Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-03-27

Thus showing the aggregate
| vote Of 1913 to bs 6,27l
less than tina; of 1910 ard
also that the vote by which
Gov. Barry was elected in
1913 is less 1928
than the Whig'vo of 40.
Allowing the legal voters TO increase
at the rate of 3 per cent. annually, which
is ore voter to each hundred persons and
a very low estimate of increase, and we
had at the las, election 50,937 voters in
the State, of whom ll.s70 neglected to
cas-, their votes and showing most con-
cIusiyely that the election of Governor
Barry and his Locofoco legislature took
place through the default Of the Wings
as a body. This conclusion 10 doubly
sus,ained-first by the fact ihs; The vote
for Barry. though greater by 800 than
the vote for Van Buren, electors in 1910,
was yet less by 1928 than the Wing
Electoral vote of that election. Second.
by the fact that every possible exertion
was made to call OUT the whole force Of
the lecofoco party in 1913. II there are
any that doubt the latter fact we call their
attention 10 The history of Auditor Ham,
mond's corruption fund, of which he ac-
kEowledges the application of same 90
thousand Collars to me payment of print
ers ard runners. 10 secure the ascendan
CIV of Locofocoism) under pretence OF ud-
ver,ising tax sales. In view Of the ex.
traordinary exertions thus known TO nave
been made ard backed up with The 80
thousand dollars, swindled from the pock-
e,s of the ax-payers-who viii have the
hardwood TO assert that there was any
thing left undone, that money and eXer.
tons could accomplish, 10 call out the
whole strength of the party. And, when
with all these appliances they fell short
of the Wing vote of 1910. 1923, 10 what
ascttibbs ,l tef ada ST lhs Why's can we
On the suppusition that the voters Of the
Stale increase at the rate of per cent. |
the entire vote in 1874 will be |
53,l37, and assuming that the full strength |
of the Loco party was called out a, The
last election and amounted TO 2 1892 it is
going to point that wc believe is beyond
The probability, TO set it for 1874, at
$4,000
Abolition vote say $500
Total Loco and its ally 25,500
This viii leave the Wing vote 27,637'
Or majority over the allied forces of D.
I37.
With this manifest ability to wrest the
control from the hands of Locoiocosm.
md place Michigan triumphanily in the
inc OF Wing States, we shall be without
'pology, aud justly chargeable with gross
md witull delinquency in duty to our.
elves, If we neglect to do so. The case
'dmits of no doubt-.-a single glance at
he official statements as given above, SET
les the question of the strength of parties,
md shows conclusvely the ina blily of
he party now in power, to m ulster force
equal to that ofihe Wings in 1910. We
inow the strength off ur enemy, and we
know also cur ability to cope with it,
We have but to rally our forces and
complete end triumphant victory awaits
Is by majority of thousands.
The corruption fund placed in the
lands of that Whited Sepulchre and Chief
poslie of Barryisn, Charles G. Ham.
nond-is less by 20 per cent. than i, was
t thelast election.
The means of depressing you there
pre-, and of sustaining the cause of Lo-
oGocolsm, by the corrupt application o.
ma. fund swindled from the taxpayers,
) diminished one fifth. The matters at
,sae are the same that called on! your
xertions in 1910, The euemy YOU have
0 contend with is the same the cause IS
he same The battle field is the same
md what is best of all, the same INDoMI-
,ApLE SPIRIT Of liberty that nerved the
mighty arm of the people iu 1910; an arm
hat was never rut forth, but as the pre-
cursor of destruction and death to the
,opes aud schemes oftraitors aud tyrants,
md of victory and triumph TO the cause
If true democracy, That spirit is again
aroused, and like resisless tempest, Is
ending and scattering 10 The winds the
;ob-web nets, in which Van Buren, and
he votaries Of King caucus had vainly
honed to entappIe and enspa-e US.