, 1876-11-25
No ku Kluxing the Elections.

No ku kiuXing the Elections.
One OF the parties in Florida sends
report that the other party has
wrecked a train and ku kluxed the
election returns" The report is prob
ably untrue, but the phrase is we'll
used. 1t reminds US TO tell the pOllti
clans of both parties that the people
will stand no ku kiuxing OF election
returns this time. They mean to have
peace and fair play. Ii the democrats
have carried Louisiana the people will
not allow Governor Kellogg and Mr..
Packard, with convenient returning
board, to ku klux the vote. They
were allowed TO do ii in 1872, So far
as the result had only a local impor-
tance; but the Senate refused To ad
NIT the Senator elected by their fraud.
They did it again in 1874, but public
opinion forced republican congress
to condemn the fraud in the most
positive and conspicuous manner by
unseatlng some OF the members OF the
Legislature who were ku kluxed in by
The returning board. We beg the
New Orleans republican managers to
remember that tGeIr previous frauds
are we'll known here III the North,
and that as men already detected and
exposed in ku kiuxing election returns
they have need TO be consplcuously
fair and upright this time. All their
acts and proceedings will be watched
with The most jealous eyes by honora
BILE men Of both parties in The North.
and they should remember that the
presumption les fairly against them,
because they have already been de
tecled in the same trick Of which they
are now suspected.
So, too, III South Carolina, We warn
the adherenls of Gov. Chamberlain
against attempting TO ku klux the
election returns. They cannot hope
to succeed, for they will be exposed,
and their own party i'll the North will
disown them. 1t Is very well under
stood here that the South Carolina
ell, c,ion machinery has been constitu
ted in su,piciously unfair and partisan
! manner.
Judge Mackey, of the Supreme
Court of The State, himself a Hayes
republican, but opposed to corruption,
has exposed the manner i'll which Gov.
Chamberlain arranged for a count Of
the vote. There is 4 board OF State
canvassers the ajority of whose mem
bers are candidates for election on The
same ticket with Chamberlain, and
are thus, by a monSlrous peryersIon of
fair dealing, allowed TO canvass and
decide upon the votes OF the Stale
and declare whether they themselves
are elected and not only this, tut ot
! ninety SIX commissioners of election
/ in The counties seventy are Chamber.
laID's declared parslsans, and forty are
office holders who hold their places
by his appointment.
Now, no one ought TO be condemn
ed on mere suspicion but il we find
a man going about on dark night
with a KIT ol burglars Tools he cannot
blame Us If We keep our eyes ON him
1t l. not ungenerOns or unjust TO re
! gard hun with suspicion and To require
INN To give very clear account OF
himself In ku hluX times IN Arkansas
a State law, still on the statute book,
authorized any citizen 10 shoot down
any one caught with The ma>k and
paTaphernalia OF ku klpx. We do
not desire to bring odIum upon Messrs.
Chamberlain, Packard and Kellogg
but we warn them that they are known
here in the North the honest men OF
both parties ragard them with just
suspicion, and they have need TO play
not only with common but WIKI very
conspicuous fairness. If they have
carried Louisiana and South Carolina
so be il but they must satisfy the
honest and fair minded men OF both
parties IN the North OF the fact, or
they will be disowned and execrated
by their own party. There mus. be
no kn kluxing of the election returns.
Whatever inscriptions politicians
might wink at, the main body Of the
republican party in the North is hon
est and pa,riotic and will tolerate 40
iniustice.-N. Y. HerdM.