The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-02-28


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worth taking into account for a mo
ment in planning the campaign or
estimating the probable result. There
are undoubtedly enough Republicans
in more than one Of the Southern
States TO carry it next Fall. Perhaps
they will be allowed to vote. 1t is
possible that the shot gun policy will
be abandoned as expensive. disturb
ing to labor, and unnecessary. But
this will signify nothing. The entire
machinery of elections is in the hands
of the Democrats, and no matter
how many Republican votes may go
into the boxes, round Democratic
majority will be, sure to come out
when the count takes place. Gtought
to be understood by this time in the
North that public sentiment in the
South not only excuses false counting
and false returns, made for the pur-
pose Of defeating the Republicans,
but actually demands the commission
Of such frauds. The election officers
regard themselves as charged with
the duty Of seeing that the suprema-
cy of the white race suffers no detri-
NETT. They are not criminals in
their own estimation or in that of
their neighbors, when they take
cipher off the end of one column in a
return and add it to another, or shit
the figures about so that the majority
given for Republican candidate ap
peals to have been thrown for his
Democratic opponent ; they are only
preventing therestoration of "nigger
rule" They do what they are eX-
pected to do, and they know that the
courts will not punish them and that
they will have the moral support Of
the community where they live.
When such frauds are committed
at every local election how absurd it
Is to suppose that they will not be
| repeated when the stake is the pos
session of the National Government.
The South has been held together for
the past four years by her ruling
politicians Tor the sole purpose of
carrying the Presidential election of
b1SSO by throwing her solid electoral
vote into the scale. Is it likely that
this bold and cunning scheme for
justifying the rebellion and grasping
power at one stroke is going to be
abandoned by its authors when they
have full ability to carry it out, so
far as the action of their own States is
concerned ? Are the Brlgadiers going
to send around word to their follow
ers that there must be honest elcc>
tions this year for the first time since
the Democrats got power in the
South in order that the Republicans
may carry South Carolina and three
or foar other Southern States? The
notion is preposterous. The Demo
Gratis can count upon the electoral
vote of every one of the o.d Slave
States with as much G. lence as
they can upon that of i Icky.
1t is time, all ReDub IS under
stood this fact and appreciated its
practical bearings. The lesson it con-
veys is that the Chicago nomination
should be made with a view to car
ryiug the close States of the North,
and not with a view to pleasing the
Republicans of the South, who will
be able>to do no more toward carry
ing the election than they would if
they lived on the other side of the
moon. And further, it shows that
the Southern Republicans would do
well 10 keep aloof from any proposed
alliance which contenplates the con-
troll Of the Convention by the aid of
their votes. If they are wise they
will see the great importance ol
nominating man who will have the
ardent support of the Republican
masses ia the North and who will
encounter the antagonism of no Re-
publican element sufficiently large to
imperi his success by its opposition
or r,indifference.-N. Y. Tribune.