The clarion., 1884-12-10
The Ohio Plan.

The House of Representatives, and |
the country through the Congressional
Record, have been entertained by a |
breezy debate in which the extraordi-
nary methods employed by Republican
officials to carry the election in Ohio
were revealed. The illegal measures of
violence and intimidation alleged to
have been customary in the Southern
States pale their efectual fires before
the outrages on the freedom of the bal
lot in the stalwart Republican State of
Ohio.
On the End inst, Mr.. FoLLETT, Dem
ocrat) of Ohio, introduced the following
resolution for the impeachment of LOT
WRIGHT, L. 5. Marshal of the Southern
District of that State:
/ do impeach Lot Wright, United
States Marshal of the southern district
of Ohio, of high crimes and misde
neanors. charge him with usurpation
OF power and violation of law;
In that he appointed large number
of general and special deputy marshals
to serve at the several voting precincts
in the city of Cincinnati, in the State of
Ohio, at an election for members of
Congress, held in said city, on the 18th
day of October, A. ID. 1884, and armed
said deputy ~ Ishals with pistols and
other deau.y weapons said to have been
furnished by the War Department of
| the United States Government;
In that large number of the deputy
marshals so appointed and armed were
notorious criminals and men of known
vicious and brutal habits and repu:a-
tion, and many of them non-residents of
| said city of Cincinnati, and of said State
of Ohio;
In that the said deputy marshals, act
| ing under his orders and directions,
aided, abetted and encouraged fraudu-
lent voting, intimidation of voters, and
gross outrages upon the elective fran
chise and the rights of the honest voters
of said city, in furtherance of the inter
ests of political party and its candi-
dates; therefore,
Resolred, That the Committee on Ex-
penditures in the Department of Justice
| be required and directed, as soon as the
same can reasonably be done, to inves-
tigate such charges and report to this
House.
Resolced That in making such inves-
tigation the said committee be empOw-
cred toappoint a subcommittee of three,
| consisting of the chairman of said COM
mittee and such other two members
thereof as he may select, which sub-com.
mittee shall have full power to meet and
hold its sessions at such times ana places
as may seem proper, to send for persons
and papers, to compel the attendance
of witnesses and to require them to tes
tify, to employ a stenographer, and tC
incur any and all such necessary and
reasonable expenditures as may be
deemed requisite for the purposes OF
such investigation, such expenditures tc
be paid out of the contingent funds oi
the House.
In the course of the spirited discus
sion which followed the introduction o.
the resolution, Mr.. FoLLETT said:
Now, Mr.. Speaker, as | said before
.i,sre is and can be but one purpose il
--~tutioas and ia these charges
Ieese Ie re-, "a the Government ha4
been guilty of what l be.., 'T's 90 ttsF e e
tigation will show that he was gu...
if for the purpose of securing a peacea-
BILE election, quiet at the polls where
there were no armed men, it was neces
sary to select men who could neither
write nor read, known for their brutality
and armed with British bulldog revoi
vers, to say to them, ''You have your
weapons; go out and use them"-if that
is the method to secure a peaceable
quiet and orderly election in the United
States, then in the name of God let us
know it.
After considerable resistance by the
Republican members, the resolution
was passed; and the country will have
the benefit of the proof of the high
handed measures resorted to by
Republican officials for the purpose O
carrying the Ohio elections.