The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-13
THE WEEKLY REGISTER
THERE MUST BE NO FRAUD
WARNING TO KELLOGG AND
CHAMBERLAIN.

A Warning from Honest Republic
cans TO the Louisiana and South
Carolina Carpet. Baggers The
Frauds Of the Past Render Fair
ness and Uprightness Absolutely
ACCOMMODATING u Hayes, Demo-
cratic ana Independent Organ
Says.
New York Herald, Hayes Organ.I
One of the parties in Florida sends
report that the other party has wrecked
train and Ku- Kluxed the election re-
turns" The report is probably untrue,
but the phrase is we'll used. II reminds
US to tell the politicians of both par
ties that the people will stand no
Ku-Kluxing OF election returns this
time. They mean to have peace
and fair play. If the Democrats
have carried Louisiana the people will
not allow Governor Kellogg and Mr..
Packard, with u too convenient Return
ing Board u Ku-Klux the votes. They
were allowed to do it in 1872, so far as
the result had only local Importance;
but the Senate refused to admin the SEN
aLor elected by their fraud. They did 1t
again in 1874, but public opinion forced
a Republican Congress to condemn the
fraud in the most positive and conspicu-
Gus 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 man.
ayers to remember that their previous
frauds are well-known here in the North,
and that as men already detected and
exposed in Ku.Kluxing election returns
they have need to be coEspicuously fair
and upright this time. All their acts
and proceedings will be watched with
the most jealous eyes by honorable men
oil both parties in the North, and they
should remember that the presumption
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 cleo
ton returns. They cannot hope 10 sue
coed, for they will be exposed, and their
own party IN the North will disown
them. L. is very we'll understood here
that the South Carolina election mschin-
cry has been constituted in suspicioasly
unfair and partisan manner. Judge
Mackay, OF the Supreme Court OF the
State, himself Hayes Republican, but
opposed to corruption, has exposed the
manner in which Governor Chamberlain
arranged for count OF the vote.
There is n Board of State Canvassers, the
majority of whose members are candi-
dates for election on thu same ticket with
Chamberlain, and are thus, by a mon
strous perverslon of fair dealing. allowed
to canvass and decide upon the votes OF
the state, and declare whether they them
selves are elected, and not only this, but
of the nInety-six Commissioners of Elec-
ton in the counties, seventy are Cham
berlain's declared partisans, and forty are
office holders who hold their places by
his appointment.
Now, no one ought to be condemned
on mere suspicion; but If we find a man
going about on dark night with KIT
of burg lars tools, he cannot blame US if
we keep or eyes on him; it is not I'M
generous or unjust to regard him with
suspicion, and TO require him 20 give
very clear account OF himself. In ku-
Klux times IN AlkunsHs state law, still
on the statute book, authorized any citi
zen TO shoot down any one caught with
the mask and paraphernalia OF ku-
Klux We do not desire to bring odium
Upon Messrs. Chamberlain, Packard
aud Kellogg, but we 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
10 play not only with common but with
very conspicuous fairness. Ii they have
carried Louisiana and South Carolina so
he it, 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 execrated by their own
party. There must be no ku kluxing
of the election returns, Whatever I'M
scrupulous politicians might wink at, the
main body of the Republican party in the
North is honest and patriotic, and will
tolerate no injustice.
when Forbearance Ceases to be
Virtue.
Philadelphia Times, Ind,
Any palpable sttempt to manipulate
the returns of Louisiana or South Caro-.
lima or Florida, to commission frsudu-
lent electors to choose President in de-
fance o a popular majority OF nearly
quarter Of million, would appall the
country as terribly as did civil war itself
II would be- the end of government the
end of law, the end of trust, the end of
credit, TIE end of the liberty that has
been our boast. The people have
borne with the pollution of the ballot in
L. ,uisisna that overthrow an honestly
chosen slate government by the
bayonet. 1t was grave crime against