The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-07-29

New Orleans Democrat
For some weeks past we have heard
, well informed Republicans here con-
fidently express the opinion that not
understanding tho detection from the
Radical ranks in California, and not
withstanaing the fact that the Work
ingmen's party had rep1aiated Kear~
ney ana gone in body over to the
support Of the Democracy, that
nevertheless. that State was sure for
Garfield, everything being fixed
to that end, What "fxed" meant or
how the State in view Of all the Cir
cumstances, could be claimed by the
Republicans were alike mysterious
until the recent action Of the Cow
ernor of California in removing from
Office tho old registrar of voters, o
man recognized by both parties as
scrupuloualy honest and thoroughly
efficient, suddenly threw calciua
light upon the whole scheme, and
revealed the purpose of the Radicals
TO steal the electoral vote Of Oalifor"
MIA, no matter what majority of tho
popular vote may DO cast Tor Han
cock ct the polls.
There is scarcely an attempt to
conceal this bold design, and no ex-
cuse is offered for an act that is re-
garded by the honest men Of both
parties as not only fragrant act OF
Injustice, but plain intimation that
fraud is 30 be resorted to in order to
carry the State for Garfield.
Prior to the appointment OF Mr..
Kaplan, the removed registrar, the
conduct of elections in California
was notoriously and shamefully loose.
Enormous frauds in the registry OF
voters were committed with bold.
ness and effrontery that finally dis
gusted the better people Of the State,
and eliminated in a demand for re-
form and in the appointment OF MIR.
Kaplan, who atonce effected an entire
change in the methods previously
pursued in the registration OF voters,
and in the course of time won the
confidence and esteem of reputable
citizens of every shade of politics, all
of whom recognized his integrity and
peculiar fitness for the responsible
position, which, before his advent, had
been SO sbamefully prostituted by
corrupt men to partisan purposes.
The determination to remove this
faithful officer and replace him by a
tool of the Governors was sudden,
and was occasioned, doubtless, by
the alarming aspect of affairs for the
Republicans, caused by the enthusi>
assn awakened by Hancock's nomina-
ton and by the action of the Works
ingmen in coming over in o body to
the ranks of the Democracy. Only
a short while before this thing was
done the Governor had assured Mr..
Kaplan that he would make no
change, and the surprise of that
gentleman and Of the people who de-
sire to see fair election and honest
count may be imagined when, with
indecent haste and for no assigned
reason, the Executive removed the
registrar and put in his place pro-
nounced partisan, who may, of course,
DO relied upon to do the bidding of
his party.
The action of Gov. Perkins has
naturally aroused the people, who
were not slow to see it's real purpose,
and who are loud in their protests
against the change in so important
an Office upon the very eve of q pres
idential election. Even the Repub-
lican press denounce the act as an
outrage. The Daily Alto California
says, in vigorous article: "The
Republican party cannot afford to
lose votes on bubble. We are for
the success of that party, and the
stand taken by the Governor, advised
to do so as he may have been, bodies
no good" "In the case of Kaplan
the shoe 'pinches. There was moths
ing to hang thread on as to his
official integrity and capacity" The
Eoe,aing Bulletin says of Kaplan
"He purged the Great Register Of
fictitious names, and made it hazar.
dous business for any one to vote
who was not entitled to the elective
franchise. An officer who had exc
cuted this difficult trust with PALMS,
taking fidelity would ordinarily be
entitled to some consideration. In
short, if the principles Of civil SER
vice were respected, he would be re-
tanned but he is turned out, appar>
emily, as a concession to the machine
men"
The Board of Election Commits,
sioners was highly incensed at the
removal Of the registrar, and passed
n series of resolutions impugning, the
motives of the Governor, who, it was
plainly intimated, had supplanted
him because he was too honest for
the partisan work demanded of him,
and could not be bribed to the COM
mission of fraud.
We call the attention of the people
of the whole country to this uniusti-
fable act of the Governor Of Califor-
MIA, and point to it as one of the
many evidences that the Radical
party are once more deliberately cal
culating upon capturing the Presi-
ganou bry f,aY11