Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-11-07
ELECTION FRATDS.

Slaie. with the exception 4 Name and North Car
Gin, have exhibit the extraordinary tact Of an m
crease pf democratic votes and vel 4 much larger 1
,ocrsuse Of Wing votes Where the Democrats were
ma1ritv, they have given more votes han t'es 1
ever uolrd before and vet m several Ste'es' nave
been betlen BY the great AMI unaecounisoe
ofvo,es against them. fhR has been me case !"
States where there IS htite or no increase OF "poa
tim. and the addition 20 the Opposition vote mas
sssa :, srge thst Il sanDoi be accounted for upon
sny other superstition than that there las been oui
NAV. And N all the Sistes where ese results have
been disclosed there were very severe eoa'es'S 10
Isss and So IN which il mus be supposed .hst ooul
naries got all their legal votersto the PoHs'
= The Dem cratic vote has moi fallen Oh, oui geR-
erally been increased wfnch shows that mere mas
heen no change agaidst the administration Nucre
they have been iealen, or their majority reuuoeui
II las been by the extraurdinary mhresse OF votes
aoains, them. These results have attended every
election since the Harrisburg Convention. II was
the case in Connecticut Virginia Indiana MARY
anil. Georgia New Jersey aud ONO
'Thi. fact cannot upon any ordinary prlnc'f'es' oe
satisfactorily explained, aad proves that there mus,
have been system 81 fraudulent practces cd'' 'e1
ON IN al the States more successfully and extensive
Nv IN -ome than others The plan of carrying on
these frauds As well as the hard cider revelres, ana
other op rations OF the ca mpaign were, no doubt ar
ranged at Harrisburg. And as an evidence OF ms
the Why's, immediately after their convenuon' ~
eyey state prolessed To entertain the utmost conh
dence ofther success What was the ionndatoi oi
this con6d,ncei HARRISON had been beaten before
by Van Buren, They had been beaten ~ lhe e',c-
tinns Of 1899, in nineteen States out 81 tweHysm'
There had been no rcmovs Of the deposies no BANK
VETO, or specie order, nor any new measure OIL Inc
Administration To reader ia unpopular.
WHAT then could have been the ground oil thel,
extraordinary confidence, unless Il was an ofganztu
system of fraud And their hard cider and log Gao
in mummery were M doubt designed 10 cover inc
frauds that were p,acIsed 1t could mol cetaihy oe
supposed chat the people OF this country were so s'a
Did or 81 debased 10 be influenced by soch ~" shd
contemplate mesHs
But in addition to these general conscientious,
some facts have come To light in different States,
proyia0 that the same fraudulent practices nave
nrevaied wherever elections have been held. One
OF the practices has been, the importation ana COL
ouzation of voters. Ii has been proved that lhs was
done in Name, in Dela ware, Kentucky and OhO -
That il was pracrised in Maryland, and New Jer-
sew also there can be iitte doubt But their lrands
have not been confued To this foul practice. one
case of Naylorism was discovered in Name, seven
votes being found in the ballot box, put IN before the
poll was opened. How many cases there were mol
discovered, in towns in which the board OF select
men were all Wings, must be eIt to conjecture IN
Connecticut, it was prov d in court OF lustce mat
three wings IN one town each attempted 10 Pu' TWO
votes into the ballot box.
The result Of the election in the third District OF
PENNSYLVANIA proves beyond all controversy that the
most Infamous frauds were practsed at the eectons
of 500 and 1888, and that MAYOR has Tor ionr
wears held seat in Congress obtained by fraudulent
and fclitou. votes. The Wings have now poled
about ZOO votes in the district, and in 1883 Their
vote was 700, of which 900, beyond all question:
were fictitious and fraudulent. The present result
has been brought about by having inspectors OF both
parties, which prevented fraud. The Wing vote OF
about 700 IS as large as the wings ever did or could
poll in the district, without cheating
Is il not shocking to contemplate such fraud as
this repeated the second lime, persisted IN carried
out, and sanctioned by the House Of Representa-
tives' Who is SO blind as to fail 10 see, mat snch
foul fraud, aim deadly blow at the very Vlials OF
our tree in tutions! Public crimes are distinguish
ed from private wrongs, on The principle that they
are injurious and dangerous to Inc State or the whole
community. Do not such Aagitous violations oil the
ballot box, tested by this principle, deserve to De re-
garded as more wicked and infamous than theI''
couaerei,ins forgery Sdy RoS%' at lie Gndamen.
tal principles ofour social existence and at ci. Gov
eanmenl! The wretch who will violate the ballot
box, should be held in greater delesIatlon and alb
horrence, than the convict i'll our pententlares. He
should I've held up 10 the scnru and contempt Of eve
~ fiend OF liberty throughout the world.
In the Mllerstown precinct, in Adams county, Pa.
the residence oflha honest Wing, rhaddeus Ste
vens, the Wings in 1888 had ll3 majority; and a.
the late election less than 100 out Of the largest
vote they ever poIled, when there was fair cleo
ton. More than 900 fraudulent and fictitious votes
were gwen there in 1898. We'll might such a wing
leader advise his friends to send their conscience TO
hell"
The late letter from JefFers, Wing officer in Bal
umore, To- Mr.. George Rlston Wing broker in Phil
adepha, directing him 10 procure and send five hun.
bred men to Baltimore, to vote at the city election,
is the most startling disclosure. The genuiness OF
this letter is not denied, and it cannot BE- doubted
that this manacted by authorization some committee
or persons who were Ia detray the expense. The fare
from Philadelphia 10 Baltimore is four dollars SO that
these imported voters could not be sent from one
city TO the other aud back short Of len dollars each
for their expenses, and they must be paid Tor their
time, to say nothing about the wear and tear ofcon-
science, for false swearing, This would make an
expenditure of at least Sc, 1000.
Who was TO foot the blI' Nothing is said about
the expense in the letter and vet this broker for i'm
porting Illegal voters seems ready to execute the or
W. anu !" VhRdSC IlHH w W w DdIlulUC ~ Vult
at charter election. How is this to be explained
In no other way than that this was considered "lair
business transaction and well underst, od" II had
been done before, and probably at the late election.
Brokers do not burn their own fingers in other peo-
pies business, and especially an illegal business
THIS - one Of the operations for which the wing
corr upton fund is expended.
These caravans Of Wing coons and cideries are
to render some other service 10 their cause more
than to help swe. the crowd at log cabin gatherings
They are TO he transported from city TO city, and
Stale To State, as the elections take place.
The hired hues and scoundreIs the depraved
wrcches who are in the service of The Wings IN this
election, are the instruments by which the sysemat-
&c frauds are TO be carried out And they will he at.
tempted in every possible way that the vii of man
can devise. ln Columbia county, Ohio where there
is democratic gain over last year OF 200 votes which
shows there has been no change against the Admin.
lstraton, there has been an increase of7l9 Wing
votes. Does any one believe that there can have