Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-11-13
No Steps Backward.

The bogus, sensational, manufactured
democratic dispatches sent over the coun-
try, claiming the election of Tilden, are
the expiring efforts of the gamblers in
Tilden stock to escape the doom that
surely is upon them. They assert against
positive facts to the contrary, against evil
dence as direct as may be. that they have
carried one or all of the States of Louisiana,
Florida and South Carolina. and elected
Mr.. Tilden. Those who can be comforted
by such dispatches will be compelled at
last to acknowledge their delusion.
There was never possibility from the
very starting of this campaign that either
of the States mentioned above would cast
q democratic majority except by gross
fraud and outrage upon the people by the
shotgun policy. All of them have I'M
doubted republican majorities. They are
as strongly republican as the average of
New England States. The democrats
knew it when the campaign began. hence
they resorted to the same policy by which
they got control of Mississippi last year
the policy of intimidation by the shotgun
and revolver. Fortunately for the re-
publicans, the Hamburg massacre dis
closed plainly the infamous plan Of the
democrats to capture South Carolina by
violence. That aroused them to action.
not only in South Carolina. but in Florida
and Louisiana, and the consequence is the
defeat Of the Ku-Klux and White Liners
and the election o. the republican ticket.
There are at least seven States in the
South that are decidedly republican in a
fair and free election. Four of them have
been wrested from the republicans by
fraud and intimidation. Three only have
been saved from the clutches of the Ku-
klux, and those are the three which the
democrats are clustering about as belong
ing to them. The country will be fooled
by no such nonsense. All reliable author
ity as to the result of the late election,
and all known facts bearing upon it, 60
to prove that we have honestly carried
Louisiana. Florida and South Carolina, by
clear majorities. against the most daring
and scoundrel schemes of the democratic
leaders to secure them for Tilden and we
will hold them. too, against all the buster,
whining and threats that the Ku-Klux and
their allies may employ.
II seems that the most of the dispatches
which have appeared in northern papers
claiming Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina for the democrats have been
manufactured to deceive the country.
Senator Patterson of South Carolina, who
arrived at Washington Friday, was sur
prised to learn on his arrival in that
city. direct from Charleston, that his State
was claimed by the democrats. He had
heard no such report in Charleston before
he left. but he had heard instead that Wis.
consin, Illinois and all the Pacific States
had gone for Tilden The Tilden men
flooded both North and South with their
lying dispatches, taking care to adapt
them TO each section, In the same manner
as the Tilden Bureau did its editorials be-
fore election.
Some of the democratic leading organs
are discussing the situation as it will be
in Congress upon the counting of the cleo
toral votes. We apprehend that this mat
ter will take care of itself when the time
comes. The first thing in order is to hear
the voice of the States through the official
votes. If Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina declare for Hayes, as we have no
doubt they will, the number of democrats
in Congress who will seriously think OF
throwing out their votes will in our opin-
ion be very small. 1t is a responsibility
that they will hardly care to take.