Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-11-30
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tiOns or throwing out IN consequence
of fraud, intimidation, bull-dozing
shot-gnnning or any other evil.and
unlawful practice, though the law
of the State makes ID the imperative
and sworn duty of the returning
board to throw out the votes of any
precinct where any of these things
are shown 10 have so affected the
vote as To materially affect theFesult
The Reformers imagine they have
done enough bull-dozing to give the
State to Tilden If they can get the
vote all counted a. returned from the
bull-dozed parishes.
In South Carolina the vote was all
counted as the Reformers demand
for Louisiana, AID yet they are not
satisfied with it, and want the re-
turns corrected and changed, for the
reason that the full count did not
elect Tilden electors. If it should
happen that full count i'm Louis.
lana and Florida would not show a
result favorable to Tilden and the
bull dozers they will change their
tune aud insist upon throwing out
enough Republican precincts to an
swer their purposes.
The Reformers tell US there is not
an honest man in all the returning
boards Of those particular three
Southern States--that they are all
thieves and outlaws, etc, simply be-
cause the boards insist upon acting
in accordance with law and refusing
TO do the bidding of the traitors who
want to dictate the management OF
the count. They are sticklers for
States rights, The States have
made their own election laws and
their own returning boards. II
these boards do not count the votes
who will or can count them? The
boards alone can decide where the
maiorites belong. When they have
decided, then let the disappointed
contest i'm the lawful way, and APP
peal to the higher authority, even to
the supreme court of the nation, if
the issues cannot be settled by State
powers, And when they are settled
let them so remain. And by all
means let them, SO far possible, be
settled by fair, lawful, constitutional
and peaceable means,
If frauds and illegal practices have
been perpetrated by the so-called
conservative party (Which means the
Tilden buIl-dozeral let those frauds
be corrected, 80 far rs IL can he done
by honorable means. These frauds
will not justify Republicans, as citi-
zens or officials, in any subsequent
frauds. Honest men will endorse
wrong upon the part OF one party no
more than upon the part Of another.
The trouble Is that ali cannot see
alike, aud ia the midst Of all this
confusion, charge and counter charge,
without proof, the people are unable
to discriminate between truth and
error. We assert aud fully believe
that in the past few years In the
Southern States thousands Of Repub-
licans. black and white, have been
murdered in cold blood, for political
ends, by Democratic outlaws under
the names of kuklux, White
Leagues, White Line bands and
Democratic rife clubs. Men have
by thousands been driven and
frightened from the polls, their
houses burned, their families and all
their sacred rights outraged by these
bands in order to force npon the peo-
pie Of those States Democratic off,
eials These outragcs have been al
most invariably against Republicans,
as has been clearly proven to the
of honest aud intelligent
men. Aud yet our Democratic
neighbors profess not 10 believe
them, and are taught by their lead
ers and their press that they are all
Radical lies.
Or the other hand the Democratic
press charge all the woes Of the peo-
pie and tho country--all the official
thcf,s and corruption the disor-
der and confusion 1.-The hard times
and every other real or imaginary
evil upon the Republican party.
Now we are ready TO confess that
the righteous men are not all within
the Republican organization, and
that the bad men are not all aligned
under the opposition banners. some
Of The grave charges uttered against
officials are true; and the
has not hesiiated 10 con-
demn bad measures aud bad men
within it's party when convinced that
they were bad. III we could believe
that all the Democratic press tells US
about the Republican returning
boards in the three contested South
ern States, we would join the Democ-
racy in declaring them unfit for their
trusts. But we do not believe that
those alone are corrupt and those in
4 dozen Democratic States are all
pure. II isn't reasonable to suppose
such state of facts. Then why not
raise row In the other States also,
and see whether they have been car
ried for T'ilden by fair means. But
suppose that these three boards are
corrupt, and should make count
that 10 some Democrats and some
Republicans seems unjust, they have
then done nothing worse than the
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