The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-09

IRE city IS half strangled by debt
&aa taxation. Mr.. Kelly would like
M DO better, but the machine is
s1ronger than the man. The party is
an utterly unprincipled conspiracy to
2Hunder the people, and an angel of
Nght, If chosen its leader, would
nApe to help its plundering or get
OF Of it. What Southern Democracy
~ taxpayers will find out, if ever
knat party has power in the House,
the Senate and the White House,
aad can get passed the claims and
Jobs now on file, and the far more
dangerous bills still, kept under
watches. Fofevefy fErsno on which
a Union soldier trod, every meal of
food taken to feed an army. every
house occupied, every bale of cotton
burned, every creature on hoofs that
escaped or was driven away, there
will be leak in the Treasury if the
Solid South can put Democracy into
power The country is not blind. 1t
Will trust a pack of half-starved
wolves in sheep.fold sooner than
the Democratic party in the Treas
ury.
Nv. The Republican party stands
for honest elections and no bribery.
In spite of hull-dozing, in spite OF
systematic assassination, it elected a
President in 1876. Honest enforce
ment ofa law framed to prevent vic.
lence gave it fair and legal maiori-
ty III louisiana. In Florida, South
Carolina and Oregon it ha "A major
ity on The face of the returns. 1t did
not need to buy votes. Its commit
tee had no money. No office in its
gift would haYe paid as much as
Democrats are proved to have offer
ed in cash for a single vote. The
overwhelming proof crushes the CO.
parceners they deny, as any crimi-
nal pleads Not guilty, "but dare not
sue for libel, or challenge under oath
the genuineness of cipher dispatches
or the accuracy Of tranSlatiOns. They
are dumb and best know why. If
any responsible man dares to say the
dispatches are forgeries, he knows
that perjury and a Jail lie that way
in his path. If any disputes the
translations, he knows that the
world will instantly demand produc-
tion of his keys. Unchallenged, the
fatal kilograms bring home to the
party and its candidate The most in
famous crime in American history.
From Oregon. from Florida. from
South Carolina, sure chains of proof
go straight to No. Is Gramercy Park,
and fasten there upon a nephew of
the candidate and the confiden tial
secretary Of the National Committee
of the party. Either for the candi-
date or for the party, he ordered
votes bought in three States through
intimate friends and trusted agents
of the uncle and prominent members
of the party. In South Carolina,
$4,000 was offered !; IN Florida, $780,
600. Mr.. Pelton never was worth
either sum, and the agents knew it,
but he spoke by authority. Thus a
foul crime lies at the door of those
who, with impudence beyond paral-
lel have been bowling fraud for two
years. Having fished for months
with drag-net, and found one con-
fessed perjurer who would swear that
he had once seen letter promising
to take care of officials who did their
duty, the Democrats find even their
hired witness ashamed of his abor-
tive lie, and of the party which buys
perjuries only because it failed to
buy votes. With this record of dis
grace and shame, which no Ameri-
can can read without pain, the Dem.
ocratic party goes before the country,
a criminal in the dock, pleading
mot guilty." and half inclined to
make its candidate for the Presiden-
cy the scapegoat of its crime. But
Mr.. Tilden alone enabled the party
to wear the mask of Reform, and the
exposure of the crime tears off that
mask forever.
The people rate sneaks and des.
pise hypocrites. In nothing has the
Democratic party tried to be honest,
manly and frank. 1t courts repudi-
ators at the South and West, but
tries TO pass off base coin for hard
money at the East. 1t puts in the
cOwardly ulea that armed Democrats
in red shirts march to Republican
meetings in order to have tree dis
CUSTOM" and tries to hide with a lie
the corpses of its victims. 1t pre-
tends that Tammany has purged and
reformed itself, and that Southern
claims, in number as the lice OF
Egypt, are not urged in earnest. Oi
all its frauds, the meanest and basest
was the attempt to blacken the
names Of honest Republicans in or