Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-11-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov. q. 1876.
EDITOR BELMONT CHRONICLE:-It
is astonishing how moral the Demo-
Gratis have grown of late and how re-
pugnant to their pious tastes the crime
Cf defrauding in politics is. As We
listen to their confident expressions in
the moral lectures delivered US by
Democratic editors and statesmen
when gravely informing US that Gov.
Hayes is too honorable man to permit
himself to be inaugurated President
through electoral votes tainted with
charges of fraud. We wonder when
the millennium arrived, and when the
devil became monk. Has Gabriel
blowed his horn thereby causing the
destruction of sin in this world? Has
purity become incarnate in the persons
of these Democratic leaders? Shall
not we sinful Republicans now down
upon our knees and ask that we be
changed in twinkling to be white as
wool and as pure in morals as Tilden
and his immaculate 'adherents? Shall
we not groan in spirit because of the
possibility that the electoral votes of
Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana
may per chance have some fraudulent
act attached to them? / have never so
much felt my utter unWortt iness and
cussedness generally as of late, since
the pious Democrats commenced
preaching the sinfulness of fraud in
politics and feel assured no good old
fashioned reyivalist could equal these
reiOrmerS in picturing the enOrmities
of our crimes as Republicans and the
deep damnatiOn to result therefrom.
OF course the electoral votes of New
York, New Jersey, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and all the other States
declaring 80 far for 1ilden are clean
and untainted with fraud. No false
votes were cast in any of these States.
No intimidation prevented RepubIi-
cans from voting. No ballot boxes
were stuffed, in fact every proceeding
was just and legal and it is gross
deliberate Republican fasehood that
Charges, that every single electoral
vote claimed for Tilden of the 1874,
represents fraud of vilest description
and that should he take his seat as
President it will be by an entire mass
OF fraudulent votes. Sinners We are
told are very obstinate and l fear nv
heart is hardened to the extent of not
swallowing a mOrsel of the late Demo-
cratic m0ralizing. In other words I
am 'Goner' should Democratic purity
be the means of signing my eternal
death warrant, as l must refuse in toto
to subsrcibe to their code of morals,
for do heretically insist that one and
all of MIR. Tildens votes represent fraud
of broadcast and vilcst character. [
refuse to accept any teachings from the
party that last winter seated Goode
over Platt in House of Representatives
here and against the recommendation
OF its own election Committee, and
which party in every State giving una
jOrities for Tilden was able only so to
do by false registering in the North and
shot guns and imtimidations in the
South. We have been threatened with [
war unless Tilden was inaugurated.
"Tilden or blood" and but for the for
tunate fact OF having patriotic Presi- |
dent-a Gen. Grant, revolution would |
have been upon us. Governor |
Hayes will be inaugurated should the
requisite number of electoral votes be |
declared for him for the people of the
North will not permit him to decline.
We will not strain at Republican
ynat and swallow Democratic camel.
Wade Hampton assured Judge Cartier
there Was no terrorism in South Caro-
ina and yet admitted that in the Cuun-
les rejected by the Canvassers his
white Liners" on horseback, in full
inform, and armed, filed the country
IN the day of election. 1t was so in
he bull-dozed parishes of Louisiana
that murder was added to
he armed intimidation. The three
states now in question are overwhelm-
ngly Republican under fair vote.
But Democratic fraud has nearly made
majority in their favor by wholesale
xclusion OF votes, by intimidation of
very nature including murder, and by
ballot box stuffing. The
pen patent fraud which in Virginia
iill give certificate OF election AS
to Hinton over Jorgen-
On Republican has been duplicated {
verywhere South and yet we are told
lr. Hayes is too honorable to allow
imself to be inaugurated under any
outhern electoral votes.
III would / were an angel" though
OF Democratic one. l..