New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-20
LIE DOLL1ES APIECE.

Mr.. Leonard W. Jerome is president of nm
association OF Deputy Democrats, who have
been cutting a ridiculous figure during the
canvass by attempting, with sorry success, to
masquerade as Conservative Republicans"
There may be a bakers dozen Of them IN all,
and a more dismal detachment of soreheads
never marched to defeat with any political
party. Mr. jerome is profoundly moved by the
result of the Western elections He breaks out
in a proclamation addressed to the friends OF
General Hancock and of the Constitution and
the Union" \ considerable majority OF the
friends of General Hancock have not been dis
tnguished III the past for their devotion to the
Constitution and the Union, but Mr.. Jerome
could not be expected TO spoil his sonorous
opcnipg phrase on this account. The language
OF prOcamatlOns need not be too literal. lie
saws large bodies of fraudulent voters were
"shamelessly brought to the polls 10y the Rad
zeal managers" III Ohio and Indiana, and that
"importod repeaters deiranded the people of
Indiana of their fee choice Of rulers How
did Mr. jerome learn this Did he get BIS in
formation from Nh BaInum? That dstn
eushed advocate of pure elections skipped
back and forth between the two October States i'll
have heard that Mr.. jerome volunteered to help
carry the carpet-bag that contained the funds
for the purchase Of Steel rails" Probably Mr..
Barnum has told him all about the election
since he got back. 1t docs not seem to have
occurred to Mr. Jerome however, to ask his IN
formant what the Democrats i'll Ohio and In
diana were doing while the " Radicals were
bringing the fraudulent voters and repeaters
to the polls. Did they stand by and see the
illegal votes go into the boxes 7 Or were they
so stupid that they did not know a bogus otter
when they saw him? And what became OF the
$60O,OOO Mr.. Barnum disbursed in Indiana and
of the heavy sums he placed in the close Con-
eressonal districts III Ob0f Couldn't he hire
any Democrats to watch the polls
This talk of the October elections being car
RED by fraudulent voting il the cowardly whine
of a beaten party. The fact is, the elections in
both Ohio and Indiana were remarkably free
from fraud. Both parties were thoroughly
Organized, and each wat ched the other so closely
and guarded the polls with such vigilance that
illegal voting was almost an impossbility. The
democrats spent q great deal OF money import
ing gangs of ruflians from Eastern cities, and
the Republicans were forced to bring on men
who knew the races OF tHcse lcHOWs I'D ACT us
detectives and block their game. Nothing was
accomplished by the repeaters on clection-day.
AS to the purchase of votes, there was undoubt-
edly good deal of it done in Indiana. but they
were Democratic votes and were bought by the
Democratic managers. At almost every poll
number of Democrats sat on the fence until late
IN tLe afternoon, and had to be shown S. bill
before they could be persuaded to come down.
The weakness of the Democrats lay in the fact
that they had to hire their own men to vote
their own ticket.
Mr.. Jerome has brilliant idea. He proposes
TO raise N great popular fund for the defence
Of the pofs at the Presidential election. He
calls upon every man who can afford the sum
4" of SIS to secure the freedom of elections III
America " to send his money in at once. Mr..
Charles j. Canda viii hold the cash. We do
not know who will hold Mr.. Canda but prob
ably Mr.. jerome feels equal to the task. AT
meeting of a Democratic committee III Maine
last summer, it was proposed to raise fund to
bring home absent voters, at the average cost
of S2j n head An eminent politician OBJ
jected "Twenty-fve dollars apiece" he ex-
claimed. "Thunder! Why, we can buy five
"yotes right here at home with that amount Of
smnnav.n Mr.. Jerome seems TO agIee with the