Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-06

vote OF New York on the ground or
fraud on the franchise The party that
does not hesitate to place its dependence
upon the stolen votes of the South pirates
of election frauds. The party which in
1865 caused 40, 900 fraudulent votes to be
polled in the city of New York alone,
thinks that the State of New York could
not give majority of 10000 to Garfield
without the aid OF illegality. OF a GER
tainty it requires good stock of patience
to bear with the enormous impudence OF
these Democrats, and their towering dis.
honesties. The circumstance that they
have not a shadow of plausibiity
in their case of course does not
affect them IN the least, though it
will the public. The returns from New
York and Brooklyn cities have shown from
the first change of votes from the Dem
ocratic TO the Republican side. The az
gregate vote cast in these cities was not
larger than had been anticipated. The
unexpected developments occurred in its
distribution. The Democratic vote fell
off, and the Republican vote increased.
That was the fact, as shown by the earliest
returns. The causes of this change
are of comparatively no Importance, and
as they are variously stated it may not be
possible to find the true one. Some
charge the diminution of the Democratic
vote to Kelly's forced nomination of
Grace for Mayor Others attribute it to
the friendship of Kelly for Arthur
Others think the Democratic business men
all abandoned the party. But all, save
the handful of rogues who have already
led the Democracy to ruin, concur in re-
garding the outcome as natural and legiti
mate, no matter how caused.
AS for these fellows, they have so ire
trievably destroyed their own regulations
that they may perhaps be DESTROYS of
dragging all the rest of the country into
the same distress. They viii, however,
not find il easy to carry out any plan for
defeating the will of the people. The Re-
publican party, to begin with, has acquired
a habit of inaugurating the Presidents it
elects, and it will take larger force than
Lee or johnson were ever able to raise to
prevent it from doing 80. It knows that
General Garfield is elected, and by the
only honest vote cast in the-late election.
Mark that, if you please, Messieurs Demo
Gratis. The so-called Hancock vote was
certainly not lawful one. The solid
South is nothing less than an impudent
conspiracy against the supreme law of the
land And while we have no doubt that a
Democratic Congress is quite dishonest
and disloy al enough TO perpetrate this or
any other fraud or treason, we have an
abiding faith in the restraining influence
of past recollections upon even the most
impatient rebel in the Hancock Brigade
The Democratic National Committee
had better proceed cautiously in this
business. The North cannot be bulldozed
and will not be cheated. New Yorks So
Electoral votes will have to be counted for
Garfield, and if the Democrats should try
to prevent that contamination somebody
viii get hurt There is no possibility of
any serious doubt of the legitimacy of the
vote of that State, and the country will
not, after just rebuking Democratic frauds
and outrages, permit that rebuke to be
nulliied by a greater Democratic fraud
than ever. Only fools can think a pro-
granme of that kind feasible, and though
the Democratic managers have shown
themselves at least as silly as they are
dishonest, it may be doubted whether even
their faulty IS great enough to lead them
into such trap. The best thing they can
do is to drop the foolish experiment. and
let it be set down to the unavoidable cha.
grin of defeat which they had sold their
very souls to avoid.