The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-03
THE REPUBLICAN, PRESS on xAINE.
"Befsre a man can demand equity he must

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do equity" If Mr.. Cullen, having wantoniy
struck man in the face, should be knocked
down in return, the whole world would say 1t
served him right, and if he undertook to enter
compliant before justice, he would probably
be kicked out a. a poltroon. Yet IN the case
supposed Mr.. Cullen is exactly in the position
he and the whole bowling pack of the radical
press now occupy in regard to the alleged elcc.
ton frauds IN Maine. William Pitt Kellogg,
republican senator from louisiana, boosted to
q Washington reporter not n week ago that
the Name case was the exact counterpart OF
the Louisiana case in 1872. IL was the repub'
hcan candidate" SAID he "and McEncry was
my opponent. On the face of the returns Nc
Emery was elected governor and McEnery
Legislature chosen. The returning board,
however, IN Canvassing the vote, took advan-
tage of technicalitics, and was returned as
elected As well as ma ority Of republicans in
the legislature After | was declared elected
governor ! at once teegraphed to President
Grant and he settled it by recognizing me as
the rightful executive, though had been beat
en- 10000 at the polls" The facts as thus can.
didly admitted by Kellogg himself, were also
emphatically reiterated in report to the SEN
ate by Matt Carpenter, republican scnatorirom
| Wisconsin, who headed an investigating com
mittee that went to Louisiana to inquire into
the case yet We defy any man to produce a
line from any republican newspaper, or SEN
tcncc from any republican speaker, from 1872
to 1880, in condemnation of this hlghhanded
outrage in Louisiana.
Again in 1876, the Tilden electors in Louis
iaDa had an honest majority of from 5000 to
10000 at the polls,-a majority which was
wiped out by corrupt returning board, not
in strict accordance with law, rs Garcelon
claims was done in Maine, but in open defiance
of law; for although the Louisiana law did
give the returning board power to determine
j,ldiciaNy concerning the validity of polls
where Intimidation or violence prevailed and
materially affected the result, no such question
could arise except upon the certificate of the
supervisor supported by the affidavts OF three
electors, transmitted with and attached to the
returns, and in no single instance were such
certificates or aiiidaylts made. The election
was absolutely peaceful. There was not even
a knock down reported from one end Of the
state to the other The returning board sim
ply threw out democratic votes enough to
change the majority from Tilden to Hayes
without preteXt of any legal warrant to do
so or pretence that they did it otherwise than
in sheer rascality. Again We defy any man to
name the republican paper or politician that
had the manliness to denounce the outrage.
Yet these editors and politicians have the
check to set up a howl over Name and to cry
out to their brethren there, and President
Hayes has the amazing impudence to second
the cry, mot to submit to be defrauded." Very
well, Messieurs Republicans of Maine, we
heartily wish you success IN your crusade
against fraud and after by force you have
elected Garcelon and his crowd from, their
lfraudplentlv o,,.~:.ed coats, O tail To head
,,--. crowd towards Washington and in the
States, demand the abdicatlon of the old fraud
who now occupies the presidential char.
But until you show readiness to do this,
for heavens sake cease to disgust and sicken
us with your pusillanimous whine about Gar.
celon. All that honest people can see IN the
NJ aine case, is that the greebackers have given
the republicans little of their Louisiana
physic, and that they are making themselves
the objects of universal deris,on and contempt
by their ghastly grlmaces over the dose.