National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-01-19
Those Bogus Teleuranls.

A fav0rite practice of the reform Democracy is
the manufacture of kilograms, said to be from
Republican leaders, and q persistent reference to
them as-genuine and authenticated. The latest
and boldest illustration is in the dispatches pre-
sented to Secretary Chandler by Proctor Knots
new committee
The Baltimore Gd=ete of Tuesday, utterly
ignoring the fact that they are the creation of
some lying scOundrel or scoundrels, proceeds to
dilate upon them in a vehement strain, and to de-
nounce Mr.. Chandler with characteristic malig
nifty.
The Gazette, and the Democracy generally, if
they have any sense of shame left, will soon be
brought to realize that their desperate efforts to
make political capital through a resort to glaring
falsehoods and Misrepresentation can result only
in injury to their cause.
We are assured by those who know the fact that
the kilograms exhibited to the Congressional
committee on Tuesday by Mr.. Clancy, the STEM
ographer are all that were sent to the disputed
States by the Republican National Committee,
and no one of them is in the language or spirit
suggested by the Democratic organs.
They are simply in the line of proper caution to
the Southern Republicans to guard against those
frauds and sharp practices for which the Demo-
Gratis are noted, and to which, as shown in the
Oregon business, they were ready to resort.
That the kilograms were promptly sent, and in
vigorous and concise language, is highly credita-
BILE to the vigilance and judgment of the commit
tee, and that they are not complimentary or
satisfactory to the Democracy is not at all sur
prising. There is q familiar adage that mo thief
felt the halter draw, with good opinion of the
law, and it could hardly be expected that those
who had planned to bull doze Florida and Louis
lana, they had done Mississippi should be pleased
with these warnings to Southern Republicans to
see that they were not robbed of the victories
they had fairly and honestly gained at the polls.
OF the certainty of these victories, If a fair
count of the votes could be had, the national
mittee had ample assurance, before one of the
kilograms in question was sent Their purpose
was simply to aid in securing such a count, and
to urge the Republicans sto hold the FORT
against all the assaults of the disappointed and
inscriptions Democrats in those States, and the
agents and money Of Samuel J. Tilden. When
the dark ways and vain tricks Of the Democratic
managers regarding the disputed States are ex-
posed. as they will be in few days, when Hewitt
and Tilden are called before Senator Morton's
committee, the American people and the Balti-
| more GG=siie will have opportunity to see who
the real conspirators are, and which party has
made an improper use of money in those States
And speaking Of money we take this occasion to
say that we have reason TO believe that full in
vestigation Of the facts, (Which the Republicans
now demand,) will show that in the deliberate
| and lavish use Of money the Democrats went to
| an extent in the recent campaign never before
| known in Presidential election. From the time
| of the Wholesale expenditure by which Tilden's
nomination secured at st. Louis to the It'll of
| November, and even SINCE there has been an
| audacious and extravagant disbursement of cur
rency utterly without parallel in the political
| mails Of the country.
We have not the least doubt that for every hun
| dred dollars expended by the Republican party,
| the party of reform and retrenchment," under
| the leadership OF Mr.. Tilden, has expended a
| thousand dollars, and we do not hesitate to say
that no candidate for the high Office of President
i of the United States ever furnished tenth part
| of the money for campaign purposes that he has
| given from his ill gotten fortune.
ETHF Ell ctoral votes cast in the recent Presi-
Dental election were an odd number. This estab-
fishes the fact that there is no failure to elect.
/ The result of the Electoral Colleges shows 1si
votes for Tilden. Here, it will be seen, are but
| two candidates voted for in the Electoral COL
| lege, and Hayes has a majority Of one. Even in q
l failure now to declare which Of them is elected
| does not change the fact that there has been an
election by the States; and if there has been,
then the House, according 10 the Constitution,
has no power to elect In the face Of these facts,
| tn, Congress Of the United States has partially
allowed itselfto enter iato milk and-uater COM
1 promise. which will If carried out. establish q