The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-11-16
NIGER OF OUR COUNTRY.

thieves OF the Tamm+ny Ring has pro.
due / II ppl teal revolution IN the Stale
o: New York The has been and IS
great excitemeno in New York c,ty in re-
lation to the s,eaiag,and hoaest men OF all
parties are engaged in eff .r,s j asaera,n
the amount % he the,5s aud 10 bring III e
guilty. p"rties TO justice But the pol
Cal revolu' '"n is IN the State and but
partial in tae city Tue BOSS thief,
Tweed, was elected TO the Scnate, AND
Tom Field was elected to the Assembly
over Elk. Governor Seymour
The "Rcpeaters' performed at he last
election a considerable work in New
| York and greater work in BROOKLYN
And the excitement is running gh in
Brooklyn as it becomes fully known thar
the cleo irn in the "CIiy Of Churches
was carl led by the votes Of RvppaLcrs
aoa by filing the ballot boxes with
tickets not voted That the elections ~
tat S'pte OF New York have been carr'ea
me and again by repcaters and bv
stud'ny the ballot bnxes is now toe wet
known to be disputed And this is tn.
& yatesC tbett OF all. SteaIrag thirty or
Fl Y or hundred millions o. collars Is
noth;2g to be compared 50 it. Money,
We @hed III the balance with the RIGHT oil
tie pe3ple to goveI n, aud the putty OF
e'c-rons, is insignificant THEFT OF mon
et e'daogers property orly, by carrying
el,ctions by theft III f9y.r Of Rings en-
u&nge 5 not only property but. institutions
aud integ r'ty OF our country, and the pty
pe1uity OF freedom aud the government
oftro people Tor the people and by the
people. A dangerous blow has been
Sack 1T the life OF pur country and at
zee governments the world over What
the result Of the elections having been
carried IN New Yolk and Brooklyn, aud
heretofore in the State of New York,
Will 10y repeaters and ballot stufflng
Of those cities are aroused to some extent
80 "a sense of their danger is certain
But whether they will be able to dis
possess the usurplng thieves of the pos
session of their governments is sull
uncertain. By the aid Of State legislation
and State authority they may be. But
even then, what the "RIug of Thieves
have done once they may do again. 1t
IS best however TO hope for the best But
if the worst must come it is well to DE pre-
pared to defend the Life Of our country.
Read IN this connection the following
from the Racine Journal and weigh it
we'll.
THE GREATEST THEFT OF ALL
As one after another The theIts Of the
Tammany Ring have, IN all their hidenue
ness, been exposed to the public by me
honest men OF the city of New York, the
feeling that was at first a doubling sep,p
Of surprise, has developed into bitter
hatred and in the mind OF every honeol
man, Dut one idea controls, and that is,
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brought to the bar OF justice, and that a
fearful and terrible punishment should
De meled out 10 them a> u warning that
though backed by Il horde of rutfions,-
ulfounded by the influence and power
that office giyes-aven then the Justice OF
an offended Jaw Can reach them, and the
power of the people decked ia the males
~ or truth and honesty, can bring low
the naughty, and tread down the wicked
In high places, binding their faces in tue
dust together.
Bat while the attention of the people
OF the United States has been directed 10
the enormous swindles and financial thertS
that this Internal ring have perpetra- ed,
they seem to have lost sight OF still
greater theft and still greater crime tins
ring has been guilty of "a crime the ma
nltade of whose punishment hould be
meted out In the letter that kilIs--a crime
Chat should be cxpiated on the sCaifold
for' directly has this ring struck at the
very lie OF the Republic, and sought to
oestroy one OF its most sacred and valu
Sole rlghts-thc right of the majority to
rule.
The late election has proven what
every man Of sense has all along known,
that the State of New York is Rupubll.
r can' and that only by the accursed action
OF this ring, with it's roughs and repeat
ers, It's Ghreats, its mobs and its intimida
J tlons, its wholesale system Of perjury,
has the State of New York been given
| up to the democracy. Hoffman, to day
fills usurped chair that these lawles>
roffians wrested from the majority of the
voters of the State of New York-placed
e there by the false counts Of peliured