The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-10-22
The Campaign In Illinois,
From the Chicago Tribune.l

The best criterion oil the result in Illinois
in November. We have steadily prom.
ised our friends in Indiana that, if they
would elect Hendricks in October, we
would elect koerner and carry Illinois
for the cause Of Reform in November
So far as the convictions and tendencies
of the people OF Illinois are concerned,
all is favorable. The overwhelming
frauds which were perpetrated in Penn.
sylvana are not practicable here. No
impartial voter can see the City of Phila-
delphia with 650,000 population, regis
tering 10000 more votes than New York
City, with $4,000 people, has ever cast,
without feeling that the actual voice Of
Pennsylvania was strangled in the late
contest. 1t is not Pennsylvania we have
heard from, but merely an organized
gang of ballot suffers, more fatally un-
republican than any of the past frauds
that have rendered the name of Tamma-
ny infamous We do not ascribe such
gigantic frauds to the so-called Republi-
cans of Philadelphia without proof
They returned a ma ajority against Nc.
Lure Of 1000, last winter, and he pro-
duced before the Legislature such indu-
bitable proofs Of his election by 5000
that that body, corrupt and Republican
though it was, was compelled TO admit
him to his seat as State Senator. From
one district they had returned only
about 100 votes as cast in his favor,
while he produced 1900 witnesses to
swear that they had actually voted for
him in that district. With such exam
pies before us, and registration of 25,-
600 more voters than the city actually
has, there can be no doubt that the ver-
dict in Pennsylvania is stripped of all
moral or political weight as an index of
popular opinion. Yet there are, without
doubt, some influences which have ope-
rated in favor of Grant and Hartranft in
Pennsylvania, which will have the very
reverse effect in Illinois. Pennsylvania's
high-taritf instincts, which pervade both
parties there nearly alike. are better sat-
iSfed with Grant than with Greeley
Though Mr.. Greeley himself is Pro-
tectionist in theory, the great mass of his
party, both Liberals and Democrats, are
advocates Of the lowest possible taxa.
tion needed for paying current expenses,
and of Revenue Reform. On these ques-
tons the mass of Republicans and Dem
ocrats in Illinois and Indiana are fully
in sympathy with the Cincinnati and
Baltimore Conventions. They are dis
posed to tolerate moderate annual re
duction of the principal of the National
debt, but they do not favor taxation to
benefit one class at the expense of other
classes.
Our State interests demand low taxa.
ton, to the end that at least 500, 0,000,-
600 year,which is now pouring through
the National Treasury, keeping the Gov.
eminent rich and the people poor, shall
be left in the hands of the taxpayers
We are suffering from the tightness of
money and high rate of interest, due,
mainly; to excessive taxation. The de
velopment Of our State is retarded by
scarcity Of capital. The taxes which
enrich Pennsylvania impoverish Illinois.
The questions of taxation and Revenue
Reform were not treated so squarely in
the Cincinnati and Baltimore Conven-
tons as the West and South would have
LIKED, but this was out of Difference to
Pennsylvania Now that such conces-
sion is proved to have been lost pains, it
is well to concede and claim what Penn
sylvania all along clearly saw, viz: that
the Liberal party combines all the ele.
ments of the future Revenue Re-
form party of the country, and that
our hopes of relieving the country from
the burdens Of excessive taxation rest
on it alone
| These issues, properly felt by the peo
pie of Illinois, will give US the State
Out of the 10000 Germans in the State
outside Of Chicago who have heretofore
voted the Republican ticket, we have the
most trustworthy evidence that six-sev-
enths are for Greeley and Koerner. Five
thousand more German Republicans in
Chicago will vote the same ticket. We
have in every county in the State force
of American Liberals, active, honest, ,and
respected, who have too much conscious
ness and conviction in this fight to be
| lightly frightened by reverses in the pre-
liminary skirmishes Very generally
the Republicans that were first in the ield
those of 1854 and 1856-are in the
field, with the fixed assurance that it is the
party of the future. We might state
pretty nearly the totals of our American
Liberal force, as we have those of the
Germans, but the canvass in Illinois car
only be said to fairly begin with the cleo
ton in Indiana. One.half of the voters
in Illinois have not yet attended apoliti
cal meeting or heard speech. There is
still room for great deal of work. Thir
ty thousand Liberal Republicans only
are needed to overcome the adverse Re
publican majorities and the new negro
vote, provided the entire Democratic
t vote could be counted upon. These thir
; ty thousand Liberals are supplied by the
Germans of our State alone But as ye,
we cannot count upon the full Democrat
ic vote. The problem, therefore, is
whether our accessions of American
) Liberal Republicans can be made to equa
, the Democrats who refuse to sustain
Greeley and Koerner. In the three town;
of Springfield, ,Bellville and Bloomington
alone, thousand Liberal Republicans
each are reported. Others show nearly
as large gain. On this showing we car
carry Illinois for Greeley and. Koerner il
our people will not allow their convic
tions of duty to be dampened by the
frauds in Pennsylvania.
Penalties for Illegal Voting,
J, The following are the severe penalties
for illegal voting as found on pages 544
and 545 Of Swan and Critch6eld's stat
utes, vol.l:
For voting in township where votel