The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-11-04

Citizens who are entitled to vote in any
State for delegates to the Legislature OF
General Assembly of such State are en-
titled to vote in the respective Congress
slonal Districts of such State for such
Representatives i'll Congress. The power
Of determining upon the day of any cleo
tion the persons who are entitled to cast
votes in any election district or election
precinct of any Congressional District is
vested primarily and exclusively in the
State Judge of the election of such cleo
tion district or election precinct. Every
lnhabitant of each election district or pre-
cinct in the State, who asserts claim to
the ballot,has the right to 60 without hind
rance upon the day of election before the
Judges of election of his election district
or election precinct, aud make claim to
the privilege of vote.
No supervisor of elections, msrshals, or
marshal of the United States, no State
officer and no human being, be his author
ity what it may, can lawfully prevent his
access to tie judges of election for the
purpose of making such claim. 1t is for
these Judges Of election to say whether
they will accept the ballot from the man
who claims the right to deposit it.
The proper and intended Office of the
marshall and deputy United States mar
shall at Congressional elections was to pro-
tect the voter on his way to the polls, to
submit to the Judge of election his claims
to the elective franchise, to preserve fit
order while such claim was under consid-
Grafton, and to secure the arrest OF those
who were detected in attempting to de-
post fraudulent votes in the ballot box
under the care Of the judges of election
If such marshal or deputies, having this
limited authority, usurp the right to az
rest citizen VINO is proceeding peacefully
to the polls, they make themselves Judges
of election and violently take in their own
bands the determination Of the issue of
such election. They are wronedoers
whom the citizen may lawfully with
stand and resist when he is thus unlaw-
fully intertered with.
This interference Of ruffian gang, paid
out of the public treasury, between the
citizen and the ballot box upon the day
of any election, and especially upon the
day of a Presidential election, is unques-
tionably the greatest outrage which can
be perpetrated upon citizens of the United
States
The Democrats and Independent men
Of Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut,
knowing their rights, and determined to
maintain them with their full and free
votes, will add the electoral votes of their
States to the already assured electoral
vote Of the great State of New York
Blaine and his managers add misrepre-
sentation to fraud in his campaign. They
have denounced the National Democratic
party as sectional party. The 2,794,47
Democratic votes cast i'll 1880, in the Md
die States, Western States and Pacific
States, the 5l2, ,SSS Democratic votes cast
in the border States of Delaware, Ken
lucky, Maryland and West Virginia in
the same year, all now immensely in
creased in numbers, were not sectional
votes, but were votes of people who love
their country and cherish its constitution
and form of government.
These voters and the Democratic Inde-
pendent voters of all the States will mani
fest 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 the credit for aiding in
the duties on imports, which
purpose protecting American labor.
The national debt January /, 1865, was
was s., ,S6O, ,647 500.
1t was necessary to lay largely increas-
ed duties on all imports in order to pro-
vide for the annual interest on this in
debtedness and for the sinking fund in
tended for its redemption. These duties,
increased for the purpose of providing
for the public Indebtedness, necessarily
afforded protection. But duties perhaps
more wisely apportioned might have been
laid if Blaine had never been born, or if
the Republican party had ceased to exist
The national debt on January l, 1888,
was 1854, ,l7l,72s.
1t will require the imposition of high
duties upon imports to provide for the
payment Of interest on this great debt,
and for the increase of the sinking fund
intended for it's redemption. The debt Of
the United States is an obligation which
is absolutely fair, and unnecessary duties
will continue to be imposed even if in the
meantime Blaine should cease to be re-
membered as public man. 1t is con-
ceded by men of all parties that these
duties must be revised.
Under Republican President such a
revisi ion would be made in the interest of
corporations and individuals known as
contributors to the Republican campaign
funds. Under a Democratic President
such revision will be made in the inter-
est of the whole people.
The National Democratic party has ex-