Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — A Policy of Blunders. [ARTICLE]

A Policy of Blunders.

If the Democrats in Ciwigress knew with what contempt their proceedings are regarded by the intelligent opinion of all parties iu the country, they certainly would not prolong, them. The position of the President is evident, and it is both impregnable and patriotic. It was plainly stated in tho veto messages, and it has been shown by all that he has officially said and done. If tho Democratic object be simply to prevent wanton and arbitrary military interference at the polls, it is already secured by existing laws, as the President has proved. But if that object be to prevent the people of the United States from enforcing their own laws, when necessary, everywhere in tho Union, and by all the military, naval and civil power of the country, it is an object which will not bo accomplished with the consent of a Republican Administration. No military interference with elections is now legally possible. Under the law the army can neither influence nor intimidate a single voter. There are and can lie no bayonets at the polls. ‘ The only thing that threatens freedom of elections is Democratic bull-dozing and fraud. What, then, is the significance of the outcry about the army at the polls? What is the meaning of this extraordinary jealousy of the government of the people of the United States? Itis simply, as we have heretofore shown, an attempt to establish the fundamental doctrine of the Rebellion, that the United States cannot enter a State except upon the invitation of the State. This was Jefferson Davis’ contention: “ All that we ask is to be let alone.” No ingenuity of phrase, no buncombe allusions to English precedents which are wholly inapplicable, no affected apprehensions of “bayonets” and “oppression” and “tyranny,” which every sensible American treats with the contempt they merit, can obscure the objectof this Democratic performance. In thetotal lack of any policy or principle with which to appaid to the country for the election next year, with the extinction in overwhelming ridicule, in cipher dispatches and in the proceedings of Congress, of the pretense of “reform,” the Democratic managers, at their wits’ end, have undertaken to raise a wholly feigned and factitious isssue about the army at the polls. Bull-dozers and repeaters and fraudulent voters suddenly and solemnly demand “free elections” against the Republicans, who have secured greater freedom of elections than has been known for half a century. And this fine cry is meant to give immunity to tho fraud and violence at the polls which are now the chief menace of the public peace. With a genius for blundering, which is tho sole surviving characteristic, of Democratic ability, the managers have invited the attention of the country to the facts and the arguments against them; they have given the President an opportunity to expose conclusively their malice and their folly; and they have themselves dissipated the force of their cry by compelling everybody to know that it is utterly baseless. It is plain to tho dullest sense that the result of their policy as originally proposed would be to facilitate cheating and violence, to protect tissue ' ballots and' repeating, under the #lea of freeing the ballotbox from bayonets. It is seething the kid in its mother’s milk; it is Stabbing liberty in the name of liberty; and this is the party which hopes to commend itself to support as especially patriotic and especially jealous of popular rights and liberties. In the pursuit of this scheme tho blunder has developed every moment. The Democrats forced an extra session. They declared, through Messrs. Beck and Thurman and Blackburn, that if they could not accomplish their purpose Constitutionally, they would disorganize tho Government. This threat aroused the country thoroughly, and the veto was sustained by an overwhelming public opinion. Instead of keeping the word given by their leaders, the Democrats decided to yield, and to try to call it victory instead of surrender. The whole proceeding has been, upon tho part of the Democrats, a huge and ridiculous blundor. But it litis h;td tho good effect of showing all patriotic and intelligent citizens the impregnable grounds of the National Election laws, and the vital necessity of theta maintenance. Partywise, the Heihquraiietactics have united the Republican Sartv, and made it more than over the ati'onal organization for tip maintenance of free elections, m popular rights, and of the legitimate National authority over every inch of the Union. — Harper's Weekly.

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