The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-08
A POLITICAL wAIF.
Il Suggestive Compilation of Statistics by
Repubtican, from Which lie Concludes
Not to Ploy lNiM The Boomerang Which
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The following interesting communication
has been sent US, says the New York World,
by gentleman who says he picked it up
on Park row few doors east of our Office.
We arc without any clue as to its author.
ship, but we infer from the Internal owl.
dencc that it mVst be memorandum ad!
dressed by some journalist to the editor of
come newspaper:
MEMORANDUM.
81 have received your suggestion that
the public is crying for ten. column arti.
Gle full Of astonishing assertions on some
subject or other, aud agree with YOU tha,
in the inexplicable absence of the sea.ser-
pcnt, (doubtless detained by head winds,
and the unaccountablc silence Of the gentle.
man of veracity who knows that John
Wilkes Booth is living in Samoa, the elec-
toral returns Of 1876 offer a bright and
newsy theme.
III yield to no ono in my keen apprccia-
tion of the excitement Of chasing the bound
ing mare to her secret nest, but to speak
after the manner of the great lexicographer,
the pursuit Of that nidi6c,ting quadruped
is us frequently attended by dangers as
rewarded by advantages. On how many
recent occasions has the Shark whose trail
wc have followed proved to be of the Boo.
jun variety! My own advice, therefore,
would be to declare vigorously but vaguely
that successfully executed frauds nullifed
the popular will in 1875 in the choice of
Presidential electors is not q mere matter
of surmise.' This is strictly true, and
as our readers will think that we are refer.
ring to Democratic frauds it might be as
we'll to stop here aud forbear to trace these
frauds to the localities where they were
perpctrated and fix the responsibility for
them. l mind me of prudent hunter of
olden time who, after pursuing the trail of
a bear for three days and three nights,
desistcd in his pursuit because it was get.
ting (be had dealt with Chittenden when
In town) 'to9. dam fresh Might not tho
same thing EHaia.pf US?
diate the State census of 1876 comes with
refreshing and scasonable coolncss when I
remember that only few days ago We
made use of the figures contained in il to
prove that the Irish Catholics are all that
they should moi be. But if we do this we
must fall back upon the Federal census of
1870. have struck q trail balance and
discover that in the seventeen States which
voted for Tilden in 1876 there were cast
4.l3O, 1863 votes, which is equal to 20 9 per
cent. of the population of 1870. This ex.
traordinarily large percentage know is an
infallible indication of fraud, but when l
ROT hof in tha u.
voted-.-or were made to vote-for Hayes
in 1876, there were cast 4,299,047, which
is equal to 23.4 per cent. of the population.
it seems to me that we had, perhaps, bcttor
say nothing about It. The percentage IN
Democratic New York was 234, and in
Republican New Hampshire 25.1 in Dem
ocratic Indiana it was 25.6, aud in Repub.
licau Michigan 26.6 in Democratic Ken
tucky it was 1876, and in Republican Ohio
24.7 and 80 on, so that it might be we'll
to hearken to the ancient proverb which
says, Let sleeping percentages lie.' If
they are suddenly wakcd up they might
tell the truth
"Your remarks as to Mr.. Barnums ex-
tended operation iu Connecticut are exces-
sively interesting. That bold, bad man
began his neiar;ous work shortly before
1876, as is evidenced by tho sudden aud
gigantic increase in the popular vote, viz,
from 86,755 in 1873 to l22, ,156 in 1876,
or almost Al per cent. AS you very justly
remark, this increase il uunaturally large.
Bot parhaps I'VE bod b:iter, ,,ssy nothing
about this. / find that in those three
years the Democratic vote grew from As,
O59 to 61 ,934, or something over 81 per
cent, and the Republican from 39,245 to
59,O34, or something more than SO per
cent. Let US therefore rest satisfied in the
sweet consciousness that while that deplor.
able deceiver, ex-senator Barnum, was put
ting three bogus ballots into the box, Broth
ers iiawley, Platt and Sperry, inspired by
the justice Of their cause, were slipping in
four. Upon g)aucing over the county re-
turns ind that in six of the eight coun-
ties the Republican contributed most largely
to tho fraudulent increase, and that three
Of those were Democratic strongholds.
Tilden may have planted and Barnum wa
tered, but We got oil the cider off of their
apple trees. Selah Thus are the ungodly
brought to grief! As
"In like manner whom I look closely inte
the New York returns / am convinced that
wo had better let bygones be bfgones.---
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