The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-22

An Appeal.
The Infamous frauds by which ii Is Iro-
posed to count HAYES into the Presidency
are defended on the ground that they 81,
Necessary TO Offset tho alleged intmi-
Dalton Of the negro vote. The average
Republican voter often boldly anirms
this doctrine. An assumed crime il
charged by heated partisans against their
political opponents, and then daring ana
positive crime is to be boldly committed
In open day to offset IT. This is the stand
ara level of Republican morality among
those leaders who are engaged in the pres
ent barefaced attempt TO seat minority
candidate As President, in the flco of the
pIetence of Gen. GRANT and some of Gov.
HAYES friends, that no man lit TO be-
President coIli, should or would accept al
election tainted BY fraud. Thus vice and
hypocrisy 20 hand in hand in the bust
ness. The once honest and high-priu
cipled Republican party is urged TO de
scend in mass t. the approval and support
of a political measure which for corrup-
ton and deprayity is unmatched in our
political history. Has the Generalization
of Republican politics reached the lastani
fnal debasement Of yielding to this solicit
tatloni
THIS is the vital question of the hour.
Ii is solicitation that involves the
very last step OF l.b'rtinism in politics
nnd which, if a.sontel 10, consumnat,s
debanchery beyond when orIminaliiy and
disgrace can no further 20.
Let u cnireat the honest aud decent
men of the republican party who are not
yetinyolyed in this proposed sacrifice, TO-
spare the country this last disgrace. Tn
cords by which public virtue Ia. been
dragged in the train OF c1rrupt admins
trafions have. for Il number Of years past
been subjected TO a strain of the uIosi
threatening character. They have, in
Bomo prominent instances, given way.
This was notably the case in tn election
VI Aafff Nt4N "a AAp stutille4it VI AReAtlAl1 10
vast AMI growing public corruption, kept
fmothcred N 49,, finally in that year
broke forth, and suudered the lea-
ments which hal bound the pub
lie conscience. Tho vast Republican ma
1ority in the House OF Representatives az
Washington, which had existed there
in unbroken for fourteen years, were
driven forth pell nell by an aroused
public opinion, and large opposition ma
jority substituted in its place. In this great
public demonstration, even the State o.
Massachusetts, with her seventy-nve thou
fand Republican majority, bore an honor
ably c1nsq.cuou' part She elected IN OPP
position Governor. and sent n ij1rity OF
opposition members 10 Congress. what
was pred Ainent ia rebulie coming from
this vital centre of old-time Rapub-
icanism, came IN loss measure from Other
Republican states all over the country.
In their nnll clutch NJ ia seats Of power
tho more daring and reckless leaders
OF the Republican party have now pro-
claimed pe-ltel'inry programme, BY
which to delay their expulsion Made
desperate by the reaction which their own,
nets have provoked they now solicit sup
port from their followers in a course ~
policy aud conduct Of which fraud aud
crimlnalty are the only componcnts. r.
publicans Of every name and degree are
simply asked to disgrace themselves. In
begging Republicans 10 decline the scan
dalous invitation, We do t alike in behalf
of the country aud of Themselves.
Spare us the national shame Of the olec-
ton Of n President by palpablc fraud.
Spare yourselves that last damnng dis
grace to your party and ITS original charae-
ter and principles.
Wo point you to the yet fresh ex-
pcrielcos Of the past TO show that the
shame now moGitatcd will not save, but
utterly shatter and diss pate the party, and
cover with lasting disgrace the men who
participate IN 1t. Public opinion win sooner
or later ovorwhelm the actors, a. it hn.
always overwhelmed the crimes of violent
aud corrupt politicians in the past. They
viii 90 into historic disgrace along with
every other set aud class OF men who
have, at one time or another in our history,
aimed to accomplish political results by
fraud and crime Bat with tins difference,
that the crime now meditated, as it over
shadows in magnitude any Others ever
committed here, so will il deInaud and To-