Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-10-04

] Club of the City and County oil PhlIadel-
phia, held on the 18th inst, the following
address was adopted and ordered to be
published
/ To the DemOc1 ats Of the Union.
BEWARE OF FEDERAL WING FRAUDS!
In Newhampshire the Democracy is always
organized, and not liable to be cheated. 1t
never suffers its party organization to be bro
ken up nor neglected, and in this may be found
one of the causes of the uniform success Of
the Democracy in that State, in its contests
with its enemies. The false issues and great
excitement Of 1910, cannot be repeated-the
moving panoramas for the purpose of ''laying
pipe," cannot, we trust be re-enacted any
where, but it is well to remind the public. and
caution our fellow-democrats concerning the
Glentworth frauds in New York and Phila-
delphia. There is an old school-boy saying,
"that cheating play never thrives,' and we
have an instance of this in the disappointment
of the Federal Wing party. Victory to them
in 1910 brought none but bitter frults-power
nothing but disaster. Our democratic friends
throughout She Union must be on their guard
against cheating, impersonating names-false
registries votes into the ballot box
es-doubIe voting in ring, as was done at
Millers' Town, Pa, and in every ward of a
city, as was done in New York by men from
Philadelphia. Our friends ought to recollect
too, that the judges, inspectors and clerks, in
the District of Spring Garden, were sworn
upon the ''.4dUentures of q hip,Urecked Mari
ner," instead of the Bible, and that in 1888,
they attempted to vote by personating the
names of three hundred and sixty-three men
of straw in the same district.
Our uniform triumphs in certain States of
the Union, are owing to proper Organization
of the Democratic party in those states, and
the impracticability of the Federal wings put
ting their schemes of pipe laying and false
swearing into execution therein. We have
nothing to fear in the present campaign, pro-
vlded, we prevent frauds upon the inestimable
right of suffrage, and the purity of the ballot
box. With the popular rallying cry of POLK
AND DALLAS, and FAIR ELECTIONS,
the citadel of liberty is safe, and the union
will be preserved from the iron clutches of the
great bargainer and demagogue Of the west
We lost the election of 1910 by fraud and
falsehood, and the chief, if not the only cause
of the failure Of our efforts to expose them,
was the vociferous clamor of the Federalists.
The Democratic party is now determined to
resist and expose fraud at every hazard, and
the sentinels are on guard prepared for any
emergency: Let our weapons be those OF
TRUTH cutting liking two edged sword
The Federal whig party have lost all prospect
of carrying the Presidential election by fair
means-their only chance is in fraud and by
deception. Our cause is just, our principles
honest, and the welfare and prosperity of our
country our only aim-let then the hardy yeo-
nanny of the United States oppose fraud and
perjury in whatever form and wherever Itmay
appear; let US cling to the institutions of our
land with devotion of spirit and ''nm7or pa
trio' unsurpassed in all by-gone times, let US
keep holy and pure the right of franchise.
The federal wings began their system of
fraud at the special election for member of
Congress, in the contest between Ingersoll
and Naylor, in June, 1887, and Naylor was
twice, we believe, fraudulently returned to a
seat in Congress. From this period their
frauds continued and increased to an alarming
degree, and four members of Congress from
the city of New York were unjustly returned,
by the improvements made in fraudulent cleo
pioneering by combination of reckless and
nefarious politicians. Of the memorable cleo
ton for President and Vice President in 1910
a volume would not contain recapitulation
of all the federal whig frauds in Ohio, Penn
sylvania and New York. Indeed, it is a
painful task to contemplate and enumerate the
deformities Of human nature, displayed by the
opponents of democracy in their profigate eff
forts, to obtain possession of the general GO
vernment during the periods, especially from
1887 to 1910. The Romans, upon all occa-
sions, showed disposition rather to forgive
than revenge an injury, and such seems to be
the inclination of the democracy, but at the
same time they have a settled determination
not to be imposed upon again. The character
of our country throughout the world, would
| be disgraced and dishonored by the frauds
committed by the federal wings in $780,
Many of the actors in the grand scheme of
| fraud. became at last it's most signal victims.
and long will they remain so, like "blasted
monument" in society. A single instance of
the enormity of the frauds committed will APP
pear by referring to the federal whig vote in
the Northern Liberties, in 1888, it claimed to
have polled 1915 votes, when at the election
of 1843, five years afterwards, it polled only
1890 votes in the same district.
The intent, spirit and object of the present
election law was defeated in Lancaster coun-
ty in this state in in 40. The spirit of the law
allowing an Inspector to each of the proml-
nent political parties, was wholly violated
The federal wings and anti-masons, being all
Harrison and Tyler men, each ran an Inspect
or and both tickets, by continuance received
the ighest number of votes, thereby defeating
the object of the law, and the election of the
Democratic Van Buren, and Johnson ticket
The same game, we understand, was practis-
ed in several other Anti-Masonic counties,
with equal success to the federal wings, and
disaster to our cause. The justice of having
a division of the Inspectors, cannot be too
highly commended, and when the very intent
and spirit Of the law giving to each party one,
is frustrated, we have right to suspect the
object to be fraudulent one.
That party protesting all the decency and
all the talents, should stoop to practise a dis
graceful system Of fraud at elections, and glo-