The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-10-18
WHEELING w. VA TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 49, 1870

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they chose to vote. It is conclusiveIy
shown by tho returns Of population that
this repeating, together with the other
frauds incident to the election, have polled
from twenty TO thirty thousand illegal
votes every year, and that these votes, at
the last election, placed the present Gov
crnor, Hoffman, in office, and enabled him,
together with Fisk, Gould, Tweed and
Barnard, to steal the Erie Railway from
its stockholders. Tho whole illegal vote
Is Democratic. and every Democrat knows
tito be so. Tho Governor, who has con:
troll Of the State militia, and who Is fond
Of ventilating bis States rights notions OF
the independence Of the State from oil In
reference by the National Government,
and the Mayor, Oakley HGll, who controls
the New York police, are both dctermln-
led that tho force ot the police and Of the
State militia, II necessary, shall be used
TO sustain this fraudulent voting.
These are very formidable forces to
meet, and 1t behOoves tic government ut
Washington TO consider that they arc Us
determined in their way to carry their
smaller point as Davis and Lee, Floyd and
ToOmbs were to carry theirs.
Congress las passed statute aimed
spccialIy 10 break up aud abolish this
fraudulent voting in New York. It's
passage grew out OF tile investigation by
q Congressional committee into the frauds
in the election Of Congressman which at
tended and accompanied the election OF
Hoffman. all the power Of Tammany,
IRON its Governor and courts TO its police
and plug-uglics, Is concentrated In one
determined effort to smash this law so
eiIectuaIly us to frightCn the government
from an effort to enforce it. So lar US the
aw.abiding forces in New York city arc
concerned, they arc utterly inadequate
10 enforce the law Of Congress
Where the United States Marshal could
appoint one deputy, Mayor Hall and the
Sheriff could appoint fifty. We under
take to say that there will be mortiiy-
ing and bloody fa1co in the attempt to en-.
force this law, or q pusilanimous iiZzlc II
the Marshal DO expected to enforce 1t. It
needs and deserves the direct energies and
military forces at the disposal Of the gov
crnmUnt. These, mud no less, will insure
peaceful vote and an honest one. OF
course there will he the usual howl that
this is "satrapy," federal insolcnce,"
''military desp0tism," I'M "attcmpt to in
timidate the honest Democrats Of New
York city" and t!d pretended rejoicing
over the supposed converts such q course
willtmako 10 the Democratic party, We
estimate all this hypOCritical bOsh ut the
same weight the magistrate attaches to
the tllieGS iargon when he orders him ten
years in the Pcnilentiary. The rule Of
the Democratic party in New York city Is
contcderatcd Villainy. 1t is the great
national and international nuisance. Now
that slaveryisabolIshe 1t is the chief ma
tional crime, and tho only fact In our con.
dition TINT brings republican institu-
tions into contempt. 1t Is the duty
OF President Grant to suppress Its crimes,
To tho extent that existing laws enable
him to do so, with the strong hand, US no
longer toIcrabic by the nation. The op.
pOrtunity to do so will occur ut the ap.
preaching election. Congress has passed
Il law authorizing the Marshal and his
deputies to arrest awhomsoeVer they see
voting Illegally, OF committing any breach
Of the peace. T0mmany Hall and its
hackers threaten 10 arrest the Marshal
and his deputies i they attempt to en-
force this law. They deny its constitu-
tiOnnIity Orconrse, and that, under the
circumstances, means that If tho force
which attempts TO sustain the law Is one
which they can whip, they intend to fight
Let the President himself SEQ the law en-
forced by the whole power Of the govern
mcnt, or that adequate preparations are
made to that end, and there will be neither
shameful5iailurc, nor q bloody ,faSco, but
an honest, peaceful, and pure election, in
which Democracy will, as q rule, vote
onco, tho first Of the kind that has occur
red in that batliwlck for many years. 81