Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-03
New YoRY people who are in deep

NEW YORY people who are in deep
symuathy with the Soathern Bandifti
have made a great ado over, Southern
affairs. They have been charging fraud
ulent acts on al Republicans who have
participated in Southern election affairs,
and for that reason justify the mur-
derous and revolutionary work of the
Baaditti of Louisiana. Senator Conk-
liz last Friday IN the United States
Senate said, if fraud in elections were
cause for murder aud revolution then
would Republicans be justified in over
throwing the State Government Of New
York, for New York had = deeper
wrong than Louisiana. 1t was an open
secret now that in 1865 John T. Hoff-
man was counted into ofiice-of Governor
when the people had elected John a.
Griswold The count was faisiied mere
than thirty thousand in two counties.
John T. Hoffman was falsely counted
in. Who did it The managers of
the Democratic party, and they seated
in the Legislature year after year
men whom the people had voted down
at the ballot box.
The same regimen made the courts
and made them corrupt. They ISSUED
fraudulent naturalization papers By the
tens Of thousands. They appointed
returning boarcs ani made them cor
rupt; they appointed inspectors of
election, who polluted and debauched
the ballot box. They SO divided the
chief city of the State as to bisect
blocks and houses, SO that men domicil.
ed in the same house could vote and
repeat in different election districts
They held a State Of FIVE millions of
people by the throat four years. By
such astounding means political party
dominated that great State, usurped the
power and plundered her treasury by
the most colossal robberies of modern
times y ba; did the Republicans do :
They did not resort to ruthless violence.
They did not resort to the blade, the
bullet ani the tcrch They did not
butcher men, women and children.
They did not seize the chief city of the
Sra,e, barricade its streets and shoot
down its police
No, they persevered in peaceful efforts.
They asked Congress to break the hold
of organized fraud on the ballot-box
that the citizens of New York might
vote. How was the prayer received in
this Chamber by the Democrats The
people of New York were blasted with
with all the constitutional auathemas OF
the Democracy. Those who remained
in this Chamber, mute while they were
pelted with storms of denunciation,
have not forgotten the history nor the
cost of the legislation, but the law was
passed and for the first time for years
there was an election in New York ap-
preaching fairness. \ leading Demo-
cratic paper called upon the populaee
10 arm and pitch the officers OF election
into the river, but voters have whole
some dread Of the claw aud beak of Fed
era! power. They did not arm them
selves.
How different was the couse of tie
men in Louisiana who complained Of
fraud and dishonest elections. Thirty
i've hundred murders and woundings
in eight years, says Sheridan, for polit-
ical purposes. Search the annals of
history, search the fearful story of
mars inhumality to man, and where in
modern times can you find the picture
Of such God-daring and man hating
mohstIosity- Finally, in September,
under the formal proclamation of Penn,
the government was seized by open rev.
ol1tion. and her citizens shot down.
Vas it any wonder her securities had
lessened in value. Show him mode
Of peacifyIng the south, and no matter
what party opposed it, bis vote it should
have.