Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-07

expected that supervisors and deputy mar
shals will receive compensation for more
than five days service, and they should be
so informed Within this time all can be
done, it is thought, that ought to be. You
need vigilant men, who are conscientious
workers, and no others
"Now, what was this-this order which
was so nearly in harmony with the pro-
visions of the Federal elections bill of the
last Congress? 1t was because q certain
region in and around Nashville was reported
to be inclined dangerously toward Repub-
licanism, and the cry of possible fraud was
raised Marshal Wilson appointed Demo
cratic supervisors and special deputy
msrshals to prevent Republican frauds in
one of the States of the solid South, and
the Marshal issued to his deputies the fol-
lowing instructions:
The Instructions to Marshals.
"Tt will be your duty to attend at the
polls in the district, precincts or wards for
which you are appointed during the elec-
ton on tomorrow, the 9th, and to aid and
assist the supervisors of the election, IT re-
quired thereto by them, in the verifcation
of the lists of persons legally voting thereat::
1t will be your duty to keep the peace and
TO support and protect the supervisors OF
election at your respective voting places IN
the legal discharge of their duties 1t Will
be your duty to preserve order at the
polls and to prevent fraudulent voting
thereat, or fraudulent and illegal conduct
on the part of any officer of election. Every
qualified voter has the right to cast one bal
lot in the civil district or ward in which he
resides, and no more, and at no other place,
and no one has the right to prevent MIN
from thus voting, either by threats, menace
or otherwise. Legitimate argument and
persuasion are proper to induce voters to
vote for one or another class of candidates.
All obstructions or hindrances by one per
son or set of persons, interposed In the way
of another person or set of persons voting
as their choice dictates, is violation OF
federal law, and any person or persons
guilty of this offense in your presence you
will arrest at once without warrant
When Warrants Were Necessary.
s'You will arrest no persons without
warrant therefor properly sworn out, unless
the persons commit violation Of law in
your presence or in the presence of super
visors, who in that event, will have to re-
port and identify the party to you. If any
resist or attempt to intimidate you in the
discharge of your duties or attempt to in
timidate the supervisors in the discharge
of their duties, you are author
lied to arrest them. Your duties
will continue until the polls are closed and
the votes are counted and properly certi-
fed As United States official you will
have nothing to do with the legitimate
.efTorts of the respective party workers to get
votes for their candidates. As citizens you
are entitled to vote your choice and to use
legal means to induce others to do so, but
no others
II think" continued Mr. Dunning, "that
this will be news to both Republicans and
Democrats, this order of President Cleve-
land, and it is our purpose to use it as
precedent and demand the appointment of
Federal Supervisors and Deputy Marshals
under those clauses of the revised statutes
referred to by Mr.. Cleveland's Attorney
General and see if we can't have
one vote for one man counted
throughout the South. There are
places in the South where the Peoples
party will see that fair count is made, if
they have to do it at the point of the pistol.
but Federal officers are preferable when
they can be appointed from party oppo-
site to the party of the bulldozing major
ity, as they can be by the order OF Presi-
dent Harrison"
Mr. Dunning says that if the reports
from Tom Watson's district in Georgia be
true, the Democrats there have a very small
majority for the State ticket, and this would
indicate the certain reelection of Watson
in November