Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-08-20
1T rs HIGH TIME.

at is high time,n remarks one of
Mr.. Hayes most serious organs, "that
the political. managers were given to
understand that an election is not u
mere contest of fraud" The brief
utterance embodies whole volume of
the same snivelng, canting hypocrisy
that has been the most prominent
characteristic of Mr.. Hayes aud his
Administration, since the latter was
begotten in perjury and brought forth
in fraud.
We agree with the sentiment, but
not with its intended application. 1t
is high time that the political managers
who, by fraudulent practices have
kept this Government for years under
the domination of the minority, and
who, by tho same tactics, have nulli-
fed the lawfully declared will of the
majority, "were given to understand
that an election is not mere contest
OF fraud intended to bring the defeat
cd candidate in, as Mr.. Hayes came in,
but solemn declaration of the sover.
eign people, to attempt to annul which
is revolution.
1t is high time that the political
managers who for years retained con-
trol OF the United States Senate by
the fraudulent disfranchsemen of
whole States, who put into that body,
and held there, men who no more rep
resented the people in whose name
they voted than Dennis Kearney rep.
resents the couture" OF Bacon Hill and
the aristocracy Of Boston, were gwen
to understand that their game is up
and that an attempt to repeat It will
be alarmingly dangerous.
1t is high time that the political
managers who stole the votes Of Louisi.
ana and Florida, who in so doing com
mitted almost every felony known to
the law, who disgraced Republicanism
in the eyes of all nations, who debauch.
cd public opinion until thousands of
their blind followers came to look up
on forgery and perjury as justi6able
when committed in the interest of the
rty,-it is high time that this gang
were brought to halt by the infor.
nation that an election is not farce,
but the solemn, irrcvocable decision Of
the highest tribunal-the court of last
resort.
1t is high time that the acting Pres
ident and those who have aided and
abetted him in degrading that high
office by bestowing places of honor
and emolument on the scoundrels who
committed felonies in order to give the
Chief Magistracy to the defeated can
didate high time that all the political
managers who planned, executed and
have helped to pay for those infamous
crimes, were made TO feel that, al
though seemingly successful tor the
present, their infamy is not forgotten,
but will live in the memory of men
when all their other acts shall have
passed into oblivion.
1t is high time for all concerned to
comprehend the fact that the frauds by
which the Republican party holds pow.
er in this country, and by virtue Of
which it controls l0l, 900 Federal Off.
GERS who administer the affairs of the
Nation, were the greatest crime
against civil liberty that has been com.
mitted in our day, and that in this
light, and IN this light only, will they
go into history.
1t is high time for the political man.
ayers of the Radical faith to begin to
get 1t into their heads that the majori-
ty must and will rule that neither
the army at the polls nor thousands of
Mr.. Davenport's bull-dozers will be
permitted to annul the will of the ma.
jority; that they have wrestcd power
from the lawful yictors for the last
time that their hypocrtical cant does
not disguise their designs "that an
election is not mere contest OF fraud,
but a verdict that must and shall
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