The New York herald., 1876-11-10
No Ku Kl.xing tho Elections.


lily the popular will.
No Ku KiSxing tho Elections.
One Of the parties in Florida sends q re-
port that the other party has wrecked a
train and Ku Kfuxed the election returns. Z"
The report is probably untrue, but the
phrase is we'll used. It reminds as to tell
the politicians of both parties that the peo-
pie will stand no Ku Kluxing of election re-
turns this time They mean to have peace
and fair play. If the democrats have carried
Louisiana the people will not allow Gov
ernor Kellogg and Mr.. Packard, with too
convenient Returning Board, to Ku Klux the
vote. They were allowed to do it in 1872,
so far as the result had only q local impor-
tance but the Senate refused to admit 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 unseating 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 their previous frauds are
we'll known here in the North, and that as
men already detected and exposed in Ku
Kluxing election returns they have need
to be conspicuously fair and upright this
time. All their acts and proceedings will
be watched with the most jealous eyes by
honorable men of both parties in the North,
and they should remember that the pre-
sumption lies fairly against them, because
they have already been detected in the same
trick of which they are now suspected
So, too, in South Carolina, We warn the
adherents of Governor Chamberlain against
attempting to Ku Klux the election returns.
They cannot hope to succeed, for they will
be exposed, and their own party in the
North will disown them. 1t is very we'll
understood here that the South Carolina
election machinery has been constituted in
a suspiciously unfair and partisan manner
Judge Mackay, of the Supreme Court of the
State. himself Hayes republican, but op-
posed to corruption, has exposed the
manner in which Governor Chamber
lain arranged for count of the vote.
There is Board of State Canvass
ers the majority of whose members
are candidates for election on the same
ticket with Chamberlain, and ore thus, by a
monstrous perversion of fair dealing, al
lowed to canvass and decide upon the votes
of the State aud declare whether they them
selves are elected; and not only this, but of
the ninety-six Commissioners of Election in
the counties seventy are Chamberlain's de-
clared partisans, and forty are ofHce-holders
who hold their places by his appointment
Now, no one ought to be condemned on
mere suspicion; but if we find man going
about on a dark night with kit of burglars
tools he cannot blame us if we keep our eyes
on him; it is not ungenerous or unjust TO
regard him with suspicion and to require
him to give very clear account of himself
In Ku Klux times in Arkansas o State law,
still on the statute book, authorized any citi-
zen to shoot down any one caught with the
mask and paraphernalia of O Ku Klux. We
do not desire to bring odium upon Messrs.
Chamberlain, Packard and Kellogg; but VIC
warn them that they are known here in the
North; the honest men of both parties regard
them with just suspicion, and they have
need to play not only with common but with
very conspicuous fairness. If they have car
ried Louisiana and South Carolina SO be 1t
but they must satisfy the honest and fair
minded men Of both parties in the North OF
that fact, or they will be disowned and exc
Grated by their own party. There must be
no Ku Klnxing of the election returns. What.
ever unscrupulous politicians might wink
at, the main body of the republican party in
the North is honest and patriotic and will
tolerate no injustice.
POLICY LITIGATION. a suit can be
maintained in the courts of this State tc
enforce Q contract made in defiance of the
laws Of the State is not very clear vet this
ia the nature of. the suit whose progress il
reported from day to day for the recovery oi
portion of the profits gained in the sale Of
"policy" slips 1t was decided by the
not afford remedy to a man who had been
oyerreached in certain transaction tha,
was contrary to public policy and illegal
on its face and the same principle should
govern any litigation the subject of which
is the atrocious policy robbery. He who
endeavors to enrich himself in defiance O
the laws is not entitled to be protected in
that effort by the laws themselves.
KEEP CooL. centuries are not ex
hausted. There will be five Presidentia
elections before this cycle IL ended.