The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-05
The Veto.


vetoed the immediate deficiency bill. The
reasons given are substantially the same
as at the extra session and though more
guarded in his utteranoes, Mr.. Hayes
betrays his partisanship too clearly to
admit of a mistake as to his meaning. The
bill as passed, contained clause stating in
what manner the money appropriated
should be expended, and providing that
the special deputy marshs;s designated in
the appropriation bill. should be appoint
by the judge of the United States courts,
and further. that these deputies shall be
non-partisan or .virtaally SO, because an
equal number were required to be taken
from each of the political parties. There
was also clause requiring that the spec"
ial deputy marshals should be men of good
character and actual residents of the dis
tricts in which they served. This bill
also provided that the money appropriate
ed should be expended according to the
terms and 10 the manner prescribed by
Congress. This measure was a liberal
one. andswith any one but partisan pres
ident, would have received prompt appro-
val. It was beyond The power of Hayes
however, to resist the stalwarts who
demanded veto-and in compliance With
the wishes Of those to whom be owes his
official existence. Dir. Hayes sends to con-
gress veto However the present frau
iulens occupant of the White House may
seek to evade the real reasons
for his veto-however glibly he may
descans upon the prerogstives of the exec
utive, and pirate about the dangerous
example," ETC.. the real motive, the true
iuwardness so to speak, of Mr.. Hayes
action is 10 assist the stalwart managers in
the successful carrying out of their bull"
dozing tactics of 1878. By which thousands
of Democrats were driven from the polls
by hordes of deputy marsbais, and some
Of the most respectable men 10 New York
city thrust into dungeons, for the sole
purpose of preventing them from casting
their votes. Further. Mr.. Hayes knows
that without the help of an army of dis
reputable scoundrels labeled deputy mar
shals. the scheme to repeat the crime OF
1876 and count in Grant in 1880, will fail.
The proposed biIl-that which he has
vetoed, would reform this branch of the
service, and impart responsibility to the
corps of deputy marshals by com polling
their appointment from the ranks Of decent
sven, aud to be equally distributed among
the different parties. Under the old law,
the most disreputabie scamps can be ap~
pointed as speoial- deputies, and in a large
number of easea, the deputies were Sc
iected from the criminal classes, because
OF their Willingness to DO the dirty work
assigned them. II is mere blind to say:
That the clection laws are iudispensG-
Die to fair and lawful electionn" Hayes
and his partisan followers know there il
0ot the slightest rretext for these depR-
zies-they know that q .fairer election can
be secured without than with them
Mr.. Hayes realizes the fact, however, as
do his stalwart advisers, that these special
deputies are needed 10 do the dirty work
to terrorlze Observation-Disclosures cleo
ton footings, stuff ballot boxes and fix
things according TO the stalwart program
me. and bowling to the party mandate
the inevitable. MIR. Hayes makes
q further exhibition of party idoIatry by
vetoing a measure. which, if it became
law, would purify branch of the public
service, at present so damnablV corrupt as
20 be stencil in the nostrils of all decent
people. Mr.. Hayes could not have better
portrayed the weakness of his party than
has been demonstrated by his last veto.