Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-16
THE CHANCES.

lSSO.
If the Democrats fail to win the No.
vember election the fault will be their
own. The general drift Of public sen
timent since 1872 has been against the
Republicans. Six years ago they lost
the House Of Representatives,; and the
| Senate, the str onghold Of rings and
mOnopolies, has since pas scd from their
| control. Two years later Hayes and
Wheeler were defeated, and the offices
and jobs Were saved 10 the desperate
minority only by the most darlngfraudS.
The vote Of SIS stands as the deliber-
ate and best expression of the will of
the whole people. The same relative
vote in 1880 would turn the Republi-
cans out Of power. In 1880, too, the
verdict Of the ballot boxes will be res
pected. Both Hon ses of Congress be-
ing Dem ocratic, tie electoral votes will
be coun Ted IS they shall lie cast, and
any attempt by Ha YES to inaugurate a
defeated candidate would be absurd.
If General Hancock shall be elected,
General Garfield viii not be permitted
to assume and exc rcise the Office of
President.
When tie war for the Union had
been brought to successful conclu-
sion, slavery bJiislTcd, and the Thlr-
teenth, Fourtee nth and Fifteenth
Amendments adopted, the Republican
party seemed to have no proper mis-
sion remaining. L alling into the hands
of corrupt and spring politicians, who
were unknown to its early history of
trial and struggle, the great leaders
who had organized it, and led it to
victory without the aid of patronage
and power, were idrigen from their
places. Chase, Seward, Greeley, Sum
ner, Trum5ull, D)olittle, ga We place to
the n3gans, Camerons, CJlfaXa9, Gar.
fields, and the long Ii ST of Christian
statesmen and Ring robbers, whose
names are common in Republican eau
cuses and the records Of CongIession-
al Investigations. Henc eforth it was
held together mainly 10y the cohesive
power Of publ plunder. The profess
ed party Of the Union, it resisted the
restoration Of the states, ard imperril.
ed the Icace and business of the coun-
try by embroiling the sectio ns without
reason or exc use. For many years
together its accend acy was maintained
by denial of the right of selfgOyern
ment to a large portion Of the country,
and a substitution Of the rule of the
bayonnet and the carpe; -b lgger instead.
1t was only because it thus had its
hands upon the thro2ts OF three South
ern States that it was tIe to Perpe-
trate the fraud of 1876, and that Hayes
is now exercising the Office to which
Samuel J. Tilden was elected. But
the day is past. Grant himself con-
ceded that the public pinion Of the
North would no longer tolerate militia
~ elections or military interference
with state governments. The party
must answer for its Ion misrule, for
its wanton sectionali SIN, for years of
plunder in the South, fer its untold
corruptions in Cong ress and in the
executive administ ration, for it's pro-
lection Of TObber rings, and for its
manifold crimes against the ballot box;
above all, for the great fraud of 1876.
The Chicago ticket is a weak one.
1t is safe to say that if the convention
were reass embed to-day Garfield could
not get twenty V otes for the nomin-
alton. From this time to the day Of
the election the Republicans will be
fully occupied in vain attempts to ex-
plain away his briberies and perjuries,
to say nothing of his personal weak
ness and his political Inconsistencies.
The Cincinnati ticket, on the other
hand, has grown i'll popular favor from
the hour in which 1t was put into |
the field. New York, New Jersey, In
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