The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-05
The Bayonet on Exhibition-A Warning.

"
Second bulletin OF Federal Force from the
Ne,c York Tribune. the leading Republican
newspaper. edited by the Republican candi-
date for Vice-President:
This city will be poced on election day with .
force Federal marshas sufficient to secure order At
every poll and to protect every citizen in the casting
Of his ballot and to prevent illegal voting and to
insure fair and prompt count OF the rsturna Similar
will be extended to the voters and to the
ballot boxes throughout the State"
The threat comes at the right time. Let
every American citizen who has not yet
made up his mind how he shall vote on the
supreme issue Of elections free from Fed
eral interference consider the situation In
this town.
The vote Of New York city is as free from
fraud as any vote cast anywhere on earth.
Under the safeguards Of the State Election
laws the system is as near to perfection as
any that human skill con devise. Every
body understands this. Republicans and
Democrats alike. The result when declared
on election night Is accepted without ques-
ton by the friends OF the defeated, as
by the friends Of the elected. The pre-
tence that supervision from Washington Is
needed to regulate the peaceful. orderly.
and lawful voting and the fair and honest
count that for years have characterized
New York city's elections. is the grossest
OF impositions. 1t Is put forth now. as in
past elections. for no other purpose than to
cover the Infamous offices which the parti-
san Chief Supervisor. JOHN I. DAVENPORT,
renders year after year to the party which
keeps him in it's service for dirty work and
which pays him out Of the Treasury Of the
United States.
The laws under which DAVENPORT holds
Office practically for life. and under which
he operates In the interest OF the Rcpubli-
can party alone. were passed by the Forty
first Congress. a legislature which in the
Senate contained sixty-one Republicans
and only thirteen Democrats. and in tho
House one hundred and seventy Republic
cans and only seventy-one Democrats.
This overwhelmingly Republican body es-
tablishcd Davenportism us purely politi-
cal and partisan institution. The existing
statutes relating to Federal interference
are disgrace to free country. and every
new illustration Of the outrageous uses to
which they aro put hastens the day Of their
repeal.
Bad as they arc. they afford only the
faintcst indication OF what the Republican
party proposes to do IL tho voters OF tho
United States give 1t m opportunity. The
Force bill OF 1890 extends tho field OF Day.
onportsm from tho "supcrvision OF the
registry and tho bnlloting to tho actual
count OF tho vote and the ccrtlilcation OF
| tho result. Tho new Force bill was drawn
| by this man DAVENPORT himself. and you
! may DO very sure that the author OF the
| bill knew what he was about
1t is n fitting end OF q campaign OF dis
avowal aud evasion That tho Republican
leaders should now be pointing insolently
to the Federal bayonct and doing their ut
most to provoke collision between DAY.
EXPORTS hirelngs and the officers OF tho
State. II they could bring about such q
catastrophe their souls would be filled with
Joy and hope. II they succeed in putting the
Democrats OF New York city in the attitude
OF resistance to any existing Federal statute
shanicfuly partisan and unjust as that
statute may be. wicked as may DO Its up
picatlon to the ends OF partisanship. thoy
will have gained great point In the fur
theranco OF their main policy OF Federal
aggression for the perpetuation Of Rcpubll-
can domination.
There is hardly any need to remind sem
sible Democrats In this law abiding commu-
nifty that. odious and outrageous as is tho
exhibition OF the Federal bayonet In New
York. it must BIO driven out with votes. not
with clubs.