Year: 1877




The Movers of War In CoBgress-Demo.


cratic Reasoning Over Fraudulent


VOtes-Lawful II Cast for TiIden-T The


Class of Men Whom the People will


Censure-Pen'ion ApplIcants-A New


PIan for Their Benefit and a Saving to


the Government.


WASHINGTON, December 80, 1876.
Ever since Congress met on the fourth of
this month, it has been the practice of the
Democrats in the Senate and House to cast
every kind of invective against Repub-
licans, and arraign their party crimes
against the ballot boxes during the recent
presidential election. Republicans are
constantly being denounced as pilferers
having no love of country, and as attempt
ing to keep the party which saved the
nation in power merely for the purpose of
advancing their own selfish ends 1t has
been wondered. and Republicans have
been asked, why they do not openly aud
publicly rebuke the wholesale mud fling
ing of Democrats, and compel them
to acknowledge their tiseue OF falsehoods
of which they are guilty of uttering almost





answer Of Republicans to this has been that
the Democrats are angered to frenzy al
most in their infatuation over the impossi-
BILE feat Of counting in Democratic Preei-
| dent who is not elected. Since thCs5 hot
heated Democratic fanatics have been un.
able to control their political passions, and
have begun their revolutionary tactics by
| iroapAiarrv ID l.,
the people, some of the Republican leaders
have determined to take these brave war
riors in hand, and it was only the other
day that the idea was carried out by Gen
eral Garfield and Mr.. Frye, OF Maine,
who took the wind out OF the sails
of Representative Banning, of Ohio,
when in hot and threatening
TRADE against the Republicans, he sought
to have printed, at public expense, report
of Democratic gathering in Ohio. When
Mr.. Banning sat down, after his vindiotiye
utterances had fallen fat, except upon a
hungry and semisleeping crowd in the gal
leries, who had come in to keep warm, Gen
eral Garfield arose and, in vein of good
humor, opened out on his Democratic col
league. He rejoiced, he said, that at last
we have in our midst a gentleman no is
authorized to speak for the whole Ameri
can people. Some of Mr.. BAnning's poiti
cal friends took this point as highly com
plimentary, but there were others OF Their
number who were of the opinion that it was
what Artemus Ward would term sarcasm
Mr.. Garfield continuing, said he had in
his feeble way been reading the public news
papers, and from every source possible, try
ing to get at a knowledge of public opinion
upon public questions, and he had hoped
that the whole Congress, aided by the whole
presa, might by-and-by get reflex of the
public mind, but he had not INDUCED the
dream that on bright morning betWeer
two holidays he should find gentleman
who had already learned all about it-hoW
the people fell; what were the facts in the
late elections in Louisiana and other States
what the contents of the sealed packageI
we're in the hands of the President of the
Senate, and could tell exactly how muot
military force the people are going to raist
to carry out his (Banning'sl views of the
result. Wonderful Banning! Sagaciou
chairman OF the Military Committee! Wher
General Garfield thus set him up as the
great political prophet his Democratic
friends in the House appeared to bt
looking for some ponderous document
such as are used to contain Democratic
election frauds to knock their idol dOwI
again. But General Garfield was not ye
through with him. He showed very plainly
that Bannings speech meant that every
vote found in the ballot boxes, whether
false or fraudulent, should be counted anC
declared lawful because it was found in th'
box. General Garfield uttered grea
truth when he said, chow desperate mus
be the cause that can call such doctrine
to it's support" General Garfield further
more knew whereof he spoke and haC
studied the Louisiana case carefully, ant
he asserted that if his colleague shoulC
have drawn out the ballots from some Of
the boxes in Louisiana his hand would b'
leprOus with fraud and red will
blood. The speaker then took occasion
! Democratic utterances, to the effect thai
the people would defy the authorities Oi
the United States in a certain contingency
also, their remarks that the army NIGH
come here, that the navy might come here
with fixed ammunition, that the trappingt
of war might be ratified about the Capitol
but that the people, in whose name his
colleague assumed to speak, would rise and
overturn the lawful authorities. But Mr.
Garfield said he would remind them of thil
fact: that the man who suggests violence
as a mode of settling any national question
would be the one repudisted by both pO
litical parties, and that it was the very es
sence of violence for q Representative tC
appeal to the people to resist the plair
process Of law.


Mr. Frye, another staunch Republican
splendid orator, with a clear anC
commanding voice, an eloquent rea
soner and sound in argument, summed
up this Democratic hue and cry o
war in q most admirable manner. The fac
that gold stands at 1O7lS and 10S, and no
at $50, proved that the people were no
taking much stock in this war cry. Neithe
were the people frightened much by suct
talk as that of General Banning, of Ohio
, The Democrats have suddenly formed
, an attachment for General Sheridan be
! cause while ]. Madison Wells was COnser
vative Governor of Louisiana Sheridan di(