Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-07

In commenting upon the expected APP
pcintment Of Mr.. GARLAND to be At
torney General Of the United States,
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says
ssThe Attorney General will be able
10 employ as many Confederate deputy
marshsls as may be necessary to legal
ixe the violence at the polls that dis
franchises one million colorcd citizens
And yet you hold the law under
which such and so many appointments
are to be made to be an admirable one.
But the Infamous LOT WRIGHT, OF
Cincinnati. has made the law stencil
in the nostrils Of the good people Of the
United States. He testifies under oath
that he appointed nonresident deputy
marshals and armed them with re-
solversYof course. that they might
shoot down Democratic workers at the
polls, or at the very least so intimidate
them as that they would not dare to
raise a hand to assist in the election OF
Mr.. FoLLETT to Congress. In the
small city of Cincinnati, casting less
than 10000 votes, there were, Mr..
WRIGHT admits under oath, "nearly
1,4O0 special and in the neighborhood
Of $50 general deputies" They were
all Republicans He consulted with
no Democrats He employed one
deputy for every forty voters, say. 1t
would require about three hundred
deputy marshals in Richmond. ap-
pointed on the same basis, or fifteen
to each voting-place.
/. Now, let us suppose that last Novem-
Der there had been fifteen Federal deputy
marshals stationed at every voting-place
in Richmond, adorned with badges OF
Office, armed with bulldog-revolvers,
and backed by the whole power Of the
United States, and that these deputy
marshals had played the same role here
which Mr.. WRIGHT's played in Octo-
Der in Cincinnati How many Of the
six thousand negro voters in Richmond
would have voted? Why, the Danyille
riot was mere child's-play contrasted
with the performances of Mr.. WRIGHT's
deputies in Cincinnati. Imagine II you
can the howl that would have gone up
from the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
/, Virginia had been carried for CLEvE-
LAND by such methods.
Is this law to be permitted to remain
upon the statute-book Are the Dem
ocrats in 1Ss6to be required to appoint
deputy marshals to aid them to elect
Democratic Congress? We say "re-
CURED" for it is not in human nature
to leave the law unenforced during
Democratic Administration, il it is to
be left where the Republicans can pick
it up and use it again in case they
should regain power. And if the Dem
ocrats use this Republican law as LOT
WRIGHT used it, how many Republican
congressman will be returned in 1886!
How many would New York elect?
What would be the Democratic ma
jority in New York city if the Demo-
Gratis appoint there 10000 deputy mar
shals to aid them in swelling their nu-
merical strength? All of them Repub-
licans bought, by the pay of five dollars
a day, to work for 'thc success of the
Democratic ticket?
We would like to open the eyes of
Mr.. HALsTEAD to the iniquities which
he justifes--to the outrages to which
his party has resorted in the effort to
perpetuate its rule--to the d. gracefully
partisan laws which Republican Con-
gress has put upon the statute-book-to
the impossibility of free ballot and
fair count under the operation of such
laws. When he does open his eyes and
realize she wrongs which free institu-
tons have suffered at the hands of the
Republican party, he ought to become
leader in the Democratic ranks.