Daily Republican., 1878-10-28
A stolen Congress.

ing stolen the Presidency, which IN the
light Of recent revelations of Democrat
ic fraud, Is shown to be an untruthful
charge, they have not word to say
about a stolen Democratic Congress-
They forget that were 1t not for the
terrorism existing in the South and the
intimidation of Republican voters by
murder aud persecution, that Demo
cratic Congressman from that section
would be almost as rare as Republicans
are now. Dsband the Rife clubs Of
the South and every other unlawful or,
ganization. the only object Of which is
to intimidate the colored voters, and
let there be fair and full assessment;
two-thrds of the Southern States would
give Republican majorities, and South
Carolina, Mississippi, Florida and
Louisiana would elect solid Republican
del.g atoms to Congress. With q fair
assessment and no intimidation, Del
aware would no doubt range her
self on the Republican side, though
for fear We might be called extremists
we will class her as doubtful. There
would be 8 out Of 6 in Maryland; one
out Of 3 in West Virginia; out Of nine
in Virginia; out of in North Caro-
lima, a solid delegation Of 5 from South
Caro- lima; out of from Georgia. s out
Of s from Alabama; a solid delegation Of
two from Florida; solid delegation OF
6 from Mississippi; solid delegation Of
from Louisiana; 2 at least out of 6
from Texas out Of 4 from Arkansas;
out OF 10 from Tennessee; 8 out OF 10
from Kentucky; and 8 out Of II from
Missouri, making in all 63 Republicans
and fl Democrats instead of l3 Repub-
| licans and 81 Democrats as at present.
Deduct the l3 Republican members
| from the South that we now have from
the SO thu at We would and ought to
have had unde- any thing like fair
show, and the difference makes just
so Democrats filling bull-dozed Republi.
can seats IN Congress. Reverse these
so stolen seats as they ought to be,
and the Republicans would have ma,
iority in the present Congress of so,
instead Of the Democrats having 20.
The two last Congresses have both been
stolen from the Republicans by South.
ern outlaws and unscrupulous South
ern politicians, and from present ap-
pearances the few remaining members
the Republicans have from the South
will be stolen from them in the social
ed elections OF next week, and then We
will have the rare spectacle of solid
Democratic South in Congress, while q
large majority of the citizens of thai
section are Repub blicans. This is the
greatest theft on record. Even admit
ting that the Presidency, in the Ian
guage of the irate Democracy, had beeI
stolen by the Republicans, the act pale'
into utter insignfcance in the face o
the wholesale theft of Congress from
the epublcans. We do not, however
admit that there was the least dis
honesty in the electoral count of tn,
three so called doubtful States of th
South. Whatever cause Of suspicion
may have existed is completely dissi
pated by the recent revelations of dis
honesty on the part of the Democrats il
attempting to buy the Presidency, an
in which crime their own candidate 70
the Office is shown by their own tele
grams to be almost directly implicated
Having stolen two congresses and faile
; in stealing the Presidency, the DemoC
> racy attempted to obtain by briber
= what they failed to obtain by theft, an
both having failed together they hav
i raised the cry Of "stop thief" to hid
y their own guilt. The Tilden cipht
J tplpprams is but the bepinning of n
u revelation of Democratic attemp
y at fraud and it need not |
B. surprising 1T is yet shown that IL
l. pretended objects for which the Pott
committee has been appointed, a
= tIumped up charges, to be proven |
d corrupt and suborned witnesses paid
e money by more corrupt Democrat
'e politicians. Nobody pretends to b
d lieve what Anderson the liar tells, on
o so far as his testimony is supported
IL corroborative facts, and those cOrrobG
"a ative facts now show that Anders'
l. was hired and was to be paid sum
N money for making out a case again
ID the Republicans. A stolen Presiden
'g indeed! Let the Democracy look
r their stolen Congress, and at their &
"a tempt to buy the Presidency and tn
70 hide their faces in shame.