The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-09-22
How To Ensure "a Fair Election.

AM N'totO SlCSVAObo VI OCGoO6E VIII
be held under tho general election law,
approved March 1, 1870. That law au-
thorizes tho Governor to appoint three
commissioners of elections for each
County, which commissioners designate
tho precincts, and appoint three mana
gers Of elections for each precinct in the
County for which they are appointed.
The managers are required to deliver the
poll lists, and the boxes containing the
ballots. to the respective commissioners
of elections within three days after the
day of election. These remain in the
Keeping OF the commissioners until the
Tuesday following the election, when tho
commissioners count the vote of each pre-.
clnct. Within ten days from this time
the commissioners must make state
ment of the result
For ten days, therefore, the ballot
boxes, and the poll lists, are in the ex-
elusive custody of the missioners of
elections. These commissioners can, if
they choose, so manipulate the ballots as
to elect, or defeat, whom they please
Their opportunity for fraud and trickery
is as complete as the most venal politi-
tician can desire. Nor has any pains
been taken to appoint, AS commissioners,
those men only who enjoy tho confidence
OF both political parties. Governor Scott,
to the best OF our knowledge, has picked
up his commissioners without regard to
their intelligence or their trust-worthi.
ness The fruits of months Of labor, the
destinies of South Carolina. are in the
keeping of body of men whose chief, if
not only, qualification is n blind dcyo-
tIon to tho interests of Scott and his
ring.
This ia the position of affairs, and it is
one which causes grave uneasiness to all
who desire, as We do, q peaceful and fair
election. The Reform Party arc pre-
pared to abide by the verdict of tho
grand jury of the people. If the re-
formers are faiily and squarely beaten,
they will stand it like men, but they do
not mean to be cheated out of their
victory. by election commissioners or
any other of Scott's officials. This feel
ing is doubtless entertained by many of
the moro decent members of tho Scott
party. But whether it is or not, we have
the right to demand, in behalf of the
Union Reform Party, that all reasonable
security be given that the election shall
be fair, and that the vote shall be fairly
conrted and reported. Governor Scott
fatty declined to appoint one commits
sioner in each County from the ranks of
the Reform Party. This, in itself, sug-
gcsts an intention to tamper with the
vote. From Scott, however, wo expect
no redress. Whatever consideration and
fair dealing we receive must como from
men who have moro libernlity and more
sagncity than nre possessed by Governor
Scott. Charleston Ne,cS.
The Cologne GaseNe snys: "NIake
for gold AS the Times suggests, re-
deem with thousand millions the blood
of tho children of Germany. Away
with the thought! Franco must be hu-
miliated-she must be so brought down
that in the future she will be unable to
cause us any disquietude. Conclusion
TO Paris!" The Voss Zeituag, usually
calm in its statements, exclaims: ave
will not give up Alsacc and Lorraine,
which proud conquerer formerly stole
from the Fatherland;" whilst tho official
organ OF Bismarck, the Atyeneine Mord
Deutsche Zeitung. repeats: ''From COM
bat to combat-from victory to victory
until wo plant tho German flag upon the
Imperial Palace of the Tuileries. Thus,
then, the consoling idea of seeing tho
waters of the Moselle again blue, Paris
resume it's gayety, and Berlin its indus
try, of seeing peace and commercial in
tercourso once more established, is de-
MED us. Not man in Germany, in
this Germany, 80 peaceful, humane and
intelligent, in tho country of Goethe,
Schiller, Kent and Leasing, cries hold,
enough!"
A German journal rather savagely says
that the first Napoleon was lion
savage and blood thirsty, but still a
lion-and the jnckal, in possession of
the remnants Of his repast. has believed
himself his equal; the first Napoleon
was devouring flame, and the third of
that name flaring meteor, the product
of unwholesome decomposition"
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