Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-07-18

cluSS nOlhlnB except Wnat tne rvtuIi
ing board is pleased TO approve, AM
elects nobody whom the returning
board does not graciously favor II
power 20 veto popular vote extend
to all elections, for every class of Off
GERS, judicial, legislative, ministerial
and executive, including electors o
President and Vice President
All mon will agree that when VIC
lence, fraud, intimidation, etc, occur a
an election, somo action ought TO b.
taken upon 1t to bring the offenders Il
justice. But this law requires that thS
election officers report the fact, not tc
the judicial authorities of the State, In
order that the guilty parties may be
tried and punished, but to the return.
ing board, so that IL may impose the
penalty of disfranchisement upon limo
cent citizens without trial. The slight
est consideration of this one provision
shows that the returning board had no
honest purpose; thatit "was conceived
in sin and brought forth in iniquity,''
and that its object was TO cheat from
the beginning.
No man with sense enough TO know
his right hand from his left will need to
be told that monstrous thing like this
cannot be constitutionally fastened up.
on free State. A government that
makes it one Of its institutions ceases to
bo Republican either in form or sub.
stance. The statute OF Louisiana which
undertook 10 create il was a mere null
lity. and all its proceedings were desti.
tute of legal authority. IL was at one
time asserted that the supreme court
of the State had held it constitutional
and valid. which, if true. would prove
that the court was no better than the
board but the case cited shows that no
such point was raised, debated or de.
termined.
The board consisted of five persons.
They were originally appointed by a
CARPET. bag Senate. without end oft6eir
tenure and with power to vacancies.
which made them a close corporation
and gave them perpetual succession.
To nut on some show of fairness. the
law required that all parties should be
represenfed. This was nj first thougbt
TO be met by the appointment of one
Democrat but when a deed of more
than common baseness was to be done.
the Democrat was got rid of and the
other four. desiring to work ia secret
refused TO gil his place
This suppressing board did its work
throughly from tho start 1t was never
known TO falter. Sinceits first orpaniza-
ton in 1870 tho majority of the whole
people has been decidedly AGAINST the
Garnet. .bapeers NJ every election. Bnt
the board always intercepted ;be re.
turns, and SO altered them as TO make
A majority the other way, Kelloea
was a candidate for Governor; he was
largely defeated but the hoard certif.
cd bIm elected. The certificate was so
glarinrly false that carpet-baegers
themselves would not help 10 install
him, and Democrats determined to assert
their rights. 1t was then that General
Grant, to the unspeakablo shame of tho
nation, lifted him into office on the
bayonets ofthearmy. Afterwards the
outraged people rose ia revolutionary
wrath. drove him 10 shelter in tho
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