The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-08
CAPTURING THE NORTH BIZ FRAUD.
from the Chicago Tribune.1

OF the chief newspaper organs of the
Democracy on the conspiracy of Garce-
lon and Pillsbury to steal the Govern
ment of the State of Maine, Gov. Garce-
lon telegraphs to Washington that he
will not recede from his position, and
that, if necessary, he will not only or
der out the State militia, bat call for
United States troops to enforce his
revolutionary programme. This shows
that the Democratic party is several
degrees more wicked than its news
papers. For it is not to be presumed
that Gov. Garcelon is acting without
advice. Some days ago Judge Trum-
bull, of this city, announced that he
had examined the constitution and
laws of Maine, and was prepared to sus-
tain the action of the Governor of that
State. This is pointer from which it
may be inferred that Gov. Garcelon
submitted his proposition to defeat the
intent of the people of Maine as
expressed at the ballot-box to leading
Democrats throughout the country, and
obtained their approval of it before
proceeding in the execution of the
plan. There is nothing natural or logi-
cal in the cropping out in the far down.
East State of Maine of an extreme
piece of Democratic villainy, except
upon the theory that it is part of
plan of the Democratic party of the
whole country to enter upon a general
conspiracy to steal control of the Gov
eminent of the nation. This great fact
must be steadily borne in mind: The
Democratic party has the power through
its possession of the popular branch
of Congress to defeat, arbitrarily, the
declaration of the election of the
President by the people. The pre-
sumption is exceedingly strong that
the purpose of the Garcelon- P llsbury
conspiracy is to so complicate Govern
mental affairs in Maine that the cleo
toral vote of the State in 1880 may be
either secured for the Democratic can
didate, or, at the worst, rendered in
formal or absolutely illegal in order to
insure it's rejection. The hazard of
such an atrocious crime as that which
Gov. Garcelon has committed is so
great in it's moral effect upon the Demo
cratic party that it is entirely illogical
to assume that he entered upon it with
out consulting leading Democrats in all
parts of the country. But, if he has not
consulted leading Democrats generally,
the conclusion is irresistible that he has
consulted clique of desperate Demo
Gratis who propose to win in the interest
of their candidate for the Presidency
at whatever cost of high-handed fraud.
This view of the case is sustained by
late events in Indiana. The negroes
of North Carolina, seeking to escape
from political persecution and robbery,
were attracted to Indiana on account of
an exceptionally large demand in that
State for labor. A few families having
settled there, Senator Voorhees, pro-
poses an investigation by Congress of
the causes of the proposed exodus, and
the next small party of immigrants to
Indiana are met by an infuriated mob
of Shelby county Democrats. Like
poor Lo, the negroes were told to move
on or accept the alternative of assassi-
nation. This is another part of the
Democratic conspiracy which shows it.
self in Maine in an effort to steal the
State Government, and in Indiana in the
purpose to preserve the political status
quo by mob violence. It would not
profit the Democracy to secure the
electoral vote of Maine or compel it's
rejection, if at the same time it should
lose the electoral vote of Indiana. And
a few thousand colored Republican
voters in the latter State might cause
political revolution, giving its electoral
vote to the Republic an party. But the
Democratic party cannot escape respon-
sibility FOR the crime in Maine or the
outrage in Indiana. No matter how in
dignantly the Democratic press may de-
nounce the Garcelon-P illsbury infamy,
if it is powerless to influence the perpe-
traitors of it to let go their grip upon the
plumber, it might as well be silent. So
of the Indiana mob. Doubtless it will
be denounced by the Democratic press,
but if the Democratic Governor of In
diana declines to extend to persons
seeking homes in the State the protec-
ton of the law, and declines to punish
the mobs which assemble to prevent
them, the denunciation of the press will
be as the idle wind.
The two events, respectively, of Maine
and Indiana ought, however, to have an
influence upon the country. The
South has been made solidly Demo-
cratic by intimidation, assassination and
fraud upon the ballot-box. At these
great outrages the North became indig-
nant, resolving to oppose to a solid
South a solid North. Last fall the
work was well-nigh accomplished. But.
while the Northern people are congrat-
ulating themselves upon the fact of a
great danger averted-the threatened
control Of the national Government by
the Democratic party-the report
comes up from Maine that the people
of that State have actually been robbed
of their legitimate victory at the polls
by tnieying Governor, and that he de-
fes them to get any redress whatever.
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