The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-10-12
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YoRK, Oct. /.
NM OCTOBER STATES.

I THE OCTOBER STATES
Every scrap of news that is rccciv.
Ell in this city from the October States
predicts Democratic victory. Not
only have our own leaders sent en-
couraging words, but the Rcpubli-
cans have spoken with no faint voice
Kilpatrick's vail for more money
and a bloody shirt was heard through
out the land, and the latter, if not
the former part of his request was
promptly complied with. The shrill
scream from Schurz started the lead
ers of his party in Ohio from their
tranquil doze ofconfdcnco and thrust
the horrid possibility Of n Democrat
ic victory in their faces. This was
more paralyzing, and made the blood
run colder than even sight of the
carmine garment. But when the
whisky thief Babcock called for In
gersoll TO save Indiana from the men
who would put them all in prison,
and Jimmie Blaine of Maine sent
his regrets to the Philadelphia Com
mittee, and said he was Kept 10 save
Ohio, their CONSERVATION was lively
and their dismay solemn and soul
stirring. If we may rely upon tho
testimony of the Times and Tribune,
both Indiana and Ohio are lost to
their party, and all that | can infer
from their statment is flat the clar-
ion cries from Fitzpatrick and Schurz
came too late. Their activity at
this time very forcibly reminds me
of the antics of stuck pig" 1t
will only last a short while, and then
the subject will silently sink, with
an occasional spasm, and die in No
vember The air is filled with all
sorts Of rumors of threatened fraud.
From Louisville comes the assertion
of colonization and attempted brib-
cry; from Philadelphia the news that
Cameron, Mackey and Mann are pre-
pairing schemes Of ballot-box stufling,
and have on good authority that
some three hundred INSCRIPTIONS
characters have left this city under
the leadership Of The. Allen, noto-
rious rough, Republican politician.
and gambler. Their plans are in
genious and their method subtle.
To accomplish the fraud it requires
all the dcxterity of the professional
card manipulation, and to detect it II
person must ever be vigilant. i
moments remittance in tie ocatclJu'aes
on election day wW endangcr the triumph
Of tie Democratic party. One of the
accomplished Williams who have been
sent to the West could "ring in" or
"ring out any given number of bal
lots in "the twinkling of an eye"
but if the honest inspector is posted
in the arts of transferring these bal
lots, and is ever watchful, there need
be no fear, for knowledge of their
method will enable the officer to sec
at once any movement that may be
made by the agents of Cameron and
Chandler, and he can "nip it in the
bud" as it were. There is but one
danger to anticipate, and that is that
the party and party managers in
Ohio and Indiana will treat this as
an eastern scare" If this should
be the case the overwhelming major
ity that is promised will be consid-
crably cut down, and the election
gained, us the saying is, by the Skin
of the teeth However, let all good
and honest men hope that wherever
fraud is attempted it will be speedily
punished. If the offender is sum-
marily dealt with it will serve to
warn others and so prevent, through
fear, any further attempt.