Speech #460104176

You are a bold. brave body of men. You have not any concealments. That is what you intend to do and what you say plainly in your bill: IInasmuch as under the law as it now stands the appointment of supervisors is with the courts. and inasmuch as the courts are bound to give each of the two opposingparties one in thatselection. it may happen that there will be a chance on one side or the other to see whether any cheating is done. and whether fair play is going on or whether it is not. we want to change that. we do not want the courts to have the power to appoint. because if the courts do they must appoint under the law and appoint a representative from each side to do this observing and witnessing of the operation. that is not right for our purposes. we want to appoint him ourselves. and we do not want to be limited in the law to a selection. for this purpose even. of a representative from each of the two sides. by no manner of means. we want everybody that stands around a tissueballot box in particular. or who has to pass upon a naturalization paper and so on. to be of the taue way of thinking. he will be likely to see difficulties and make trouble if he is not. So we will repeal that law and set up a law for ourselves. but inasmuch as we happen to have a President of the United States who does not agree with us in political thinking. and the most of whose marshals now holding office do not happen to agree with us inthepolitical way of thinking. and inasmuch as the marshals from the beginning of the Government down to this day have had the appointment of their deputies. and inasmuch as the marshals are authorized for these election cases to increase their executive force as far as is necessary. we cannot control that in this way. we must have a now law for that matter. and on the very principle that we have repudiated in respect of the existing law as to supervisors we will proceed to turn the marshals over to the courts and compel them to give us half of them. While the standing law compels the courts to give each side onehalf of the supervisors. we take that away and take all the supervisors ourselves. and we will compel the courts to give us half of the marshals?