National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-06-14
DEMOCRACY A FRAUD,

We WOulu nOJ alleBe Inat Jne DeluOCIdllC
party is hypocritical fraud if the record
did not establish the fact beyond contro-
versy. And really we do not have to go
beyond this present session of Congress, and
the policy, tactics, and acts of that party
during that period for full demonstration
of the truth and justice of the unpleasant
allegation. Let us call attention for mo-
ment TO the rant and rave. that party has
INDUCED in Congress toward the President
for the reason that he has thwarted their
revolutionary and unpatriotic designs by
the constitutional exercise of the veto power,
and to the further fact that they have not
attempted, neither have they dared to at
tempt, to show that they are in favor of
honest and fair Federal elections, They
have nowhere declared that they would ac-
cept the Presidents suggestion that he is
both ready aud willing to cooperate with
Congress 10 improve, if possible, the Federal
election laws, so as to more eflectually Sc
cure fair and honest elections.
This simple fact furnishes the most indu-
bitahle proof that there is no honesty or
sincerity in the Democratic cry about fair
elections, otherwise they would gladly avail
themselves of the protfered cooperation of
the President to secure honest and fair elec;
tions. Can any intelligent, sensible man
for moment doubt that if the Democracy
was actuated by an honest and patriotic de-
sire to secure free and fair elections instead
of vilifyiug the President rs a fraud they
would make haste to cooperate with him
in improving and amending the laws so as
TO render honest, free, and fair elections q
fixed fact, instead of matter of doubt,
anxiety, and public disturbance, where
fraud and wrong are possible?
This however, is not what the Democrats
are after. They hope to delude the public
by the hypocritcal cry of honest and fair
elections, when they know that an honest
and fair election at every voting precinct
in the country would inevitably seal the
doom of that party in perpetual national
defeat. They brand the President as q
fraud, and under that cry push their ne
farious and revolutionary designs against
the national welfare. 1t is power and pub.
lie plunder that the Democrats seek not
honest and fair elections. This will he the
last thing on earth that that party will hon,
estly and sincerely seek and desire. They
would fan make the people believe that
they are for honest elections, and yet they
rally their full force against the laws which
have been passed to secure that end. II
those laws can be repealed or amended Sc
| as IN render them n nullity then frnul anC
rascality can run riot and ballot-box stuff
ing, repeating, and voting on fraudulent
naturalization papers can be perpetrated
on gigantic scale in New York, Cncin'
natl, Chicago, st. Louis, and other larg
cities and towns in the next Presidential
election. To put it mildly, it is their ain
in all their attempts, under the cry o
honest elections, to wipe out existing
statutes and safeguards which stand. be
tween them and the accomplishment o
} their nefarious purposes Thus far thu
J President has rendered yeoman service t,
; the country by heading off the Democratic
: party and its designs through the exercis,
T of q veto power whose value to the publ
: welfare was never more clearly revealed
! than during the three months contest il
E which the Democrats have sought, unde
the hypocntical cry of honest elections, t
r pave the way for the most stupendous elec
ton frauds yet known to our history rs
nation. After this chapter in their histor
the Democratic party must wear the i'm
f perishable brand of fraud upon its fore
head