Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-12-01
"TITNTED BY SUSPICION "

When President GRANT issued militia
ry order about the movement Of troops III
the disputed Southern States and accom-
panied it with the statement that 1.-THE
country cannot afford to have the result
Of the election tainted by suspicion" he
unwittingly gave utterance to feeling
that is at the very core of the subject now
uppermost in the hearts Of the whole na
ton. The American Union cannot ''af-
ford' to have a President seated audac-
ously by Aayonets in compliance with the
returns Of Returning Boards who have
been barefaced in their rascality. Com
mercial bankruptcy will follow it; four
years of business death will ensue, and the
party that accomplisbes it will receive the
curses of the last man Of this generation.
The action of the returning boards affords
not only a faint Of suspicion but an open
bold robbery of the peoples franchise.
Take the case of the Louisiana Board
Monday where poll was handed in which
had been sent in the registered letter mail
postmarked Noy. l4th and marked as re,
CGlfCu az GilC ~ CIV N}iiCtiio pNou otAcS AVN
18th, and which upon being opened WAS
found to contain affidavits sworn to iii
New Orleans Nov. 25th; after this yariou us
Democratic ret were detected as hay
ing been opened secretly and allidavits of
intimidation attached so that the Return
ing Beard might rule them out. This
Louisiana Board has resolved to spend the
last days of its session in secret before de-
claring the vote, which is accepted al oyer
the country as certainty that further
fraud will be peTuetrated. This, one would
think would make its final action
''tainted by suspicion" In Florida the
Board returned majority OF ~ for The
HAYES electors, but on being pressed to
the wall produced the regular returns from
Baker county giving a Democratic major
ity Of t25 instead of d Republican majority
as given in tits bogus returns Of the Board
which would change the whole result. The
legal return was then pct by ,or INVESTS
gation.'' This one would think would
make their returns '!taiEted by suspicion,''
even in MI GRANTS eyes-even in the
eyes Of the man who never suspects any
BODY. In South Carolina the Returning
Board On being required by tbs Court of
Appeals to verify their returns by the true
returns of the precinct canya 'eers, gave
certificates to al! the HAYES electors aud
adjourned in defiance of the Court. Would
not this be regarded DIS taipting those re-
turns with suspicion
The whole canvassing Of the vote In tiis
states named has not only been tainted
but openly and defiantly rotten, and Con-
gress in common deeency cannot receive
it, Even the better Republicans in the
Senate can hardly have the cheek to advo~
cate thelA.
Mr.. W. S. KENNEDY; a produce dealer
Of Harrisonburg, while going up the street
to his home, one night last week, was at-
tackled By saeu with pistols. and clicked
out of S43o, he l2ad in his pocket. Zone
word, AID I'll blow yoaT brains OUT" said
the perfdious gentleman, Wkc was re-
lieving lin, and who a minute before had
Familiarity called him Judge"
s-s~-.---
The best thing Of the seas IN in the way
Of compromise is DR.. Brown of the
"CentraL Presbyterian" writing that the
members of the Methodist Conference in
session at Richmond age ''predestinuted to
accomplish great work for The salvation
of men and the glory of God, rs surely
they have already done"
~----=s@sS-1as sss>-S'-<zs----
Boss TWEED arrived and in jail. Nc
Kee and Avery pardoned and cut of Jail.
That is the difference between TiIdea and
Grant in nutshell
NEXT Monday. December 4th, the Presi-
Dental Electors meet in their separate
States and cast their votes. The votes ;,fe
not eQur5ed ir Congress till February l4th.
CONGRESS meets nexS Monday, Deem
Der 4th, and the Virginia legislature meets