The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-01
Congressional.
FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS-.
U. 8. MARsHALs AT THE POLLS.
Tho Thieves and PenItentlaly Birds Who do
Republican Work at the Polls - g. B.
Cox OF New York, and Mr.. Fin
ley Of Ohio.
HOUSE,

got in some good liCks. We give an ex'
tract of the proceedings, givings. s, Cox
and Mr.. Finley's remarks:
Mr.. Cox-I oppose every form OF rec
ognition Of these Supervisors or Deputy
Marshals. l opposed the bill by which
originally these men were placed around
our polls. l have seen them sometimes,
when acting in conjunction with the mu'
nicipal and State authorities, behave
we'll. On the other hand, have known
occasions when, according to testimony
which cannot doubt, they have be-
haved i'll for instance, in the city Of
Philadelphia, where monstrous frauds
were committed as the evidence will
show--where twenty thousand fraudu-
lent voters were registered; while in
New York
Mr.. O'Neill-The gentleman's asser.
ton in regard to Philadelphia has been
utterly disproved time and again,
Mr. Coz-I supposed that my friend
from Philadelphia was asleep but if he
is very anxious l will read him a little
chapter from the report of a committee
that examined this subject fully;
At the last election in Philadelphia
That i, the election in 1876
II appears from the testimony the registration
was from twenty-five to thirty thousand exces-
siye, In the city of Philadelphia, with popula'
ton of about eight hundred thousand, the regis
tration of last year was over one hundred and
eighty.six thousand, while in the city OF New
York, with a population nearly fifty per cent
greater, the registration was but one hundred and
eighty three thousand
The fact of the excessive registration In Phila-
dephia becomes more apparent when II isknoWn
that over twenty thousand Of the names register
ed were successfully attacked, and the names
stricken off or marked with red cross,
Mr.. ONE Il rose.
Mr.. Cox Now let the gentleman sit
down.
The Chairman-The gentleman from
New York declines to yield to the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania.
MrCox-My friend from Philadel phia
has never INDUCED in any unparliament.
sry conduct or language toward me,
Therefore excuse his former Interrupt
ton if he will only sit down now.
Mr.. O'Neill-1 will sit down until the
gentleman again states something that
| know not to be fact.
Mr., Cox-The gentleman has no right
to interrupt me until get through my
five minutes. will rut the ''red cross"
on him if he does not conform to the
rules. [Laughter.I
Let me read further from the same re-
port:
And II is matter of no little surprise that over
nine tenths of the names thus attacked In court
were 30 attacked by Democratic petitions Ac-
cording to the evidence, the courts to which
those petitions were returned were engaged for
month previous to the election In trying lhose
cases alone; and but for want of time very many
more names would have been stricken OIL, nine
~ petitions which had been returned not having
been reachSd In the investigation by the courts.
This was all substantiated by testi.
mony. But in New York-so often
abused here by reckless and ignorant
people (laughter) fifteen hundred
complaints were filed, and three hun
dred persons arrested. According to the
testimony of the Supervisor Davenport,
men were frightened away from the polls
by the advertisement of their names. Of
the three hundred men arrested, ninety
per cent. were allowed to vote as legal
voters after fair trial by the United
States Court. That was because in that
election in New York there was, for the
sake of peace and safety, an arrangement
between the State, the municipal and the
Federal officers to act in concert in keep"
ing the peace, and to have, if possible, a
fair election. But in Philadelphia it was
all rottenness-fa seeming outside, but
inside full of dead mems bones" They
literally voted dead men, but some times
q dead mans vote was challenged be-
cause he had not been buried in the
proper precinct
I am only amazed and surprised to
hear my friend from Philadelphia max.
ing a merit of this thing in the City of
Brotherly Love. Thered cross has been
used by associations for better purposes,
and the red cross knight has borne his
banner without shame or fraud upon
other fields.
l am opposed to recognizing this Fed.
eral supervision over our elections. L
voted against this bill in 1871-72 because
knew il was unconstitutional. (Laugh.
ter on the Republican side,) Ay, smile
CraCkle your thorns under a pot. The
Supreme Court had said there was rot
such thing as Federal election, only
a State election, and, sir, for one will
not place the Supreme Court as now
packed, partisan and demoralized, above
the popular branch of the Legislature of
this country. loud applause on the
Democratic side.)
Mr.. Finley The gentleman from
Pennsylvania, who seems to be 30 par.
ticularly tender whenever any thing is
said about the politicians of his State,
passed an enComium q moment ago on
some of the leadiag politicians there.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, know nothing
about the politicians of Pennsylvania ,ex.
Cept what find in the newspapers. Go
occasionally see something about them
there-and case in point: find that a
large number of the Republican polti-
clans of that State are now under indict-
ment for attempting to bribe and pur-
chase the Legislature. One af these gen.
tlemen, w. H. Kemble, President of the
Peoples Bank, of Philadelphia, and a
Republican ex.Treasurer of State, came
into open court the other day and plead.
ed guilty to having gone into the Legis'
lature and attempted to bribe the mem.
bers.
But he talks about the Marshals in his
district. Why. Mr.. Chairman, of the 700
marshals employed iu Philadelphia in
the last election, 1 find from report of
q committee of the other House, that 19
of them were convicted of crimes, such
as burglary, murder, etc. Two OF them
were keepers of houses of prostitution,
two kept low doggeries, and all OF them,
every one, was an active working Re.
publican at the polls, who wore the badge
Of special deputy marshal. daughter
Twill give the gentleman the names
Of some Of his constituents, and proba-
bly, he will remember them. One is
Philip Madden, he was special deputy
marshal at the polls, who had been con.
viCted of highway robbery and served