Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-22
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NEW YORK. TIMLS
For Il 81.
DEVOTED TO REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES
And to Reform in Municipal STATE, 0lrd
CSeaerdI Government

The course of the TINES during the Presi-
dential campaign has secured for IL hosts of
new friends, and has placed beyond cohtro-
Versy its position as the foremost Republican
journal in the United states. During the po-
litical struggle preceding the election the full
ness, fairness and accuracy Of its news reports
were as obvious as its vigor and breadth of
view as an organ of public opinion. The
critical situation In which the country is
placed by the disputed results OF the election
has been promptly recognized by the TINES
but il has found no reason TO modify the
claims which it urged alone, among its con-
tempOraries, that the vote of the 7th of Nov.
secured a majority of Electoral votes for
Hayes and Wheeler. Readers of the TIMES
on the day following the election were placed
in possession of returns which were simply
the most complete and trustworthy published
in any part OF the Union. The more thor
oughly the facts of the election are disentan-
gled from the mass of Democratic falsehOOd
and pretense which has been thrown around
them the more clearly is the Justice revealed
of the claims made by the TINES the morn
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Row the election of Hayes and Wheeler is
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the fresh responsibility which this renewal
OF a great public trust imposes upon the
Republican party. The TINES was among
the foremost defenders of the principles Of
publication and reform within the party
which triumphed in the nomination of Ru-
therfOrd b. Hayes at Cincinnati. 1t will be
as prominent and as uncompromising in its
demand for the-embodi ment OF those princi-
pies in administrative and legislative action.
This election has given rise 10 constitutional
controversies, whose discussion may last for
months to come. and whose settlement may
tax all the good sense forbearance and law
abiding instincts of the people at large. 1t
will be our constant endeavor to correct ex-
cited feeling by dispassIonate argument t0
urge the supreme necessity of moderation
and fair dSkiing. and to place the responsible
-tty OF st1fflhss up strife where 1t belongs. But
we shall do so wfttlant 9le-ting one jot of the
lust demands Of a party N ~ ch stands secure
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In the agitation of the constitutional Ques-
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tention by the clOseness OF the late election,
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necessity of some approach to uniformity of
method in the proceedings taken by State
and local boards 10 ascertain the vote legally
cast for Presidential Electors and members
OF Congress. 1t viii defend the right of indi-
vidual States to have the declaration of their
will by the recognized authorities Of such
States protected by all the safeguards that
have been thrown around 1t by the letter of
the Constitution, and the usage sanctioned
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by Constitutional amendment or other
wise whereby citizens of the United States
may be protected from virtual disfranchise-
meht through imperfectiOns in the mechan-
ism provided by any State for securing an
honest count of their votes. While carefully
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tonal animosity among our people, the
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ION the national duty of protecting the
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the south in the possession OF rights guaran-
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and conciliation between North and SonIh
but will mol lose sight Of the fact that North
ern confidence and amnesty must find their
return in the enforcement OF ofeyen-handedjus-
tice and scrupulous regard for the letter and
spirit Of the law on the part OF the South.
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American. people. II Wit be lively without
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