The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-25

be based on the authority of this same Represen-
tative Platt to the effect that his district would
give from 5000 to 10000 majority for Grant.
This is a preliminary, intended to prepare the
public mind for the frauds that are meditated.
we saw the same game played In Pennsylvania,
and it is a favorite one with Radicals who hold
all 10 be fair in politics. Having predicted an
impossible majority, when it is cornted from the
ballotbox, 1t is all right and proper This should
which these desperate Adventures intend to
practice 10 polute the ballot-box and defeat them
of their suffrage.-1Vhig.
The Wing is getting more rabid as the
og.days deepen, or as the dog-star culmi-
mates in the October zenith. 1t is raving
about General Grants third term, and Ro-
man imperialism as possibility in Ameri-
can politics, while it is looking forward to
Greeley's walking over the Presidential
course on pair of most absurd and pre-
posterous stills. If we are to believe our
contemporary we are 10 have most stu
pendous exhibition Of fraudulent voting in
Mr.. Platt's district, and the State is to be
carried for General Grant in spite of all the
honest guardians of the ballot-box in and
about Richmond, who have heretofore
contributed so much to preserve our liber-
ties by keeping the stream of suffrage i'm
maculately pure at the fountain head!!
If it were possible to believe the frantic
declarations which are daily being put
forth by Greeley organs and Greeley COM
mittees, we could hardly escape the con-
clusion that in the recent elections
not above a thousand legal votes
were polled by the friends of the Adminis-
tration, and that but little less than
thousand million dollars were expended
for the unlawful purpose of debauching
the public morals, and obstructing the pro.
gress of Greeley reform. Does not the
| Wing see that it is OVERRIDING this fraud"
| business little, and that the shrewder
and more sagacious men of its own party
may look upon these extravagant vocifer-
atoms on its part, as a cover for some
very questionable ends of its own? "Nab
the first fellow who cries stop thief,o has
been the efficacous order of more than one
chef of police, and no greater number
of rogues were ever more effectually caught
than III this single little trap, whose
trencher was unfortunately baited by Their
own hands. .. 80 d.. .-..@
| We do not deny that Republicans may
in some instances, be guilty of election
frauds. 1t would be strange, after all the
teaching and examples they have had a.
the hands of Democrats, if some un
principled men among them had not prof
ted by this sort of experience but, what
ever their guilt, it is not for the Conserva
tives of Richmond to affect the lifting W
Of holy hands. Let those who are withou
spot and blemish recommend a physician
and, if leprosy is to be cured, let us have
some other physician than downright lepe
himself. The purity of the ballot-box il
| what we especially wish to see, as upon j
depends the hope of Republican institutions
everywhere among US. But we look upol
this cry of Radical frauds simply o
electioneering capital in the hands of tn
Greeley party. They are using itas the,
would any other INSCRIPTIONS means t
accomplish partisan end, without an,
positive belief in it themselves. Every up
right member of the Republican party vii
rejoice in the arrest and conviction of an,
actual offender ofthis sort, whether he be Re
publican or Democrat. If the Wing be an
more solicitous about the purity Of the bal
lot-box than ourselves, aud will hereafte
lend its influence with US in bringing par
ties guilty of the henous crime of illega
voting to prompt and condign punishment
we believe there will be more wholesom
condition of things here in Richmond, an
that some Of the bloody, riotous, and dis
graceful scenes Of the past may be happil.
avoided. But let not its charges of frau'
be so preposterously overweight that tn
public will look upon them merely as tn
contemplate expedients Oft defeated party
or as the means of retrieving the fortune
Of day that is hopclessly lost.
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