The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-06-20

Hon. ]. II. CAMPBELL,
Hon. ia. HuBBELL, 80
Hon. C. II. JOYCE,
Hon. F. HscocK.
WASHINGTON, May 81, 1873.
SIR-This Committee, charged with
laboring for the success of the Republi-
can cause in the coming campaign for
the election of Members Of Congress, call
with confidence upon you, as Republi-
can, for such contribution in money as
you may feel willing to make. The
Committee deem it proper, in thus ap-
pealing to Republicans generally, to in.
form those who happen to be in Federal
employ that there will be no objection in
any official quarter to such voluntary
contribution.
The importance of the pending strug-
gle cannot easily be exaggerated. That
the Senate is to be Democratic after the
4th of March, 1879, is very nearly GER
tainty. In view of this, the election of a
Democratic House of Representatives
would precipitate upon the country dan
gerous agitations, which would inevita-
bly, add to present distresses. Foremost
among their schemes, the opposition al
ready announce their intention to at
tempt the revolutionary expulsion of the
President from his Office.
II, by the presentation of three candi-
dates for the Presidency in 1880, the
people should fail to choose, the House
must elect-each State delegation cast
ing one vote.
From what is now known, and with
the growing dissensions in the camp OF
the enemy, the Committee have good
reason to enter upon their work with
courage.
Please make prompt and favorable re.
sponse to this letter, and remit at once
by draft or postal money order, to "Sid-
ney F.. Austin, Esq, Treasurer, etc.,
German-American National Bank,
Washington, D. c."
By order Of the Committee,
GEO. G. GoRHAM, Secretary.
An analysis of this circular will reveal
much of the intentions of the Republican
party and the tactics to which it will re-
sort to secure continuance of its control
of the National Government. The cir
cular was only intended for the eyes Of
Republicans, and therefore its revelations
are the more important. To begin with,
the first section of the circular shows that
Is thorough canvass of the several States
of the Union is to be made in the hope
of controlling the next House of Repre-
sentatives, and that to secure this result,
the civil service order of the President
will be made subservient to the ends Of
the Republican party by such interpre-
tation as will best sait at any particular
time; or, in other words, it is proposed to
go before the country with the argument
that the President has purified the civil
service by requiring Federal officials to
abstain from participation in politics,
while in fact he has done nothing more
than to say to them you must not openly
engage in the control of politics your
selves, but you can do so privately by
contributing to support Others in doing
so. The result is far from working the
reforms pretended, for it only places the
control of national politics in the hands
of the Congressional Committee, thereby
giving the administration party, by con,
centration, greater power than it would
have under the system of control by local
politicians. This little trick is another
evidence that President Hayes is great
political fraud.
7 Next, the statement that the Demo
Gratis have announced their intention to
expel the President from his Office is
conspicuously false, and shows that the
Republican leaders again intend to at
tempt to carry the coming elections by
their old system of deception and mis-.
representation. We expected this oi
them, however, and therefore it is not a
confession of much importance. The
most significant feature of the circular is
the information that in case of no elec-
ton by the people, the next House Of
Representatives will elect the President
each State casting one vote. 1t may
be regarded as settled, that if the Repub.
licans carry majority of the next House
of Representatives, that they will then
try to prevent an election of President
by the people, thereby throwing it into
the House of Representatives, and thus
securing the election of their candidate.
To do this they will secure the nomina-
ton of three tickets, and use one of them
as the Radicals hope to use independent
candidates in this State-that is, to form
q combination with them in order to
carry doubtful States against the De-
mocracy. The Republican States would
cast their votes for the Republican can
didates, but in States considered doubt
full, as Ohio, Pennsylvania and some of
the Southern States with large colored
populations, the Republican vote would
be cast in favor of the National party, or
third party of some other name, and
then if no one of the three candidates
should get majority of all the votes,
the election would be thrown into the
House and the Republican candidate
elected. 1t is, therefore, Of the uttermost
importance for us to secure Democratic
majority in the next House Of Represen-
tatives to guard against any possible mis-
haps in 1880 upon the Presidential elec-
ton. That we will have Democratic
majority in it is reasonably certain, but
we cannot afford to allow any indepen-
dent Democrats, whether it be Alexan-
der 81. Stephens or any other person, to
be elected. The issues are too great to
place in the hands of such erratic men,