Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-17

J the country IS IlIli OI sleek, respect
! able, and superficially pious villains
| of the class Shakespeare had in his
miud when. he made Lady Mae
beth say reproachfally to her cow
ardiy, shilly-shalty husband.
| ''thou wouldst not play false.
And Yet wouldst wrongly win
| These men thoroughly know, and
/ haye known, that the Democratic
| vote is systematically swelled, es-
! pecially in their stronghOlds, by the
! ballots OF non-residents, minors,
| aliens, "repeaters," and others not
| law fully clothed with the Right of
Suflrage-that Representative in
Congress are chosen, and States are
carried, by these frauds, and that
| their engineers are literally reward
ed therefor with ''the .spoils of "vic-
tory" Thus was Henry Clay beat
| Ell in 1914 being defrauded of the
| Electors from New y ork aud Louis
lana thus was Gen. Grant cheated
out of the votes of this State and
! each polled more votes than they eX-
pected-at least 5000 more in New
Jersey, and nearly 20, 900 more in
this State We lad carried this
State against the most desperate eff
| forts of our adversaries in 1864, and
again in 1866, polling in either con-
test less than $40 900 votes. We felt
confident of polling $4,000 last Fall
in this City, and over 400. 900 in the
State and this, with only the usual
cheating of Ten to Twenty Thous-
and by our adversaries, would have
sufficed to insure the State to Grant
and Griswold.
But the Democratic managers were
early apprised that no ordinary
amount of cheating would serve
their turn-that, to take the State
from Gen. Grant, they must cheat
| by tells of thousands where they
had formerly cheated by thousands.
SO they began seasonably the issu-
ing of bogus Naturalization Certifi-
Gates by the ream, and scattered
these broadcast over the State as
well as City, and over New-Jersey
"A well. We personally know de-
cent, quiet Irish laborers, living in a
sober rural township and working
for Republicans, who We're each sup
piled with a Naturalization Certifi-
cate by II Democratic wire-WOrker,
! though neither of them had been
long enough in the country to entitie
hIm to Naturalization, neither had
declared his intentions, and neither
left the farm on which he worked to
| take any oath or make any Obliga-
| ton whatever. We know of instan-
| ces where Germans, having just
! joined Il Grant Club, applied to it for
naturalization, but, after due inqui-
ry, were told that they were not yet
entitled to il; whereupon they went
over to the Seymour Club and We're
''put throughn without hesitation
/
| III the With Ward of this City so
many voters in all by One Thousand
as the aHujOrity returned therefrom
| for Seymour and Hoffman. under the
manipulation of two well-known
! Democratic politicians. SO we
| might go on for hours but To what
end? 1t is Just as we'll known
among the Democratic politicians OF
| .his City that they Swindled Gen.
| Grant out of the vote of this State
"a that Gen. Lee surrendered to him
at or near AppomattoX Court House.
They concocted the plot; they de-
viSed the means they employed
the villains (many of them under
Indictment, and in dread of being
brought TO trial; } who swcre falsely
in order to give a show of legality TO
a part of their Naturalization frauds;
who personated others who would
not swear falsely that they were en-
titled To Naturalization, but would
register and vote on papers obtained
through the perjury of others; and
they hired ard paid the "repeaters"
who began to vote early on election
morning and kept on voting till the
set OF sun on names registered fraud
ulentiy and with deliberate intent to
cheat the People Of our State out OF
their choice. These are facts now
authenticated by mountains of testi-
mony, including that eXtorted from
several of the perpetrators OF this gi-
gantic crime. The pregnant mega
tive proof of the same facts afforded
by those who declined or refused to
testify is even more indubitable. He
who swears may possibly lie, even
te his own damage: but he who re-
fuses To swear, with the prison star
ing him in the facss makes virtual
confession, which cannot be refuted
nor explained away.
In the face of such facts, he who
pleads, There is cheating on all
| sides, betrays his completely in the
fraud. We might name the men
who, being Wings or Republicans,
were Jealous advocates of efficient
registration and other safeguards
against cheating in election; but
becoming at length Democrats,
| never more lisped word in favor of
such legislation while others, who
so long as they were Democrats,
wanted nothing done in the premises
on becoming Republicans, at once
Joined III the demand that fraudulent
voting or counting be preciuded and
| punished. No man among us is so
| ignorant "a not to know on which
side Selony and vice naturally range
| themselves, nor which party would
! p:etit most by illegal voting and re-
| / eating. We are confronted by q
| comprehensive brotherhood of crime
and must comprehend and act ac-
| cordingiy. Let there be no adjourn
ment of the Mist Congress till all
| shall have been done that law can
| do 10 save Us from future repetitions
of the stupendous villainy that gave
he Electoral Vote of New-l ork to
foratio Seymour and placed John
| I. Hoffman in the station formerly
| honored by John Jay and the Clin-
tons--t y. \. Tribune.
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