Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-04-13
The Free Ballot and Honest
Count Question.
THE OTHER SIDE.

THE OTHEh blDEs
WASHINGTON, April 1.-Two mo-
table speeches were made in the Senate
to-day, one by Mr.. Call, Of Florida, and
the other by Mr.. Vest, Of Missouri.
Both these Senators carried the war
INTO Africa, Mr.. Call took as his text
the cry for fair ballot and an honest
count, impartial suffrage, &c. the
charges upon which have been made
with so much iteration and relteralion b.
republican Senators, aud more especial
" by those from New England. He
reviewed the laws aud regulations con
corning the elective franchise in the
three States of Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island and Connecticut, and showed
what is already generally known, bul
seems somehow or other 10 have been
lost sight of, that such thing as im
martial suffrage or fair ballot is not tn
existence in either of those Common
wealths. By the laws Of all these
States thousands and thousands OF men,
white, not black, are absolutely dis
franchised, and in Massachusetts, as
Mr., Call exhibited on the most irrefu E
table evidence, system OF espionage
and terrorism over the voter is exercis-
ed by employers which has no parallel
even in the wild romances fabricated
bv the outrage shiekers about the South.
Ast to the Acknowledgement OF voters,
if the $1,000 or more colored voters OF
the State of Maryland who exercise
the right to deposit on every election
day their votes without let or hindrance
for the republican candidates should
emigrate IN body 10 the republican
State OF Massachusetts, not 1000 OF
them would be permitted vote under Its
laws. As TO the State Of Connecticut,
there never was such travesty on
popular government as it presents.
Mr.. Call. IN the course of bis speech
to-day. touched upon the representa-
ton IN the popula: branch OF the Legls-
laturt, and read from the apportion-
ment system, showing that towns and
cities Of from twenty te forty thousand
population were only allo we'd the sam
membership as towns Of from five
hundred to one thousand population D..
Mr.. Call omitted to mention that the
large towns are generally democratic,
while the small ones are republican. 1t
is about time that the New England
Senators were reminded that they
should take the beam out of their own
eyes before undertaking to remove the
mote fro the eyes Of others: II would
be much better if they would take their
new ally, Mr.. Malone, up into their
Sn section, and inaugurate the crusad
there, where it is most needed, tor tree
ballot and an honest count. Mr.. Vest
made both an eloquent and arsumen-
tative speech. Iu reply to the assertion
Ex-senator Sherman, few days ago
that no republican community had evel
repudiated, he gave a concise bu
graphic account Of the $5,OOO.OO0 ID
debtedness deliberately repJdiaLed BY
the republican State OF Minnesota
without one shadow Of justification ,anC
also cited the numerous instances q
Reputation by republican counties an
townships in the Northwest. Mr.
sherman was unable to make any ade
quate reply to ttis showing, but be wa
much more taken aback whom Mr.. Vest
quoting from the official correspondence
of the Treasury Departmen shove
that only eighteen months ago Mr.
Sherman had laid down the rule that an
federal official in Virginia found actint
with the repudiationlst or Malone par
ty would be removed.
rHF DEADLOCK.
Senators on the republican side OF th
chamber in the last two or three day
are inquiring very snxiously whelhe