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

Defining the Rights Of Voters and the Pow
en OF Election OElcials.

erS OF ElectlOn OmCtAWs
The National Democratic Committee
have issued q circular addressed 10 the
People of the United States" in which
the issue involved in the present CAM
paign is sharply defined as follows:
There is only one great issue involved in thia
campaign.
The question is whether this country shall be;
governed honestly aud wisely or corruptly. ,
The election of Grover Cleveland as President
and OF Thomas A. Hendricks rs Vice President
will insure good government.
The election Of James G. Blaine as President
and of John A. Logan as Vice President will IN
sure bad government
Mr.. Blaine would not be purer as President .
than he was as Speaker and member OF ne
House OF Representatives
The circular also states briefly and
clearly the rights of voters, and wares
them against any efforts that may BE-
made by the Republican party to infringe
upon these rights:
Each State, under the provisions OF the Fedte-
and in what manner its Presidential Electors
shall be chosen.
No supervisor of election, marshal or deputy
marshal of the United States Ia, power 10 inter
fere in the smallest degree with any person claign
| ing right to vote for Electors of President apd
| Vice President Of the United States
| The functions If these officials are limited 70
Congressional elections and II Is time that they
| should understand that there we'll defined
| bounds To their powers in such elections even.
| All citizens who are entIted To vote IN Any
| Stale for all delegates to the Legislature or Gen
eral Assembly Of such State are entitled to Vote
| in the respective Congressional Districts Of SUCH
| State for Representatives in Congress. :
The power ol determining, upon the day pt
any election, the persons who are entitled to cA.t
their votes in any election district, or election
precinct OF any Congressional district is vested,
primarily and exclusively, in the State Judges Of
election Of such election district election prs
| Cinct.
Every inhabtant of each election district or
precinct, in State, who asserts a claim to llc
ballot has right to go, without hindranc-
upon the day of election, before the judges Of
election of his election district, or election pre-
cnct and make claim to the privilege of "A
| vote
No supervisor of elections marshal or deputy
marshal Of the United States, no State officer and
no human being be his authority what it m.ty
can lawfully prevent his access to the judges 81
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 wiz,
claims the right to deposit it.
The proper and intended Office of marshal.
and deputy marshals OF the United States ii
Congressional elections, was to protect the vo'el
on his way TO the polls 10 submit to the Judge.
of election his claim to the elective franchise.
preserve fit order while such claim was under
considcration-and to secure the arrest of those
who detected in attempting to deposit a
fraudulent vote in the ballot box under the care
Of the judges of election.
II such marshals or deputies, having this lin
tied authority usurp the right to arrest a citizen
who is proceeding peacefully to the polls, they
make themselves, in tact, judges OF election and
violently take INFO their own hands the determi-
nation Of The issue of such clec'lun They are
wron. doors whom the citizen may lawfully
with, tand and resist when he is thus unla vfullg
ntefercd with
The interpoSng Of gam, t rl'f1ans, paid oul
of the pubic treasury, be ween the citizen and
the ballot box upon The d " OF any election, ana
especially upon the day o. d Presidential cleo.
ton, is unquesonably the creates, outrage
which can he lsrt'c'ra'ed upon cljizrn of tbs
Unic,l Sees