The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-07-24
SELECTION FRAUDS.

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Thu New NOri. Times Shows Up
some OF the Means by which the
Democrats Poiied such u Large
Vote in 1876.
The New York Times has printed large
number of facts and statistics tending to
show that there were great Democratic
frauds in the Presidential vote CT 1876 1t
shows by careful study of our elec-
tions since 1923 that IN periods of the b. h
est political excitement not more than 81
per cent OF the electoral body of State can
be iairly brought to the POLLS; in other
words, Is 10 every 100 qualified citizsns.
owing to the preventive causes, are
unable to exercise the right Of suffrage. 1t
Was discovered on examination that the
aggregate vote returned a. being cast in
the Presidential election ct 1876, presented
the most startling exception to that had
gone before for forty eight years. The ell
ectiou was not Al especially excited ore, as
Presidential elections go, yet it ia found
that the aggregate vote cast ia in its msgni.
tude out of all proportion to The population
of the country; that the Ter centage of the
nou-vcting sinks 10
AN IMP0SSIBLY Low FIGURE;
that tie per centage Of increase in The vote
of some sections at that election over the
vote OF 1872 is greatly dispropor,ioned to
their increase OF POI uistiol, and to the an.
nual increase OF their votes for twenty years
proces ding.
IA to the aggr gate OF the country, these
tscls, among others, are shown In 1860,
the most exciting election, eXcep. that OF
1910. knowl in nur history, the Presiden-
tial vie equal.d li9 per cent. OF the State
population, ard % per cent. of the cleo
tor. failed to vote. Ia 1872 it .qualed 16
per cent and - 5 per c-nt. Of the electors
did no, vote. la 1876, the vote equaled
10 9 par cent. OF the population, and only
81 OF the electors failed TO vote that L.,
in every 100 qualified voters in every State
If the Union, no more than 81 are sup
posed to have failed to come TO the polls.
THERE Is NO PARALLEL TO THIS
in all the previous history OF the Uni:ed
States.
1t further appears that, while the popu-
lar vote iron 1860 TO 1872, period Of
twelve years, increased no more than So per
cent, In the four yesrs from 1872 to 1876 it
made the Astounding lncre ase OF 80. per
cent, and that, too, in the shsencs OF any
special canse. We also find that in this
election Of 1876 one ballot WAS resumed for
each 90 persons qualified for the suffrage,
white in 1862 it wss one to to each 81, in
1860 one to each 81, and in 1872 one TO
each % These statistical facts present
the election of 1876 as
THE MOST AMsZrSG
in respect 10 the vote returned ever held in
the country. The answer ia found by push.
ing the inquiry into those localities where
the increase visa greatest. which ara certain
States in the South, and in the North The
States Of New York, New jersey and Con,
nec,icut. The following iscts are proved
That, ss respects Louisiana, the claims
made in behalf Of Mr.. Ti.den assume that
in every 100 qualified voters ninety nine
came 10 the polls and voted, which il a
physical impossIbility thstin Florida Mr.
Tilden's claim rested on the assertion
made bs his friends that the popular vote
amounted to IS 79I. which required that
4,O5S ballots should be cast in excess of the
WHOlt VI SlcCttt. III thc
State: that TO cast the vote claimed in Mis-
sissippi would require that in every 100
voters "A 10 cane to the polls, and If
every white voter in the Sta.e
hsd csst his vo.e for Mr.. Tilnen, it would
sill require tost 80 2S6 colored men should
also have voted for him to brig the tota
no TO what it was claimed to be, that in
New York it ia conclusively proven the
number of qualified electors in the State il
1876 did not exceed, LOGS, 4l2 or 224 per
cent of Its total population, and of this
number the Presidential vote az returned
represented that OH, $50 mad come to the
polls, which would require that in every
100 qualified voters in the State only s
failed to deposit their ballots, and
THIS IS SHEER INPoSsIBILITY
that, in respect TO New jersey, the Presi-
DENTAL vote of 1876 pre.ents results more
extraordinary than in New York, for a
State census was taken in 1875, which
showed the population to be l los, 413, and
by the method of computation used in the
Federal census of 1870 there must have
been in the state in 1876 223,O04 qualified
voters; that the total vote returned was
800 254, of only 2,770 short of the total
number of persons in the State qualified to
vote; that 20 produce this incredible rally
70 the polls it would require thst only
fraction over one voter in 100 in the
whole State of New Jersey should have
failed to deposits his ballo; on the occasion,
ard amounts to q physical impossibility;
that it is also noted that in 1876 the Pc
publicaus increased their vote IL per cent
over that of 1872, and yet despite this in
crease, the Democratic vote made an in
crease of no less than 80 per cent; that
IN CONNECTICUT
the same general features are discovered
in the dispropor;ion of the vote Of 1876 as
compared with the population, and the re-
cults of all previous Presidential elections
in that State; that never before did the
vote csst exceed so per cent of the whole
body OF qualified electors; but in the last
election this proportion rose 70 So.
The Times gives m any facts to show that
the utterly unprecedented increase in the
proportion of 1876 was not due to the Re
publican vote, which showed only its nor
NAL increase, but to the astonishing growth
OF the Democratic vote.
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