The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-25
yraud Proved by Figures.


MaJoritIes in the Campaign of 1879.
The New York Times gives ten
column review of tho presidential cleo
ton in 1876 and shows by statements
based upon official statistics, that in that
campaign the Gramercy Park politician
fully realized that he could not obtain
majority of the electoral college by an
honest vote, and that deliberate ana
successful effort was made to create
democratic majorities III certain debata-
BILE states.
AS to the aggregate vote of the coun-
try in 1876, these facts, among. others,
are shown: In the great presidential
election of 1910 the presidential vote
equaled AL per cent of the state pop
ulation. In 1882 it equaled 1876 per
cent. and 27.l per cent of the whole
body of qualified electors In the states
failed to vote. In 1860, the second
most exciting election known in our
history, the presidential vote cqualed
14.S per cent of the state population,
and 23.7 per cent of the electors failed
to vote. In 1872 1t equaled 16.9 per
cent, and 1913 per cent of the electors
failed to vote; that is, in every 100
qualified voters in every state of the
Union, no more than 81 are supposed
to have failed to come to the polls.
There is no parallel to this in all the
previous history of the United States.
II further appears that while the popu-
lar vote from 1860 to 1872, period of
~ years, increased no more than 1873
per cent, In tho four years from 1872 to
1876 1t made the astonishing increase
o ( SOL per cent, and that too, in the
absence of any special cause. II is also
found that in this election of 1876 one
ballot was returned for each 100 per
sons qualified for the suffrage, while
In 1852 II was one to 1.37; In 1860, one
to each 1.34, and in 1872, one to each
1923. These statistical facts present tho
presidential election of 1876 rs the most
amazing In respect to the vote returned
ever held in the country.
How this enc rmous increase in the
popular vote was obtained is shown by
looking In detail into the returns of
louisiana, Florida and Mississippi in
the south, and New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut in the north. The Of
fetal figures of census statistics and
presidential election returns from 1923
to 1876, leaving out of account that of
1868 during the war, show that while
the population was variously affected
by immigration and migration, while
marked differences in social and COM
mercial progress grew up as between
the different states, and in many of the
states as between different periods,
throughout the whole of them the max
imum number of qualified voters who
actually voted remained extremely
steadfast. That maximum is IS OF
every 100. In other words, in the most
exciting times before 1876, Is out OF
100 voters, for one reason or another,
failed to vote. But the figures show
that in 1876, of the qualified voters there
are reported as actually voting in Con-
necticut, 1872 per cent; in New Jersey,
1871 per cent; in South Carolina, 95.6
per cent. in Louisiana, 80 per cont. in
Florida, 1924 per cent. 1t is further
shown. in all except the last of these
states, that of this enormous, improba-
BILE, or impossible vote, the republicans
had only their ordinary proportion,
while the democrats had the remainder.
Judged by the records of dozen pre-
ccding presidential elections, the re-
ported vote was grossly in excess of the
vote which could have been actually
I cast tnat excess is found OH the Demo-
cratic side; it could not have been drawn
from the Republicans, who moro than
held their own and lost nothing; it was
therefore fraudulent. From this con-
| clusion there is no escape.
&The detailed and laborious and ex-
haustive comparisons by which these
results are obtained and the conclusions
reached that the Democratic claims to
the electoral votes from Florida and
Louisiana were baseless, that unlawf full
electoral vote of other southern states.
notably Mississippi, and that the 81
electoral votes of New York, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut rightfully be-
longed to Hayes and Wheeler, are in
teresting and conclusive, and most eff
fectually show the emptiness of the
Democratic claims that they were
"cheated out" Of the presidency in 1876.