Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-18
Democratic Hypocrisy.
adams Co. Press.l

"a lair count of the votes actually
cast - has been the cry of
Democrats everywhere since the last
Presidential election. The words have
been mouthed so often in our hearing
that they have h0come stale and dis
gushing Not that the words in them
selves are Objectionable, when given a
proper rendering; fer a fair count i'm
plies count strictly in accordance
with law and the will of the majority
But with Democrats a fair count
means the counting Of all votes OBJ
tanned for their side through intimida-
ton, violence, wanton murders and
bailot-box stufing. and the rejection of
all votes cast for the opposition and
not returned strictly in compliance with
legal tsehnicalities. The recent cleo
ton in Louisiana and the election in
this Congressional district two years
, ago are cases In point. Every man
with common intelligence knows that
without intimidation, violence and
fraud, on the part of Democrats, that
Louisiana, as well as several other of
the southern states, is largely Republi-
can. And it is further known by
these same Democrats that the action
of the Returning Board of Louisiana
IN giving that State to the Hayes and
Wheeler electors was strictly IN accord
ance with lava law made, too, by a
Democratic Legislature. And yet for
! two months nearly we have had to lis
ten to a perpetual howl from Democrat
ic Threats about the ''infamy of the
Board,' their violation of law and
precedent and their stealing the
State for Hayes and Wheeler" These
men know better.
But what has been their action in
regard to the canvass made by the
Wood County Board, by which Judge
Cate was fraudulently counted in by
taco majority? Did they ever cIamor
for full and fair count of all the
votes actually cast in the Congression-
al District in November, IA? Not a
bit of it. The difference in the &C.
ton Of the Louisiana Returning Board
and the Wood county canvassers is
this: The one acted in strict accord
ance with their sworn duty--with
equity and justice, and the statute
law of the State on their side The
other, in violation of their oaths-in
violation of equity, and Of the law OF
the State, and has been declared by
the Courts, Ga Democratic Judge pre-
siding, assumed the right to throw
out the entire and legally cast vote Of
three precincts upon the mere claim Of
technical informality on the part OF
the clerks of election. And by virtue
of this rascality Judge Cate obtained
his seat in Congress, and is there to
day helping to hatch treason and to
prevent the Inauguration of the legal
ly elected President
Have Democrats been heard to howl
or to mourn over this little failure to
''make an honest count of the votes
actually cast ?" Not much. On the
contrary they practically endorsed that
fraud. They sustained Judge Cate
(thc only man benefited by it)in all
possible ways. They assembled at
Grand Rapids in convention and with
one acclaim nominated him for re-elec-
ton. And they made extra efforts to
secure his trump by means of split
tickets and false and specious argu-
ments to induce Republicans to vote
e. hi Tho+ fbau hlyr f,I1 Il
is owing to the fact that the stay at
home Republicans of two years ago,
who could not brook such bare-faced
villainy, went to the polls and voted
for an honest man.
In view of these we are justified in
heading this article democratic Hy-
pocracy." To win an election by
fraud or any manner Of violence and
treachsry, is all right with Democrat
ic leader. To be prevented Gas in the
case of Louisiana from reaping the
benefit Of crimes, the recital Of which
is enough to curdle the blood in every
honest heart, is all wrong in his esti-
nation, ard only another reason why
the Republican party should be shorn
of its strength and give place to Dem
ocratic anarchy and misrule.
If any reader of the Press thinks
this subject is becoming old and thread
bare, let US remind him that the time
is at hand, and now is, when we must
seriously consider whether we can lon
ger afford to put in places of trust
men who endorse political crimes at
home, and apologize for, and strike
hands with, the Thugs and land pirates
of the South.