The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-11-30
u,.,.,v Re.eafing Itself.

History Repeating Itself.
We remarked several times, during tne 'a's
canvass. that Il was the same old hght OF ioo
ov.r aoaiu. II has not lost its similarity since
IN. election We find the same old Democratic
b,us,er aI,out fighting if their candidate Is not
a..c,.r., .,.c,.d. whether the returns justfys il
mr. pot On the very next morning after the
election, with the most meagre returns IRON tne
Soutb. the Democratic papers announced tna'
avery Southern State ~as solid for Tilden. II
was only guess and bluster over result
which they meant to obtain by any means nee
essary: but when subsequent returns indcate cd
that they had probably lost several Of these
States instead of accepting the result as the Re-
oublicans accepted it in States they had lost, the
Democracy set up the howl that if they lost al y
of those States, IL would be by fraud on the part
of the returning boards, and Tilden would be in
aueurated President anyhow, or there would be
bloodshed. An army of Northern Democrats, at
the command of their leaders, ut once hastened
down to the disputed States, and by their med
ding, have retarded the operations of the legal
officers, have kept up the sxcitsmsut, and con :
Time to encourage the feeling that any other re-
sult attained except Democsstic majority, will
be fraud.
President Grant, who always appears to FORE
see future eveuts and necessities before the faint
est signs are visible to others, has been ss pre-
cautionary measure, collecting troops at Wash
ington, to preserve peace, and enforce the exc
cution Of the laws, as is his duty. This has pro-
duced another dismal Democratic howl. Iu
Ohio, the Chairman of the Democratic State Cen.
tral Commits called the Moguls of the party to-
gether, to consult over this Outrage" A large
number assembled, prominent among whom was
Tom Ewing. Among other things, they
R<sopsd That regard the concentration of regular
troops al Washington by the President the Of the
assembling Of Congress act calculated throw dis
and submit the Results Of the
legally and 70 excite alarm To
home and public credit abroad
This is the identical old cry of 1861, when Lin.
coin called for troops to crush the rebellion. 1t
was violation Of the Constitution, they said,
and there was no power to coerce q sovereign
State. The assembling of troops would exasper.
ate our Southern brethren, and make them dc
something desperate. But they will find they
are fooling with the wrong man, this time. II
he sees anything that is necessary to be done, he
will 60 ahead and do it, in spite of Democratic
howls and protestations. If Hayes is elected
they can rest assured that Grant proposes to see
that be is inauguratsd; but if be is defeated
they need have no fears of the troops interfering
to prevent the Inauguration of Tilden. If the
Democracy have no evil designs, they need not
be unnecessarily alarmed by the presence Of
troops.
NEoLEcTING HIS DUTY.-If the fool-killer did
his duty, he would 60 around, the day of every
Presidential election, and kill those fools WHO
scratch the names of certain Electors off of the
tickets, because they do not just like the men.
An Elector is o man chosen for tine single pur
pose of voting for q certain person for President.
Really, it is not the Elector who is being voted
for, but the President. voter who desires the
election of Hayes, but scratches off the name of
one of his Electors, merely because he doesn't
like tine man, shows woful lack of sense, il not
Of principle. In State giving such majority
as Kansas, it does not make much difference !;
but in closely contested State, it endaugers the
success Of portion of the Electoral ticket The
defeat of single Elector in closely contested
State, this year, would perhaps change the entire
result. Four years ago, many persons scratched
tho name Of C. II. Langston, because he was .
"nigger.n In Marshall County, this year, Thos.
Hughes ran considerably behind the balance of
the Electors, having been scratched by personal
enemies who claim to be Republicans. Even
that venerable fraud, Peter Cooper, voted for
four or five Of the Democratic Electors of New
York. Why he did not vote for all, if any, per-
haps he cannot himself tell. There would have
been some sense in this but it would have de-
stroyed the consistency of the Cooper movement,
which hss been carried on without any sense
from the start.
Y Highway robberiee in the streets of New Ysrk
arc becoming eommon--Ez.
That's the city that gave Tilden almost 60y0O0
majority, and, of course, is in favor of law and
order, aud 'sreform." What better can be ex-
pected of city in which majority of the police
are either in lesgue with murderers and robbers,
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