The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-10-23

he would assent Is any measure affecting IN
juriousy the private rights of his iellow-cill
zcns, or diminishing the general prosperity o
The people or Gripping the Industry OF IN
country, Is mere absurdity. That the reven
Ne laws may need some modification is extreme
" probable. Modification of them are de
mandcd by men of all parties and all classes
by nobody will this demand be made NOR
loudly than by Gen, Garfield il he goes int
the state and speaks according 10 his true con
victions. But Gen. Hancock Is just pru
dent, and conservative man. have no author
ity to speak for him, bu, know whereof af
firm when | say tina, he will assent only t
such legislation on this subject as will GIVE
stability to business and certainty to the re
wards oflndustry no sudden or radical change.
to iniure any body, but only such as The bes
practical business men of the country will say
that their true interests require.
| GEN. HANCOCK
is of all the least likely 10 wreck the ship Of
state by running her wild upon the breakers
Let no man fool you into fear for her safety
while that steady hand is on her helm and that
calm eye looks out upon the waves
There is one other thing which you must
not omit 10 notice ! mean the propensity OF
oar opponents, at all times and under all their
different names, to cheat at elections. | call
| 1t the Unconstitutional party, as the only one
that fits them through and through, but II has
a long string Of aliases and many disguises.
In all of them, however it shows out one
plain broad mark Of identity; that is, its utter
contempt for the right of free suffrage. In the
time OF the elder Adams they passed alien aAd
sediton laws, and kept up standing army for
the sole purpose Of intlmidatlng voters. In
1900 Hamilton proposed that the governor Of
New York should call the legislature together
Lief
vent them from voting tor Jefferson. In 1887,
Pennington, governor of New Jersey, deliber
atcly and III cold blood, with a tull knowledge
of what he was doing falsely certified the cleo
ton OF six wing members of congress, to the
intent that the organization of the house should
90 INTO the hands of the minority and of this
trick his whole party took all the advantage it
could. In 1888 Stevens, Ritner, and others
practiced
THE GROSS AND IMPUDENT FRAUDS
which they tried to carry through with buck
shot and ball. In 1910 this state was notori.
ously carried against us by the system which
was then called pipe-Mying. For years TO-
gcthcr the know. nothings organized their rut-
tian bands, habltually drove all democrats
from the polls in Baltimore, and kept the state
under their infamous feet. At a later period
elections in Maryland were regulated by an
'h'' uliNC laSucd ~ w hSulLRlOL, dllu oil
state offices were, by brute force, put into the
hands of a small contemplate, and corrupt
minority. In Kentucky the candidates for
whom the people might vote were designated
by "A military order which was remOrselessly|
carried out In Indiana the most scand alous
outrages were perpetralcd. ! think that no.
body now denies that Packer was elected gov
crnOr and counted out in 1865 nor can It rcas-
onably be doubted that the majority against
us IN Philadelphia has been enormously swell
ed 10y the frauds OF every year In the south
en- states no pretense was ever made by the
administration party Of decent regard for the
rights of the legal voter Under acts of con.
grcss, which that body had no more right toI
make than the town council of York, nearly
all the qualified electors were forced from the
polls, and others without show or color of law.
full right were brought up to stuff the ballot
boxes with administration tickets. 1t was by
intimidation, rutlianism and false counting
that
THE CARPET BAG GOVERNMENTS
kept themselves IN existence for ten years. In
New York and Philadelphia the paid hire.
llngs (some OF them penitentlary cOnvlcts) of
the federal administration committed the most
frightful outrages at the last presidential cleo.
ton. But the inCorruptible democracy was
equal to all this Unawed by influence aud
unbribcd by gain they elected Tidcn and ut.
tcrIy routed the corruptionists. The majority
of the white people WAS a million, reduced to
three hundred thousand by the black vote OF,
the electors duly appointed there was a clear
majority of twenty-three against them. No
man was ever elected to any office in this coun-
try if lildcn was not elected president of the
United States
Then came that enormous outrage which
L.. o
forever They fraudulentlv altered the ap
pointment of twelve electors, enough to give
Hayes n majority of one; and on that fraud
they put him in. The corrupt knaves that us.
sisted them are billetcd on the treasury as al
reward for their crimes; and we, the people,
are taxed to pay them for cheating US out of
our birthright There was no excuse for this
that can be accepted even rs a mitigation OFT
the crime-no prctense of an excuse at all that
was not founded in perjury and forgery, which
aggravated its baseness thousand told
confess am disappointed in the effect of
this upon the popular mind. believed that
THE TIuNDERS or UNIV ERSAL CONDENSATION
would break over the heads of the men who
had done this thing. Bat they took the moral
measure of their party better than | did.
Doubtless there are many thousands who have
determined in their hearts not to trust such
CllHilhhiN any lOnScI' uOublIesS tne commence
of many men heretofore acting with them has
received shock from which 1t will never re
cover, but their organization is nearly as com.
pact rs it WAS before, and most Of their leaders
move with step as alert AS ever in support of
a nominee who made himself especially con-
spicu"us IN the preparation of that great
wrong.
But the cheated millions that we had before
are with us still. The immense majority that
voted in 1915 for state independence, honest
government popular liberty, peace between
the sections and equal justice TO all men, will
vote again in the same way To these will be
added The thousands In every part OF the coun
try whose conscience forbids them to support
the particular kind Of fraud to which this ad-
ministrauon owes its existence. Still further
will the great majority be swelcd by cnthusi-
aStlp