Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-11-02

LIE COUNTY AND LEGISLATURE TO IN
vEsTrGATE THEM.-S00 V0rEs REGIS.
TERED AND !, 500 DEMOCRATIC MAJOR
ITY IN ONE DISTRICT AP-
| POINTED OFFICERS DRIVEN From THE
Polls.
The following address issued by the Re-
publican County Committee of Iuzerne
| county details the monstrous outrages COM
mitted by the Democrats of that county.
Honest Democrats and Republicans, read
it carefully:
Headquarters UNION REPUBLICAN
| COMMITTEE OF LUZERNE COUNTY,
| WILKsBARRE, Pa, 25th October, 1872
TO The Republicans of L,zerne County {:
You have rejoiced over the splendid victory
won in Pennsylvania at the October cleo
| tiGn. In that you have also been congra-
tulated by all good citizens every where.
You have special reasons for rejoicing
and congratulations over the local victory
won in our own county Confronted as you
were by well organized, defiant and inso-
lent organization of your adversaries
have crushed them in defeat. Your oppo-
nents had fraudulently filed the registry to
the last line, and had surrounded the bal
lot boxes in very many Districts with a
Gordon of trained williams and INSCRIPTIONS
ruflians. SO completely had they attempt
ed to take possession of the avenues to the
| polls, to the exclusion of honest men, that
in their moments of Madness they claimed
that Luzerne county, would give the coali-
tion $500 majority.
Your vigilance, courage and energy des-
troyed this vast machinery of fraud every
where, except in four precincts in the city
of Scranton. There the overseers appoint
ed by your court were brutaly assailed
and by violence driven from their seats at
the election boards, not only by roughs but
even by sworn officers of the election.
Fraud, violence and crime overbore the
honest, quiet voters, and these schemers,
in registry of about 800 voters, returned
Democratic majority of more than /, 800
This catalogue of crimes against the ballot
eliminated in forgery and alteration Of
| the returns, to count in their candidates
defeated, notwithstanding the monstrous
frauds pcrpctrated at the polls. You indig-
nantly resented this crime on the whole
people, and your committee promptly took
all necessary steps to mete out to the Of
| tenders the punishment which shall be due
them after full investigation, in the crimi-
nal and civil courts. This Investigation ,oill
be Horouqh1y a,;5 unrelentingly pursued in
the courts and before the Legislature
Baffied and alarmed, the sklliie! engi-
neers of this wickedness are endeavoring
| to divert attention from their crimes, and
avoid the consequences Of their iniquity, by
instituting counter actions--the fruits of
| perjury and subornatiOn of perjury-against
several members Of your committee and
their active Republican friends. You may
rest well assured that your friends thus as
sailed, court the injury, defy their accusers,
and will thoroughly vindicate themselves
before all judicial tribunals and at the bar
Of public opinion.
To you, Republican voters of Luzerne
county, we say, be not diverted from your
duty in November, by the incidents. Let
every true man in his orn neighborhoOd
press on an the ,cork still before us. DO not
,cait for ,cOrk to be assigned to you do arhdt
QOu see there is TO be done. Thus shall VIC
tory in November again come to your ban
ners, and you will rejoice in a land saved
from the hands Of plunderers and corrup-
tionists who have attempted to seize upon
! it. BY order of the Committee.
HENRY NJ. HoYT,
J. Z. SToUTsBuRGH, Chairman.
Secretary.