The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-07-31
The Republican.


EISuu EONcu W HISuiCSs
The Indianapolis Ne,cs. which ev-
erybody in Indiana knows is not a
Republican paper. comments as fol-
lows:
~Ou a page and half Of its Mon
day issue the New York Times pnb-
fishes a complete analyses OF the
election OF 1876. 1t can not, OF course,
prove fraud in so many words. as the
cipher dispatches did. but when 1t
shows that for period OF forty eight
years elections Of the most momen-
tous kind have drawn out no more
than 50 per cent. of the popular vote
and then shows. according to the re-
turns OF 1876, that $50 per cent.
voted In Connecticut, 90 2 per cent,
10 New York, 9S.6 per cent. in New
Jersey. 80 per cent. in Louisiana.
1904 per cent. In Florida. ii shows a
presumption Of fraud from which
there is no escape. When further il
elbows that of all its enormous vote
the Republicans have only their oIdi
nary proportion, and that the magi-
cal increase was Democratic, 1t shows
that the fraud was for the behoof OF
the same persons Who dealt in cipher
dispatches. and the inference Is. per-
petrated by the came master maniP-
ulator. Indeed Ia the light of tbs
Times work the cipher dispatches
are for the first time entirely ccmpre-
hensible. The frauds worked out in
detail in these separate states were
supposed to be all sufficient; then
comes q hitch and the desperate de-
sire to get the -usufruct" OF so much
weary labor. originates the scheme OF
buying up the rascality that previous
work showed existed. The Times
figures show that in louisiana the
vote claimed by Tilden involves the
assumption that OF the l60.94l quail
1ied electorals In that state only 1900
failed to come to the polls, and that
every white voter in the state. dead
or alive. sick or we'll, absent or pres
ent, 1906 in number, cast his vote
for Mr.. Tilden; while, in addition to
this, 9, 40 colored voters rallied TO his
support, the remainder OF the cOlored
vote goingto Mr.. Hayes. This would
require that In every 100 qualified
voters OF the state Of Louisiana, 80
came to the polls and voted,
In Florida the population was 2l6.-
149. Of which 44.74l. white and color
ed, were entitled to vote. The Dem
ocratic claim rested on the declara- |
ton that there were 1871 votes, OF
which 24.44l were polled for Tilden.
and "a $50 for Hayes, which required
1850 ballots In excess OF the whole
humber OF qua1fed electors. In
Mississippi there were ia 227 quail
fed electors. 81, 1897 white. and 92.34O |
colored- The presidential vote was
l64, 77s, Of which 112.l73 votes were
alleged to have been cast for Tild, D,
and 50, sos for Hayes. This would re
quire that in every one hundred
voters 81 5 came to the polls; and il
every white voter ia the state. with
out single exception. has cast his |
vote for Tilden, it would still require |
that 80, 2S6 colored men should also
have voted for him. In New York il
tt Is conclusively proved that the
number OF qualified electors in 1876
did not exceed LOGS, 4l2, or ga per
cent. OF its total population. or this
number. the presidential vote Is re-
turned represented that 1.0l7 .330 had
come to the polls. which would re-
quire that in every one hundred quail
lied voters in the state only As failed
20 deposit their ballots.
In New Jersey there must have
been In 1876 223.O04 qualified voters,
The total vote returned was 220.224
or only 2.770 short OF the total num-
Der Of persons In the state qualified
to vote. To produce this, 1t would
require that only a fraction over one
voter In every one hundred In the
whole Of New Jersey should have
failed to deposit his ballot. Connect
fcut shows a similar increase, and for
these three northern states OF New
York. New Jersey and Connecticut,
the Times thus summarizes:
For 20 years, from 1910 To 1860, the
population Of New York increased 597 |
per cent. and the popular vote 30 per |
cent. but from 1850 tn 1876. period of
sixteen years, while the population i'll
creased p per cent, the last presiden-
fial election makes the popular vote i'm
crease SOC per cent. New Jersey, during /
the first period named. increased i'm popu.
laiion 50 TER cent. and the popular vote in
creased 67.9 per cent but in the second /
period, while the population increased 81 /
per cent, the popular vote increased 81 /
per cent. Couueclicnt, during the first /
period. increased her population AZ 3 per |
cent /; b 1t in the second period, while the /
population increased % 3 per cent, the |
popular vote increased 5S.3 per cent
In all this increase the figures show
that the Republican increase was In |
steady proportion to its previous in
crease and to population: In some
cases even less. The conclusion is |
Irresistible that there was ballot box
stuffing ia the most wholesale and
systematic fashion.
A remarkable incident happened In