The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-11-30
THE OSKALooSA HERALD.
LEIGHTON & NEEDHAM, Editors.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1875.
DESPERATE DEMOCRACY.

The voice of the people was decidedly
against the Democratic party, for not
withstanding the Democratic frauds and
Republican treason that gave the Empire
State to Democracy, and carried with it
New Jersey and Connecticut, the vote of
the Union was decidedly for Hayes, and
the leaders of the enemy saw and recog-
nized that fact when they sent out a
manifesto, calling on Democratic leaders
to 60 South to lay a groundwork for
charging fraud upon the Republicans,
and since that time have been seeking
some excuse to throw the election into
the House, knowing as they do that
there is no chance for them in the dispu-
ted States, on anything like fair count.
One plan has been to have the House
object to these States, which under an
old rule would have thrown them out,
but the Democracy baked itself in this,
and refused to re-enact the joint rule be-
fore adjournment, hence it is dead let
ter now. Another plan was for the
Democratic House to refuse to attend the
joint convention to count the vote, and
thus prevent the Vice president declaring
the election of Hayes. But even this
can be overcome by the Republican meln-
bers attending, organizing, and compelling
a quorum through the sergeantat-arms.
Another plan is for the Democratic
House to object to Florida and Louisiana,
throw their votes out, and thus throw the
election into that body, then elect Tilden;
and the Senate, having proceeded regu-
larly to count the vote and announce the
election of Hayes, then for both to
inaugurate their candidates, Hayes being
inauguratsd at Washington, in the pres
ence of the Senate, President Grant, the
Cabinet and the army, while the House
holds side show, probably at New York
and inaugurates Tilden. Then will come
the calls for troops from each, armies
will be formed, and we will taste the
sweets of Mexican revolution; but we
have no fears of this. The man who is
returned by the boards, will be Inaugural
ted, and will be the only President, and
at this time we believe that man will be
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. On an honest
vote he carried not only the States in
dispute, but Alabama, Mississippi, and
North Carolina. If the boards give him
1876 electoral votes, they will be counted
and declared by the President of the
Senate, and then he aciU be inaugurated,
and there is not Democratic power enough
to prevent it. There are some Democratic
papers who have been blowing a great
deal about war: they are such papers as
the Chicago Times, one of the meanest
rebel sheets during the war, Brick Pom
eroy's Democrat, which was not whit
better, and kindred sheets, but the san
culinary editors of these sheets are the
kind Bob Ingersoll describes as "inpinci-
bic IN peace, and invisible IN .oar." Ar
temus Ward like, they are willing to sac
rifce ali their wife's relations, but Meth
er will be found at the front himself.
We do not believe that any party can
afford to count its man in by fraud. The
party that does it is dead duck. We
have no desire to see the Republican
party succeed if it cannot do it fairly and
honestly. That fair vote would have
given us over 200 electoral votes we doubt
not in the least, and if we are counted
out by fraud and shot guns, the country
must kno,o the whole facts, and then salt
will not save the party that did it, when
next it comes to the people to decide.
By the way; right here we wish to say,
We are in favor of an election by the pop
ular vote. Then it would be some induce
ment for the people of Iowa to turn out.
This year we only had beggarly MAORI
ty of 10000 because there was no special
incentive to turn out. But make election
frauds capital offenses, or at least i'm
prisonment for long term, and give us
fair, free ballot, and an honest count,
and let the man who gets the highest