The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-05-13
The Wicked Flee When No Man
Pursueth.

irritable illustration of the above scrip
ural reference. A year ago last October,
n the election of members to the Legisla-
lure in that State the most unblushlng
frauds and forgeries were committed IN
Cincinnati to secure the returns in IA
yor of the Democratic candidates. The
election of a United States Senator de-
pended upon the political complexion OF
the Legislature. BY ballot-hox stutflng
and forged returns, certificates were given
to ten Democratic candidates for the lower
house and four Democratic candidates for
the Senate. The Republicans, however,
had majority in the lower house, not
these ten fraudulent Dem
ocratic seats from Cincinnati, and when
the Legislature met short work was
made Of these representatives OF fraud and
forgery. They were unseated and the ten
the people had elected were
given their seats. In the Senate 1t was
different With the four fraudulently re-
turned Democratic Senators, the Demo
Gratis had majority of three, and in the
organization of that body they were per-
mitted to vote. An investigation was Or
dered by what was called a non -partlzan
committee of Senators, into the frauds
and forgeries charged in the election and
certificates of the returns from Cincinnati.
After several weeks devoted to the work,
the Committee returned, and the report
that was made was to have been acted on
last week. 1t was known that the Presi-
dent of the Senate would rule that the
four Democratic Senators whose seats
were in controversy should not vote on
questions involving the legality of their
seats and this ruling would leave the Re
publicans majority of one. With all the
Democratic members absent there would
not be quorum and to prevent action on
the report of the committee, all the Dem
ocratic members but one stole away after
night and left the State-leaying the Senate
without quorum. They went beyond the
Jurisdiction of the State and beyond the
reach of a process for their arrest and re.
turn to the State Capitol. Some are in
Chattanooga, Tenn, others in Kentucky
others still in Michigan, and others dis
tributed in various other places.
A dispatch from Columbus, dated the
18th, says:
The Senate met and adjourned to-day
but being without quorum no business
was transacted. The novelty'of the situa
ton has materially settled down and thu
reality is now being seriously considered
| by all thinking people. 1t is already c1ea
that the refugees who have crossed thu
| border of the State have begun to appre
ciate their own folly, and are alread,
negotiating or endeavoring to negotiat,
for a safe return to the Buckeye capital
This afternoon the Governor received thu
following dispatch from one of the deser
tiers:
DETROIT, Mich, May Z, 1856.
| Coz. j. B. Foraker, Columbus, Ohio;
| recognize the state of the public revenue t.
| be such that some legislation in the line Q
| your official suggestions is imperattvely de
| handed We feel that as condition prece
] dent to our presence in the Senate, some guar
antee must be made that our Senate rules vii
| be observed. With that assured the co-opera
1 ton of at least enough to make quorum, am
| L believe the entire Democratic membership o
/ the Senate can be had. Il. 5. DODD.
| The following is the Governors tar
reply:
| Hon. E. s.. Dodd Detroit Mich:
am glad you recognize the imperative neces
sity as you properly term it, of some legisla
| ton to relieve the financial condition of thu
| State. This necessity is not only imperative
but it is immediate. The general appropria
1 ton bill is not yet law and cannot become
such until signed by the officers OF the Senat
| in the presence of quorum as the Constltu
| ton provides. The deficiency bill has not ye
4 the total amount to th
credit of the general revenue fund is to-da.
but $2,50S.670. Unless quorum can be secured
1 ing the loan to meet casual deficiencies, thu
State will go to protest before the end OF mex
week. answer you thus IN detali an, t IA yo'
| ton as to the consequences OF continued ab
/ sence, and in the belief that you will not as
| course. So far as o guarantee of terms as t.
how the President of the Senate shall rule upoi
certain questions is concerned, ! cannon speak
and would not if / could. except, only to sug
gest that there are certainly better and NOR
/ legitimate remedies for any such ruling as yol
| and ali other departments of the State Govern
ment by abandoning your seats and I n eel
4 from the State. J. b. FORAkER.
| In conversation this evening the Cover
nor stated that perhaps the absentee
would soon tire of roaming about thu
country and return; that their being re
| turned to the Senate was only a question
I VI AL llOU lCCul Is Obto esbolii
cient number would, in order that TIN
business of the legislature could be resumed
| In the event the members do not return O.
their own free will, they will be arrested
| if found in the State. Gen Kennedy to ola.
| issued warrants for the arrest Of all abSen
tees, and Sergeant at Arms has gone t.
Cincinnati for the purpose OF capturln!
any that may cross the Ohio from Ken
| lucky.
The Republicans played sharp trick OF
| their, opponents on Saturday. A rumo
was industriously circulated to the effec
that one of the refugee senators had beef
arrested and was being brought to Column
bus. This one, with Vancleaf the Dem
ocratic Senator who had been left behin'
| to demand quorum, would have made
| majority of the Senate. AS soon as Van
| cleaf heard the rumor he skipped. Th
Senate met and there being no one to de
mand quorum, quorum was assumed
to be present, and the four legally elected
Republicans from Hamilton county wer
| sworn in. Both branches of the Legislature
| are now in possession of the Republicans
The democrats declare they intend to con
| test the organization, but as there is no
| thing in the record to show that there wa
| not quorum present when the Hamilton
county Senators were sworn in, it is no
| probable that the court will sustain tn
claims CT the contestants.
The revolutionary action of the Demo
| cratic Senators is in keeping with tn
spirit which controlled in the election, b,
which ten members of the House an(
four Senators were seated by frau'
and forgery. 1t is the spirit of an
archy, and only lacks the bloody inten
to class it with that which recently in
spired murder and bloodshed in Chicago
and Milwaukee.
And this is the great Democratic reform
party.
The Lesson of the Riot.
One has but to glance over the names O
<bo Anorobict loa6orc in tho Ghioauo riot