Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-14
PREPARE FOR rRloKERY.

By far the most important election that
has ever taken place in this country is now
pending. Upon its result will depend to a
large extent the prosperity of the republic
for four years to come. and the success or
failure of republican institutions more
or less depends upon the success or failure
of the Democratic ticket. Four years ago
the Democratic candidates for President and
Vice President were elected, not only by the
majority of the people, but by a majority of
the electoral votes. They were defrauded of
the fruits of their victory by system of
bribery and corruption without parallel in
any country, and men installed who had no
more right to the Offices than the poores
Migrants who walk the road.
1t has been the settled policy of the Re-
publican party to take every possible advan-
tage of the Democracy, fair or unfair. By
hook or by crook they are bound to retain
control of the federal government. They
have immense resources and
have used them in the past
and will use them in the future unscru-
pulously to attain their end. The men who
procured the seating of Hayes by dishonest
means will not hesitate to employ the same
not be party to the dishonesty. but he will,
without doubt, be obliged by his adherents
to accept their acts as his own, whatever
they may be. Mr.. Hayes was reputed to be
honest before the last election, yet he enter
ed into the conspiracy to steal the electoral
votes of two States, and accepted his pilfered
Office without qualm of conscience. Under
similar circumstances Mr.. Garfield would do
likewise.
The pending contest is life or death
struggle for the Republican party. If it
fails of success in November, it will be dead
beyond the power of resurrection. The leaders
appreciate this fact, and have long since set
tied upon programme to be pursued. If
Grant had been nominated it was their pur-
pose to provoke contests wherever posi- BILE,
and involve the election in confusion. If
the decision of the national returning board
had gone against them they would have had
resort to war. The nomination of Garfield
has defeated part of their programme, but
not the whole. They will attempt to con-
fuse the returns and provoke contest, and
by every means in their power endeavor to
procure decision in their favor, whether
rendered by the people or not.
It is well for the Democrats to be on their
guard for the tricks that the Republicans
are preparing to play. It will be no easy
matter to circumvent them, especially if the
pending amendment to the joint rule
relative to the manner of counting
the electoral vote is defeated in
Congress. Then the Vice President would
have the option Of rejecting the vote of
any contested State, and the Presidency
might again be stolen. 1t is folly to assert
that Hayes and Wheeler are too honorable
men to consent to such scheme. Men
who accept offices to which they have no val
id title are none too honorable to use dis
honorable means to keep an Objectionable
successor out of Office. A thief will stop at
no measures that promise to prevent the ex-
posure of his own rascality.
The Republicans will make vigorous
fight If they succeed in carrying the election
they will be we'll satisfied, and will receive
the reward of their success from the Demo
cratic Congress. If they fail, they will re-
sort to the same means employed four years
ago, and endeavor to defeat by strategy and
fraud the expressed will of the people. It's
well to watch them closely, and be prepared
to meet any emergency that rlay arise.