The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-07-20

fully the count. Very truly yours,
SAsIUAL j. TILDEN, Chairman.
MR.. GREELEY's OPINION OF TILDEN.
To Samuel J.'TEzde7a, Chairman Demo
cratic State Committee:
SIR: Yo1 and I are growing old. We
came here young from the country, and
have lived and struggled side by side
for nearly forty years. We have partic-
ipated ardently in many political strug-
giles, always on different sides. . :
On one very important point, however,
your bitterness "a partisan has lmpell-
ed you to ignore and Gene short of your
duties asa citizen and professed up
holder of Government by the people,
and FOR THIS DERELICTIoN I HERE AR
'RAIGN YOU. allude TO the preservation
of the purity of the ballot-box. y X
l can imagine how man may shut his
eyes 10 many things which he deems it
convenient not to know; but must speak
of what you mast know, hO2OeUer goa
mag 905sh or Seek to be ignorant Of 1t.
The matter to which CAL your atten-
tion IS vita! to the very existence uftree,
popular government. Whenever it shall
be generally understood that the results
of elections are not determined by the
ballots of legal voters, bur by frauds in
voting or frauds in counting, then the
i eve1t Of owed, unequ,vocal despotsm
must he near at hand. Between the ru'e
of an Emperor AMI the rule Of clique
of ballot-b box suffers, every intelligent
man must prefer the former as less
rapacious and more responsible. When
honest citizens SHALL avoid the polls, ask
ing, "W hat is the use Of voting? the result
Is already fixed" the days of the
! Republic will be numbered. Between q
ruler who prohibits voting altogether
and the gang VINO make it q sham by
filing the ballct-boxes with illegal votes,
or miscounting those actually cast, the
sway of the former is every way prefer
able. .
| You hold a most responsible and
Influential position in the connsels Of a
great party. You could make that panty
content a0ith polling legal 0otes If goat
only GO01Id. In our late Constitutional
Convention tried to erect some fresh
barriers against election frauds. Did
you? The very little that was enabled
|
have ratified by the people at our ensu-
ing election. Will you? Mr.. Tilden,
you connot escape responsibility by say.
ing with the guilty Macbeth:
Thou canst not say did it: never shake
| Those CORY locks at me-
for y0et acre at least q p0Ssi0e accom-
pztce IN the giant frauds Of last No
| Your name was used, without public
protest on your part, in circulars sowed
broadcast over the State, whereof the
manifest intent was to snake assurance
doubly sure" that the frauds here perpe-
trated should not be o7erborne by the
honest vote of the rural districts And
yoat, not merely 6y silence but by posi-
| ti0e assumption, haze c0UeTed those
.ffrGqtds 1Oith the mantle of yoatT respo71-
sibizity.
On the principle that "the receiver is
as bad as the thief" yoW are as deeply
implicated IN them to day as though
yoatT name aOas TaOeed, OBrieaa, or
Oakley Hall.
Mr.. Tllden, you and were ardent
participants in the struggle of 1910,
wherein Martin Van Buren, was ousted
from the Presidency by Gen. Harrison
You know how thoroughly cur city was
absorbed in the contest, wherein ever
man, woman, and child took deep and
lively interest. Our elections were then
held throughout three days. There was
a registration freshly enacted which black
legs had not yet learned to circumvent.
The right of suffrage was as widely
diffnsed as it now is. and no one ever
complained that single legal voter was
unable then to poll his vote. And,
though oar city has since largely increas-
ed It's population, the lower wards were
| quite as populoIs then as they are TO
day-seyeral of them more so. They
were full of bos rdiDg-houses crowded
with clerks and mechanics; many of these
covered sites since given up to great
warehouses and manufactures; their
denlzens nave since moved up town, over
to Brooklyn. or out on some of the rail-
roads that lead into the open country.
Practically the lower wards are being
given up to commerce, and no longer
shelter by night 1.-The multitudes who
thronged their streets by day.
Now look at the vote of four Of these
wards in 1840 and 1868, respectively: |