The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-02-22

torborne to make personal assaults or to even refer
by name suggestion to the hideous skeleton in
| that Democratic closet rather prefer that you
wrong and outrage than that you shall be especially
called upon to notice the especially obnoxious in
But fellow citizens, passing from this sad picture
of mismanagement and misrule in Ohio. beg to
IS this Democratic organization the leaders of it in
Ohio who have opened the campaign with such
apoogfzed for the SHORTCOMINGS of this General As
4 sembly. They have turned from it as from spec
Pharisees passed by the man who teil by the way
side on the memorable passage from Jerusalem to
and do not throw over its deformltie so much as an
apron of hg leaves
such party in power in this State; will they in
/ FRAUD THE REAL '.KEYNoTE."i
But the real keynote Of this campaign i. to be
the stentoran from all the organs and orators OF
Like the plantive cly of John Hook, amid the gen.
ea halleahs of the people at the victorious ending
shout @ is to 60 up It VIII be sounded in the deep
bass of the sonorous statesman and orators and then
alto, tenor, treble. and so on, until it
win be piped in keynotes' SO shFl as to resemble @ @
hot pursuit of blood and scalps. What OF it? One
\ thing beg to suggest. 1t comes with beautiful
an election The old cry of.'stop thief suggests
! rare consistency in comparison. Look for brief
faced, unbushing fraud in 1874 it carried Louisia
for Polk Clay Up to 1861 the largest
yet in is44 John sliddeIi and others loaded two
steamboats, with pluguglies in New. Orleans, who
the parish and voted them SO industriously that
the parish gave Polk 1907 majority He, counting
69g majority.
i The Democratic party of the South. even under
the strong government of Grant changed Republi-
N MisSiSSiDDi 30
into Democratic majority OF greater than that the
ment t in that State. and when Gov Ames, Pursuant
TO the Constitution and under the forms of law.
tration the President was compelled reluctant.
ly to refuse and from that moment saa fraud
Sorh caroina aDd Aabsma and
carried them bodily over into the Democratic camp
r n1t @ le me s s%O ~ for fheir
The Democratic majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives to-day is the direct product of murder
ballot box stuffng false poll books, forged tally
sheets purchased election officers. and lntmidetion
. | at the polls. In State three men hold
seats in Congress that were given them by fraud,
the the fact. II The sI penitentiary OF Ohio holds to-day
some of the agents who did the work, while the
! The organization Of ballot box suffers and re-
peaters has not been confined to Southern Demo
letter that NO man ever denied the truth Of the fact
! that Tilden, as Chairman OF the democratic Com,
Holman and and Seymour, % perpetrated ed frauds enough
to change the vote OF that State from Grant. who
. really had majority, to Seymour and Hoffman,
who were counted i'm
It was always claimed by some of the best men in
the country that Clay was honestly elected in ls44
51o6, was, it was always claimed made up by stuff
Ro en in asT c a s
gang, the suppositon is not an unreasonable one.
ines 81 an eminent Hmerican famous for his cour-
! age; truthfulness and candor. He says:
4 Henry Clay was the choice of the American peo-
Tl16 nd q Of H.
ally cast was thrown for him. He chosen Presi
ey the voice na Of his T S an under III
8 : was entitled to the Presidency. None now doubt
that AS matter of history it is notorious: Never
vote 1'se Counted IN was $50 For Polk, TO- for Clay
+ 1O5: while Folks minority on the popular vote
Polk included that Of New York tss5. Pennsylvania
l26) Georgia 90 Louisiaaa tS5n all Is votesnto
majorites in all those States Hence, add those g
votes to Clay's 1o5 and deduct them from Polks 10
will give Clay 1888 votes and reduce Polk to 92 max
ing Clays majority in the Electoral colleges 81, the
real result of the canvass but which was defeated by
!, : Even strike from Folks 40 New York's 36 votes
which State Clay confessedy carried by from 1000 te
votes and give Clay 14i, majority of seven in the
entitled to the Electoral votes of the States of New
E York, Pennsylvania Georgia and Louisiana-seyen
d I'M process which the Democracy now charge
D against the Republicans counted for Polk
L
) They not be questioned. In 1874 combination
e of gamblers. through system of betting all owe
the country, in favor of Polk as in the canvass
1876 in favor OF Tlden, secured by their winning
the means Of defrayng the expenses OF the frauds
That was notoriously so in New York, Pennsylvania
10 In New York, in 1874. of the popular vote Poll
Of Clay only 5.io6. That he obtained in the cit.
r and its surroundings by fraudulent naturalization
by repeating and ballot box sufing; by the manu-
facture and count, through such infamous agencies
OF from 10000 to Is 0r0 bogus votes Some place tn
he number as high as 600
,e In Pennsylvania the frauds were equally fagrant
At the October election, it admitted by the bes
least 1000 votes Stronger than Gen Marke the Viii
~ candidate for Governor. Hence, in order to bea
ooo It was only fully 500 less than th
Democratic estimate absolutely to bea
sa Tt 5oo
than Markle's. and was drawn Principally fron
e, It was in this canvass in Pennsylvania that tn
al model OF Tildens infamous confidential circular
tSe he o s Ne@
se se for Seymour and Hoffman. appeared as
and signed by Edward A. Penniman and seventee
Mt Democratic members of the Pennsylvania Legisls
100 only among the faithful with the injunction tha
o its contents should be made known only to such
moe m as T tbe keep tnelF
oo urged that sit is very desirable that it should nc
O0 political opponents. It particularly en.oined tn
w w faithful "to secure large turnout at the elet
w ton OF Judges anu inspectors OI the polSl I'M
700 DONE we shall have the vantage ground, and a
20 easy victory will be ours" So it proved. By
100 ng the dpes and inspectors of the polls the couu
w w of any number by the Democracy was very eas
VO matter.
d: In Georgia. in 1884, and it may be so now by tn
wv tax list the number of legal voters in the Sta
O0 could be readily aseerained By that list there wer
'39 s6 275 votes were cast Even supnosng therefor
that every legal voter in the State attended at Id
'oo polls.the decEepid, aged. sick and dying-thel
was still fraud Of 1866 votes By whom were thes
polled? In the Wing counties less than the leg,
vote as shown by the tax list was poed but IN tn
d. Democratic counties of Forsyth, Lumpkin, Habe
of sham. and Franklin, the lawful vote was $40
They returned vote OF 40l4 LOT Polk ana lo5 ie
en- Cay-in ALL 5,S35-a fraud in these four countit
alone of 1888; and so on throughout all the Dem'
ng cratic counties of Georgia Nevertheless, Polks mi
ii jority in the State was only 2077.
ne invite the younger student OF these Things