Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-21
~ PEOPLES POLL TAx.D
The Con sentative Republicans Pro-
posea Eive-OOlIar Fund To Secure
afulI Free Vote,

afuli Free Vote.
The National Association of Conserva
tive Republicans hiss Issued tn fpllowin
address;
HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN,
No 81 WEST TwENTY-F FOURTH STREET.
NEW YoRK, October 1S, 1880.
To he Friends of General Hancock and Of
ue Constitution and the Union
We ask your immediate and earnest atten.
ton and cooperation with us in national
effort to bring out to the polls on the secon
day of November next, every voter VIII
thinks the same things with you and with u
concerning the republic.
The October elections in two great States
OF the West, Indiana and Ohio, have Just
shown to the whole country that at the
Presidential election in November next the
honest voters Of the Union will find them
selves confronted at the polls by the organized
corruption OF the Radical party welding all
the resources of the Federal Cover nment, and
determined in 1880 to repeat under one or
another forru the crime which, IN 1876, the
express will Of the American people in the
choice of their rulers was audR.:iously de-
feated and set at naught.
In Indiana and Ohio large bodies of fraud
ulent voters were shamelessly brought to the
polls by Radical managers many of whom ill
posts in the public service and draw pay
from the Treasury of the United States. In
indianapolis and Cincinnati alone the closing
OF the polls ON the 18th of October showed
an aggregate of votes deposited in the ballot
boxes OF these two cities exceeding by more
than Q, 600 the census returns of men of the
voting age included in their population.
Voters were openly bought in the public
streets of both cities, and in the city of
indianapolis ut midnight ON the 18th of
October literal regiment of .'Davenported"
deputy marshnls numbering 625 men was
suddenly called into being by Dudley the
United States Marshal, to protect at the polls
on the ensuing day the imported repeaters
who were to defraud the people OF Indiana Of
their free choice Of rulers for their own COM
monwealth. All this machinery Of fraud and
| force has been established and ID kept In
| motion, of course, by a lavish use OF funds.
These funds have been raised by the follow
| ing methods:
First-Repeated assessments ranging from
| 90 cents to hundreds and thousands of dollars
have been levied upon every man and woman
I in the public service, from the Secretary of
| State to the scrub-women in the Capitol.
Second-Banks, bankers and syndicates con-
| nected by secret and confidential relations
| with the Treasury of the United States,
monopolists maintained by such private con-
| nections with members of Congress as were
| brought to light in the scandalous history Of
! the Credit Mobilier and De Golyer pavement
! ring, stock operators fattened on the profits
| of secret and exclusive information, have
| tnth anu tbulilDNttu lHTBtlN Vi lltu
| profits in the past in the hope of realizing
more than all their present outlay from fresh
| profits in the future.
| Tor, to hold Ohio and Indiana in October
was absolutely necessary to the Radicals if
Their organization was to he held together in
the field till November.
Nothing Was spared to achieve this result
| AMI this result was achieved
| IL now becomes necessary for the people of
the United states to put themselves at once
and energetically between these hungry and
| desperate place-holders, monopoliHts and
traders III political power and the polls in
November, if they expect to keep those polls
free from the corruption and the bulldozng
which have disgraced the country in the
October elections
To that end We now call upon the people to
come forward and unite with lis at once in
raising by single subscriptions OF 50 a great
popular fund for the defense of the polls
Tins flnd is to be regarded as the peoples
voluntary poll tax levied by themselves to
keep the access TO the polls in November free
from fraud and force, and 10 bring to the
polls in November every voter in this country
wh' believes i'll the principles and hopes for
the prnluucncc of Unconstitutional government.
u IL 10 bc regarded accessory only to the
funds raised from private subscriptions and
distributed Icy thu National Democratic Com
mt eo III the ordinary work of great politi-
cal campaign. The necessity for it arises out
OF the Migrant Developments of violence and
, NlAny Just developed i'll Indiana and Ohio,
whiih pretiglne and threaten outrages upon
the popular will OF 1880 not less audacioua
thuu the great crime of 1876.
Let every man who can afford the sum OF
20 I" secure he freedom of elections in
America, Il, Oh &C send i'll his money with his
nale to the adj dress given below.
Let every ms II who cannot afford this get
MP It club with his friends who are in the like
ease, aud send i'll their joint contributions In
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