The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-15
in the declaration, that the martyred
dead OF the Union "have not died in
The Nations Shame.


At an expense to the tax-paying por
ton OF our people of not less, probably
than $3.50, 900, the Potter committee
with headquarters in Washington. and
branches in Florida and Louisiana, has
gone into search for fraud in connec.
ton with the recent Presidential cleo.
ton. When it is remembered that the
controversy IN reference to the result of
the election has been finally and AMIGA
| bly, settled by an Electoral Commission.
organized at the suggestion OF the Demo-
cratic party, as last resort when they
saw from the election returns that they
had been defeated, and approved by the
entire Democratic representation in the
United States Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, what will the nation and
the world think of party and a DemC-
cratic House that deliberately reopens
the question ?-of a Democratic House
that orders an investigation of the acts of
the returning boards of certain States and
forbids an inquiry into the methods en-
ployed to carry the election in remote
and unprotected districts of the same
States The Democratic House and the
Democratic majority of the Potter com.
mlttee know that there are to-day large
Republican maiorities in Mississippi.
South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida:
they know, too, that these maiorities
were defeated by intimidation, secured
by means of murder, assassination and
house-burning. Yet, with all their
knowledge of these acts, the Democratic
House and Democratic Potter commit
tee refuse to allow any inquiry into the
facts or into any act of intimidation
committed prior to the election, where
fraud really existed to an alarming ex-
tent, but confine the investigation to the
acts OF the Returning Boards.
The crime of The dominant party in
the South is that it excludes the colored
vote from the ballot-box unless it is
given for the Democratic party. Had
this not been the case in all the South
ern States there would have been 10 un-
certain sound as to the result of the late
Presidential election, and none are more
convinced of this than. the fraudulent
party itself.
The great fact has been constitutional
~ established that "all citizens of the
United States, who are otherwise quail
fed by law to vote at any election bv
the people in Any State, Territory, dis
trlct, county. parish, township, school
district, municipality, or other territorial
sub division, shall be entitled and al
lowed to vote at such elections, without
distinction of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude, any con-
stitution, law, custom, usage, or
regulation of any State or Ter
ritory, or by or under it's authority, to
the contrary Notwithstanding" Yet the
entire colored vote OF the South is pre-
vented from free exercise at the ballot
box by the bull-dozing practices of the
Democratic party, which bid defiance
to all attempts to secure an honest vote,
and glories in it's achievements, under
which no colored citizen is allowed but /
1t the risk of his life to vote, unless his
vote is for the Democratic candidate.
Yet these are the men who are now
searching for election frauds under one
sided instructions from the Democratic
House. This is Democratic consistency.
-NeW Republic.