Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-08-07

In One-third of the States of this ma
tiOn there are no free elections. Shot
gun banditti and red-shirted rifle bands
canvass the country, threatening Repub-
icans if they shall dare to vote, shooting
eolored men in the midst of their fami-
lies on suspicion of being leaders, sur
rounding and taking possession of Repub-
lican meetings, if any Republicans dare
to assemble. and perpetrating still more
savage cruelties on white men who dare
to be Republicans. This is the way the
electioneering campaign is made. The
same brigands keep the places of registry,
and hold the same violence over Republi.
cans who dare to register.
The same banditti surround the polling
places, take possession of the poll-boxes,
form lines of brutal men through which
Republican voters must run the gauntlet
to cast their votes, and make the casting
| of Republican ballots peril to the Yo-
ter's life. Rioting in this possession of
| the polls, they faunt open frauds as a
| joke, such as openly stufing the ballot
boxes with tissue paper ballots. The It's
sue paper is only to point the joke; for
they make no secret of this cFamming.-
They make up returns without any re-
gard to the voting. TheV send greeting
to the people of the North, the solid Con-
federate South made solid by this villainy
as taunt to the people who conquered
them in war.
The control of the Congress of this re-
public is held through this destruction of
elections. The Confederate leaders de-
sign to carry the election of President by
the same crimes. Should they succeed in
| this, the country would have Congress
and a President who were no more elect
ed by the people than were the Roman
Emperors who bought their elections OF
the Prsetorian Guard. The control OF
, Congress has been seized by this destruc-
/ ton of the freedom of elections in the
| Confederate States. The majority of Con
gress represents crime and force, not pop
? ular election.
To complete this crime is now the sole
aim of Confederate Democratic politics
F: All the Democratic election strategy il
the South is directed to this end. Tht
rest of the Democratic party hangs a
/ the tail of the dog, on the solid Confed
f crate States. made solid by the destruction
of elections. Fancy money schemes, ant
all the other election lodges, are con
trived solely to blind the Northern peo
pie, while the country is surrendered t,
the Confederate Brigadiers. Mr.. EWin!
is only tool in this plot to destroy tn
: republic. For there is no republic whel
, elections by the people are abolished
n We have in the North a party organi
ZatiOn whose leaders are working tn
: same treacherous means to make the Con
: federates supreme, as the Copperhea,
| Democratic leaders did to give the Con
. federates victory in the war of secession
. They are working to tie enough Northern
. States as a tail to the solid Confederaey t
g make that supreme. They play this bas
}, part for the chance of what may come t
q them personally through Confederate su
premacy. But it is not reasonable to ex
pect that at this time as when the Demo
cratic leaders tried to deliver up the ma
: ton and the North to the Confederates i
= = the secession war, there are enough of in
y y telligent and patriotic Democrats to de
= feat the treachery ?-C Cincinnati Gazette