The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14
FIGHTING IT OUT.
Adjournment Until Monday to Permit Arthur
to Take Hand In Gutter Politics in New
York.

WASHINGTON, April THE pending
butiness, the resolution of the election
of Senate officers, was taken up, and a
motion to go into executive session,
made by Mr.. Pendleton, was voted
down yeas 20, nays 80.
Senator Vance addressed the Senate
on the subject of the State debt Of North
Carolina, denying that the debt had
ever been repudiated, and asserting
that one of the first acts passed by the
Legislature of that State after the war,
had been one providing for the pay
ment Of its indebtedness. Under the
force of the Reconstruction acts for the
first time in the history Of North Caro-,
lima, she had found herself compelled to
repudiata any Of her obligations; that
she had to do it at the dictatiOn Of the
loyal, non'repudiating, honest and vir-
tuous Republican party of the North it
was not the voluntary action Of the peo-
pie of North Carolina. The Republican
side he said, coming down to the ques-
ton of the election of officers, had in
Quired why the Democrats would not
vot, for Riddleberger That was the
shifting issue. The question was, how
could the gentlemen on the other side
support himP He was rebel, an unra.
pentant rebel; Democrat, an unre-
pentant Democrat; a ReaC juster an un-
repentant Readiuster. How could they
forgive him2 What was the object of
thei. supporting himP He objected to
the manner in which the Republican
party had undertaken to foist a Candi.
date upon the Senate, because it was in
defiance of the whole plan of political
salvation. Riddleberger had been taken
up in his sins, unrepentant and unshriv-
en-, and b. en- translated into the heaven
of Republicanism without having tasted
of death. Laughter.
Mr.. Kellogg made speech upon the
North Carolina debt question, asserting
that since that State has been under the
control of the Democrats the debt has
been scaled down from $26,0O00 900 to
$4,0OO,OOO, the result of the reputation
e 900 mn nm
A long discussion ensued, the North
Carolina Senators answering Kellogg's
charges and denying that that State had
in any manner repudiated any of it's
honest obligations.
Mr.. Ransom called attention to the
fact that the 4 per cent bonds of North
Carolina we're quoted at eighty.fve
cents on the dollar, and he appealed to
the Senator from Ohio (Sherman) to
state whether that was not a high
price for State bonds.
Mr.. Sherman replied it was a fair
price for per cent State bonds.
After some discussion, Mr.. Call chal-
lenged any Republ can Senator to pro.
duce any evidence to prove there has
been either intolerance, ostraCism or vi
olenCe of any kind on account of politi
cal opinions in the Southern State. In
the course Of his remarks he made some
illusions to Mahone's Democracy, and
was reminded by Sherman Malone had
been elected against the fierce opposition
of the Bourbon Democracy.
Mr.. Harris-Did not the Senator hear
the Senator from Virginia say he was
better Democrat than tie Senator from
Georgia (HilDP a.H
Mr.. Shermau-0h l have heard many
times am better Democrat in literal
sense of the word than any man on that
side. For what is the meaning of Dem
oCracyH Equality, love of liberty, equal
rights.
Mr.. Call then went into an exhaustive
history of the carpet bag Government,
dwelling at some length upon the cor
ruptions and infamy which had Charac-
terized these governments. II was
frequently interrupted by Mr.. Blair,
who asserted that the carpet-bag gov
ernments had assisted materially the
prosperity Of the South.
Mr.. Beck said next week he would
show the Senator (Blair) the statements
he had been making in laudation of car
pet.bsggism were not only untrue in the
eyes Of the American people but were
such as would meet with no response
except from q few men who hated the
South. He would make his speech next
week. Of foourse thing would continue,
for the Republicans were afraid to 60 in.
to executive session. They were afraid
to face the division which would there
be found, and they therefore kept up
this wrangle
Mr.. Call then resumed his speech.
He denied the right of suffrage was re-
striCted in the South and criticised with
great earnestness the laws which in
Massachusetts did restrict that right.
He also charged that many voters in
that State had been deprived of free bal
lot by the influence of money and by
the influence of corporations. This
brought Dawes and ELOar to their feet in
emphatic denial of the existence Of any
such state of facts, and long discussion
ensusd. the Massachusetts Senf tors
holding no man in that State was de-
prived OF his right Of suffrage except by
his own choice, and Call contending
that the elections in the Southern
States were fairer and freer than those
held in Massachusetts. at the end of
this discussion, on motion Of Mr.. Burn
side the Senate adjourned until Mon
day yeas, %; nays, 16, the negative
vote being cast by the Democrats.