Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-04-05
The End of a Campaign.

THE Democratic party has Just gone
through with what the late Mr.. Wegg
would have called " the decline and
fall-otf Of the "great Presidential
counting fraud" There may be enough
saved from tho wreck fer 50 a good cry''
for the next election. But it is very
doubtful. Unless Mr.. Tilden is the
Democratic candidate in 1880, which is
highly improbable, the Democratic
leaders will not venture to raise the
pretext that they were cheated out of
the Presidency by fraud. Mr.. Tilden
been President, and he is the only man
living who could 90 into the canvass as
candidate for sympathy His friends
and adherents have busted themselves
with keeping alive that single issue
fraud. And now that it is dead it may
be said that the Tilden party is also
dead Certainly, the only party inter-
ested in keeping up the delusion that
Tilden was really entitled to the Presi-
dency has lost its last pretcnse as a
claimant for public confidence.
The Democrats, in the confusion which
attended the conclusion of the Presi-
| Dental election, were confident that
they had carried several States claimed
for Hayes. While the count was going
on in the South they settled on Oregon.
| The famous CronlH was put forward as
the champion of injured virtue. To be
sure, nobody pretended that he had
been regularly chosen as a Presidential
Elector; but it was a fraud, observed
the Democratic purists, to allow Post
| .,.,4n - h., IL Taff
was not eligible, Cronin was. Even
the discovery of the Gramercy Park
conspiracy to buy up an elector in Ore
gon did not dismay these severe moral
lists, who kept on shouting fraud
until Cronin, Grover, and the whole
contemplate fabric of the Oregon
swindle fell in a heap. Another re-
former was sent to Congress in the per-
son of that honest gentleman, Mr.. Da-
vid Dudley Field. Like Cronin and
Grover, it was his mission to unmask
and expose fraud. While the House
was filibustering over the Electoral
Commission bill, he used to sit up nights
with the Constitution; and he has in
formed the country how he was wont
to arise in the dead waste and middle
of the night to see if the flag yet waved
over the House of Representatives This
apostles voice waxed fainter and fainter
as the count went on, and though hi:
mutterings could be heard, now anC
again, as a drunken man swears in hi
sleep and then lapses into silence, h'
may be said to have been shut up a
last. Whenever people think that Til
den proposes to "reOpen the count,
they say that some accommodating
New York Congressman will resign il
order that Field may go to Washington
in his place and conduct the case TO
the plaintiff, But the eminent crimina
lawyers perturbed spirit is, at length
at rest.
Even "Jerry" Black, another O
those blameless friends of virtue VIII
delight to fish in troubled waters, ha
other business now. The air wa
charged, little while ago, with rumor
of the dreadful things which he wa
concocting in secret. 1t was pOpularl
supposed that he was preparing serie
of charges which would blow the pres
ent Administration sky-high, so t
speak. Mr.. jeremiah Black has hi
! hands full with the McGarrahan cast
| anu, luSl WHtH uS was tApbSfCo I
break out with a terrible stratagem, h
was obliged to face one of those uDcom
, Portable indictments of his own char
acter which occasionally drop on sue
pure patriots as he.
But Louisiana was the last ditch, as
were. of the fraud-shriekers. One b
5 one the other laboriously-constructe
/ works had been abandoned. Grover
1 Cronin, Field, Pelton, Black, Blair, an
a host of other schemers had bee
t obliged to give up their plans of oper'
) tions. They contented themselye
7 with bowling, though the contest wa
practically over. The arrest and tri'
: of Anderson and Wells revived ne'
i hopes Here at last was II chance
fasten a conviction on the Republica
party. Cox, in the House, made hast
+. TO refer to Mr.. Hayes rs "a fraud,
5 and to say that he held his Office b
virtue of the crime of man who WI