Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1879 — A Bit of Hfster Unearthed. [ARTICLE]

A Bit of Hfster Unearthed.

no, of Maine hft-a been sunsr: tick again. This time by Indiana’s favorite son. — Head a long.by extract from the re of nt speech of Mr, Voorhees, On the fourth page of today’s Skm'infl l'hu toasted claims of the radical -lalwarts are completely and effect ually demolished. Elections wdl be held this summer and fait it) the following states: Kentucky, California, Maine, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi,New Jersey. New York. Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin. — * -The New York World hits the case exactly when it says: “The country now understands the issue fully. It it wishes bayonets nround.the ballot boves it will sustain the Republicans this autumn and next year. If it wishes free elections, it will sustain •the Democrats who demand them,and who show what must be done to secure them.” - A iweoting of the citizens of Jefferson township, Carroll county, Ind , Tuesday evening. June 24. 1879, decided by a vote of 32 to 5 to have a station on the 1. D. & C. Jilt., at the Robert Goalee iarm, to be called “Yeoman.” Steps were also taken to procure the establishment of a post office at that point, and Albert Goslec suggested as p. m.

Th ••jnids < of Terre Haute couldn’t •stand the sfatement of Mr. Voorheesi, that, he was as sincere a friend of soldiers as ever was claimed for Morton. They called a meeting of soldiers lo ' denounce t.lio “allegation and the allegator.” The soldiers met and resolved that tin* claim of the Tall Sycamore was col lect. The ladicals ol Terre Haute now call the soldiers a pack of damphools. > —— • The Democratic Congress madan nppioprihtfon of SBOO,OOO for the payment of marshals engaged in the perrormuneo of the legitimate duties of the office. This the Fraud vetoed, and begs an appropriation for their employment in the interest of the •radical party at tiie poll's. No doubt Congress will, a sit should, repass the vetoed bill, adjourn and go home, leaving with Mr. Fraud the responsibility of depriving the U. S. Cour sos the sei vPoes of tlieSe i fficials. The whiskey inspector and guager, of Michigan, Tipsy &ich. was worked into a frenzy the oliaT'day when he discovered the temper of the Democrats in Congress was to require the Fm»d to accept an appropriation sufficient for Hie employment of marshals in all legitimate duties, or fefuse and do without. Old Tipsy piesented to the Semite whaf, hi Ms- befuddled Imagination, lie supposed to bo a terrible arraignment of He Democrats, but it only provoked shouts of laughter and derision.

Senator Back aptly illustrates tlw absurd position- by a major ity of <.1)0 Republican leaders, vvlio continually send forth a stream of hog-wash about the vraytheir party saved the country. In referring to the Blaines, Conklingsand Chandlers of tlie party he cauHetf trherrr “citizens iik war and soldiers in peace, who got mad when the war closed and have been getting madder ever since.”— This is nearly sa good as the saying of another Senator, who spoke of the same crowd as being “invisible in war and invincible in peace.” The New York World says that an Administration which was nevcrelectod by the people, has forced this issue of free elections, fair juries and indestructible States upon the country;— All other issues must therefore now bo subordinated to this! * * * The queslion now is ballot-boxes or cartridge boxes! In that great struggle tbe friends of “an indissoluble Union of indestructible States” slic’d welcome every faithrulVauly, no matter what such ally thinks or dreams of a possible ideal about tinaneo or the tariff, or any other inferior question. FrniulKayos is sharp—exceedingly sharp! Ho lirst vetoed a bill tor the abolition of election* supervisors and marshals, and then vetoed the judicial. bill on the ground that inasmuch as the iaw authorizing the appointment of such officials remained uu-repeuled-—uurepealed becauso of his veto—it was his duty, under his oath of office, to execute the law, and without money ho could not do this; hence he could not appruve a bill to prevent himself from doing what it was his sworn duty to do. If the “son of a gun” will, by his own action, rear such stumbling blocks in spite of the representatives of the people, it is not necessarily the duty of Congress- ro provide for them.

The Indianapolis News, an independent journal, with republican leanings, refers to the oft repealed charge of fraudulent voting in Indianapolis iu 18J4 and says: “No troops * ere detailed under anus to watch the polls. Hut the .nfluuncc of tim soldiers was felt all the same. The town was lull of them, and if any of them wanted to vote no questions wctc asked. A blue uniform was sufficient evidence, and many of them voted a good.many times The whole election was as much of a farce as the border-rnffhtu elections in Kansas, a ort of a earn*▼til of fraud. Anybody could vote if ike voted the RepublicanAicktU. and if

he chose to vote at every window no objections were raised. Some of the best men in the city were there and advised it ”

Congress adjourned Tuesday without even re-passing the vetoed bill providing for the j)uy of marshals. This government had prospered without the use of the army, marshals und supervisors at the polls, until within a tew years back, when they became a necessity to perpetuate radical rule. Congress concluded fcheoounsry wo’d progress more peacefully and happily without radicalism and its necessary concomitants for power, aud refused to continue the same. The Fraud, urged on by Tipsy Blood-letter Chandler, and “stalwarts” of his ilk, vetoed a bill amply providing for the employment of marshals in the performance of legitimate duties, and the consequence is he is left without authority or means for their employ ment at all. Served him right!

A remarkable communication signed by Mr. John F. Mines, of Utica, N. Y., appeared recently in the New York World. It gives some inside history of the closing acts of Grant’s administration, and sets forth with minuteness of detail the plaus which had been arranged to prevent the inauguration of Mr. Tildeu. The authority Mr. Mines quotes is General Stewart L. Woodford, who was appointed United States District Attorney at New York by Grant just before his term of office expired It was a surprise to Gen. Woodford’s friends that ho accepted the office, but the General now explains his action by saying that it was by special request ot Grant, who told him that he feared an attempt would be made to seat Tilden by a great popular, uprising, and hcjwnnted a man in theplacejwho would not scruple to crush a mob, — General Woodford says: “I believe that during the month that closed the administration of Grant and opened that of Hayes the country stood upon the brink of a civil war more terrible than that which we passed through, and it would have drenched the whole North in blood.” He furi lieF declares his belief that a plan to inaugurate Tilden existed in New York, and says: “My flans were all laid systematically. We had quietly taken some very effective precautions beforehand. Had Tilden attempted to have carried out his coup d’etat and had himself inaugurated on the City Hall steps, my orders aud intentions were to seize bitn at ouce under a warrant charging him with high treason, to convey him secretly and securely on board a Government vessel .ying in East river, and ship him to Fort Adams or some other secui’e point where he could undergo his trial. *

* * While I was in Washington I made arrangements with Robeson not only to secure Tilden, but to overawe the mob and shell them out if sary. The General further states that the Custom House and Sub-Treasury were .prepared for resistance: that troops were quietly brought from the West aud South aud massed at Washington, Fort McHenry and in New York harbor, that Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and other military men were outspoken in their opinion that the army ought to be used for repressive measures though Sherman expressed somo doubts in respect to the Democratic tendencies of the rank aud tile of the soldiery. And now suppose General Woodford's well laid plains, in case Tilden had been inaugurated in accordance with the plans aforesaid, had miscarried, wouldn’t he have been in a pretty pickle? And, like that other fellow who thought he bad caught the tarter until he discovered the tartar had caught him. This might be a very proper subject for investigation, and if found correct, the military oftieers who were ready to become willfug tools to override the will of the people in order to perpetuate radicalism, and rush the country into a more terrible civil war than the one just secently closed, should be dismissed tho service in disgrace.