The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-11-01
POWERFUL ADDRESS
By the Democratic National Committee.
Issues of the Campaign-Blaine Criti-
cised-POwers and Duties of Deputy
Observation-Disclosures of DEM
Ocralic Success.

the National Democratic Committee from
their headquarters in this city to-day:
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
There is only one great issue involved in
this campaign.
The question is, whether this country shall
be governed honestly and wisely or cor
ruptly.
The election of Grover Cleveland as Presi-
dent. and Thomas A. Hendricks as Vice
President will insure good government.
The election of James &. Blaine as Presi-
dent, and of John A. Logan as Vice-Presi-
dent, will insure bad government.
Mr.. Blaine would not be purer as 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 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
of money from circulation has hampered
your commerce, depressed your trade and
impoverished your labor.
Mr.. Blaine aided in the needless and reck-
| less accumulation of this unnecessary sur
plus. He is responsible for the mischiefs it
| has occasioned.
He cannot be trusted with its disburse-
ment
The methods which he has employed in
this campaign prove conclusively that the adj
ministration of the government of the country
ought not to be placed in his hands.
A candidate capable of using improper
means to increase his chances of election to
the Presidency would not, if elected, dis
charge the duties of that office honestly.
Mr.. Blaine personally supervised the prep
arations made by his managers for their work
in the state election in Ohio, on the 18th of
October.
1t is expressly provided by an. existing
statute of the United States that no man
shall be appointed deputy marshal unless
he is qualified voter of the city, town,
county, parish, election district or voting
precinct in which his duties are to be per-
formed.
1t is certainly the plain intent of the Fed
eral law that deputies, empowered to execute
the duties of marshal of the United States,
should be reputable men, leading decent
lives and enjoying the confidence of the com
munity in which they live.
These plain provisions of 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 Mr.. Blaine, and
were used in the districts to which they were
appointed, with his knowledge, for the pur.
pose of obtaining majorities by violence and
fraud.
The effect produced by this outrage has
been remarkable. The blow struck by Mr.
Blaine at the rights of the citizen in Ohio has
welded the Democratic party in New York.
There is no longer any doubt as to the man
ner in which the electoral vote of that state
will be east. 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 majority for the Cleveland and
Hendricks electors.
Mr.. Blaine and his managers, despairing of
success in the state of New York, are at
tempting to carry Indiana, New Jersey and
Connecticut by the discreditable means en-
ployed in Ohio on the 18th of October.
While they are struggling to accomplish
this evil purpose Ohio, rid of the swarm of
vagrant deputy marshals, by which it was
infested at the October election, is rallying
with the determined purpose to vindicate its
good name.
In Indiana. New Jersey and Connecticut
men are forewarned, and are ready to meet
the issue.
They understand that deputy marshal
who was not ut the time of his appointment
a qualified voter OF the city, town, county,
election district or voting precinct in which
his duties are to be performed, is an intruding
mercenary, whose claim to authority no citl-
zen is required to respect.
They know also the precise limits OF the
authority of every supervisor, marshal or
deputy marshal, general or special, at Pres
idental election.
Each state, under the provisions of the fed
eral constitution, determines for itself by
whom and in what manner its Presidential
electors shall be chosen.
No supervisor of elections, marshal or
deputy marshal of the United States has
power to interfere, in the smallest degree,
with any person claiming Il right to vote for
electors 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 we'll
defined bounds to their powers in such cleo
tons even.
All citizens who are entitled to vote in any
state for delegates to the Legislature or Cen
eral Assembly of such state are entitled to
vote in the respective congressional districts
of such state for Representatives in Congress.
The power of determining, upon the day of
]
cast 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 dis
trict or election precinct
Every inhabitant of each election district,
or precinct, i'll a state, who asserts a claim to
the ballot, has right to go, without hind
rance, upon the day Of election, before the
judges OF election of bis election district or
election precinct, and make claim to the priv
| ilege of vote.
No supervisor of Selections, marshal or
deputy marshal, tthe United States-no
State officer and nc human being-be his
authority what it maj lawfully prevent
/ his access 10 the jileges of election for the
purpose of makin9shch claim.
| 1t is for thesek Ridges of election to say
whether they vii Esecept the ballot from the
man who claims tie right to deposit it.
The proper andgintended office of marshas
and deputy marshals of the United States at
congressional Elections was to protect the
voter on his way 10 the polls to submit to the
judges OF electiol his claim to the elective
tranchise--to pNeserve fit order while such
claim was under ,consideration-an to secure
the arrest of thBse who were detected in at
tempting to DEPOSIT fraudulent vote in the
ballot box Under the care of the judges of
| election. ~
If such marshals or deputies, having this
limited authority, usurp the right to arrest
citizen who Is proceeding peacefully to the
polls, they make themselves, in fact, Judges
of election, AID violently take into their own
hands the determination of: the issue of such
election. TRey are wrongdoers wnom the
citizens mad lawfully withstand and resist
when he is 5lus unlawfally interfered with.
HE iHterfposing of gangs of ruffians, paid
n II tha ntt,