The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-22
Cleveland Toledo
sGnd Dayton, are Points
for Purchasing
KOHAS
Cleveland Leader, August 18th.

Cleveland Leader, August 2Sth.
We ask the attention of the ReIub-
licans of this State to the following
facts, for the correctness of which the
Leader holds itself responsible:
On Friday last at half-past ten o'clock
a. M, the Democratic Central Commit
tee of Ohio met in special session in
the dancing hall of the principal hotel
at Put-in-Bay. John G.. Thompson,
chairman, Theodore Cook of Cincinnati
and other members of the committee,
as well as a few outside Democratic
politicians, TO the number of thirty-ffVe
or forty, were present. Cleveland was
represented by General j. w. Fitch
and Joseph Poe.
The meeting was duly called to or
der and remained in session until
about one o'clock pm. The principal
subject of discussion was the question
whether the Democrats of Ohio should
accept and use a corruption fund OF
$250,0O0 from the Democratic clubs
and local committee of New York and
Philadelphia, to be used in the city
districts of Ohio in purchasing votes to
carry the October election. In favor
of the proposition it was stated that
the Democrats in Ohio could reasona-
bly, expect to hold the 293, 900 votes
cast last fall for Governor Allen. If to
this they could add change of 5000
votes in Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Toledo, they could win the election.
To the purchase of these 5000 votes
it was proposed to devote the money
from New York and Philadelphia.
The proposition was opposed in an
earnest speech by a member of the
committee from one of the rural dis
tricts. He was opposed" he said, ''to
the use of money in elections" He
did not think it safe to thus trifle with
the integrity of the people. If the
money was used as proposed the fraud
would be discovered, and would react
with crushing force upon the DemOc-
racy in the November election. He
believed that this campaign should be
carried by arguments and appeals to
the people, and he opposed, from mo-
tives of both principle and expediency,
such a wholesale scheme of corruption.
To this it was replied that the mem
who had just spoken was entirely too
virtuous. Money had always been
used in elections and always would be.
Warming with the subject, the second
speaker declared that this was the on
ly Way to save the country; that the
end justified the means; that the
Democracy of Ohio was now the adj
vance guard of the party, and that it
was morally bound to use every means
within its reach to make success Sc
cure.
These remarks were received with
applause, and by formal vote the
committee deciued to receive the
money and use it for the purpose stat
ed. Strong and we'll chosen commit
tees of reliable men will be appointed
in Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton and
Cincinnati to receive and disburse the
funds, which are to be used for the
purchase of votes in open market on
election day. Alter some other bust
ness of less Importance, the meeting
| adjourned.
Republicans of Ohiol this is nc
sensation. 1t is a correct report of a
council of war in the Democratic camp.
You see from this report what tactics
you have to meet in this campaign
You are notified where and how the
attack will be made. This game which
Tilden and Tweed played so long and
90 successfully in New York city is tC
be introduced in OHIO to win by fraud
and corruption an important election
which the Democrats cannot win by
honest means. This discovery imposes
the duty of new vigilance, new activi
ty upOu every Republican in Ohio
We have a rigid law in this State
against the corruption of voters. lie
it be our duty to see that if these Dem
ocratic conspirators attempt to carry
out the scheme they have planned
they laud in prison before the evening
of election day.