Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1879, Page 4

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F,T. Mo~ > Fappex, Manoger, “SARIS, France~No, 16 fue de ta Grange-Datelters, IL. Mauurn, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand, Tinway F. Giitim, Agent. SAN FRANCIBCO, Ci WASININGTON D. AMUS! TN MeVicker's Theatre. |. B. Pinefore.”* 4 % Haveriy’s Theatre. ‘Dearborn street, corner of Monroo, ef Dion Houcicault. ‘The Shanghrauo.” Engagement Hooley’s Thentre. Randolph strect, between Clark and Lasalle, gagoment of Mme, Modjeska, ‘* Adrienne.” En- Namilin’s Theatro. Clark street, opposite the Court-Mouse. Engagement of Pauline Markham, ‘'H, N. 6, Pinaforte.” . + McCormick Mall, North Clark street, corner Kivzie, Dissolving Pans oramio Views, Dublin City and Its Burroundings, Acnilemy of nfusic. Tialsted street, between Mtadison and Monroe. Var riety entertafnment. ———— SOCIETY MEETINGS. PLRIADES LODGE, NO, 478, A. F. & AM. brethren are yequested to attend’a regular com Hon of tila Togs ‘Thursday evening. Apr jusiness of vital Impurtance to the Lodge pefors it. Tho M. W, Grand Master of tho ‘Ullnois will ba present. Ll come State of + WM, G, GODMAN, W. 3. APRIL 1, TUESDAY, 1879. - To tho soldiers of the Ropublic—Vote as “you shot. "To-day will bo n good timo to fool that cogle of Canren Hanntson’s by wringing ite neck, Irishmon do not usually forgot or “forgive alfronts, Do thoy remember how Oanren Hi.nuwon treated Gen. Burenps ? Every vote cast for Osnren Hannwon to- day is» voto to sustain tho rovolutionary majority in Congress in its offort to starve the Government. "If it raina to-day, it will bo every Repub- lican’s duty to got wot. It must be remom- : bored thot Democrats come up like mush. rooms in wot weather. Oanren Hannison has not yet anawored thoso charges .pf corruption made against him by Doorkcoper Potx, If o mon was *gorrupt in Washington, will ho bo any loss corrupt in Obicago? —_—_—_— "Tho first duty of every Repablican in Ohi- cago. is to vote; hia second duty is to aco that his Ropublican neighbor votos, ‘If oyory Republican performs these two dutios, Mr. ‘Waraur will be olected by a very largo mn- fority. re : Pho polls open. this morning at 8 o'clock and closo this oyoning at 7 o'clock. ‘This gives cloven working hours, aud is amplo timo for tho deposit of the Republican voto—if the Republicans will commonco yoting carly. : Tho most startling danger that confronts Chicago merchants is tho cortainty that the old Conyin vlique of thicves and scalawags will again havo control of the city if Han- nuson is elected. ‘Thoy aro all working for him. Tho sowerg.pro full of them. ‘Tho Okalona (Miss.) Southern States saya: **Wo bave captured the Capitol, andthe name of Jerrgnson Davis will hereafter Ve spoken with reverence in its historic walls, whioh his picture will yet grace, and his memory will yet glorify tho place forovor,” ‘The party that indorsos that sentiment is , tho party headed by Canter Hannison. “ Vote it down. Tho Twelfth Ward ought to-day to give A. M. Waronrt and the wholo Republican ticket atleast 3,000 majority. To do this thoy have only to take mensures to poll tho full vote of the ward, ‘Ibo result in the wholo city may depond on tho mujority which that ‘ward may givo to Watant, and ovéry voter should feel it to bo his personal duty to havo all the votes in the ward pollo Do the Republicaus of the Third and Fourth Wards know that gombinod thoy can give tho Ropublican tickot 8,000 majority to-day? The other side assumo that the Republican apathy will reduco that majority one-half, If the Ropublicana of thogo wards do thoir whale duty to-day, then they will have no wild complainings over a result which thoy will find, nil too late, they might hove provonted, Tho Chicago Custom-Houso cases have been postponed for over two wooks because tho eminent special counsel engaged at grent cost to assist In the prosecution wero “ not ready.” Itia now three months or moro since the eminent apeoial counsel wero en- gaged ot great cost to assist in the progecn- tion, aud it iy no more than fair to oxpect that they should by this time bo ready to at Jeast put in an appearance fn court, Does the avorngdvoter, and particnlarly the man who pays taxes on real ostate and household furnituro, know what a “town meeting" is? A town meating will be held fu each division of the city today at 2 o'clock, and each of those town meetings has authority to vote un aascasmont of taxes auywhere from $10,000 to $1,000,000, to ba collected of thu property of tho peuplo of the town in 1879, the moncy to bo di. vided between tho Assessor, the Collector, tho Supervisor, and tho Town Clerk, ‘That je what a ‘town meoting” moans, and that ia what a town meeting may cost. How many taxpayers attend theso town meotings ? The voting at these (own meetings fs not by ballot, nor by yeas and nays, but by sound, ‘Those who yell the loudeat alwaya oarry tho yote. Now, how mapy taxpayers will attoud theso meetings to-day, though the exolusiva | fasiat purpose of the mnueting is to lovy taxes? Two | or throo hundred porsons, of whom three of every ton aro taxpayore, will attond each mecting, and the majority of thoso, or such rortion as may yall the Jondost and longost, will carry the day, It will be a novelty, it not a matter of direct peounlary interest, to thousands of taxpayors to attend tleso moat- inga at 2 p.m. to-day, and witness the re- markable process by which the many oro plundored by tho fow, and learn something spocial of the operation of governmont as exercised by town mootings, Tho cnso of the Ponca. Indians who fled from the resorvyation in the Indian Territory ond hayo beon captured and are on their way back ja ono that will excite sympathy and commiseration. Tho pitiful nppenl of Stanp- 1no Bear for a little monay to bury his dond, and his mournful recital of tho sorrow and sufferings of the peoplo of his tribe, who have shown. declded disposition to take on the ways of civilization, would movo 5 heart of stone, nnd Gen. Oroox is not to bo envied in his inability to do more or lona than obey ordors and send the runaways back to their detested reservation with only | rations to subsist them on tho way. A cbaracteristically diahoncst scheme hos hoon resorted to by the Hanntson crowd to eatch the yotes of the unwary to-day. This is tho mailing through tho Post-Offico, direct to residences, of tickets honded ' Twelfth Ward Citizens’ Republican City ‘Tickot,” and containing the namo of Oanren H. Hannison for Mayor, tho remainder of tho ticket boing the regular Ropublican nomina- tions for city offlcora. THanntson is woll awaro that tho Twelfth Ward will bury him out of sight, and ho las doviced this trick in the oxpectation of gotting some Republican votes, Tho ticket isalic, There ie no such thing as a “ Oitizons’ Republican Ticket” in tho Twelfth Ward. Tho only ticket on- thorized or acknowledged by tho Ropublicans of that ward contains at its head the namo of A. M. Warant, and at its foot the name of Josern D, Evrnerr, candidate for Aldor- ana, The ox-Tetzn Commitice, now prosided over by Sonntor Watace, has just returnod from the trip to Ponnaylyanis which was taken with a view to tho collootion of ovi- donco to show that Democratic violonoe and frond in the South was offset by Republican violonce and fraud in the North, For this purposo Domoerntic witnorses wers sum- moned from overy quarterin the State whero prejudice existed against the system of Fed. eral suporvision at Congressional olections, and it was expeoted that the damaging proof would bo forthcoming just in time to in the movomont to repeal the Supervisors’ Inw, A summary of tho testimony shows tho investigation to havo beon a ridiculous failure. Nothing moro violont or fraudulent was doveloped than that a few of tho Supervisors woro some- what. overberring in their demoanor, and that out of the 760 that were appointed six wore more or less under tho influence of liquor on olection day. There was not a syllable of proof that any man was provented from voting by these Supervisors, or that thoir presonce at the polls hindered the de- posit of n solitary legal vote. That the pros- cuce of theso offers was on offective ro- straint upon ilJegal voting is on all ‘sides ackdowledged, and unloss such rostraint ia deemed an infringoment upon natural and inalionablo Domooratio righta, it is difficult to seo how Senator Wanuace is going to turn the Ponnsylvanin investigation to good ac. count, THE NATIONAL CHARACTER OF TO-DAY'S ELECTION, : Gon. Ganrmtp hit the nail squarcly on, the head when ho said in his great speech on the Army bill: You-aaid in 1861 that “The doctrine of secoasion must be accepted, or wa will shoot down the Government.’. ‘Chat was an open, manly declaration, - You say in 1879; ‘You must accept Demsoratic dictation, or wo will starve out the‘Govorn. mont,’ That is baso, monn, cowardly.” This speech was delivered squarely in tho fnca of the Confedorato Brigadiors and their Northern Copporhond allies, Indirectly, it was a speoch mado to the country, exposing the Democratio hostility to the Govornment and the revolutionary tondonoy of that party, and it ought to have the widest circulation. It will not take many moro such sledgo- hammer blows like those of Ganriip and Zacn Cuanpuen to convince the South that tho North is in: onrnest, and that the old spirit of 1861 will bo aroused again if they crowd too closely, Di- rectly, it wos o porsonal arrnign- mont ond indictmont of the Domocratic revolutionary agitators, and it was made with such forco nnd truth that it is not singular that both wings of tho majority wilted before it aud wero glad to adjourn at tho first nvailablo momont, It was not only a warning that the minority wero banded together and unanimous in sontimont ond determined not to compromise, but it tore off tho Democratic disguisos and showed tho roal animus of the prosent agitation, Tho Southern Democrats, aided nnd on- couraged by the Northern Copporhoads, mado war upon the Government with tho open and avowed intention of destroying it. Afers long and bloody war they wero de- foated. ‘Thoy now coma to the front under other disguises, ond, instead of attacking tho Govornmont direatly by forca of arma, thoy aro assailing the very foundations upon which it roate, ‘Ihoir first ausault was wade upon tho righta of citizonship quarantoed to a considorable portion of the South by the conutitutional amondmonts, and they have succeeded in so far that thoy have mado a solid Democratic South by tat. ing away the right of free syffrago from tho Republicans in that sootion, Emboldened by thelr success in this direction, thoy next wot the Inwa at defiance and provented them from being onforood by killing and kidnap. ping witnesses and driving away the officers of tho law, and, to complote their work, brought sug pressure to boar upon the courts as to thwart tho odtniniatration of jus- co, Having supprossod tho Republican party and vitiated the processes of justico, they mado thelr next assnult upon the army. with the intention of olther destroying it altogether or so crippling it that thoy would bo in no dauger from it hereafter, npon the specious plea that the militia of the coun. try wore suillciont to secure obedience to the laws and to pregorve the peace, and mvanwhilo their subordinates are secking to destroy tho efiicioncy of the militia, ‘hey mado tholr next attack upon the Publio Treas- ury by soeking to compol the Northern poo- Plo to pay for tho losses of tha South iucur- yed jn (ha attempt to destroy the Union. Lastly, they attack the principlo of freo con- sent in legislation, and demand that ovory safoguard of the bullot-box shall be removed or the necossary appropriations for tho sup- port of the Government shull not be voted. : Lhoge aro tho succansive positions assumed by the Domocratic rovolutionlsts, andupon these Chicago must gtyo {ta vordiot to-day. Underneath the municipal interosts involved in this clection lios nm grent national issuc, Me. Oantzn Hanntgox haa conducted this oampnign not go much with reference to tho Mayoralty or the local spoils to bo divided among his bummor followers, oa with rofor- ence to its effect npon the general cleotion in 1880. Ie has mado itn purely partisan campaign for partisan purposes, and his elec- ton to-day will be construed by Domecrats in Congress and out of it a8 a puroly Domo- cratlo victory, and os on indgrsomont of the schemes of tho revolittionista, Tho lection to-day will end tho sympathy, encouragement, and assistance which the Republican party has al- ways recolved from Ohlcago, aud, onco in- stallod in the Qity Govornmont with tho power and plunder in thelr hands, Cantsn Hanntson and his gang will claim it as a Domocratio city, and keop it so in the gon- eral olection. If Mr. Waronr is clected, on the othor hand, Chicago, will not only sacura on honcst and economical Government, but will keep hor place ns the bannor Republican city of the West, and ereralse a powerful in- fluonco for the Ropublican candidate in 1830, With this thought in viow, that national as well as local interests dopond upon tho rosult of the clection to«day, can any Republican voter hositate as to his duty? Memomber that the dispatchos announcing tho result of to-day'a work will bo watched for with oagor- noss oll over tho country. LOOK OUT FOR REPEATERS, ‘Tho practice of “ repeating” at oleotions is aon old devico of the Domocrats in tho lnrge citios. It originated in the struggles to control the caucuses for olecting delegates to nominating conventions, and subsequently, having been cultivated, has beon adopted for olections of offtcors, It costs somo monoy, but after all is found to secure moro ‘yotes for lesa money per voto than any other illegal process, A Domocratia politician of this city, now deceased, some years ago ex. plained the proceea by which ‘ repeating ” had been practiced in this city at sovernl elections, and explained tho advantages it possessed over any othor procoss, The stuffing of ballot-boxes was never considered ndvisnblo oxcopt under the most desporate circumstances, It required tho corruption of tho threo Inspectors and the two Olerks for ench precinct, and of perhaps several othors. ‘This was often impossible, and besides it admitted too many persons to a knowledge of tho proceeding. Repeating, howover, was much simpler, cost less monoy, accomplishod botter resnlty, and was less lin- ble to detection. Tho plan was to raiso first asum of monoy proportioned to the dishon- est vote needed. When the monoy waa do- posited in tho hands of a responsible porson, the chiof was notified that it was essontial to ‘have tho full yote of the party polled,” and honco special exertion was to ba made to got the voters qut. For this purpose several companies of picked mon in cach division of the city, were onrolled, and each undor the control of a Captain, Thus, four compa- nies of twonty men cach in the South Divie- ion, six companies of twonty each in the ‘West Division, aud two companies of twonty each in tho North Division, making in nll 240 mon. ‘To ench of these porsons would bo assigned o namo by which he would bo registered by the organizer in at least ten precincts; tho several gangs wore assigned to special wards and procincts, and before 2 o'clock in the day the 2,400 votes would be gonorally polled. Every thing was dono orderly, each Captain said that his men kept sobor, and performed the work pot apart for him to do, Tho cost of this operation was estimated nt $1.60 per vote, thus One chief organizer... 8 500 Twelve Captalna at $50, 600 228 privat 10. 2,280 Sundrics.... Total oe vane 3,500 ‘The revelations last year of the oporations of Een Homann, who was tho organizér of | the band of roponters at the Prosidential election in Cincinnati, in Novembor, 1876, aud whoso frands clocted at lenat two Demo- eratio Congressmen and a number of Domo- eratic local officors, furnished a completo confirmation of this gouoral statormout of the plin and operations of “repenting” at city elootions, In a city like this, with nonrly 100 preoinete, an export, under the direction of another expert, will fiud full opportuni- tiea of voting at least ton times at nn olec- tion, ‘Tha Hannison party aro hungry for spoils, and if tho long-establishod policy of repeating be not put in oporation to-day, it will ba dua ton degree of ‘purity of prin- ciples" for which the crowd which is running Hannison has nover been distinguished beforo. It behooves the judges of election, and tho clorks, and the challengors, and tho bystanders, at ovory precinot in this city to-day, to vigilantly watch those who approach tho polls, and let no man voto who cannot give an intelligont account of his right to vote, Evory man de- tected in this most mfamous of all election frauds should bo arrested on the spot and proaeoutad into the Ponitentiary. THE HUNGRY DEMOCRATS, And now comes tho report from Washing- ton that the Domoorats, under ox-Confeder- ate dictation, having’ exhausted the polltical patronage of both the Senate and House of Reproscntatives, have Inaugurated oa syste. matio raid on the Departments with the pur- pose of providing their rotninors with places, ‘Tho story is that a large numbor of Union soldiers have been appointed to various olerkships during the past fow yeors and credited to cortnin Southern Bjatos; that the various ox-Confedorate dotegations from said Southorn States are protesting against this; that thoy domand tho romoval of the Union soldiora thus provided for, and the subatitu- tion of ex-Qonfederates living in thoso States; and that tho South Onrolina delega- tion has secured from ccratary Snensan o promiso that all clorks in his Department ercdited to South Oarolina who aro not citl- xous of that Stato aball bo romoved, Of course, if tho South Carolina delegation should succeed in securing such changes, tho ex-Confederate dologations from othor Southern States would rally to tho same pur- P80, ‘This story is entitled to crodit so for as ex-Confedorate effort is concerned, ‘There is not the slightest doubt that ex-Confoderate Congressmen aro atraining overy nervo to displace Union soldiers and securo comforta- ble quarters for Confederate soldiers, But itanay woll be doubted that Scorotary Suzn- wan has givon any pledge that ho will asslat them im this purpose, ‘Cho appointing pow- eria vested in the Prosideut, who holds his placo by virtue of Union and not Confeder- ate votes, Svoretary Sugusan and the othor members of tho Cabinet and heads of Do- partments aro the, personal reprosentatives of the Prosident to the extent that the ap- pointing power is dolegated to thom, It will be timo onongh to give up to the ex. Confederate delegations in Congress tho prive ilego of dictating these appointments whon the Amorionn people shall have elected n Pres ident representing the cx-Oonfoderntes, and shall thus haye lodged the appointing powor in thoir hands, ‘To oloot n Democratia Pron: ident would be oquivatont to a goucral order that the moh who fought to save the Ustion must yield np Governmont employment in favor of thoso who fought to destroy the Union, for it is unilerstood that the ox-Con- fedorates ruto the Democratic party, But the Amorican people have not yot seon fit to do this, and it would bo a betrayal of the public trust for Secrotary Snznsan or any othor merpber of the present Administration to removy efficient mon from tho Civil Serv. foo whose claim for appointment was based upon having fought in the Union army, in order to make places for inoMciont and inex- perisncad men whoso ctnim for appojntmont is based upon tho fact that they fonght against tho Union. It will be timo enough to try this peculinr systom of reforming the Civil Servioo when tho reins of Government shall have been givon over entirely to tho Democrats, ‘Thero 1s nothing in the Conatitution which places geographical restrictions upon the Presldont's distribution of. the Govornmont offices. "If any clorks who served in tha Union army and aro now rondering efficiont service in tho Departments have been crod- ited to South Oarolina, or other Southern State whore they do not Hvo, in order to carry outa fiction of geographioal distribu. tion, the proper way to remedy tho matter is, not to romove stich clorks, but to ox- pungo tho false record of reaidonco and write in tho truo one, It would bo unjust aud unwiso enough to raward rébellion by now giving appoiutmonts indiscriminately to mon who only afew yoars ago made war upon the Govornment; it would bo still moro un- wise and unjust not to do this st tho per- sonal cost of other mon who helped to defend tho Govornmont agaiuat the war -waged against it; but it would he simply prepostorous and unheard-of for tho Ropublican party, under whosa. auspices tho-Governmont was saved, to lend itself through the present Administration to such @ rovolution in tho Departmonts, “That is the ambition of the Domoorntio party and its declared purpose, and tho work must bo left for tho Democrats to do after they shall have assumed the full responsibility. es THE WASHINGION BULLDOZERS, Tho dobate on tha Army bill will bo ro. sumed in Congress this morning. Tho Dem- oerata thonght it wise to adjourn over two days for rocuporation from tho torriblo blows donlt them by Gen. Ganrizzp on Saturday, And this is only tho beginning of tho punish- mont they must auffor before they aro dono with tho issua they havo forced. I¢ the pro. posed amendmont to the Army law, striking out all authorization for the employment of troops to keop the ponco at tho polls, fur. nishes a toxt for so powerful on arraignment asGon, Ganrieip made, how will the Demo- crats stom the torrent of public indignation whon thoy come to urge the actual repeal of every United States statute which affords compatent suporvision or aven o protenso of protection for tho National and Con- grossionnl elections? ‘There aro consorvativo mon in tho country who believe that troops have beon uscd for partison purposes in Southern clections, and who fenr they may bo so used again; such porsons may possibly resist the Republican arguments ngainst the proposed amendment of tho Army bill, and furnish the Democratic bulldozors comfort to that extont. But how will the Domocrnts stand whon they come to demand, under pon- alty of starving out tho Government, that covery safeguard against corruption and vio- Jenco ot tho polls shall bo abolished, if thoy falter when their moro tonablo (though none tho lows vicious) position in rogard to the Army bill is subjected to criticism ? ‘The Domocrats say that Gon. Ganriniy's spcoch wasa ‘* horanguo,” and not an * argu. ment.” If this be tholr roply, itis neithor por- tinont nor convincing, That Gon..Ganrrenn’s spooch was a powerful oratorical effort is not to be denied ; but his eloqnonen wns the out- growth of carnost conviction, and tho power, of the offort lay mainly in the strong con- traste and opt citations of facta which he was ablo to produce, What more striking, for instnnce, than that the samo party which used the army and navy for tho pursuit of fugitive slaves is now ondcavoring to forbld tho use of tho army ond navy, under apy olroumetances, for keoping tho perco at tho polls whore tho formor slaves now have tho constitullonal right to voto? What moro significant than that the same party which sought to destroy the Govern. ment by force, when tho latter refused to recognize the dootrine of Secession, should now seck to dostroy tho Governmont by starvation unless tho latter shall submit to o new nssortion of State Sovereignty ? Gon, Ganriztp stated these facts in an improssivo manner; but itis the facts themselves that atartlo tho Democrats whon the Jatter aro confronted with then, The Democrats in Congress aro so situated | that they cannot escape the series of scathing oxposures which Gon, Ganrmtp has morcly begun, Thoir control of tho Houso ja go frail that they daro not resort to tho usual mothods of tho mnjority to shut of debate, ‘and will not bo able to rush through thoir Jogislation until tho people shall have beon thoroughly informed as to ita intent and purpose, ‘Choy dare not force tho fighting, but must submit to a fusilade which will shattor them before they get through. Thoy may hold their majority so 98 fually to pass the ropeal mensuros os parts of the sppro- priation bills, aud they may go so far as to adjourn without voting eupplios if these ap- proprintion bills bo roturnedsto thom with tho Prostdent's disapproval, But, before they shall have reached that point, the coun. try will have hecomo thoroughly aroused at thoir obstinate aud vicious purpose, and great popular majorities will be rolled up sguinst thom ot the noxt goneral election, ‘Thoy inny hold a ‘Solid South,” though the more inteliigont of tha Southern membors aro boginning to recoguizo the folly of the issuc, but they will have arrayed against them a" Solid North,” which has no real sympathy with eithor State Soveroignty or dishonest elections, Tt fa vain for the Demooratlo bulldozore in Washington to protest that their notion isn not revolutionary, ‘Thoir schomo is rovolu- tionary in both substance and form. It ia revolutionary to bring about any condition of things which throatons the purity of olvo- tions, for the olective syatem will fail whor- evor fraud and violonca can prevail ovor it, and despotisn will surely supplant freedom under that condition, no matter what the form of goverumont- may be, The Demo- cratic scheme is revolutionary in spirit aud substance, therefore, becauso' ita aim is to promote, encoursgo, and condone fraud and violonce in the National olections, But it {u oqually rovolutionary in form, because it ia proposed to work ont this projoct by starving the Govorumeayt into submission, It ja revolutlonary to threaten the President with a loga of his satary and tho monna for sustaining his Administration, just na it would ba to thronton him with partisan iinponchmont or violont disposrosaton if he should refuse to submit to the dietntion of n faction, ‘Cho Demooratio leaders have mis- taken the tompor of the American people if thoy believe that such schomos will ho ap- proved ot the ballot-box. It is only nocos- sary for the Prosident to show tho samo courago ns the Ropublican minority in Con- gress, and to asnort his constitutionnl rights with tho namo zeal that his party in Congrons aro supporting thom, in order to get this isso of honest versva frandulont elections before tho American people in auch n way a3 to insure the diseomfiture and dofeat of the Domoorntie bulldozera . A DEMOCRATIC INDICTMENT, Tho Now Orleans Times, one of the most {nfluontial Democratic papers iu the South, in its wrath over tho defont of Bracknuny for Spenkor, speaks out in meoting and tells tomo truths which are all the more agreenblo os woll os surprising, coming from auch a reputablo Democratic source. It charges that while Mr,Ranpaxy is affecting n prodig- ious appotite for economy aud‘ posing for all the grand and rugged virtues,” and while his advocates aro claiining that bla oppoal- tinn to tha Soulh is tho product of his patriotism and desire for retronclhmont, ho and the majority bohind him aro ‘ ongaged in running off the publio monoy throngh a thousand little crevices nndlenke, which in thoir disreputablo frivolity and thoir abso- lute thievishness constitute robbory pure aud simple.” It thus brauds tho Domooratio mojority in the Houso: ‘Thore ara ateats in mileage, in stationery, tn ‘incidental expenses,’ in everythings steals in- numerable and indescribable, What is more, this stealing is, if possible, more fagrant, more exten: sivo, and moro gonoral now than it hasever been before. Tho incoming of the Ranpats gang, with the RANDALL system of economy and the Rannaut vlan of reciprocity, has putan end to all large and Nberal schomes of national Improvemont, but it has inaugurated an ora uf petty and contempiible waste and wickad and still more contomptible rob- bery, which ought to consiguto eternal odium every ano engnyedinit. Who can oxamine the record of tha:jnoketings, the Congressional expo- ditions, without Indignation? Who can look over, tho bills which the nation has to pay for whisky, cigars, champagne, opera-glasses, photograph- albums, ete,, etc.. for the personal use of Con- gression, without overwhelming shame snd won- dort" ‘Thjs is a vary noat indictront for stenting ond burglary practiced by tho Domocratic majority undor tho cover of *' Reform,” and it adds to its force that it has beon framod 80 soon by n Democratic prosecutor, It sots forth in the indictmont, ay ono case to the point, the squandering of $27,000 in tho episode of tho Bisnre-Fixtex cuntest, aud moutnfnlly says: ‘*'I'ho amount wanted bo- tween these squabbling place-lnnters and il- legally and improperly expondod is certainly not less than $15,000. It was allowed, how- over, without a word of protest or apparently without tho suspicion that protest was called for," The indictmont prepared by the 7imes is strong so far as it goos, but it docs not go {ar'enough, It should havo recited that the anlary, stationery, milongo, ote., allowed to Bisnre woro proper because ho was clocted to his seat, and that tho salary, milengo, ete., allowed to Finney wero improper bo- canse he wns novor elected to his sont, but stole it, with the consent of the Democratio majority. After having charged the mnjor- ity with stealing ond squondering the public monoy, it should have added that the South is tho most porsistent loech that Las fastened upon tho Public Tronsury ; ond that it is de- wanding money for the improvemont of private property, for the paymont of claims growing out of tho Wor of tho Rebellion, for penuioning Robols who fought to break down and destroy the Gov. ernment, aud for a thousand and ono othor purposes that aro clearly ilfogal and impropor. It should have sot forth that, if all the do- mands of the South are met, it will bankrupt tho National ‘Lreasury, We have no objec- tion to make to its characterization of North- ern Democrats, ‘Thoy aro oll that is aloged and more too; but it does uot strike us that tho Southern Domocrats ara at all backward in tho samo lino of business. On the other land, it would appear that most of the stealing done by Northern Democrats is for tho benefit of the Robel Brigadiors, Gon, Ganrigin's great epeoch in the Lower House of Congress on Saturday recalls the scenes of 1801, when, In reaponse to the Rebel assault upon Fort Sumter, the North was con- yulged by a great waye of patriotic Indignation; and this recalls Col. Rosenr Inasnso.i's sposch before tho Army Rounton at Indianapolis in 1870, In 180L the Rebels swore they would “shoot the Unton to death.” Now they awear they will starve it to death, Col. IncursoLy drew the following vivid picture of the effect of tho Rebel oath to “shoot tho Union to death": Tho past rises before me liken dream. Again wo aro in the creat siruggla for national ilfe. | Wo hear the sounds of preparation, —the musle of tho bolatcrous druma,—tho silver voices of huraic bugles, We see thonsanda of assomblages, and hear the appealy of orators; we ave the pale cheeks of women, and tho iushed faces of men; und in those assembluges wo seo all thy dead whose duvt wo havo covered with Nowers, We losu aight of them no more. ‘Vo aro with them when they en- Hat in the gecat army of freed, We sco them part with those they love. Some are walking for the Inst time in tulet woody places with the maldens they adore, We bese the whiaporlugs and tho aweet vows of sternal love as thay Huger ingly part forever, Othors aro Lending over cradles, kissing babica that are astecn, Somo ure recolving the blessinzw of olden, Suine are part. ing with mothers who hold thorn and preaa thom to their hearte again and again, and say nothing; and somo arc tatking with wives, and endeavoring with bravo words spoken in the old tones to drive from their hearts tha awful fear, Wo seu thom part, Wo see the wife landing in the duor, with the habe fn her arms—standing iu the sanlightsoubing—at the turn of the road ahand waves—she anawers by holding high in her loving hands the child, Hele fons, and forvrer. . ‘We seo them ail aa they march proudly away ns der the taunting sage, Keeping thos to the wild grand music of war—marching down the street of fhe great cittes—through tuu towns oud across tho prairloa—doin to the fields of glory, todo and to dle fur the oternal right, 5 We go with thoin one and all, We aro by thelr side on all tha gory flelda—in all tho hospftate of pain~on all the weary marches, Wostand guard with then in the wild storm and under the quict stars, Woare with (hem In raviaes runuing with Llood—in the furrows of old tlolds, Wo aro with them between contending hosts, unable to mova, wild with thfrat, the life obbing stowly away smong the withered Jeaves. We sve theur pierce hy balls and torn with sholls in tho trenches by forte, and in the whirlwind of tho charge, where mon become iron, with norves of utoel. Weare with thom ju tho privonsof hatred anid famine; but buman spesch can never tell what they endured, Wa ory at home when the news comes that thoy aradead, Wo sco the matden in the shadow of her Sratsorrow. Wesco the ellvered heau of tha old man bowed withthe last grief, i ‘The past rises buforg un, and Wo seo four millions of human beings governed by the lash—we seu them bound hand and foot—we hear the strokes of cruol whips— Through tangted swamps the bressta of mothers, Cruelty unsposkablet Outrage Jofinitel Four iniilion bodica in chains,—four million coule {n fotters, All the sacred relations of wife, mother, father, sou child trampled ouneath the brutal foot of might, Aud ail thiv was done under our own beautiful banner of tho free, ‘The pact rises before us. We hvar the roar and shrick of the eae! sholl. ‘The broken fetters fall. Tneso herove died, Wo look, Instead of slaves we sec men, aud women, and children, Tho ie of brarress: tartabee the suction block, the ainverpen, tue whipping-post, and we sca homes, ud Gresidee, and xeuoo)-tulees, end books, and at, aud crime, und cruelty, and faced of the frevs edad, ‘They dled for liberty, — thoy died for us, They sro atreut, ‘They sleep in the'land they made frde, under the fla they ron- ere atainlow, under tho avlonu pines, the sad emilocks, the teurful willows, und the embraciug vines. They slvop benoath the shadows of tau cloudy, careless alike of the aunaliue or of storuy, efch in the windowless palace of sest, Eurth may Fun ced with other ware{hey are atpeace. Ju thy inidat of battle, inthe roar of couch they found tho aerenity of denth. [A volco—''Glory."] 1 have one sentiment for thu soldiora living and dead, ~—cheora for tho living and toare for the dont, Canran Harnison has nolther “eheors for the Ilying’? noc “tears for the dead’ who fought forthe Union, if ha cheers at all, ho lifts up lits voice for the Rebel rigadtera; if ho. weeps, it {a for the forlorn condition of Jerez Davis, whom Senator Lasan ttescribos as the peer of Jonn Hamrpsy and Gronos Wagiina- TON. ee Whon, {n 1801, the Democratic party, in the Inngnage of Gen. Gaurrenn, -triod to shoot the Unton to death," the loyal neople of Chica- Ro swore in their wrath that the Union must and should be preserved. Thoy ralsod largo sume of money and sent thousinds of men to the front. The clty was a campresounding with Preparations for war to crush out the, Domo- eratle Rebellion. ‘The Board of Trade was tho centro of theee patriotic preparations. Mr. Winttant, the Republican candidate for Mayor, was a inembor of the Board, and took part in av- ery movement for the support of the Govern- ment. Cantar Hanntson was e citizen of Chi- cago in that trying timo, but his voice was nev- er raised {n support of the Union causo, He néver contributed a dollar voluntarily to save {he Unlon from oelng “shot to death.” Nine years afterwards, in 1874, hoe crawled forth from his hiding-place and sneaked into Congress. Durtng tho four yeora of ils service he nevor failed to vote with the men who had tried, but falled, to ‘shoot the Union to death,” and the last act of bis official life was a voto to. “ starva the Union to death? Ho symtpathined with the Rebellion of 1861, and he yoted for the pro- posed revolution of 1870, ———$___— : At the Hammersmith Police Court a fow days ago the clerk of the School Board, Mr. Coox, summoned a ian before Mr. Brings for not sending bia child to school. ‘The man sald it was his wifo's fault, whereupon the magistrate remarked, “You must govern your own wife.” ‘This led ton “burst of laughter, ia which Mr, Cook Joined.” The defendant, rather ruffled at ‘the jocularity of the prosecutor, observed with some bitterness, “You need not Jough.? “1 was,” replied Str. Coox, “not laughing at you.* “Tie was? snid tho facetious macistrate, “laughing at me”? Mr, Coox further explained, “1 was thinklng of myself, it betne more caslly said than done.” The Court nore fairly broke down amid shrieks of “renewed Inughter.” It waa the knowledge of thu fact that his country- men were addicted to marvelouely witty jokes hike this which induced Suit to'remark that it took a surgical operation to let a joke inton Scotchman’s head. ‘ emma Chicago stood in the front rank of the great elties of the country in pourlng out men and money for the rellef of the Union when it was threatencd with destruction in 1861. The Hebeis of thattime hatcd Chicago, and concocted a scheme {o lot loose the Cainp Douglas prisoners torob, burn, and sack the city. ‘Tho Brigadiers of 1879 hute whatever was hated by the Rebels of 1861. They cndure Cauten Harrison be- cause he was not a patriot.- They would Ike to haye the people of Chicago who supported the Union with all their might in 1801 fodorse the man who sympathized with Rebels who fought with all their might fn 1801 to destroy it, and who yoted with them Jn Congress to “starve {t tu death” in 1870, A vote for Canter Hanni- son fs. a yote of upproyal of his course in Con- Hress, eudas Congressinan bo sald: “I yote to starve the Union to death} : =. ‘The Republicans of the Sixteenth Ward owo a duty to themselycs and tothe city to waste no yotes on independents or third candidates, but vote directly for Mr. SouweistuaL for Aldorman, They have no chojee but Scxwzts- THAL oro Communist, und they have no right to infllet one of the latter on the people of this elty. Mr. Sciwiistitan bas been one of the ablest and best Aldermen during bls torm., He gave an esrnest support to the Administration ef Mayor sata, and contributed strongly to the succeas of tho preat work accomplished by that Administration, All Republican yotos given for any other candidate will accomplish—can. avcomplish—no other result than the election of the Communist, The olection of Mr. Semwars- ‘HAL will not only boa political but a great moral yictory,—a victory over anarchy and flis- order, over force and the disruption of society. a In ante-belium times, when the elavelioldera’ pack of blood-lhounds falled to catch ond fasten their fange in the quivering flesh of the flecing: fugitive before he renched free territory, Can- rex Dannison was iu favor of calling out the whole arnty, if need be, to ald in tho pursuit. At gave him peculiar satisfaction when the army. captured one ot the Brigadiera’ chattels at the foot of Bunker 1411 Monument and foreed hin back into the hunds of his master at the point ot the bayonet. But now that the chattel bas become a mau with the right to speak hfe sentl- ments and vote his principles, Our Canter objects to the army being used to protect him from belug shot when he offers to spealt or vote. He says in effects We will sturve your Govern- ment todeath unless you consent to keep the army outof the way while wo bulldoze the colored citizen out of his rights. i, é Canten flannison has been a tax-buyer all his fe. When the penalty for non-payment of taxes was 100 percent, ho bought up these claus upon bis poor neighbors and pocketed the 100 per cent, Now he wants to become a tax-cater, He wants to bothe Democratic cand!- date for Governor of Illinois, and bo wants to uso the patronnge of tho Mayoralty to achleve luis ambition. Ief{s too parsiimonlous to spend is own money, but be Is not too scrupulous to draw upon the taxpayera, If elected Mayor, ho will hiro whole brigades of Democrats noxt year nominally to hoe and shovel the streets, but really to manipulate the Democratic primaries in his futorest, [is unscrupulousness in this regard fa shown by tha fact that he pad without warrant of law ascors of mun who had nover performed an hour's servico by adding their names to Doorkeepor Pour’s pay-rolls, Avote for Canren Hannison is a yote in favor of the party that, baving falled In 1861-65 to shoot tho Union to death,” now proposce to starve It yo death, Hanwison vover raised hits hand or his yolca against the frat propost- tion, and be voted for the second, pending, proposition. Iv belicved in the right of seces- slon in 1862, und ho belleves in it now. He was an enemy of bis country then, although too cowardly to Aight for his‘ principles, aud be fs an enemy of {t. now, und he fs uot ashamed to yore to starve Its Goyornment to death. _—— ‘Tho Electton Jaw which tha Democrats and Confederates in Congress propose to repeal was passed to protect the purity of the ballot-box in New York and ‘Indiana, Is thero any mora evidence now than there was {n 1872 that the ballot-hoxes in thoso States don’t nevd pro- toctingt ‘Tho Socialistic tleket should not only he bur- ied out of sight on account of the inecndlary prluciple of that organization, but slso because the audacity of fordgn Kuow-Nothingism should be rebuked, There la nota single Amer+ fears on that ticket, . a The merchant who will not go to the polls to- day and voto because he is afraid to neglect hia business can have no grounds for complaint horeafter if ho finds his business paralyzed by taxatlon, corruption, and the impalred credit of the city, dJuura Warp Hows's grand Hymn of iiberty. will have ta be revised, ‘Ihe Unton soldiers, it appears, didn’t dis to make mon free, but to put Cunfedorate Brigadiers {a control of the Government, . eee ‘The Confederates in Congress plead plteously, “Don't push us too hard. Give usa chance to coms down easily,” But they will have ta cone down Ike the coon, or we'll shoo, ae Every sotefor Canta Maurison to-day is an insult te the memory of every Chicago soldicr who, in the great confilct for the nation's Ufo, left bis bones to bleach ou Bouthern soll, For Hannison never cheered them wheo they wont forth to fight, nor shed a tear for them when, with Uhelr faces to tho foo, they closed their eyea in death. Shame bo to'the man who can so soon forget the patriots who sacrificed thelr lives that he infght enjoy the blessings of Uberty, equality, and fraternity! rp paced cc ntee — ‘They eay that the. Confederate pottcy {n Con. gress will prgduca 100,000 Republican majority fn Uhio, Confedefato tactics have dono this be- foro now. wr és ee Here wa are fourteon years aftor the closo of the Rebellion preparing to tight the samv old battle oyer again, ; a Conclliation was not played out until the Brigadiers proved that they didn't know how to appreciate It. . uepenpeesae ea ‘The Confederate Congress lets " *I aro not? swalt upon ‘I would,’ Ike ‘the old cat io tha adage? — PERSONALS, Dara to voto Wright, dare to bo true, Ono shall bo Wright ond the othor shall bo loft. Mr. Harrison's oaglo will lozo his. tall: feathors to-day. Te you don’t want to April-fooled, don’t voto for Harrison, War-ory of tho Solid South: ‘Wo haye captured the Capitol.” ‘The Ohinosvare nowof the opinion that Clara Morrie leo bad actress. é They do not beliovoin England that Han. Ino is tHo noblost rowman of them all, Tho Wright way is always the best in voting for Mayor, a8 In overything elao, It is unfortunate thot thera is. no Maring ‘Band to cheer np Afr, Harrison to-night. Bo loug as Obiof Joseph's wenpon is only the nen, Gen, Howard will he uot afratd, No Chinaman will bow to Clara Mortis, Since that letter, thoy don’t recognize her at all, Mr, Pelton is very ill, and wo suppose that ho bas kindly relioved Mr. ‘Tilden of his paralysts, “ Gath” announcos that Whitelaw Reid is aboutto marry. Ta this what makes Anns Dickine aon iil? ‘Mra. Oliver was so fond of lovo-letters from Simon Cameron that ene uscd to writo thom horself. Btop those infernal niggers, Thoy must stay at home and be bulldozed to vote for me, ~9, J. Tilten, 2 Wo snapect that it was not Simon Cam- eron, but Webb Hayes, who promisod to marry the: Widow Ollver, . Victorin is sold to bea good singor, and this perhaps accoante for tho fact that England is always at war, . ‘ Tho President is trying.to concilinta Mr, Conkling. Why doosn’t he take eomothing easy, —the Sofld South, for instance? . M. Lopera, tho naw French Minister of tha Interior, 1s the sixteenth man who. has Milled that * post since the fall of the Empire, It appoars that Ole Bnil intonds to maka frequent professional visite to Ruropo heraafter, ‘Ho Has goue abroad for o farewell tour, ‘Mr. Talmage apponrs to boliove that his * conviction on the charges wonld add to the glory of his carcer and to his influences Jn his church, Andrew D, White, it is understood, does not drink becr, and auch a man as Minister to Ber- Min would probably favolvo us a in war with Ger- many. Mme, Montilla woro at the rotont fancy ballatthe Austrian Embassy in Constantinople the gorgeous costume of Zulelka, the last Moria Queen of Grenada, ’ 3 It might be bad for the Solid Sonth if Mr, White fs not confirmed. Tho college studonte, shovid they rise in their might, could desolate tha South in thirty days, * : ‘Tho man who eloped with Gov. Hubbard's daughter was onco a hack-driver, We belicvo, howaver, that ho wasn good one, and always an- reasonable jn Lila charges, : Prince Nupotcon will sealp ovory Zulu thot ho kills, {n order to beadie to convince the Queen of hig valor und Induce her to look favorably upon hia ault for the hand of Beatrice. Mr, Brot Tarte aud Mr. Honry James have boen olected mombers of tho now Rabelais Club ta London, formed to promote **earnestness, crudi+ top, and manly etrongth in literature,” William P, Burr, 0 New York man, hag seven wives, Mr. Burr, perhaps, would be a bet> ter man in John Young's pluco, Such active come potition will be a hard blow on tormonism, A temporance lecturer sliould always wipo lis Ips bofore coming into the presenca of his audience, “It looks bad to aco hin draw his caat- sleeve across his mouth after coming on to the platform, . Walt Whitman is going to lecturo on Lin. coln, end wil} porhaps go to California with tha lecture, Tho undertaking ought to succeed, —that fatosay, Mr. Whitman ought to be encouraged to write no more postry, THE IRON TRADE, A Condition Reportod W hich £4 Soemingly tho Most Satisfactory Sinco tho Panic, Suectat Menatch to The Tribune, Crnomnath, ,0,, March 81.—-The Gazetie will to-morrow print reports from the tron regions of Obiv and adjoining States on the condition und. prospects of the iron trade. The statements are prepared by managers of the leadmg fron and atecl manufacturing works, blast-furuaces, ‘and rolling-milts. ‘They all speak of a marked increase in activity in oll branches of the trade. Furnace-men antl tmunufacturers are’ mora ; hopeful, and give uniform — testimony to an actual improvement in price and a better demand for pig-lron ond + merchant frou, Ons heavy manufacturer in Central Ohio sald; ** Tho price of iron fs yory low, but I think {t is not too Jow compared with the price of other commodities und of la- bor. Thero {s cyidently a large increaso in the consumption of fron, but the effect doos not sce to be to increase the price so much as the product. Furnace companies are putting thelr fdle furnaces into blast. Rolling-nills and forgea that haye been shutdown are starting up, and others are beginning to run double time, in this way prosperity seems to be come ing back to the couutry without any marked in- crease of prices.” J. ¥, Wheelur, manager of a leading furnace fe the Hocking: Valluy rogion, anys? ‘Thero isa ; marked {mprovemont iu-trade., © Porchasora show adisposition to purchase largely for future delivery utag advance of from 81 to $3 por ton, whilo furnaces, as a rule, refuse to anticipate the market tu avy = great extent. The advance in prices has been contined principally to the stronger grates. ‘Tho Increased cdeimund for pig is ivaittinate, and not speculative, furnace men feel there with bo a steady advavcy In prices sorougts the year. | Resumption has restored coutldence, +- und, darrlug a Confederate Congress, the f prospect for the future promises well.” Tho pare Uesengzaxed in trade at Lrontou, where soveral »-- Jorge mills are lovated, speak hopefully of the aituation, ‘The Belfast Furnace aud Nall Faw tory is running to ite full capacity, and aelling the product at full current prices. Tho Alina Tron Worka, one of the greatest establishinents of the kiud {a the wurld, proposes to put ite furnace in blaat soon. ‘Vhe Grant Furnace, after lying {die four years, will shortly bo put io blast by Kelly & Sons, ‘The Sarah Furnace ts runulng to her full capacity, and the product selig readily, The Lawrence Jron-Works aro ranntug thelr rolling-inill und selling the product: without dificulty, ‘The charcoal furnaces witl take thelr usual quautlty of iron this years At Portsmouth the Guylord Rolllng-Mllig have. not been tn operation this year, but the Com puny say Uist activity among lrou-makers in that scctlon shows that the fron business ls gradually {mproving. ‘Tho rolling-mills thut are running are Jull of orders, though pricosare . barely Tumuverative, ‘the Burgess Btcel and Jron Works, making only steel aud refed fron, Je running day and ntubt, und has orders far shead, ‘The manufacturers, in all auctions + speak of payments betilg wore satia- factory. frou is selling on suorter time aud vearer cash than formerly, Anothur Int inentioned is that there {s not a surplus of jabor ia the revions. ‘There are still wany mille idle, and It 1s expected that some of them will yemain fuactive for an Indellnity time, but, atto- gether, there ls a feeling thut daylight is breake | ae throug the Joug darkuess, and thata period of moderate prosperity iy at band u v