Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-10

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the actual results in Florida depended
upon the decision made as to one pre-
cinct in Alachua County and the return
from Manatee County. there being only
one hundred majority either way. 1t
was secretly telegraphed by Marble that
sit would not strain Board much to
throw out" the disputed Democratic
votes in Manatee. His opinion of the
worthless character of Democratic claims
in that case was confirmed by the Board,
which also threw out the disputed Re-
publican votes in Alachua. There is
not particle of proof that either of the
members of the Board ever was for sale
sale. The two Republicans were strong
ly convinced of the justice of their case
from the beginning, and in every deci-
sive action they were sustained by the
Democratic member. Marble and Wool
ey both transmitted to New York propo-
sitions designed to sway the decision by
bribery, but failed. Evidence taken in
the Congressional contest in that State
has proved beyond dispute that the Re-
publicans were right in their claims,
and that the votes believed by them to
have been cast were actually and legally
cast for Republican electors. But the
essential question is not whether the
Board may have been mistaken in judg-
ment the vital fact is that it decided
according to the law as laid down by
the Democratic member, the Attorney
General, and its honest convictions, and
and was not for sale, although the Dem
ocratic leaders tried to buy its decision.
III. 1t is conclusively proved, in re-
spect to Louisiana, that reign of terror
and violence in several parishes, caused
by Democratic crimes, had made it dan
gerous, if not impossible, for active Re-
publicans to bring out their vote. Such
was the terrorism that the proper officers
did not dare, for their lives, to make
formal protests until they had escaped
from the reach of Democratic assassins.
Some of them were afterward murdered
because, having thus escaped, they told
the truth. For the express purpose of
preventing the success of party by
such means, a State law had intrusted
extraordinary and arbitrary powers to
the Canvassing Board-powers which
would neither be needed nor conferred
in civilized state. Those powers were
exercised by strong Republican partisans
and there is not the faintest shadow of a
reason for believing that they required
or had any other inducement than a
sense of justice and an intense hostility
to the party of assassination and massa.
ere. The Democrats insist that their
assassins should have triumphed. and
that there was "Great Fraud" because
massacre was defeated by the exercise
of extreme and arbitrary powers con.
ferred by law. The Republicans, on the
other hand, rejoice that for once the
revolver and the shotgun failed to elect
President.
". 1t is conclusively proved that the
Democrats, being defeated elsewhere
tried to obtain by bribery in Oregon +;
vote to which they had no shadow o.
claim. The offer of money went from
Mr.. Tilden's own house, and the money
itself afterwards went from banks anC
bankers whom he has close and conf
Dental relations, at the request of hi
impecunious nephew. That attempt t.
swindle the country failed in Soutl
Carolina and Florida. And now tn
thwarted assassins are yelling Fraud
because they could neither get the pow
er by murder nor by bribery.