Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-28

mittee In a Timely Address-DemOc-
racy's Aim Shown Not to be Free
Trade.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-The following
address, has been made public by the
National Democratic Committee:
NEW YORK, Oct. 81, 1884.
To the People of tie United States:
There is only one great issue involved in
this campaign. The question is whether the
country shall be. governed honestly and
quietly or corruptiy. The election Of Grover
Cleveland as President and Thomas A. Hen
bricks as Vice President will insure good
government. The election Of james G. Blaine
as President and John A. Logan as Vice Pres
ldent will insure bad government. Blaine
would not be purer President than
he was as Speaker and member of the
House of Representatives. You are
burdened with unnecessary taxes. One
hundred millions of money not needed to
defray the proper charges of the government
are annually taken from the people Of the
United States and kept in the Treasury. The
withdrawal of this enormous amount from
circulation has hampered your commerce,
depressed your trade, aud impoverished your
laqor. Blaine aided in the needless and reck-
less accumulation of this unnecessary surplus.
He is responsible for the mischief it has occa-
stoned. He cannot he trusted with its dis
bursement. The methods which he has en-
ployed in this campaign prove conclusively
that the administration of the government OF
this country ought not to be placed in his
hands. A candidate capable of using i'm
proper means to increase his chances OF elec-
tion to the Presidency would not, if elected,
discharge the duties of that office honestly.
THE OHIO OUTRAGE.
Blaine personally supervised the prepara-
tions made by his managers for their work in
the State election in Ohio on Oct. IA. 1t is
expressly provided by the existing statutes of
the United States that no man Snail be APP
pointed Deputy Marshal unless he is a quaii-
fed voter OF the city, town, county, parish,
election district or voting precinct in which
his duties are to be performed. 1t is certainly
the plain intention of the Federal law that
the deputies empowered to execute the duties
of Marshal of the United States should be
reputable men, leading decent lives and enjoy
ing the confidence of the community in which
they live. The plain provisions of the Federal
law were wholly disregarded in the late Ohio
election. Ruffians not living in the election
districts in which they were appointed to act,
and not, IN many instances. even citizens OF
Ohio, were armed by marshal of the United
States under the eye of B aine and used in
the districts to which they were appointed
with mis- knowledge, for the purpose of OBJ
tanning majorities by violence and fraud,
The effect produced by this outrage and re-
markable blow struck by Blaine at the rights
of citizens in Ohio has welded the Democratic
party in New York. There is no longer any
doubt as to the manner in which the electoral
vote of that state will be cast. The Democrats
and Independent Republicans, working hand
in hand in the cause of good government and
resolved to labor with all their might until
the end has been achieved, will
give in November an overwhelming ma
jority for Cleveland and Hendricks. Blaine
and his managers, despaIring of success in the
State of Now York, are attempting to carry
Indiana, New Jersey and Conn cticut by the
disreputable means employed in Ohio.
OHIO GOING DEMOCRATIC.
While they are struggling to accomplish
this evil purpose Ohio, rid of the sworn yag-
rant Deputy Marshals by which it was in
tested at the October election. is rallying with
n nd To vim.
name. In Indiana, New Jersey and Connecti-
cut men are forewarned and ready to meet
the issue. They understand that Deputy
Marshal who was not at the time of his an
pointmenta qualified voter of the city, town.
city election district, or voting precinct in
which his duties are to be performed
is an intruding mercenary whose calm to
authority no citizen is required to
respect. They know also the precise
limits of the authority of every supervisor,
Marshal or Deputy Marshal, general or
special, at the Presidential election. Each
State under the provisions of its constitution
determines for itself by whom and in what
manner its Presidential electors shall be
chosen. No supervisor of election Marshal
or Deputy Marshal of the United States has
power to interfere in the smallest degree with
any person claiming the right to vote for cleo
tors of President and Vice President Of the
United States. The functions Of these officials
are limited to Congressional elections, and it
is time that they should understand that there
are well defined bounds to their powers at
titled to vote in any State for delegates TO the
Legislature or General Assembly of such
State are entitled to vote in the respective
Congressional districts of such State for Rem
resentatives in Congress.
TO DETERMINE VOTER.
The power of determining upon the dav Of
any election the persons who are entitled to
cast their votes in any election district or
election precinct, any Congressional district
is vested primarily and exclusively in the
State judges of election of such election dis
trict or election precinct. Every inhabtant
OF each election district or precinct in a State
who asserts a claim to ballot has a right TO
go without hindrance upon the day of cleo
ton before the judges of election of his elee-
tion district or election precinct and make
claim to the privilege of a vote. No supervi-
sor of elections, Deputy Marshals or Marshal
Of the United States, no State officer and no
human being, be his authority
what it may, can lawfully prevent
for the purpose of making such claim. 1t is
for these judges of election to say whether
they will accept ballot from a man who
claims right to deposit 1t. The proper and
intended office of a Marshal and Deputy
United states Marshal at Congressional cleo
tions was to protect the voter on his Way to
the polls to submit to the judges of election
his claims to the elective franchise, to pre-
serve fit order while such claim was under
consideration, and to secure the arrest of |
those who were detected in attempting to de-
posit fraudulent vote in a ballot-boX under
the care of the judges of election. If such
Marshal or Deputies having this limited au-
thority usurp the right to arrest a citizen who
is proceeding peacefully to the polls, they
make themselves judges of election and
violently take into their own hands determin-
alton of the issue Of such election.
RESISTANCE LAWFUL.
They are wrong doers whom a citizen NAV
lawfully withstand and resist when he is thus
unlawfufly 1nterfered with. This interference
of a fufian gang, paid out of the public treas
ury, between the citizens and the ballot-box |
upon the day of any election, and especially |
upon the day of Presidential election, is un- |
questionably the greatest outrage which can |
be perpetrated upon a citizen of the United !
States. The Democrats and independent men
OF Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut,
knowing their rights and determined to main
tain them with their full and free votes, add |
the electoral votes of their States to the al |
ready assured electoral vote of the great State |
add misrepresentation to fraud in this |
campaign. They have denounced |
the National Democratic party as a sectional |
party. The 2,794479 Democratic votes cast /
in 1880 in the Middle States Western |
States and Pacific States, the l2,8S8 Demo- |
era tic votes cast in the border States of Della
ware, Kentucky, Maryland and West Vlr-
glnia in the same year, all now immensely
increased in number, were not sectional |
votes, but were the votes of people who love |
their country and cherish Its Constitution and /
form of government. These voters and the
Democratic and Independent voters of all /
States will manifest in no uncertain way in
November their opinion of the efforts made
by Blaine to kindle anew in the United States |
the fires Of sectional controversy. Blaine
claims credit for aiding in imposing duties on |
imports which purpose protecting American |
labor.
NO DANGER OF FREE TRADE.
The national debt Jan. l, 1865, was $780,
647 1859. 1t was necessary to lay largely in
creased duties on I'll imports in order to pro-
vide for the annual interest on this indebted |
ness and for sinking funds intended for its
These duties, increased for tho
purpose of providing for the public indebted |
ness necessarily afforded protection: but per
maps more wisely apportIOned duties might |
have been laid if Blaine had never been born.
or II the Republican party had ceased to exist |
IN ne a0 mati9nal W 1eDt on jan 1888, was $l,SS4.
Il l,12o. 1t Will require the imposition of high
duties upon imports to provide for the pay
ment of the interest on this great debt and for
tne increase OF the sinking funds intended |
for its redemption. The debt Of the |
United States is an obligation wlch is
will continue to be imposed, even if in the
Blaine should cease to be remem-
bered as public man. It is conceded by men
of all parties that these duties must be re- |
vised. Under q Republican President such |
revision would be made in the interest of cor
porations and individuals known as contribu-
tors to the Republican campaign funds. I'm |
der a Democratic President such revision will
be made in the interest of the whole people.
The National Democratic party has expressly |
declared that in revising the present apDor-
tionment OF duties it viii protect the labor
and capital involved in existing industries,
and that 1t Will always protect American la
bor and enable 1T to compete successfully with
foreign labor. This committee frankly con-
fesses to you that it has conducted this cam
paign against enormous odds.
CONTRASTING THE METHODS.
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