Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 23, 1876, Page 4

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For the benefit of thoso of our readers who aro not residents of Chieago, and who do not. roceive thoe Sundny issuo of Tnr Tninone, we reproducs this morning tho grent spoech dolivered by Col. Rourrr G. Ixaensort, at the Exposition DBuilding, Saturday night. Itisa peculinrity of Col. Inaemsorr's style of oratory that his speechies rond almost as . woll as they sound, and more entertaining . mmatter could not bo offered to those who diave not been able to hear this prince of -stump-spenkers. A correspondent, wriling from Buffalo, whoso letter is given in another colummn, pre- sents some intoresting obscrvations upon the politicnl situntion in Western Now York. The campnign bas been inaugurated in down- ¢ right earncst, and from the intorost and # enthusinsmn overywhero manifested it is casy ? 1o sco that the Republicau rauks, nugmentod ‘by Inrge nceessions of ox-Liberals, presont n anore solid and formidablo front than has Deen shown sinco 1572 Tucrgased majori- ¢ tics for Hayzs and WareLzn snd Gov, Mon- .+ sy are looked for with absolute certainty. is giving tho people of \ South Carolinn somo excellent advice, ag well ns talking some unmitigated bosh, Ife tells them to submit quictly to arrest and offer no xegistance, nud oven if the United States troops are ordered to firo upon them, they "4 ghould baro their breasts nnd bo willing to .7 die for Tipen anud Iawrroy. 1o should “« ‘havestarted his wise coungel a little further * back, nud advised them to rofrain from any . acts which would necessitato their arrest. #,, In this way the heroie programme of | bared breastz may also be rendered alto- ', gether superfluous, The Natior ackuowledges having done 4Ir. Brave an injustice in regard to his expose of Mr. Ciantes Fraxers Avas’ posie . tion at the opening of the War, aud snys it is © sorry forit, 'Phis is wmoro mauly han the . wourse of the Z%mes, which also called Mr. “y* * Drarse n lior on the strength of its own mis- ', zepresontetion of the official record nnd tho fects. Both journals might have been saved : the humiliatiou of ackuowledging their igno- ranco, however, if they had rend the articles with which T 'Urususe supplemented Mr, ‘Brasy's speeeh, and which gave o clenr aud ...") conmected oxplanation of JMr. Avaws’ posi- l tion in the secession debates in Congress "I between tho election of Livcowy and his in- auguration, —— Lvidenes is accwmnulating in chunks to sustain the charge that Gen, 13, ] trict of Ohio was obtained through shame- + less Domocratio frauds. It in impossiblo to account in auy other way for the unprece. .+ deatedly largo voto enst, uud for the fact 2 that Gon. Baxxive was cleetod in a Repub- + ¥ Yican district over so strong nn opponent as Ui dudge Sraxtey Marrmews, who, lave ‘. dng polled the full Mepublican volo, could mot have been dofentod by fair meaus, In addition to the proof already obtained show- 1 ing how the Domacrata contrived to poll co *. largo n vote, it appears that there has bean 5.t | afallivg-ont mnong the manipulators of tho ‘ ‘ voling arrangements, one man offering to *" prove that he was to bo paid 1,600 for re. v %, peating sixteen times with his gang, The Tenitentiary yowns for some of the perpe- trators of this fufamons wor! —— ‘The Bupreme Court of Illinois Lins ronder- " ed amost important decision in the State stroet case. An ordinance was passed by 5 the City Counecil somy yearsago forthe exten- . slon and widening of North State street, and providing for the condemnation of the prop- 7 erty aud tho assessment of damages and beuefits, 'Lhis asseasmont when com. pleted presonted such a formidable exponre £ 2 thet, acting under the advico of tho Inte Judge .+ 7+ Nortox, then Corporation Counscel, the City . Council repealed the original ordinance, .« whereupon tho property-owners, who had Jbeen awarded by thu estimated dmnages - Bowo $420,000, sued tho city for that sum, &, claiming that the proceodings had been com- “.plote. Tho Court below gave judgment ageinst tho city, and now the Buprome Court \*xevorsos the judgmont, 'The Court holds that the property-owner eanuot be divestod of his propesty, under the Coustitution of this Stato, until paid therefor; that, until he bay beon paid, the exclusive titlo .. .iand possession remning with him, and until *: divested ho cun sustain no damnge for which hocan claim compensation, This decision of oyr Bupreme Court corresponds with that rendered by the Supreme Court of tho United Btates in o like ense occarring in Now York, In thut case, the Buprems Court of the « * United States hield that tho municipality was ! not bound by any award, or report, or ver. dict of auny proceeding of condemnation of “ ;- proporty for publio purposes, but may, at its ‘{' 5, digeretion, roject such award, and begin pro- M «. ceedings again, and as oft:n as niny be neces. ! .. sary toobtain o satisfactory finding, aud in no 1" 'such procoeding does the wmunicipality be. 3 47 comeliable for damages until it notually tokes - the property. .. Tho Chicago produce markets were less ootivo Baturday, and generally oasier, Mess - pork closed Ge per brl lower, at §16.00 seller October and $16.80 seller the year, Lard ‘ closed steady, nt $9.80@0.85 for new, cash, aud $9.87}@9,40 sellor the year. Meats were + easier, at 6jo for now shoulders, boxed, 8jo A for ghort ribs do, aud 8jo for do short ‘f t., clears. Lake frelghts woro active and easier Fi ", &t ¢fo for corn to Buffalo, Highwines wero b ‘- steady, at $1.10 per gallon, Flour was dull ‘Wheat closed 10 lower, at §1.10 i . cash and $1.11 for November. Corn closed L} . g0 higher, at 4330 cash and 480 for 1o sud cnsier, ! 'November, Oats “closed jo lower, ot . ('82)c cash or sellor November. Ryo +was ecsier, at Gl@Glie, closed Barloy {@§clower, nt B3c for October nnd 82@82}e for November. Hogs wero wtondy, nt £5.75 @6.00, Onttle were dnll and unclinnged, at R2.50@14.75. Bheop wore firm, at $2.75@ 4.60. One hundred dollars in gold wonld buy %110.00 in greoubacks at tho close. According to a dispatch to the New York Jlerald from Atlanta, the Governor of Geor. gin has hit upon a plan whereby the people of that Stata may be furnished a protext for resisting tho efforts of the Federnl Govern- ment to seeure o fair and honest election. ‘The Attorney-General of the State, whose views on tho question are alrendy known, is tobe called upon for an opinion a3 to the constitutionnlity of the Enforcement ncts aud the order of Attorney-Goneral Tarr, Of courso it will ba ** decided " by this Georgin juriat that both aro unconstitational, and on this authorily, which is nbout ns woighty 08 that of a 'fown Constable would be on the samo subject, it is presumed that tho citizons of Georgin will bo advised to refuso to serve in n posse when enlled upon by a Deputy United States Marshal, Such an application of the Confederate doctrino of State's Rights would raiso a conflict of nuthority betweon the Governor of Georgin and the Prosident of the United States, and would necessitato the employment of Fedoral troops to enforco Federal Inws—n course of action which it is to bo hoped may bo avoided in every South- ern State, The officil roturns of tha Ohio election aro finally footed up and published. The total vote is enormous, and the Republicaus think not n little of it spurious ns returncd from Cincinnati and somo other points, .It was ndmitted by both parties that the fairest test of party strength is shown in the voto for Board of Public Works, as thers was no seratching of tho candidates on eithor side for that oftice, The result is ns follows: Eyans (Republican).... Clough (Demacrat),. . Sctumaler (Prohibitionisti . Republican majorit; Total Vate, o oo Tepoblican mnimliy for Sceretary of State, U, 446 Republican majorlty for Supreme dndze... 0,500 In 1875 the voto of Ohio for Governor was s follows : Tioyes fil‘(cpuhllmn Allen (Democrat) ... Odell (Prohibltionlst) Rcrnhlltnn majorit; "otal voto, i This shows that the vote castin 1870 is 19,087 greater than in 1875, when the vote was unprecedonted and considered extraor- dinary, It will not bo so heavy on the Tih of November, but the Republican mujority will bolarger. Instead of 9,000, it will at the lowest bo 20,000 for Haves over TILDEN. 7,817 Bl DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS, The recent exposures of ballot-box stufliug by the Democrats in Cincinnati brings up afresh tho question why it is that Democrats, particularly in large cities, have such an in- veterato Labit of fraudulent voling. No clection passes but tho Democrats immedi- ately vesort to methods of obteining oftice by spurious votes. Not content with legnl voles, they proceed at once to mnnufacturo them Ly folso and fraudulent means, Eight years ngo thoy stolo the Electoral vota of New York, tho State ticket, the Legislature, nnd Linlf o dozon mombors of Congress by the most shinmefal and villainons ballot-box stuffing, ropenting, fulse counting, and fraudulent naturatization papers. In the re. Peent election in Ohio they swindled the Rte- publicans ont of Lwo members of Congress in the Iamilton Distriet, and in Clevelaud polled o thousand iflegal votes. In Indinna they imported crowds of no.orions Kastern roughs, bullics, and repeaters. In Baltinore they have earried tha clections for years by frand and forco. In the Southern Statey they resort to the different methods of the shot-gun and rovolver, but tho outcomo s the same—n war upon the elective franchise. I+ Now York City nt the present timo they aro registering thousands of liogns namen, thus laying the foundation for swindling in November, Al over Now York, in fact, when the opportuni- ty offers, they are registering alwentees, fle. titious namor, ununturatized foreigners, and names of dend men, to bo counted in No- vember. ‘'Fhey scom to have a fatal love for this kind of trensou,—for it is, aftor all, n treason that sirikes at the very foundation of republicnn governmnent. It sliows » low senso of honesty, and u lower sense of honor, 1t displays not only a determinntion to obtain power by fraud, theft, and revolution, but a willingness to strike tho very ground out {from under tho institutions of the country. Inourown city, Inst spring, this thieving gang stolo the South Town election by grand larceny and poliution of the hallot-box, nud tho leaders of this snmo gang are now at work for Ifoxiz and his crowd, preparing to earry Chiengo aud Cook County by the same Inl’nmaus process, If the Republican party, which - does not imitato this Democratie practice, but de- nounces’ it, ghould over abundon its usage and practice of legal vating, aud adopt the Demoerntie process, by devoting its mind and strength to tho pollntion of tho Lallot- box, tho cuployment of repeators aud false registration, and tho holding back of pre- cinets and wards until it 33 nscortained how mnany votes nro nceded to obtain a majority, it would at once and forover corrupt all elog- tions, and would ruin the whole electivo sys. tem. In such a cnse, thera boing no party to prevent frauds, in a precinet whero thero were bitt o hundred votes this number might be swolled to o hundred thousand. In per- potrating thess frauds systemntically and continuously, the Denocrats scem to net npon the supposition that the Republicans caunot afford to destroy tho clectivo system, and consequontly that they can go on swindling with impunity. They do not stop to think that thoy have as much to lose in such a case a4 tho Ropublicans, and that Roepublieans are no more disposed to Lo ruled by scoun. drels clectod by fraud than they, Fraudulent Dumocratic voting mnst be stopped. The Ropublicans will not always cousent to bo ruled by those elected by tho meancst sort of fraud and trenson. It would Le far more endurable to be ruled by men elected by rovolution and forco of arms, for this is manly and dignified as compared with tho presant Democratic processes of clection, The present Misaissippi and Bouth Carolina plans wre fairly honorable &s compared with the Daomocratio preparations to carry the closo States of the North by ballot-box frauds, It is a coufession of the Demo. crats that they aro in s minority, but are de- termined to rule,—a condition of things which reduces the United Statesatonco to the level of Mexico and the South American Republics, whero fraud or rovolutiou carry overy eloction. Bomo day the Democrats will find to theirsorrow that the Republicans will fight the devil with fire, and thoy may thon discover that they have just as much to loso in the destruction of tho electivo sys. tem as tho Republicaus. Another secret of tha siucasss of tha Dom. ocrata in clection-swindling lies in the loose- ness of tho inws and tho feebleness of their administration. Conrta of Democratic an- tecedents will not punish Democratio sconn- drels. In onr own elty tha most vigorous efforts havo boen made to punish them, and, although clear and positive evidonce waa fur- nished, Democratic Judges and jurors havo refused to nssist, and havo even connived at their eacape, 'I'ho farco of justice was ns consummate as that nt Oxford, Miss. 'Theso partissn Judgoes do not scem to npprecinto tholr position, or reflect that they nro sap- ping tho very foundations of freedom; that an election carried by fraud has no binding effect; and that tho rule of the minority in any conntry is rovolution and usurpation. Tt may bo well for these Judges and juries, aud for the wholo Democratic party, to ro- flect that, in & moment of oxasperation, there may come n timo when rotalintion may como in kind, aud that in such an event they will suffor ns soveroly ns Republicans, The death of the venorable Fnavcts Pngs. oy Bram, father of MosTaosery Bram and the late Fnaxg P. Bram, Jr., has already been noticed. Ho was born in Abingdon, Virginin, in April, 1791, and was in tho 80th year of his age. Iis denth recalls othior and alnost forgotton times in Amerienn polities, when Brain was s conspicuous participant in national affairs, 'Therc was herdly an ng- sociate of that dny whom bhe did not sur- vive, Mr. Bram was tho editor of a paper in Kentucky, and bolonged to the Demiocratic- Republican party, which, during AMr, Mox. ror's Administeation, had no opposition, When that Administration was drawing to n close, tho candidates for the succession wore numerous. Joux Quivcy Apaws, Hewny Cray, Axpnew JacusoN, Winnast H, Craw- rorp, Jouy C. Carunouy, and other mombers of the party, all aspired to tho Presidency. Apaxs, Crawronn, and CAruouN wers meme Lers of Moxnor's Calinet, and wero learty haters of each other. Each had his follow- ers, Among tho warm supporters of Mr. Cray wero Fraxcrs P. Bram and Axos Kex- vaLL, both residents in Kentucky, where Kesvarn had been n teacher in Cray's fam- ily, Both supported Crav in the contest in 1821, when, the peoplo failing to olect, the Tlouso chose Apams President. ‘o wholo period-of that Administration was dovoted to the preparation for tho mext election, and the onco united party gradually separated into two divisions which subsequently formed themselves into the Democratic and Whig partics. Nevertheless, during the exciting contest of 1828, all the candidates were nominally of tho Republican party. 'The election of Gen. Jacksoy forced tho adher. eats of Anaxy, Cray, and the nuli-Masonie factions into an opposition, which four years Inter took form as tho Whig porty. Anar- ticlo written by Braim, opposing the nullifi- cation and State-Sovereignty notions of Caz- noux and his school, atteacted tho attention of JacksoN, who invited Bram to como to Washiugton and publish tho Globe, tho des. tined organ of the Demoeratic party. At the same time ho iuvited Xexpary to Washe ington, giving him a place in the Tronsury, nand thus seenred tho support and services of two able men who nroviously had heon ardont friends of IHevwy Crav. ‘Thero hnd been considerablo talk, preceding JacksoN's election, of establishing tho one- term principle, and Mr, Carnoun, who was -then Vice-Prosident, was urged for the sue~ cession, The Demoeratic, paper at Wash. ington,—tho Z'elegraph,—edited by Drwr Gneey, was tho mouthpicco of Cazmoan's friends. Tho Globe, established by ITiram and Reves, becama the Administration cagan, T'ho war between the Jacssoy nud the Car- novy frctions becamo intensified, rmd the first Cabinet of Gen. Jacxioy was broken up, partly by political but mainly by per. sonal hatreds arising from tho antagonism for tho succossion, A few yonrs later the practical rovolt of Bonth Caroling and Presi- dont Jacxsox's proclamation and 1nanly do- nuncintion of Nullification drew the lines closely between the Democemts and Nullifi- en, aud JACKSON'S Bupremucy i tho party wes complote. Following this was tho President's war upon nnd defeat of ‘the Nationol Dank,. and his own triumph- ant reclection. During all theso years the confidential, though unoficinl, advisers of the President were ¥naxow I, Bram and Asos Kuwpann, who wero ropresented in thoso days as the “XKitchen Cabinot.” Bram was, as editor of the Glole, n consple- ous object of assnult, but during his whole servico in Washington bore himuolf bravely, defending tho Democratio purty ngainst tho Btate-Sovervignty and Nullification doctrines and party, o did nat malke tho defonso of slavery & party doctrine or poticy. Ilo con- tinued a3 editor of the (Mobe during Mr, Vax Buness tevm, aud supported him unavail- ingly for ve-clection in 1840, "o Globe, na well ns tho whols Demoeratic party,wns com- mitted to the renomination of Van Bunex in 1844, but tho question of the annoexation of Toxas ocenrring, tho Couvontion of that year nominnted Porx. Mr, Vax Ilunen was known to be opposed to tho nnnexation of ‘Texay, and his defent by Porx was the fimt decided viotory of tho slavery wing of tho Damocratio party, When Porg eome to Washington, the South, among othor things, demanded that Mr, Dramn should rotire from the Glolé, of which he had Loen sixteon years tha cditor, and in which ho hwl earned o national reputation. It was a demand by the “Solid South " that the Democratic organ ut Washington should ropresent tho “Hoath” as tho foremost interest in the Domoeratic party, Mr. Bram was bowed out; even tho namo of the paper was changeds and Tuoxas Rireme, of the Richmond nquirer, beeama tho cditor of tha nationnl orgun of the Democratic party. The pro-slavery suprommnoy in the Demo- eratio party was established in the clection of Porx. 'Tho war with Moxico and tho ac- «uisition of now territory were euccessfully carried out, The schemo for the extension of slnvery encountored, howover, a serious cheek in the motion of Wiror, s Domocrat from Ponnsylvania, to apply tho proviso which bears bis namo %o all now territory, Thoe new organ of tho party at ouco broke loose, “und tho whole Northern Demoerasy who opposed the exteusion of glavery wera de- nouncod us Abolitionfsts and traitors, The Brais family follow od the courso of the Van Bungns uud otber Northern Democratio opponemts of Kiavery, defeating Cass in 1818, and electing 'lavron, Oray's cowm. prowise in 1820 smoothod things over for o whils, but tho, storm broke forth afresh in 1834, upon t'ae repeal of tho Missourl Com-' prowise, "fhe accidental success of Bu-! CHANAN, i'3 1830, was followod by the defeat; of the 8cath on the Kanses question in 1858, and ot “;he Presidontinl clection in 1869, aw then (Lo **Holid South " declared for wiay Mr. Boain, thongh excluded from his pr.rty in 1815, continued au snetive intores’; ‘1 willic sfairs. His cxclusion ‘was P !/ necessary movellin order to mnke the Domo- cratio parly & pro-slavery party, nnd, while this polioy succeeded within the party, it was daily wenkening the party in the country. It tool just fificen years to reduce the Demo- cratic party to an exclusively Biate-Sover. eignty, pro-slavery organization, and when it was reduced to that it was in such a lope- less minority that the South took up arms in rebellion, 'I'he BrAng ncted with tho Ropublicaus in tho nomination and support of Fresont in 1836, of Liscorx in 1860, and supported tho War, In 1868 Fnaxx P, Bram, dr., was the Domocratio eandidato for Vico-President. 'Thio venornble gentleman whoso death at such an advanced ago is thus noticed was re- markable, ovon when n young man, for his plainuess. He was rogarded ns tho homelicat- looking man in tho country, 1fe was A man of geniua and gront nbility, wiso in council, flrm in purpose, and dovoled to what hocon- sidered tobo justice ; n man of gront person- ol kinduess, amiablo disposition, plensant manners, and who, through n long public life, passed withont reproach upon his per- sonal or publie record. THE NEXT CONGRESS. A few dnys ngo 'Tmtr Tninose gave its rendera its cstimato of the probable political complexion of tho next Congress, and figured out ot tho bost a very small mnjority in the Ilouso of Ropresentatives, We lave now Dbefore us an estimate mado np by the Now York Evening Post, which may be regarded ns nearly indopendent, its conductors being divided in sympathy and all comparatively indifferent as to the rvesult. Its estimate may, consequently, bo nceopted as reasonably cool-hended and probable. In the Forty- third Congress the Houaso had 198 Republic- nns, 87 Demoerats, 4 Liberals, nnd 1 Inde- pendont; in tho Forty-fourth (the presont) Congress thers aro 109 Ropublicans, 178 Democrats, 2 Liberals, and 8 Indepoudonts; in the next Congross the Evening Post osti- mates that the Houso will have 115 Itepub- licans and 148 Democrats,—thus giving the Democrnts n bare majority of three, Thero nre some details in which we do not altogothor ngreo with the Post's figuring, Thus in Alabnmn it gives the Democrats all tho Congressmen, though thore are probably two, nnd certainly one, district which ought to roturn Ropublicans, uniess thoy aro ¢ shot- gunned” out of their votes. In Illinois, on the othor hand, tha Post allows 13 Ropub- licans to G Domocrats; this certainly ought to bo tho result, but in tho Fourth District thero are two Ropublican candidates in the field, nnd Horesour moay got Republican ‘votes enough to elect FannsworTm, tho Dem- ocratic candidate. 8o, in tho Peoria Dis- trict, WmTing’s bolt may possibly dofeat Bovp, who wonld undoubtedly be elected if thero wero no defection. In tho First. District (the South Division of Chicago) there is ronson to appre- hond Democratic repeating, colonizing, Dallot-box stufling, and frands of all kinds in behalf of Hoxie. In this way it is not jm. possible that the Republican Congressmen in this State may be reduced to 11 or oven 10, instend of 13, which is the number IHi- nois ought to count upon. To roturn to the Post's beginning, it gives tho Democrats all the Missouri dolegation, though hopes are catertained by the Republicnns of carrying 4wo districts, In North Carolina it gives tho TRopublicans but one Congressman out of cight, thongh tho contest in that Btato is close enough to warrsut a hopo of twoor threo. 8o it connts upon the Riflo Clubs of Houth Carolinn carrying two districts for the Confederates, thongh by hLonest vote they wouldu't get any. Wirlo we may differ from the Feening DPost ps to the allotmont of Demecrats and Reprblicans in the difforent States, the sum of our obsorvntions does not materially chmugo ita catimate, and tho proseut outlook s that neither party will sccure o majority of moro than half a dozen. The apecial significance of this closo sailing is that the Republicans owa it to thomselves and the best interosis of tho conntry to bury all local differences and personal strifes, and unito in overy district to clect their candi- date whoro it cin Lo done. by unity and cnergy., Wo commond this view of the matter particalarly to the Republicans of this Stnto who Yve fn districts whero dis- sonsion nmong thomselves threatens the loss of Congrersmen who might bo elocted a3 well as not, and nlso in thoso distriots where they have timely warmng of the Demoeratic intention to defent them by fraud. AN IMPORTANT ADIMISSION. Tho Chiesgo organ of the Confoderates has shrowdly avoided until rocontly nny partion- Inr roferanco to-tleo danger to bo approhonded from tho claims of ox-Robols for losses sus- tained during tho *Var, Itisa thing not to bo donied with nuy rensonsble hopo of cre- donce, and not to i% sdmitted without detri- mont to Mr, TrLpen’s cinuces, It has gen. erally contonted itsolf, therefore, with flnunt- iug the banner of * Roform,” and abusing most of the mon wlro aro carrying it. But evon the Olicago Z'%mes lns permitted its frankunoss to got tho botler of its disorotion, and in a late article on tho subjoct of Reobel claimg nakes tho following iwportaut ad- miasion : Ad to the matter of Bouthern clalms, thore la noevidonco of any mtsntion oven to prosent such @ miass of thew wu tho Aves orguns have evolved out of their imaginations. Much less i there evie dence af uny Inteniton to sllow o single claim that {3 not reasunable amd Just, ho 1IAYES organs are unable to discover aabngle bill for the sllawance of fmproper or Mat-el claims that was pussod by the Confederate Hotgs, or favorably acted upon by any comwitice of that House, durlng the late sesslon, Tho wmaost they can do is to et In array a unmbor of clain e bills that have been Introduced from time to th o during a perlod of ten yoars, and buint Lo the action of the Statu of Missourd fn un- dlertaking to s sume for collectlon certaln clalms of citizens o ¢ that State; all of which amounts to nothing. Le glolutive hodlvs and political oigan- fzatlons are 1o be fudged by what they do, not by what they 8 3 usked to do. 22 is not tmprodable that thers a.re & areat many people in ths Southern States who could like to yel sometling out of the 2tublle T xisury; but there aro a great many people In t ho Northern States who would like to do tho sume. It bs ot Improbable that a great many Southern clalins aro vxtravagant or frndulent; but Lhe & gme muy b ealid of & great many Northern clalmy. On the otber hond, some Southern clulma ity be emtlrely reaconable and just, and if 10 they ouahl 1wt (o be rejected aunply because they ure Southern, any more than Western clalns ought to be ratected Lecausa they ure Western, or Eastern clatra becanso they uro Enstern, The italics indicate tho salient points in tho oxtract, 'Theresis uo dexlal of tho Rebal cloim raid, but only the qualification that there jen't *‘such. a masy of thum” as hos boon. ropresentod. Whore doos the ZTimes get ita wpocial inlormation on this point? It o Nebel is Lo kw allowed componuation for Llslosses in tho War, how arc other Rebels to Lo oxcluded.? Whore is the lina to bo drawn, and who i3 to draw it? Again, the 2%mes evidontly thinks somo of the Robel claims ave ' roastmabloand just,” Aro they, indeed? Tho policy of tho Republican party has boon that it was neither roasonable nor just to pay any man a reward for treason ond sccesslon ; und, while amnesty and tho restoration of political rights have boen freoly granted to tho men who rought to break down the Government, the veimburse- ment of losses {o men who wore engaged in this attempt hns beon prohibited by Iaw, Tho Zimes admits that the Democratio party will proceed upon n differont thoory, and pay only thoso Rebiol claima which nre * reasonable and just,” trenson censing to bo a bar ngafust this con- dition, This is n confossion of the wholo ense. The chargoe which the Chicago 7%mes thus tacitly admits, and which lns beon similarly admittod Ly.the ominous silence of tho Southern nawapapers, is that tha statute requiring loyalty during tho War a8 a condl- tion procedent for the paymont of clatins for ‘War losses will bo ropenled, and that the doors will bo thrown open to cvery one who was nrrayed against tha Government to seek recompenso for losses sustained in his tren. sonable caveer, Weo subjoin tho text of ono of tho Lills introduced at tho Inst session of Congreas by the Hon, I, ', RippLg, a Dom- ocratio member from Teuncssee, and ask the Z'imes whether it does not think that a Con- federnto Congress would regard it s * ren- sonable and just.” Hero it is: A Buwy directing compensatinn to e allawed for the use nud occupntion of proparty by the United States army during the late War, e it enncted by tho Senate and Jlouse of Repro- sentatives of the United States of Amerlea In Con- gress assemblod, That the Sverotary of War e, and ho 1s herehy, authorized to allow reasonaoble compensation to all citizens of the United States for the wao and occupatlon of their property by tho United States army, or any part thereol, during the late Clvil War, fn tho same mannor and nnder thosame rogulations ascompeneation s now allowed for quartermaster stores uscd by sald army; pro- vlded, howaver, that the afiidavit of the claimant, supported by the compotent tostimony of any rep- atablo citizen, shall bo suficient prout to estab- lish the factof the use aud occupation of such property by enld army, But it {a not the intention of thluact to limlt the partics to the amount of proof hiercln apecitied; but other and additlonal testimony may be taken to establish the fact of the nae and occupation and the rental value of tho proporty vccupled, Of courso thero was no uso in passing such abill with o large Ropubliean majority in the Sennte, nnd it would have been the height of folly on the ove of a Presidentinl cloction in which the Confederates were to sock extonded power. But doea it not point to nclnsgof claims which the Confederates regard ng ** rensonable and just,” and dooes it not offer n precedont for sotting aside the taint of disloyalty as a bar from exacting recompenso from the Governwment for losses sustained whilo in robellion ? COURTING THE ELECTORAL VOTES. Jene Brack's revolutionary ndvice to the Confederates of South Carolina to withdraw thoir tickot, {hough utterly impracticable even for tho infamons purpose for which it was designed, has served to draw attention to tho alarming political danger thot will pre- sont itgelf 1n casa tho ponding Presidontial cloction shall turn upon the vote of o singlo State, aud thero bo two Eloctoral tickets in that State each claiming to have been chosen, Notwithstanding Senator Montoxn's efforts to arouse tho Congress to n sense of tho notablo defoct of the Constitution and Inws relative to the count of tho Electoral vote,—eflorts that ho has renowed from time to time ever since the Presidential vote of 1872,~nothing has been dono; indeed, by dropping the twenty.socond joint rula adopted in 1863, and under which tho votos of 1868 and 1872 wero counted, thoro is aven less syatom than evor, aud Congress falls baock upon tho letter of tho Constitution (Twelfth Amend- ment), which mnkoes the opening and conut- ing of the Elcotoral votes amero clerienl Inbor, Yot the joint rulo in forco during tho last two counts was notably unfair and probably unconstitutional, since it enabled oither House of Congross, for more partisan rensons and by its singlo objection, to dis- franchiso thio people of any Stato in the Union, nnd treat them as if no olection had been held, 8uch arule could be improved by tho prosont Domocratic Houss to throw out suflicient Republican Btates to transfer the Presidontinl election to their own koeping, and inguro the choico of a Dewmocratic Presi- dent, 'Lho only rulo now in force is ** the constitutional provision that the President of the Benate shall, in tho prosence of the Souate and Iouso of XRepresontatives, opon all tho cortificales, nud tho votes shall then bo counted.” Now the dangor is, that, from South Caroliun we will say, there may bo two certificatos from two Electoral bodies, each claiming to liave boen nppointed by the people. Thero is no pro- vision in the Constitution or laws enabling Congresa or any other tribuual to detormine between the two. Herein is the davger. 1t tho Confederato party wore as davoted to thie Uniou as tho Republican party, such a caso might excite dissension, but would not threaten rovolution, As it is, wo have had nbundant ovidenco that tho Confederates aro detorminod o earry tho day at every hazard, Having decided to carry threco or four Southern Btates for TrnpeN by intimidation and violence, thoy will searccly Lesitato to onforco the count of any Electoral votos which thoy may claim under this policy. Congroes will not conveno until after the clection, nor until after it shall bo known ‘whother tho choice for Prosident will depend upon the decision betweon two contesting scts of Electors of ono or moro States, If it shall prove to bo so close, the Confederate House will probably refuse to ngreo to any fair rule or arbitration, and the slvifo that will grow out of the situation cannot bo defi- nitely estimatod. Itis earnestly to bo hoped that the danger may be averted by tho choico Leing #o decided as not to rost upon the vote of any Stato in dispute; but, in contemplat- lug tho possibility of suchi a situation, the only practicable way that suggests itsclf now {4 for ench Btuto to contost within ita own boundaries any disputo ns to the result, and for Congress to bind itself to,tho count of such Electoral votes s shall be properly cer- titled by the Governors of tho sovernl Ktatea, Indeed, Congross has uo authority to go be- youd this. It moy not stop to inquire into the nuterior canses of tho dissension in nuy Btate, or tho claims of auy contesting sot of Electors, but has simply the perfanctory duty of opeuing and counting the votes that cowe toitproperly certified. Thero should be universal willingness on tha part of both partics in Congress to agres to this while the rosult is yot uncortain, so thnt tho tempta. tion of a closo vete shall not develop a dispo- sition on elther sidoto take & partisan advan- tago of tho fact. Aud if tho country cucapo serious troubla this time, the same condition of uncertainty should bo allowed to exist no longer, but the duty of arbitration should be seouroly lodged in some competent and un. partisan tribunal, The Democratic papers are howling them- 8olves hoarso at the Prosident's proclamation agoinst the South Carolina Ku-Klux and rifle. olubs, They call it usurpation, tyranny, Ouwsarism, bayouot rule, eto, 'They aro es. pecially vociferous at tho order of the War Dopartment sending some troops to the uceuo of disturbanco to preservo the peace. ‘They ro- fuso to rocogniza tho favt that the President lis only ncted in complinneo with tho de- mand of the Governor of Bouth Carolinn, Tho Constitution gives Gov. CHAMDERLATY tho right to eall on tho Prealdent for aswist- anco, and the snmo instrument makes it the duty of the President to furnlsh it. But thoso TrLneN journnls shut their oyes to the Iaw and the Conatitution, and belloiy in uni. son againat the Presidont, charging him wilh introdueing ** bayonot rulo" in Houth Caro. linn, but nover a word eseapes them against the introduction of rifle-club rulo in that Btato. Wanr Haxerox may organize ritle- cluba to earry tho election for TmoprN and Reform, and it is all right in tho oyes of tho New York World and Sun, and Chicngo Times, and Springfiold Register. It ia all right to broak up Republican meotings by forco of nrms, to shoot the Republican lead- era, and surround the polls on election day with Inwless military companies, and kill or drive away those Republicnns who refuso to voto for Bau TimpeN aud Wane Hame- ToN. It s a drendful violation of the Comstitution for tho Presidont to sond the Governor of the Btato, on the domnnd of tho Intter, some of tho national police forco to protect lifo and prescrvo onler, and to scoure to evory man tho right to vote na he pleases, But, according to the logio of the same TrupeN organs, it is striolly constitutional for the Confoderatos who surrendered to tho Union army and gavo their parolo onth to obey the laws, now to resume their arms aud military organization, and make .war on tho Republicnus of tho State! When tho Prosident issued Lis proolamation, civil war bad actunlly broken out in South Oarolinn; the Confederate **White-Line” minority lind taken up arms to put down the Ro- publican mnjority and give the State to Tiupey and Wape Haxerox by forco. The Presidont ordered the belligerenta to dis- perse, and gave them three days in which to doit, His proclamation applies to armed negroes as much as to mrmod Ku-Klux, and the troops will dinperso tho former as well os the lattor, The President has siwply per- formed his constitutional duty in the in- torost of lnw and order, and for that he is denouncoed by the Tipex Reformers as n tyrant ond o Ozsan! i A TRIVMPH OF PROTECTION. The nnnouncoment is made in the Shef. fiold (Eng.) Telegraph that the great steel- manufacturing firm of SaNpErsoN Brothers, cf that city, ** has abandoned the attempt to compete with American makers of stoel in tho face of the high protective duties levied in the States on this article, and hns resolved on establishing works at Syrucuse, N, Y.” This will, of course, be exultantly eited by the Chinese-wall-tariff organs as signal dem- onstration of tho bonofits of their system of forcing Americans to pay a higher prico for what steol they use than do any othes peoplo in tho commercial workd DBut what does it prove? Tho Messrs. - BANDERSON, from their works at Bheffleld, would bae glad to aell us stocl at very much lovwer rates than it can be bought for in this comntry. That is procisely what the miscalled protective torif was dovised to provout their doing. That procisely is what it docs prevent their doing, and so it comes Lo pass that we securo the inestimablo privilego of making steel more oxpensive to ourselves than to nny other people. So also is it that the Mosgrs, BavpEmsoN ennmot got their cheap steol into our mnrkot unless thoy smug- glo it in, If they did thnt and cscaped dotection, of course ihoy would pocket'tho duty which belongs to the Governmeont. In. stond, theso blarsted Britishera leap tho tariff-Chineso wall with their foctories in their pockets, and soll their stocl here, avoid- ing payment of tho duty, which they pockot. Wore the tarifi-Chiness wall kwocked down they would sell all tho steol wo want for cut- lery, and railroad bars, and tfires, and all other uges, chesply, from Sheflicld. Instead, they jump tho wall to sell it to us at tho high prices which that wall was built to keep up. They como hero simply to thus get their steol into our market, whilo evading tho pay- ment of the duty. They cannot oxpect to export, To do that they would stay whore they ave and where thoy can manufacture so chonply that wo have to havo tha tariff to kecp them out of our mm'kots. Chonp steol for tho rest of creation will of course still continue to be manufzeturcd at Sheflield, while ns continuonsly will the cry go up from bobind our Chinese wall that it be raised and strerigthened tho more cficctunlly to keap out the British competition that can jump thot wall as the Measrs, SiNDERsoN proposo to do. AN EXPERHIVE LESSON, Jomy Brrant, in his reeout speech at Man- choster upon the Turco-Sorvian war, deliv- ored tg an immense audionce, told tho En- glish peoplo sono homo truths not only with regard to the Bastorn question and the Bul- garinn atrocitics, hut a¥o the Orimenn war, In the courso of his speech, Mr, Brionr sald ¢ 2 reat, tmlecd, 1 know, wero tho reasons that wero offered to thoughtlesa and uninformed people to Intluco thum 1o support thy Uovernment and Pare Vlamont i thut unbappy war, They wore held suf- ficlent, amsl the war took place. ‘I'hag it wus dlsas. trous, looking back twenty years, T think all men must now adinit, Tam not apcaking of tho valor of tho troops ur of thoir fajlures fu any contest in which thoy were engaged. I am speaking of it from o fur higher polat of view then that, 1t was & disastrous war; and to us now looking back agafn it wus especlally hmmillathyg, 1 think Alr, KiNQuAK®E eays more than half a milllun of Myes, drst and lost, wero sacrificed in that war. 1think ourshare ia supposed to approsch about 40,000 men, A hundred millions of money was spent by us—1 nan not speaking of what other natlons spent; 1am not addressing othor nations, ‘tho moment tho war was over, though there was aroduction of armainenty, still our ndlitary charges remuined, sud have remalned fromn that time to thils at £10, 000,000 or more higher than they wera before; and, besldes all thls, we entered into commorclal tranancsions with un fnsolvent firm on the Bosphorus [luughter), to whoui the peoplo of England advanced mrgo sums which there fs no hopoe they will ever seo ngaln, to the aimmount prob- nably of ucarly a hendred milllon of maney. 1t moy bu wald, looking buck to those loans, thatat this mioment there 18 not un fronclad that slumbers on tho Turkish waters, thors Is not & musket or o rifle or 1 bayonet or w sword by which a Serviau has been Lilled In this war, or unarmed mon and helpless women or children have beon murdered fn Dulgarin, that was not purchased and paid for by money borrowed from the credulous puaple of thia country. In viow of tho presont aititude of the Lurky towards the whole elvilized world, the remembrances of the Crimcan war must be peculinrly bitter to England just now, In that war the lives of 40,000 of her young wmen wero sacrificed upon tho battle-ficld and intho hospitals. First and last, sho ox- pended §500,000,000, a Iargo pnrt of which was devoted to tho building of wooden ships that went to the Baltie. ‘Thoy woro of no use then, and thoy avo of no use now, Hav~ ing speat this vast sum to duond Turkoy, sho then loaned the ‘Curks $500,000,000 more, which have been aquandered, und will never Lo ropald, the interest having been repudi- ated, aud, of course, the principal, When tho Franco-German war closad, and Germany demanded of Frame un indemnity- of a thousnnd millions of dollary, § upon by the wholo world ns ermg . Xk and oppressiva. It alarmeq mnx‘k;:d o it nmazed mankind when Franey i And yot i I exnctly (o popn MR England lias squandered uponTurke i oy flung away for no useful purpn’g"m“’ spent ono-hnlf of it ta proseoule g v o St wai of no ndvautngo to her, ayq fl':r “hich hialf to give tho butehern of xmml;(m;1 thing to livo upon, And yet, nfter g gy genorosity upon tho part of ]‘:“E'AI'“:"' Purks havo proved themselyeg .m‘LrL o maintasin o Govornment, nnq lmvu”'r' 4 themselves mora brutal, savage, nuq fl!'m," thon thoy woro twonty-threo yoars ago [m“h DLitterness of tho situation in, that, afte; ing exponded a thousand millioy d'ullnnr 5 her protege, England now hng to nlang, b Turk, It waa o fenrful squan il ure, but it hins o vory valunbla — L wag dering of gy, mornl, The [acta i at have I)EE||-II;'01| d it touching Gov. HEexDRICKS TI.']I\I‘I:MI»“; I Morrls Ravina land-claim Indicate g 1 Attly selected for the tail-cnd of tly Ilrku[' which 8uaMyy TILDEN, rallrond \mckr: ot dabbler fn Lake Superlor miulng-iron urry o i8 the hend. The story of the Morrty !;:n,:" clatm, by which a lot of poor German mlnc::? Californla are threatened with rohbery of s clnims, 18 glven in o letter pubisheq 1y o Washington Natlonal Zepubliean n3 followy; b In the fisat placo W. C. Hixomtcis bonghy g ten acres uf grotnd hoeu ' (at Morris: i ety then eont hiw brother Tox hack (o Tnjipint’s ftl the Inter ralacu o company, withGow. gy oo atitahiead. Sliortly after Gov, 14 S aut here, &ud tio Company located 1. g 52t ground, togother with the entire Sorie gicit o i outlit, theraby shatthig 1p the ntirh ¢ 1 11 thoy dncoued (n goitini thelr clainis paeiit rom tho wno of It. “About ono-hai of gl acren n protested by different clalinante, wiy moatly Germans wliosa clalma the Hrmerrs, uny iave ©CJumpod.” o facta are tha 1 Commany hava ** Jumped " a large tract ot (o0 Volonying to a 1ot of oot miners, o heset (454 hard und spent thefr monay tatold thes et dor thie law. Somoof thom evai went o a2t 10 800 £ thoy could not urrivo at n peacetey Akt mont, without going to law abant 1. Fori. faction thioy word told thoy could ot what hos® would givo thoin, and uuthing more, The 2% abaut fifty Germnna Bmoiyg oSt protcstan - ot T uea that there Is n German rl\lmu‘n;‘{gr i Tosi, 1o must bo amall pattern fo help § ery cheat his own countrymen. This W, (. iy, DAICKA 18 3 partner n two of the companies wpes: ground lie has *jumped.” What do 'you thinksj a min \who would rob bis partnee? 1t may pesy] that this docs not affect tho Governor: by ralscd the Company? Who furnished the moge Who defonded the enso In the Land Oflee el Ingtan, of which the Governor was once Comnlye sluncr? Why, it was Gov. HENbuicRs, a1d 19 one ctse. Any miner knows that 1,220 atreso) o no company sk ‘ 100 acros. 5 iy Without Gov. IENDRICKS' influchce 1y ke TLand Officc and as United States Benatr probably these minera would have sceured thely rights long ago. Probably, also, hiad ft nct Lery backed by his powerful name and Influence, tte Jumping of thefr claims would not hase Leen attempted, Tho - HInNpRICKS Company hy been pushing its claims fa order to get a patent for the land since 1878, and, shou!d Gor, Hes. DRicks be clected, doubtlcss count uponby powerful influcuce to get thelr elaims through the Lond Office. Tho Republican says: The IHEespnicks family have been purening iy fraud persistontly sinco 187, but have not ve coeded in getting the patents. We aniex nanes of a few of those Uerman clalmants wio Ymk-lt agatust tho fssuo of the patents to toe gxprigks Company, ‘They and their foilon. countrymen are cxpected to” votu for the Presi dont of this labor-crushing mouopoly for Viee. Pregident of tho United Staten: E. M. Bpark, deft i, Mechlung, A, Fitts Grorgo F. Gelssse, Joeen 1iills, JdolinJost, M. Lichtenberger, Cornellus De Yoasg, Francls Peter, Tred Sulr, Q. L. Hust, Hans Jurzensen, 1. Haflerty, G. Gansberger, . A, Comncllus, George Iacsloop, Theotore G, Frisch, Ceorge Ducraing, E.B, T Jolin Wagner, Fritz Vou, Richard Ileinrichs, arah Thomas, Juseph Hendlcy, John Tottser, 'eblen, Tobert Narh, James 8, McCicary, Ira A, Wetherbes, W. 8. Mlilier, Phil! MeRtae, €. L. Baker, W. B, Dinckley, e ——— The old Keystone State is waking uplos sense of duty and danger. The loss of Indim ou the 10tk of October lins startled the Repul licaus from their stato of falso sccusity sl lethargy, Nearly 200 mass-mectings are adrere tised. Every one who can make o speech bus volunteered his service, Vigllanco Committees are forming fn every town aud ward, and stejs liave been taken which will bring cyery Repote lean voter to the polls, The Republlean leal ers dlseovered that the Tlidenftes were pratie - {5 tho still-hunt gamo upou than, Mr, Witte 1aM I Kestorz, member of the Natinal Cen tral Committea for Pennsylvanis, {u aolnter- view tho other day, said: * ‘Tho prmamc!l of o TRepublicsn vIcIori i1 Pennsylvania wera flrsterate, und he bad to doubt the majority far tho Republican, tekt wonld bo all the way from 20.ud0 to L0.(0 ‘The purty, ho enld, was In a much better candiha thun uince 1868; tho Liberal Ropablicas s very few exceptions, Jeft the ranks of the racy and had returned to tho Republican tho western part of tho Stule, where the 4 ar 1872 was the greatet, the party wonld pollite Targoat majority 1t had given sinco (st s e tion. The Republicans would certulnly gain rfeed Gougrorsmun, and pomsflly ofult, <ty Tesult of the election in Indlunn hind cavsed the soters o Tennsylvania to be moro watchiul, and wonld na- donbtedly bs the meuns of rolling “l!’) a larr, flej ublican wajority than conld liive been attaine Kml ITudlana vone Itepublican, because the ’u“LI pablican vote of the Stato would now bepelle ‘lulurrhxg to President Gnant's prociamation S; the turhulent element In South Carollta, e vhl‘:' that the mesungo was preclucly what the purly it Deen loping for for o long time, fts elfvct o3 Do 1o fuplro comtdoncs n the States of Mot Caroling, South Carolina, and 1 fans, 8o would atrengthen thy port fn tho North by asat, Ing ita members that the ltepublican Jurl i B South was **not going to be permitted to be over awed, " ————— The burden of 8ax TiLpey's refraln iy “f’i form s neeessary!” Kpnvy, O'Buoy, on Morssey, his threo Tammany Captalis,50t? and down voclferating that reform Is xl«cvsglv'rg and knocking men down who o not ezree W 5 them. We havo not sceu in any re:ent T""’f lteraturs u better or mare stirring n'lmr: apeech than the following by u noted Dunmr;° made o few years ago. Head it tiret ui{ll nlun up an unprefudiced opinlon whether )uu' 1“re- read anything finer in the wav of hl;;lpmmrx o ‘ form promiee, even fn the best efforts o llgheat-toned TiLpEN orators: inilils 1 these great and perilous Umed, slBECE must hio faken, ‘Pha Tammany Sockely POy Lu govorned by thoso rules which Bt LES, countrics powurfut which uve followed thet o propose tiut the interests of one #hall be ests of ull, Wo propose to_carry on ornment, W propuse to r thadu whio clect puriony to call them to persona] account for which they conduct themsolves and e dutles, Weo propose to wrest, if ,.u; o, 1 Government from the hands of thok who Wik, our opinfon, wre betruylng it fro 3 trying to rish ont al] principles of ciua ty, and tolesation. We proposy (o fedy rizht of the u\wnmcd u: u{ffff“h:u\fiuflu e f i 3 proposa ¢l ‘ g pank o 10 stFikb farward futo u b noble carcer, - " Tretty good speech, fan't jut Who dm n suppose made it ‘Tinpusi Not rlnlllt- %, ade by TiLoea's old Tmnmany w“xluu'rufl TwEED, on the 4th of July, 1871, Just o 38 days before the New York T\muL‘xpfl?‘“ Hiath the most colossal swindler of moder # Reforwn I3 necessary." tefal § ¢ wanner W 2 kel { perforn et - oetal 1 Our able contomporary with the p?::‘m [ dependent mind complalned very b 1;‘vpulfllV terduy morning in his Zimes that uu:l ‘-. g an torchlight procession of Eatur :)MI;'”‘ waa not up to his expeetutions—wus 1 R 08 1t ought to have beew, conshlerlvg (600 slon, ote, Wondmit ft, The processilty have been two br thres mlles tonser th ot Cule and would huve been severat miles l.‘:"“ "k INGERSOLL spolled ft. Tl m.nv; :L’l iy marchlng companies kuew yory well I«h-! woul went {nto the ranka and murched o T - neither seo nor liear the great oralof % e were determined not to b depr ‘; periols plessuro of listentng to hld L'lm]“tl’x" usasd The cousequence wus, that ive 0F > uniformed und equipped membe " light cluba novor went near thelr I it und kept out of the processlot self, 10 12 stralght march, each one for l";’;:u g‘ 2 Exposition Building, und there ih“ o squeczed to got closo cnough ta L Cilisgo¥ hear b, ‘T Kepublian parky