The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1876-11-02
FROM LENAPE.

One week from to-day is the election.
Suppose through the forcible disfranchise-
ment Of the Republican party in certain
Southern states, Tilden should win. What
then? Would submission be q virtue :?
Would it not be ruinous? 1t seems to Us
that Tiidens election under iuch circum-
stances would be no election at all. 1t
seems to us that his assumptions of the
Presidential Office by virtue of such an elec-
ton would be insolent usurpation. All the
authority for President-making is derived
from the Constitution, and no method Of
conducting an election save by fair Repub-
lican means is contemplated BY that instru
ment. An election in any other way is
clearly void, and the result not at all bind
ing upon the people.
If the bullying process should succeed,
and outraged decency refuse to submit, We
might be again plunged in all the horrors
of anarchy for there Is too much malig-
nant brutality in the party supporting Til
den, embracing as it does the old soldiers
Of Lee and Beauregard, large portion of
whom are already re-armed and re-organ-
lied for var-and the worst elements of our
northern society, to admit of any other ar
bitrament than that of brute force should
submission for the sake Of peace be yielded,
then would the country come under the
control OF men who cOnfessedly hate and
despise the government; % much 90 that
less than q dozen years ago they waged
desperate warfare to break it down. The
rebel claims, as they are called, would be
pressed, and all the financial resources of
the nation strained to the utmost to avert
national bankruptcy. 1t would be peace
but the peace Of Waraw: full OF wrongs
and shames."
When Cesar crossed the Rubicon and
Rome consented, the luster Of honor and
proves faded away from Roman stand
ards, and Rome was free no more. 1t
wanted only The 6oi,hing processes Of cor
ruption, and the iron rule OF the barbar-
rIans to finish the work of national obliter-
alton. Submission TO the dictation of shot
gun and the bribe- would look
very much like the Rubicon of American
freedom.
But what has all this to do With the
gubernatorisl flushing? Well, We are dis
gusted with the shape that part Of the con-
test has taken. Heaven forefeDd that either
by word or vote We should give aid and
comfort to the idea too prevalent in our day
and land that the thing significantly styled
tau honesty is good enough honesty. The
spectacle OF . man going about with .
pocket plethoric With the gains Of Office
and unconscinnable business plumber; the
whole pad-locked BY his vifes name
against bona 6de creditors is not . spectacle
to excite high-toned admiration.
The contest for representative in the 10Th
District, promises to take . triangular
shape. 1t is reported that James Pickena,
ex-commiseioner, is to make an Independ-
art race. "Jim" is a strong man with the
people, and would make it warm for the
regular nominees. The dog-owning Dem
ocrAcy of this section are down on Charley
Duncan for his dog Law vote, and that 80
per cent. penalty measure does not set we'll
on the rural stomach.
The calm of the Indian summer IL brood
ing over our landscape.
LENAPE, Kan, October 81, 1876.
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