National Republican., 1876-08-19

and Third wards to be stolen from his
office, measure in the interest of the con-
testants, one of whom he was.
This modern Jeffreys declares in his de-
cision, notwithstanding all these facts, that
the election was null and void, 3" then pro
ceeds to put back the old officials, all OF
whom were Democrats, save the mayor,
and orders another election for nezt May,
when late act of the Legislature expressly
declares that in all such cases an election
shall take place at the next ensuing general
election, which would be in November;
but this partisan jurist being as unmindful
of the requirements of law as he is ofjustice,
has thus given his party friends years
lease of power and pap, Notwithstanding,
to use his own language,
THAT no. fraud had been proven to have ex-
listed, and no one had Intentionally done any
wrong, yet the irregularities were as great and
the opportunities for doing wrong were as great
as those Grant had given his whisky thieves at
st. Louis"
Here will be seen the an linus of this Eek
emplary" judge, notwithstanding the pro-
test he felt constrained to utter, that che
was not actuated by partisan motives. "
Remembering similar instance in the case
of one Ananias, it is strange the utterance
did not strangle him. This decision of
Judge" Garland does not affect in any
way the election of Mr.. Christian (the SON.
in law of the court) as Commonwealth At
torney, Mr.. G. being Democrat, albeit he
was elected by but ten votes over his op-
ponent, although he received in the aggre-
gate at least twenty votes less than either
of the four Republican candidates ousted
from office by this decision. The propriety
of this action will be manifest to the i'm
partial reader when it is understood that
Mr. Burch, Republican candidate for mayor,
although elected by more than two hundred
majority, must needs run the gauntlet again
next spring. Both Of these gentlemen were
old officers, and if it was necessary in the
one case to hold another election, why no
in both? The answer is palpable. One is
Democrat and a son-inlaw of the judge,
while the other is Republican.
Thus it goes: when it is not safe to re-
sort to violence and open fraud the courts
of the State are resorted to, in order to ad-
vance the interests of the Democratic party,
to ignore Republicans, and overslaugh the
expressed will of the people. We have
presented fair, though necessarily brief
statement of this case as it exists. If it is
not a complete refutation of the gushing
utterances of Lamar ct i'd omne genus, we
fail to comprehend the force of events. If
additional testimony were needed to show
the malignity displayed in this contest, it
could readily be found in the utterances of
that drunken prohigate, Jubal Early, who
acted as one of the counsel for his party
friends. In letter now before US from q
gentleman who was present we have the
following.
''Jubal A. Early, in his opening address in
the contested election case, said the Radical
party was composed of ignorant and vicious
negroes, some men born on foreign soil, (refer-
ring to the Irish, several of whom in this city
are Republicans,) and some native born
meaner, if possible, than the foreigners or ne
groes-while on the other side was arrayed
the respectabuTy, intelligence and morality of
the community"
As our correspondent suggests, this Ian
guage comes with peculiar grace from a
man of Early's known antecedents. We
forbear, however, further comments on
this subject to-day. If this judicial out
rage, added to the one just enacted in the
United States House of Representatives in
the Platt-Goode case, is not enough to
open the eyes of air-minded men in
locality where men are not hnnted like
wild beasts for political opinions sake, we
greatly mistake the character of the Ameri-
can people. We pray to be delivered at
all times from the embraces of modern
Democracy, especially of Virginia Democ-
racy, which is the meanest specimen of the
article. In Louisiana, Mississippi and South
Carolina there is a degree OF personal cour-
age mixed with their deviltry that chal-
lenges some respect because of its very au-
dacity, but it has been reserved for Virginia
to produce the "sneaking" style of Democ.
racy, where, in lieu of the knife and bull
let, they resort 10 stuffed ballot boxes,
fraudulent returns and a corrupt and un-
principled judiciary to accomplish their
hellish purposes. Should they by accident
be successful in the approaching Presiden-
tial election they would, doubtless, be en-
boldened to add the cotton State accom-
plishments of knife and pistol to their
otherwise complete accomplishments. The
election of Hayes and Wheeler means pro-
lection to the people injured in that State
by the Vaccinations of the Democracy;
the now improbable success of the other
ticket means either death or expatriation
to every man who will not worship at the
shrine of Virginia Democracy. 1t is well
that the people of this whole country
should understand it.