Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-11
4 MONEY CAMPAIGN.


The campaign at present IN progress vii
De conducted by the Republicans on purely
financial basis, especially at the South. This
is practically the ass ertion of Marshall Jewell,
chairman of the National Republican COM
mjttee. The course was advised by Blaine,
herman. Logan, and other party magnates,
at the recent New York conference, while all
{ e Southern polit clans present agreed that
without the plentiful use of money, all hope
of carrying any of the Southern States for
Garfield may as we'll be abandoned. Even
if they are given all the money they want,
they hold out hope of capturing but two of
the States south of Mason & Dixon's line
North Carolina and Florida-and in these
they advise the Inauguration of bloody
shirt campaign among the negroes, supple
mented by such monetary arguments as
promise to influence the intelligent voter.
1t is not difficult, in view of past expert
euce, to understand what money campaign
means. Such campaign was carried on
in Louisiana and Florida four years ago,
The voting precincts were flooded with
money previous to the election, and every
means used to prevail upon the voters to
support Mr.. Hayes. But this failed, and
when the ballots came to be counted Mr..
rilden was found to have a considerable
majority in each State. Then the money
vas again brought into requisition and Law
had he n,
supervisors of elections. The latter were
influenced by donations of money or prom
ises of political preferment to make afida-
Wits reciting acts of violence, intimidation
and fraud that never took place, and on the
strength of these afidavits the State return
ing b,ards threw out enough Democratic
votes returned to give the Hayes electors an
apparent majority. Money accomplished
With the returning officers what it could not
accomplish with the voters, and the electoral
vote of Louisiana and Florida was recorded
for Hayes despite the fact that the Tilden
electors were legally chosen.
It is evident that the same programme is
in contemplation at tha pending election.
The Democrats by.s confident Of
their ability to carry all the
Southern States, with On electoral
vote of one hundred and thirty eight, and
the States of New York, with thirty-ive, and
Indiana. with fifteen votes in the electoral
college, making a total of 1873 votes, or
three more than majority. They have al
most a certainty of several other States, but
these are all that the Republicans are willing
to conceed to them. If, however, by the
free use of money among the voters and
with the returning officers of North Carolina
or Florida they can succeed in raising
question as to how those States voted, they
would claim the electoral vote, and if posi-
BILE reverse the decision of the people once
again. This is the true inwardness of the
money campaign proposed in North Caro-
lima and Florida.
Democrats will not admit that there is
danger of such result, yet experience should
tend to make them less confident. All indi-
cations point to Democratic success in
New jersey, Connecticut, California. Oregon
and Illinois in addition to the Northern
States already named. If these expecta-
tons are realized we can afford to allow the
Republicans to steal North Carolina and
Florida, and yet have considerable msjori-
ty to 60 on. But this fact does not excuse
the attempt, nor will it excuse the consum
nation of SO great an iniquity, and it must
not be tolerated even If the rest of the Union
was unanimous in favor of the Democratic
ticket. fraud does not lose its character
because it fails of the accomplishment of its
purpose, and loses not of its Nervousness. 1t
behooves the Democratic committees to be
on the alert, and to defeat, by every means
in their power, the success of the money
CAMPAIGN programme of their opponents in
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