Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-09-28
HOW THE RADICALS CARRIED NoETH
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The following letter, written by a
gentleman who held high Office under
Abraham Lincoln, appeared iii the New
York Tribune, of Monday, August 18th.
It is dated Washington, August 14th,
and is as follows ~ ;esfa 4o asiiuo
SR "A desperate scheme has been
Matched from the fertile and vicious
brain OF Grants manaSers in Pennsyl-
'vania and Indiana, with the collusion
and concert of the Admins rntioil ana
the Washington Ring, in the hope of
carrying thoser States atlithe October
election, The, Ilan is to eolonize, A ,QG0
or, 5,CC0 negroes from Kentucky in
Indiana, among the counties wore the
black race is sufficiently numerous to
make the experiment, and to offer a
chance of escaping detection. Negroes
now in the employ of the Boards of
Public Works here are to be sent to
Pennsylvania under contracts for high
wages and expenses paid. Cameron
was here yesterday, and has visited
Washington twice recently, to perfect
his unscrupulous work. As the Grant
men have no hope Of Kentucky the
negroes can be spared from that state
without any disadvantage. So far as
this district is concerned, the Philadel-
phia system of counting out Liberal
candidates has been adopted, and there
fore the absence of q few thousand
stample voters will not be felt, when
the Ring ticket is to be returned. !"
The Washington negroes who engage
in this business have been thoroughly
trained as repcaters, and probably excol
all others by their perfection in this
respect. Experience and adroit hand
ling have made them dexterous. They
are thoroughly drilled in the Grt OF
voting under various names, and of
rapid changes, by which personal iden-
tifcation is almost impossible. The
outraSes of this Territorial despotisip,
by which the people are plundered in q
worse degree, relatively, than under
"ammany, have been protected BY
Grant. who has personal reasons for
favoring the Ring, and sustained by the
q, ! OF cyular srepeaters'' hired TO vote
down the intelligence, worth, and ,prop-
erty of the District There is no doubt
whatever that a large body Of, negroes,
over 800 in all, we're sent down Into
North Carolina to carry out the system
in which they have had such extensive
practice here. The vehement denial Of
a number Of the Board Of Public Works
of completely in this villany has only
served to confirm the public belief in
tic fact, although covered up by the
Use of base instruments. The same
!hi,.g has been done here, without much
caro- Of concealment, by the same men.
Why should they not extend the opera
ton to North Carolina, where every vote
had an exceptional value? eess.1ai
The truth about this expectation Of
repeatcrs is daily coming to iyht.
Some of it is not now .divuls,s(l, for
prudential reasons, but Le2e are certain
leading fec Is which haye been established
beyond all doubt
? The election in North Carolina took
place on the ist Of august. The I'm
derbiN, q steamer Iiotnow engaged in the
Washington trnde, was brought here
under1a temporary commander for
special service, The berths and furni-
'tllre were removed, and contrac. made
for a TIP to Norfolk and return, with rs
many" passengers" as could be saowetl
away Five hundred dollars were paid
down in greenhacks bya colorod man
for the round trip, who was put forward
to make the bargain and conceal his
employers. Between 500 and Gee =
some say 7O0-.nen composed the ptsrtv.
Not woman wasIofA the crowdsd The
Vanderbilt left Washington on the even
ing Of the 27 th Of July. fo,h days before
the election. in North Carolina, and re7
tuired here on the morning OF the 4tA Of
August, three days after that election, J;
the voyage thus eonahined seven and b
hall days. Contempo1nneously with
lthis ineident, large numbers of negroes
IemplayRd, by the contractors of the,
Board of Public Works mysteriously
disappeared when the Vanderbilt re-
ttrnella Apoorattempt has been made
to explain this nligrationiofs repeaters'
iby calling it a s religious excursion t.
That thin disguise has deceived nobody.
Whoever heardpf Q negro excursion"
religious or social; extending over such
a length of time, and without the pres
ence Of the female element. which al
ways predonAinateso ON such occasionssi
, Il also appears that about 300 re-
,peaters, were transported by railroad,
taking q different route into, North
Carolina. A force, of 800 Or 900 was
thus scattered BY a preconcerted plan,
end North Carolina I" returned = for the.
Grant candidate. These trained mer-
scenaries are now TO be thrown into
PENNSYLVANIA and utilized there for a
similar purpose. The money. for this
and ether corruption will be- furnishedI
from the Treasury, under the fraudulent
devices which have already been
employed without stint OF sctuple. With
,falsiied ps1blicaccounts, forced balances,
and forged exhibits of debt and inter
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