The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-09
ms sIlOr.StaING DISTRICT.
The MIEAIsSiPpI Plan RCbnked by " D"m'
ncrnIIC PAPER.

The EIISAIsSITpI I'lHn RCbuked by " Dem
OCrnIIC Paper.
Yesterdays dispatches gave the particu
lars Of the attempt making in the Vickf
burg district to count in Chalmers b!
fraud. The viCksburg Herald, Of last Sat
urday, a Democratic paper, comments il
severe terms on the fraud. II publishe
fac SMILES Of the two tickets, Democrat,
and Republican, in order TO show tha
there is ubss utety no excuse for the Dem
ocrats to assume that there was any mari
or device on the Republican tickets with
in the meauingof thelsw,-any more thar
there was in the use OF scroll on the in
side Of thousands Of the Republican tick
cts voted here In West Virginia. In thu
coune Of It's comments 1t says:
The Commercial still demands the pound
of fleeh, regardless OF the injury that may
he nut upon the body Of the people. The
law! The law! What it bears for is the
law. The law IN so damnable that even
tbe .Egcks1n Clarion denounced it without
mercy; but the damnable law does not
warrant tho outrage the Commercial adVo'
ca,ca Every man with sense enough 10
oct out Of n shower Of rain knows that u
these we're Democratic ballots not man
would be iOurd TO advocate that they be
thrown out. The Commercial knows that
the brute force 1t so heartily and justly
condemns IL precisely what will throw out
these ballots II they are thrown ont. Itf
extraordinary zeal has warped lis Jhdg
ment. The law expressly declared that
anv ticket with any device or mark by
which one ticket may DO disungu'sheo
from another shall not be received OF
counted" Now ii theae tickets had DIS
tiuguishing make, why arethey received
The Judges OF election were all sworn, and
they received the tickets because they did
not see any Distinguishing marks or dc
vices. They did not see them because tDert
were none. There IL dash on the tickets
and the dash is frequently USED IN suct
places by printers, instead of the comma
Il IL not Improperly used on these tickets
and no man can say it il used as dis
tinvnishing mark II is certainly not q
device. The names on the ticket are TAI
moro efieCtual to distinguish them from
the Democratic ticket than the dHshea; vel
the Commercial will hardly demand they
should be thrown out because the
names are those Of Republican can
didates. II il was believed that Gen
eral Chalmers had lair majority on an
honest count, including these tickets, there
would, in our opinion, DO no detelmlna'
ton to throw them out. II he is honestly
elected, in Gods name let him be 80 re-
returned; but il lie is not elected, We are
opposed to using any such means to return
him as elected. Such an outrage would
react directly on this State. IT would bC
branded az a new phase Of the Mississippi
plan. On The top OF all this the attempt
will not DO successful, and it syery im'
polite for ViCksburg that needs Con
Sressioual aid, to lend its sanction TO It
Let these tickets be printed side by side
and it be asserted that those with dashe:
on them were thrown ont in Mississippi
on that account, and it will do Us fifty
times as much harm rs Gen. Chalmer
could possibly do ns good, even II ht
should bs admitted. The Democratic party
in the South must esChew such methods
Orset day for 2omninutiOn.