Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-30

torborne to make personal assaults or to even refer
by name or suggestion to the hideous skeleton in
that Democratic closet l rather prefer that you
/ look upon an uneolored picture of the mass of
wrong and outrage, than that you shall be especially
called upon to notice the especially obnoxious in
] tegers Of the whole.
But, fellow citizens passing from this sad picture
of mismanagement and misrule in Ohio beg to
congratulate the country upon the fact that bad
is this Democratic organization the leaders of it in
/ Ohio who have opened the campaign with such a
variety of "keynotes," have not defended or even
apolOgzed for the shortcomings of this General As
semoly: They have turned from it as from a spec
ter and passed it by; passed it by. perhaps the
PhariSees passed by the man who fell by the way
side on the memorable passage from Jerusalem to
Jericho. At all events they leave the hideous
and do not throw over its deformlties much an
| apron of hg leaves.
1t is for the people of Ohio to say if they will trust
such party in power in this State; viii they in
dorSe the record OF this Legislature by their votes7
FRAUD TIE REAL "KEYNorE"
the sentoran cry from all the organs and orators Of
| the Democratic party Of Eraudl Fraud Fraud
Like the plantive cly of John Hook. amid the gen.
eral haleahs OF the people at the victorious ending
OF the Revolution, crying Beefl Beefl Beefl this
shout is to go up. 1t will be sounded in the deep
bass of the statesman and orator. and then
| through all the varying keys up through
alto, tenor, treble, and so on, until it
will be pped in keynotes so shrill as 10 resemble
the yell of Comanche Indians on fresh trail and in
hot pursuit of blood and scalps. What OF it? One
| thing l beg to suggest. 1t comes with beautiful
grace IOr Inc De0crdtc party TO TAX about fraud IN
an election. The old cry of. Stop thief suggests
rare consistency in comparison. Look for q brief
moment at its shameful record. By fraud, bare
faced, unblushing fraud. in 1874 it carried Louisa
ma for Polk over Clay Up to 1851 the argestaggregate
number of vOees in Plaquemine Parish was $50: and
yet in 1874 John Sliddell and others loaded two
steamboats, with pluguglies in New Orleans who
had voted all day for Polk there, and ran them to
| the parish and voted them so industriously that
the parish gave Polk 1OO7 majority, He, counting
this vote got the Electoral vote of the State by only
69g majority.
The Democratic party of the South. even under
the strong government of Grant, changed a Republi-
can majority in Mississippi of over $4,000 one year
into Democratic majority of greater than that the
next By fraud they overturned the State govern
ment in that State, and when Gov. Ames, pursuant
TO the Constitution and under the forms Of law.
called upon Grant for troops TO uphold his admins
ly to refuse, and from that moment fraud
seized upon the Republican States of
carried them bodily over into the Democratc camp.
But not until during the last two years OF Grants
administration were 200 men murdered for their
The Democratic majority in the House of Repre-
sentativeS to-day is the direct product of murder.
ballot box stufing, false poll books, forged tally
sheets, purchased election officers, and intimidation
at the polls. In our own State three men hold
seats in Congress that were given them by fraud,
and IN two OF the cases record evidence establishes
the fact The penitentiary of Ohio holds to-day
some of the agents who did the work, while the
principals run at large and shout fraudl
The organization of ballot box suffers and re-
peaters has not been confined to Southern Demo
Gratis. In 1868 Horace Greeley charged in open
letter that no man ever denied the truth Of the fact
that 1ilden, as Chairman of the Democratic Com
mittee of New York, acting with the knowledge of
Hoffman and Seymour, Perpetrated frauds enough
to change the vote of that State from Grant. who
really had majority, to Seymour and Hoffman,
who were counted in"
It was always claimed by some of the best men in
the country that Clay honestly elected in lS44.
The meager plurality Of Polk in New York, only
5,1O6, was it was always claimed made up by stuff
ing the ballot box in New York City; and judging
DV the recent recent of Iilden and his
gang, the supposition is not an unreasonable one.
l beg to read to you some extracts from the writ
ings OF an eminent American, famous for his cour-
age truthfulness and candor. He says:
Henry Clay was the choice of the American peo-
ally cast was thrown for him. He was chosen Presi-
dent by the voice of his eountrymen and, under the
Constitution and laws-by all the rules of right
was entitled to the Presidency None now doubt
that As a matter of history it is notorious. Never
vote counted was: For Polk, 10; for Clay
l05; while Folks minority the popular vote
was q, ,ll9. The Electoral colleges counted for
Polk included that of New York (36), Pennsylvania
all of which Clay was entitled by decided popular
majorities in all those States. Hence, add those rs
votes to Cays 105 and deduct them from Polk's 10
viii give Clay 1SS votes and reduce Polk to 92 max
ing Cays majority in the Electoral colleges 81 the
real result of the canvass but which defeated by
the deliberately planned frauds of the Democracy.
Even strike from Polk's 10 New YOrk's Sc votes,
which State Clay confessedy carried by from 5000 to
10000 majority, will leave Polk but 134 Electoral
'CsSo5 anu VI SSfSA IL eAS
colleges
That Henry Clay was Tentitled, and confessedly
entitled to the Electoral votes of the States of New
York Pennsylvania Georgia and Louisiana-seven-
to-eight in ail-which by fraud by the counting
in" process which the Democracy now charge
against the Republicans, were counted for Polk, We
have before US the proofs in number of shapes.
They can not be questioned. In 1874 a combination
of gamblers, through system of betting all over
iS76 in favor OF Tiiden secuted By their Winnings
the of defraying the expenses of the frauds.
That was notoriously SO in New York, Pennsylvania,
In New York, in 1874 of the popular vote Polk
in minority of I0,706 votes His plurality over
Clay was only 5,1O6. That he obtained in the city
and its surroundings by fraudulent naturalization,
by repeating and ballot box stufhng; by the manu-
facture and count, through such infamous agencies
of from 10 600 to 1500 bogus votes Some place the
number as high as 10000.
In Pennsylvania the frauds were equally hagrant.
At the October election it was admitted by the best
posted of the Democracy that Clayin the State at
least 900 votes stronger than Gen. Marke the Wing
candidate for Governor. Hence, in order to beat
Clay in November, Shunk's majority must reach
10000 1t was only 49, fully 5000 less than the
Democratic estimate absolutely necessary to beat
Clay. Nevertheless Clay was beaten. His vote, as
the Democracy had calculated, was $500 greater
than MRrkle's and drawn Principally from
Shunk's yet Polk's majority in the State 6S32.
1t was in this canvass in Pennsylvania that the
model of Tildens infamous confidential circular of
1865 by which he arranged the machinery
for the fraudulent count of New York
for Seymour and Hoffman, appeared as a
secret circular dated "Harrisburg. January, 1874"
and signed by Edward A. Penniman and seventeen
Democratic members of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture as an executive committee. 1t distributed
only among the faithful, with the injunction that
its 'contents should be made known only to such of
our [Democraticl friends as will keep their own |
Counsel and assist in organizing the party and |
urged that sit is very desirable that it should not
appear in any newspaper be communicated to our
political opponents" It particularly ensoined the
faithful ito secure a large turnout at the elcc |
ton of judges and inspectors Of the pOlls. This
done. we shall have the vantage ground, and an |
easy victory will be ours" So it proved. By secur-
ing the Judges and inspectors of the polls the count
of any number by the Democracy was a very easy |
matter.
In Georgia, in 1874, and it may be so now. by the
tax list the exact number OF legal voters in the State
could be readily ascertained. By that list there were
in the State 1851 votes. At the Presidential election
sc, ,277 votes were cast Even supposng, therefore,
that every legal voter in the State attended at the
polls-the decrepid aged, sick and dying-there |
was still n fraud Of T. 666 votes By whom were these
polled? In the Wing counties less than the legal |
vote as shown by the list polled; but IN the
Democratic counties of Forsyth Lumpkin, Haber- /
sham, and Franklin, the lawful vote was 3,202. |
They returned vote Of 40l4 for Polk and l,S5 for
Clay-in ALL 5,S35-a fraud in these four counties |
alone of 1858; and so on throughout all the Demo-
CRITIC counties of Georgia. Nevertheless, Folks ma
jOrity in the State was only 2,07T.
invite the younger student OF these things to
"Greeley's Life of Henry Clay to "Colyins Col
toms do" and the ''Whig Review"
Why the present House of Representatives turned
out on silly pTetextS fifteen Republicans, all of
whom had been fairly elected and gave their places
to hungry Democrats: and believe no contest. how