The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-14
FROM MISSOURI.
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From the st. Louis Republican.
The grand end and aim of the Radical
faction is to defeat the will of the peo-
| pie. and escape II Judgment of condem-
nation at the polls. The test oath and
registration law are schemes to diSfran-
chise the majority. In the hands of evil
men, INSCRIPTIONS partisans, destitute
of self-respect, sense of justice, honor
and honesty, the registration law has
proved an instrument of public robbery,
whereby the most valued civil and po-
litical rights of thousands have been
snatched away. BY it the people have
been subjected to great Inconvenience,
loss of time and most veXatiouS annoy
ance, unnecessary and offensive impede
mcnts being thrown in the way of a rap
i'll registration, and all for the benefit
of the Radical minority. But the pe0-
pie endured it all patiently, and were ii
nally rewarded by finding that, i'll spite
of all the misdemeanors committed by
Radical officials, with the manifest de-
sign OF cutting down the number of reg
istered qualified Conservative voters, a
very handsome majority yet remained
in all principal counties Of the State. 1t
now seems that the people had not yet
learned the full capacity of the Radical
officials for fraudulent action. In the
wards where the Conservative ma
iorities are very large, and the Radi-
Gals in Il hopeless minority, the grand
aim seemed to be to cast obstacles III
the way of the poll of Il full vote. Not
succeeding in DISTINGUISHING the Con
servative majority before the registra
ton boards, they rcsorted to tactics 10y
which in the heavy Conservative dis
tricts scarcely more than half of tn,
Conservative vote could he polled
Their first fault and crime was i'll thu
omission to adopt the facilities pro
vided for by the law by which it woult
have been possible for all the votes t.
be poIlcd. In the Seventh, Eighth an'
Ninth Wards it was apparent to all be
: fore the election commenced that L
would he physically impossible to pol
: the entire vote. But the officials VIII,
, were authorized by the law to open IL
many polls rs they might deem cxpcdi
ent. disregarlcd the eXigencics of the
case. In the Eighth Ward, for example
anu III tllt NliltH tlClN "'it VIVA Wv
thousand votes to be cast i'll each. AL
lowing eleven hours as the period dur
ing which the polls would be open, IT Ii
quite easy to see that more than three
ballots would have to be received ant
recorded per minute to secure the en-
tire vote. To accomplish this, TIT
Judges and their assistants, under thu
} cumbersome system adopted, woul'
have to use extraordinary diligence
} and, too, would need to he very active
quick and expeditions i'll their move
ments. The radicals understood thi
very well. and they committed tn
grandest outrages upon the people o
: the districts named, by the crimina
: delays which attended the voting. Som
of the Judges were old men, slow
and uninteliigent, with bad eye-sight
Others seemed to be but impcrfectly ia
miliar with writing, and consumed pre-
! cious moments in hunting for names
Others were afflicted with an absolute
incapacity of rapid work, and still 9th
ers most manifestly lacked the will t
dispatch business rapidly. There die
not appear to have been any effort mad
! to place i'll those responsible posts com
petent and faithful men. Delay wa
wanted, and delay was gained ut tn
expense of the rights of the people
Sometimes five, six, seven and evel
twelve minutes were expended IN re
ceiving, recording aud depositinga vote
, An immense amount of time was vast
ed. And to make matters worse, i'll on
r case at least, the judges were Furnished
with voluminous registration list no
alphabetically arranged, Such thing 4
r this was, of course, no accident or blum
t der. 1t was premeditated, the result be
D ing that the name of each voter had t
J. be sought for through the entire list
!, The result was, of course, well fore
s.. seen, and was predetermined. TIL
heavy Conservative precincts could no
: possibly get in their vote. 1t is esti
: mated that by reason of the failure t
! have a sufficient number of polls open
e with the delays mentioned, three thou
sand Conservative voters, duly register
ed as qualified, were cheated out o
their vote. In the Ninth Ward, Con
: servatives waited from seven in tn
r morning till the polls closed at quartz
). past FIVE. not even leaving TO get thei
2 dinner, and vet found no chance to vote
I At half past twelve o'clock, at Walther'
n office on Morgan street, only 735 vote
n were in. when with due diligence ant
:. activity on the part of the jadges, dou
: BILE that number might have bee
e polled. AT Riddle Market, at o'clock
only 81 votes were in, although at leas
one Thousand voters were then anxious
~ waiting to vote. Fifteen minute
S were consumed sometimes in receiving
n the vote OF an elector. And in thi
I connection we may state that eithe
: because of the faulty manner in whicl
;, the lists were made up, or because q
c the incompetency of the officials, III
1 names of some who had been dul,
r registered by the registering officer
could not be found by the judges on tn
lists they had before them, and thei
votes were refused. Moments NOR
4 precious than gold were wasted in thes
/. vain searches tor names of voters VIII
{ by some criminal oversight, or througl
' deliberate yillainy, were not to be foun
recorded in the lists delivered to tn