The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-09-30
W HIN TON.
MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 80, 1874
LOCOFOCO PIPELAYING.

LOCOFOCO PlPELAYlNG.
The Locofoco pipelayers in this city have been
detected in their secret plans to send on to Balti
more, to vote at the election there next Wednes-
day, as many feet of pipe, or men, voters or not
voters as they can coax or bride to go from Wash
ington, Georgetown, and Alexandra. Look out
for them Wings Look out for them Wing me-
chanics and workingmen, temporarily in this city,
who are legal voters in Maryland See, every
man of you, that you turn out on this occasion
and devote day to YOUR COUNTRY by going TO
YOUR HOME, and there, not only casting your votes
for good and true Wings, but acting as vigilance
and committee men to watch, detect, and expose
to the Judges of the elections, all spurious, I'M
lawful, and illegal votes that may be offered by
The HIRED MEN whom the Locofoco pipeayers
mean to send on, according to custom, from the
District of Columbia! Every Wing mechanic
and workingman, temporarily in the District, ,oho
has The legal right to uote in Maryland, should
not fail on this important occasion to 60 home and
vote See that you do it, brother Wings, every
one Watch the pipelayers also Spoil their
nefarous tricks and prevent their casting spurious
votes, as they have often done before.
We have no HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR Ma
BoBs, like Blair and Rives, who boast that they
bet their thousands upon thousands not to ,0i,,,
but to keep the timid of their party from being
scared, and that they will " lose or spend TENS OF
THOUSANDS to prevent the defeat of that party !"
We have no such nabobs in ranks in this Dis
trict, who are either willing or able to spend tens
IS ~ IL, 1 fbo foff ho;r
ty" by paying the expenses of scores of men to
60 Baltimore and vote, whether they are entitled
to vote there or not No, thanks be to honesty,
our Wing brethren here who are legally entitled
to vote in Maryland, will, we trust, 90 there of
their own accord and do their duty.
1t has been for some time understood that thew
would do so-and this is what chagrns and mad
dens the Locofoco pipeayers who have hitherto
had such swing in this District in all these mat
tiers. See their "cards" in the Globe, signed by
James Toaoles and c. P. Sengstack, and probably
written by one of the Globe appendages, whose
bets make him as interested and whose venom
makes him as bitter and insulting to the Wings,
as either Of the others These men and John
c. Rives talk abou Wing corruption funds and
Wing pipelaying to send illegal voters to Bati-
more Shame their impudence Are they
not themselves the very men who have for years
hunted up all sorts Of illegal voters in every nook
hole, and corner of Washington, Georgetown
and Alexandra, and sent them on to Baltimore te
vote? Has not Rives, himself, on previous oc
casion travelled to Alexandria on foot, after night
to procure men! Does he not openly boast,
through the Globe, that he will spend thousands
and TENS OF THOUSANDS" to save his party from
defeat! And now forsooh because their detes-
table schemes are detected aud exposed, and the
Wing mechanics and workingmen, temporarily in
the District, aoho hare The RIGHT to vote at their
homes in Baltimore, are preparing with noble
and praseworthy determination to do their duty,
and their whole duty, these upstart, braggadoco
Locofoco pipelayers utter themselves hoarse with
insulting outcres of all descriptions, and threats
about tar and feathers, Let them but attempt
10 put their miserable threats in execution.
As to the base charge made by these men, that
the Wing party have raised "a corruption fund,
to purchase of men their brthright, and to violate
the purity of the franchise" &C.. which they, in
their second " Card" say the Wing Standard
"tacitly admits" in one place, and is silent about
in another-we take this method of stamping it
with the brand of FALsEHooD! and we call upon
these Card" men, to make good their grauitous
charge, or rest under the imputation which the
brand we have put upon it conveys. There IS
not particle Of truth IN ,ohat they haze asserted.
Earnestly we call upon every Wing now in
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TO DO HIS DUTY, aud his WHOLE DUTY,
next "Wednesday Ask no illegal voter to cast
Wing ticket, and see that no illegal voter casts
Locofoeo one /! Take your positions upon the
right ground, and then maintain them Watch
the Locofocos closely: your COUNTRY de-
mands it of you