The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-10
POLITICAL NOTES.
A RARA AVIS, A CANDID DEMoCRATIC
PAPER.
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An Alabama Democratic Organ That Ad'
mIis and Depiorcs the Huge Frauds
That Recently Carried thht state for the
Democracy.
WASHINGTON, September GA copy Of
the True IssN, a Democratic paper pub.
lished at Birmingham, Alabama, was re-
ceived tonight. 1t has Hancock and
English standing at the head OF It's edito.
rial columns. and under them 1t prints the
following remarkable admission that the
charge Of gross frauds at the last State
election are true.
It is amusing to read the many different
reasons given BY the papers for the vote
Of Alabama in the recent election.
Scarcely any two OF them agree, and all
seem anxious to persuade the world that
there is reason. None as yet have given
the true one. This would be damaging
It is necessary, however, tbst they should
print It for the enlightenment OF the peo-
ple; they already know it and regret that
il is necessary TO make SO many and so
various excuses for the result OF an cleo
ton In this State. They realize the fact,
and regret It also, that great damage has
been done TO Gen. Hancock In his race for
the Presidency by the puI-up majority OF
95 900. The cry OF fraud has been raised
by cheated and wronged people and is
repeated throughout the land, exaggerated
doubtless, and it Is telling feariully
against him in the North, and blight
ing, we fear, chances that were bright
=, - a. ,hn tt1,a ,tha ~ n n mn atnra handlad
that iniquity that disgraces the legislation
OF last session, the new election law. Had
it not been used as 1t was II would have
failed, perhaps, Of its purpose. 1t bears
on its face fraud, and OF course, as il was
to defraud, 1t was so used. 1twas
too much used, however, and the 05 00O
majority looks about as ugly now as the
eight to seven commission did four years
ago, used to cheat Tilden out OF tho Presi-
dency. Both these Democratic perform
ances are understood by the great mass OF
the people, aud they are not 80 much sur
prised at either as the press seems TO be
now at the 5000 majority. They know
who planned aud executed them, and
what for, and they will not fail to say II
Hancock is defeated that the defeat came
to him through the same channel as the
cheat did to Tilden.
There was, in our opinion, no necessity
for 50 gigantic fraud for any party pnr-
poses. The eight to seven commission was
!. regular bonanza of the kind, and there
need not have been an effort on the part
Of the $50 called" 10 pale the laurels al.
ready won. Twenty or twenty-five thou
sand majority would have been enough 10
fully secure all the offices of the State and
tested the working capacity OF the 'ma-
chine" machine that can grind out
ballots and add up majorities that don't
exist, that disfranchised the people and
denies them the right Of free ballot and
an honest count, the most sacred civil
right ever wrested from the citizen. Ala
bama, carried by the fraud Of mean, vii.
lainous election law, loses to the party In
these United States the choice Of a Presi-
dent, and makes, perhaps, radical Con-
gress. What may the people hope from a
party that so outrages them and their
rights2 Nothing bat woe to them and the
country