The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-23
The Fourth District,

The election of DR.. Joseph Jorgenson to
Congress in the Petersburg district is Il mat
ter OF great qualification to every Republican
in Virginia. Although tile district has Il Re-
publican majority of from G,00o to 5000, the
inscriptions method adopted by the Demo-
Gratis there caused us to apprehcnd that this
large ma iority would be overcome by fraud
and intimidation; and Notwithstanding these
agencies were largely rcsorted to, yet the
| majority for DR.. .JorSenso1 is sufficiently de-
| cisive to even put it out OF the power OF
| the Canvass;rg Board to interfere with the
| result The vote of the district il given else
| where.
| Dir. Jorgenson is q gentienla,. Of education,
/ refinement and ability and will make a
! most excellent representative. He isa rrac-
| tical, active business man, and will be worth
to the State half dozen saeh men as Hinton
aud Goode
/ We regret exceedingly that Col. Jos. Sc
gar, in the End District. was not equally
successful in placing his election beyond
controversy. An honest count OF the vote
actually cast, would entitle him to the GER
| tiicate, but this ne will not get this side Of
Congress. There he may succeed, and we
hope and believe will.
TO show the means employed to count in
his competitor, Mr.. Goode- we have simply
to refer to one precinct in Portsmouth; here
there were $40 more ballots in the box than
there were names on She poll books. We
/ have in our possession specimen OF tie
| ticket used by the Democrats in former elcc-
tions. and we suppose in this, as part OF
the machinery OF Democratic fraud One Of
| them is the size Of q postage stamp, and the
other the proportions OF asugar-kiss verse
| These were enclosed in q larger ticket and
deposited in the box. When the excess is disco
vcred,a party isappointed to draw out enough
of the ballots to.make the number in the box
correspond with the number of names on the
poll-books THE Republicans having voted
the ordinary ticket the conscientious Demo-
crat who does the drawing out, Of course gets
| hold of the larger ones. and in that way takes
out Republican votes. This method was
adopted to defeat Platte two years ago for
! Congress, and Brady for the State Senate.
| In both instances the Democratic Commit
| tees in the bodies to which they had really
been elected, reported in their favor, but the
! Democratic majority seated their opponents
in the face OF the facts and exposed frauds
by which they claimed their election.
| 1t is, the purpose OF Col. segar to contest
| the election Of Goodc, and we have no doubt
the scat will be awarded him. In fairness and
honesty it should be. The people OF the
country are getting tired of this kind OF crime
against law and justice. In the contest be-
tween Platte and Goode, Democrats de-
nounced the means emp loyed by the friends
of Goode to secure his election rs an outrage
and a disgrace, but the majority was so large
that Goode was ruled in. In the Congress
before which Col. Segar will contest. the
Republicans may have majority oil one or
two, or at leastlt the Democratic majority will
| not be more than that. 1t is reasonable to
| presume that there will be some Of them. as
! there were in The former contest, who will
| not sustain the fraudulent pretentioEs Of
Goode, and will vote for Segar. We there
fore regard Mr.. Segar's chances as favorable
| for a seat i'll Compress