The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-05-05

which have been established for the pro-
tecLion and guidance Of the Senate to
prevent the CoDsummation' that great
wrong. II.
We will invite you ever and continu-
.ocsly to 90 to the discharge of the pub
lie business. We will submit to your
guidance in the order and the transac
3on Of that business. We will faithfully
and inteligently and industriously con-
slider the nominations which your COM
rnittees report to us. We Will CONSIDER
according to the best of our ahiity and
advise acc cording to our best judgm ant as
20 the treaties which your committees
submit to our action; and when the pub.
tic business is all discharged we will
mite with you in sdjourning the Senate;
but we will not permit (muCh less
will we aid) the deseCration Of
Che holy things upon that altar, conse'
Grated to the discharge Of great public
duties, sacred to the discharge of great
public trusts dedicated to the service of
the country, and therefore for the ser.
vice of all parties, but for the partisan
uses of none, to be dragged from their
high places and made the instruments Of
petty political warfare and the spoils of
petty partisan triumphs. We will pre-
vent this wrong. You may call it inn
proper; you may call it irregular; you
may call it revolutionary; you may call
it reasonable; but we will prevent this
great wrong, as we think it, and then we
will appeal TO the people, our masters
and your masters, to decide the right be
tween us.
Mr.. President, this is no longer quss'
tion Of free ballot and fair count
The Senator from Illinois, Mr.. Logan
ggho ia not lust at this moment in his
rolace, with his fiery eloquenCe, seemed
70 desire fer day to give that phase
20 this struggle. The junior Senator from
Massachusetts, [ Mr.. Hoar who knows
now to depict every passion 80 strongly,
from mournful lamentation to fiery in
digna,ion, and who lends to the intensity
of his speech 80 much by his voice and
his manner and his tone and his facial
expression, seemed to me to speak with
rather bated breath when he remember
ed that he approached this subject of
fair count fresh from the triumphs of the
electoral commission. In the later days
of this debate we have heard very little
-7pon the subject of a free ballot and
fair count. It was too broad a farce.
Since when, should like to know, has
Che candidate for Sergeant-at Arms Of
the Senate been made the very paladin
of free ballot and fair countP Since
when, | should like to know, has he
1een made the bearer of the oriAamme
which marshaled the loyal hosts in that
crusade? Surely it must have been since
the time to which the Senator from
kentucky Mr.. Beck called our attention
when, being member of the Legisla
ture of Virginia, this candidate for Ser
geant.at Arms appea ed to the courtesy
OF fellow member to Civ him the
q DOR, and then returned the compliment
by moving to expel him. The man
whom he proposed to expel was "a man
and brother" He may not have been
the Moses of his race, but he was in the
very vanguard of those who were fol-
lowing some beCkoning Moses and had
reached the fair places of the Legisla
ture of Virginia. To use the poetic Ian
ayuage of the Senator from Massachusetts,
his sandaled feet were climbing to the
summit, the light o. the morning illum
,ined his brow, and like
Jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty noun.
tain-tOr,
with the glad tidings of great Joy to his
race, when this ruthless Riddleberger
Tnoved to expel him from the high places
which he had reached, because he was a
negro and debt payer, and Republic
an in particular, and nuisance in gen.
aaral. Since when, should like to know,
Is it that the division OF the Democratic
party in Virginia led by the Senator
from Virginia Mr., Malone has become
the champion, the special and par er-
CeUenCe champion of this battle for "a
free ballot and fair Count?" l have
Looked somewhat Curiously into the his
cory of that division of the Democratic
party, and 1 cannot iud that the special
championship of "a free ballot and fair
count" was ever attributed to it by the
Republican party Of Virginia or by the
Democratic party of Virginia or was
even clsined by that division of the
party itself.
My colleague has said that there mad
lJeen no bargain and 10 arrangement
and no trade in reference to this matter;
that those who said so were using un-
worthy words. Mr.. President, take the
statement of my colleague as he made it,
know nothing beyond the statements
of gentlemen and the acts which have
seen done here in public; but, sir,
know and all the world that knows any
thing about this matter knows that on
Friday the vote of the Senator from Vir
gina transferred to one.half Of the SEN
ate known as the Republican party the
control Of all the committees of the Sen.
ate, and that on Tuesday the caucus of
the Republican Senators unanimously
nominated for Sergeant.at Arms a man
FOR the introduction of whose name the
Senator from Virginia day or two after.
yard announced that he was alone re-.
sponsible.
[ put it to my candid friend from Iowa
who sits before me Mr.. Allisonl, if the
Senator from Virginia had not voted to
give the Republican party the control of
the committees of this body, would a
Republican caucus ever have heard of
che name of Riddleberger Would they
nave taken from the five millions of Re
Publicans who are ready to serve the
Senate in this capacity, would they have
1aken from them all, this Democratic
Riddleberger2 If my friend from Iowa,
with his usual modesty, does not like to
answer that question, 1 will transfer it to
the senior Senator from Massachusetts,
who has charge ofthis debate, and 1 will
ask his whether if the Senator from Vir.
ginia had not given the control of these
committees to the Republican half of
-5his Senate, the name of Riddleberger
would ever have been mentioned in your
caucus in connection with the nomina
tion ior an Office in the Senator
What silent tillH and silent allY
Mr.. Dawes,-Mr. President.
The Vice President. The Senator from
Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Dawe5.-The Senator from Ohio
does not unite do iuafina to tbiu s;Ja &c