The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-11-12
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AsA fIELU s MAJoRlTY. N
The careful and llinformed Now York cor
respendent Of the philadetphia Ledger writes
under daie'of Friday night:
There Is something important going on ar,ong
the Democratic leaders which promises to create
asensation. The State executive committee pro-
fess to bc cognzant of illegal voting in thfs city
nnd brooklyn To an cStcni which, they affirm
viii 'nvalidatc the electoral vote for Gen Gar.
hcld aud give the State to his vrpVncut, but
they will furnish no details at present, except
TO call attention to some extraordinary Repnb-
Lean results id particular districts. In due
time, they say, it will all be made apparent. -
Your correspondent heard some intimations of
thfs KIND mt headquarters on the morning after
the election, but did not attach sufficient impor-
tance to them TO give them publicity. The ac-
tlon OF the executive committee in announcing
through the morning journals that in certain
localities "a vote has been cast largely in excess
OF the legal vote, and that '.ihc unaccountablc
increase in the Republican vote in Ne.y York
and Kings Counties is plain evidence of fraud"
shows that in their judgment at least there is
something behind those int isnations. What it
all means we shall soon see. Meanwhile you
will observe the committee request all citizens
OF this State. in each and every locality, who
favor the right of the people to popular govern
ment, and VIC belicvc.a very fair vote and an
honest count Essential to the perpetuation Of our
institutions, TO aid by, oil means in their power
tho aseeriaiumcnt of this result."s The city
Republican journals do not affect ignorance as
to what this proceeding means, and they raise
warning accordingly. The Tribune says {:
"Mr. BarRum will dc we'll to stop right where
he Is. The business public are in no. mood to
tolerate seditions fooling. No human hcing in
New York doubts that the State has honestly
and irreyocably gone Republican" The Times,
even more pointedly remarks :"Thc Republican
electors have n majority in the State of Mt least
NJ. m nj ha nol of
trickery and fraud there is no method by which
the Republican party can be cheated out of the
fruits of victory. The Democratic Congress
which refuses to count the vote of New York for
Garfield and Ar hur will inaugurate revolution -
Per contra, Truth, which seems to be the organ
OF the Democratic Executive Committee for the
time being, declares that "lIaGcock is elected" "
and closes with the following highly wrought ap,
peal: "Let us not again submit as we submit ed
In 1876. This fraud Of 1880 is the greatest of all
We call on every Democrat in the land to help, by
voice and action, in the overthrow of this terri
bic wrong, and sec to it that Gen. Winfield S.
hancock Is next March seated in the chair to
which he has been honestly and rightfulIy
elected
John kcllys evening organ, The Express, has
the following, with the closing sentence in ital.
les: "Facts are coming rapidly to light which
go to prove that the Republican success is due
to a wholesale and corrupt use of money, to @
systematic colonization of illegal voters, and tc
nm Inscriptions use of machinery for interfcr
ing with the elections under the prctence I.
supervising them. These three points demand
immediate and thorough investigation. If M,
Repubttcan managers hare perpetrated systemati.
and gigantic frauds on the baiiot-bor in this ana
either States, and the frcts can 6eproUed, they mus
take the consequence, Of their acts"
Outside of party lines people hardly know
what to make of all this. They are rat her dunn
founded. If there is anything more than an
other upon which the community have been con
graduating themselves since Tuesday. it is the
fact of our escape from another contested elec
tion, and ii is fervently to be hoped now tha
nothing will happen to prove that these congra
tulations were premature. The Republican
leaders contemplate the movement with derision
In Wall street it was the subject of more or les.
remark, but it had no direct influence ON t.
markets.