which
they have so often slapped IN the face
with impunIty Did public opinion
prevent Napoleon Ills coup d. etst
when he could clap every member Of
the States General (as | think she
French parliamentary assembly was
then called) into PRISON in night and
declare himself Emperor the next dsys
We have a de facfo Government now,
have we not Well, il we de facfO are
not allowed 10 cast more votes next
month, we will de facto not have cleo
ted our man. What are you going 20
do about its Where is our court Of
resourcei
OIL but we will not allow ourselves
TO be arrested on election day; strong
right arm 'and all that sort Of thing
What is one strong right aFm!'-for does
il not appear that this thing, being done
all over the country in one day, there
can be no communication for co-opera-
ton, so that all the strong right arms
arrested will be reduced TO the help
lessness Of one strong right arm over
whelmed without rescue or appeal
We smiled in our childhood at the
simplicity Of the peoples Of whom the
histories nagvely tell us Richard Ill.,,
after numbering all intermediary heirs
70 the throne, one 6ne morning de-
clared himself King; the mob took il
up outside Of the palace; he was crown
ed, reigned, ETC.; and we dazedly asked,
what sort Of peoples were these that
they would tamely submit to such trans
parent outrage, etc.i
Well, my dear little democratic rab-
bit. these peoples didn't see through
the transparency, and we are no smart
er than they, for we are about TO sub
NIT to Just such a coup d. etat now, a.
surely as we are at present tamely
wearing Just such al iIlegitimate yoke,
unless we become converted TO the To-
tai Dsprarity Of the Republican party;
and we've only one month left TO ''be
born again" out of our infantile nm
regrneTateness. Lorl me how is
II going 10 occur? This way. First,
Johnny Davenport il going 10 re-
ceive orders from ConkIing and Jewett;
bis patriotic appointees are going to
serve their country on contingent pay
quoad, after their party secure the
means, the Democratic majority vote is
not going 70 be cast, ergo, the Garfield
electors are going TO be elected de faef0,
arid then these Garfield electors are GO
ing 70 east their ANONYMOUS ballot IN The
Electoral College for United States
Grant, who has been sufficiently bFu-
talized 10 oundertake a Military Despotism
without further subterfuge or pretext.
Why My gracious! how are We to
prevent IL
Why, your present correspondent
10 to serve due notice upon the 5th Con-
gresional District voters of its impen-
dency, through the BEAcoS, and wiser
heads are 70 organize measures to pre-
renf The redge from making fke first en-
try. How this mysterious phenomenon
is 20 be engineered, my main strength
and awkwaFdness suggest nothing bet