The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-16
Free BallO, and Honest Count.

The Washington correspondent Of The Bal
tirnore SuH, Of March IL, says;
Two notable speeches wvw made in the senate
today one By NJ Gail, d Florida and the cher BY
M Ve.t. Of Missouri. Both these Senators carried
the war into Aries MI Call took A. his text the
cry slr fAiE ballot and honest count impartial
suffrage. &C. the charges upon which have hccu
made with 80 much iteration and reiterat.on - ~
publican SENATOR and more especially by those from
New England He reviewed the laws and regula-
lions concerning the elective franchise In the three
states Of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and C0nnee.
sicut. and showed what Is already generally known
but seems somehow other have been los; sight
or that such a thing impartial saGiGge or fair
ballot Is not In existence In either Of those Common
wealthS by the laws OF all these States thousands
aud thousands Of men. white not black, are Also
luiely disfranchiscd and in Massachusetts, as Mr.
Call exhibited on the most irrefuiahle evidence. a
system Of espionage and terrorism the voter Is
exercised By employers which has no parallel even
in the Wild romances fabricated by the outrage
shrickers about the South As to the disfranchise-
ment Of voters II the 90 eolored voters OF
the state OF Maryland who exercise the right TO de
posil every election day their votes withoutetor
hndrance fot the republican candidates shaald en-
igraie IN body 20 the republican State Of Msssa
ehuset;s not 1000 % them would be permitted 10 vote
under its laws As the state at Connecticut there
never was such trayesty on popular government
as IL presents Mr. Call in the course Of his speech
touched upon the representation in the popular
branch Of the Legislature and read from the appor
tonment system showing that towns aud cities Of
from twenty to forty thousand population were only
allowed the same membership towns and cities OF
from 1--WE hundred to thousand population. Mr..
Call omitted 10 mention that the large towns are
generally democratic while the small are re
publican It is abont 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 from the eyes OF Others. II would
be much better If they would take their new ally
Mr.. ahone. up into their own section, and inaugu
rate the crusade there where it is most needed for
free ballot and an honest count Mr.. Vest made
both an eloquent and an argumentatiye speech In
reply TO the assertion of Senator Sherman few days
ago that no rel ublcan community had ever repu-
dated he gave a concise but graphic account Of
the 100000 indebtedness deliberately repudiated
by the Republican State Of Minnesota, without one
shadow Of justification and also cited the
instances of Reputation by Republican counties and
townships in the Northwest Mr.. Sherman was I'M
able to make any adequate reply this showing but
he was much more taken absck when Mr.Yest, quot
ing from the official correspondence of the Treasury
Department showed that only eighteen months ago
Mr. Sherman had laid down the rule that any federal
official in Virginia found acting with the repudia-
ZIONIST or Malone party would be removed