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Show POLITICAL POINTS. Philadelphia Times: It is ft subterfuge, sub-terfuge, a wretched evasion, to talk of employing the army as a pyasi com i tat it. The power of tbe country is not tbe army. Henry Clay Dean denies a rumor that he will vote for Hayes. He says: "Whenever you hear of a muly cow climbing up a honey-locust tree, tail foremost, aud calving in a crow's nest, then you may calculate that I will vote for Hayes, not till then." Section 5.52S of the United States revised statutes makes it ft penal offence for any officer of the army, or other person in the civil or military service of the United States, to order, bring, keep, or have under his authority au-thority or control, any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held in any slate, uule.-s such force be necessary neces-sary to repel armed enemies of the United St ites or to keep the peace at the polls, and this state of aflairs, the New York Sun poiuls out, so far as the u.fe of military power is concerned, con-cerned, can xist on'y when the state, unabie to keep its own peace, haf called on tbe president of the Unitet States for aid. This shows that n( marshal has the right to employ thi troops of tbe United Slates as a par posse comitatus at the polls. |