The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-05
To the People OF Pennsy vania.

The lines IN the great struggle Tor the
regeneration Of Pennsylvania from des.
potic and corrupt political power are
distinctly drawn, and the issue has
ceased to be doubtful. Neither money
nor patronage, nor fraud, nor all COM
bined, can avert the decisive defeat that
awaits the Cameron "Ring" State can
dldates on Tuesday next.
The honest vote OF the State will
elect Charles R. Buckalewt our next
Governor by the largest majority ever
given any State candidate since 1860.
For time the friends Of the "Ring"
ticket hoped to rally the ranks Of q
once bonored party, and thus save their
favorites: But; now they have surren-t
dered every hope Of success that is not
based upon unmixed fraud
How far fraud may be successful can
not now be determined. The registrar
ton in Philadelphia Of over one hum
dred and sixty-two thousand voters
being larger than the registration OF
New York with, two ,hundredJkud fl ty
thousand more inhabitants4b an open
and defiant confession Of iutssdedfrssd-
This organized fraud has it's outposts in
Chester West Chester. Reading, Lam
caster, H harrisburg. Columbia, Chambers
burg, Altoona, Pittsburgh, Williams
port, Erie, Titusville and other points
where the pollution OF the ballot box
has been deliberately planned by the
importation of illegal votes. Negroes
from Virginia have been shipped in
droves to Harrisburg, and then dis
tributed over the State and located
where Ring" Republicans control the
election boards Many have already
been detected and compelled to return,
but it lie expected by the Ring" man
ayers that they will vote not less than
1000 Of imported Virginia freedmen.
But in the face Of the possible fraud
of 10000 in favor of the Ring" ticket
in Philadelphia, and 5000 more in other
portions OF the State, feel fully war
ranted in announcing to the people Of
Pennsylvania that the successful per-
petration OF double the frauds now
possible would fail to elect Hartranft
and his Ring" associates.
The prostitution of public justice to
the exactions Of despotic political lead
ers has aroused the people, without dis.
tiuctiou of party. as they have never
been aroused before. The profer Of
Executive pardons through reckless
Ring" masters, on condition that help
less convicts shall falsely certify to the
reputation OF Ring candidates, the
proffer OF future pardons made to con-
victs in this city, and in at least one
other section OF the State within the
last week, and the sealed statement Of q
late pardoned convict who is now await
ing trial, held by the came spectators
in immunity to crime-all Of which has
been done 10 shield political friends or
to intlmidate political foes-present q
measure Of debauchery and desperation
unexampled in the history of all past
partisan CODUiCto. 10 uOuut tudI suCu
efforts must be condemned by the over
vhelming vote oil the people Of our city
and State, is to abandon all hope Of
government and law.
People OF Pennsylvania, your victory
cannot now be wrested from you; but
it should be triumph OF no common
character. 1t should be and can be 30
overwhelming that Ring" rule will At
on ce dissolve and perish from our midst
by the moral power Of the verdict Of the
people.
Forward friends OF honest govern
ment and reform. The lines Of the
enemy are broken, and their conscripted
reserves OF crime have but deep
eued and widened their decentralization.
Public integrity in officials, honesty in
the enactm ent OF our laws, and fidelity
in the administration OF justice are the
rich fruits to be gathered by the people
on Tuesday next,
A. K. MCCLURE, Chairman.
October 3, 1872.