Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-26
THAT FLORIDA FRAUD.
HOW CHAIRMAN BARNUM SCALPs
CHAIRMAN JEWELL.

And Wants n Know Why he Should Sus.
pcct that Democratic fscPoaters were
Being Sent into the Solid South.
HfipoCAErsRs NATIONAL DENocnArIo
COMMITTEES. lSS FIgTu AVENUE.
NEW IoRK, DOT. >, ls50!)
To the Editor of the Evening Post.
SIR: My time is so occupied with meas
ures to defeat the desperate attempts Of
the Republican managers to control tho
presidential election by bribery and fraud
that l may justly complain that I am COM
PEELED to turn aside for the moment to
notice the shameless assault upon me in
the Ersning Post Of Saturday last. Its edi-
tor knows very we'll that nothing has been
done in relatiOnto tho telegram Of Mr..
Jewell, the chairman Of the Republican
national committee, to tho collector Of
Key West, announcing, his shipment Of
men to that place, to justify comparison
Of the matter to tho rummaging Of an
overcoat accidentally left hanging in a
hall,
That telegram, as the libelcr was fully
aware, was accidentally included in bun
die Of telegrans received by subordinate
Of mine. in the regular course of business,
for the express purpose OF examination.
Therefore, he properly learned the conteuts
OF the telegram. No good citizen willdeny
that if it had disclosed an intention to as
sault and rob an individual, it would have
been my duty, when tho fact was re-
ported to me, to take measures to pre-
vent the perpetration Of the crime. Does
the Erening Post hold that it is u lesser
crime to invade state and rob it of it's
presidential vote and OF the choice of its
officers? Ii it docs, I differ from it, and
am willing to abide by tho Judgment Of
upright and intelligent men ofevcry party.
Ii tho Ercning Psi admits the crime to DO
as great. then it is in the position oi abus-
ing ne Tor doing what every honest man
must commend.
But the Ereniag Rstprc:cnds that be-
fore using the telegram should have in
quircd Of the guilty party what it meant.
Who ever heard before that Il criminal
whose guilt was accidentally discovered
should be advised OF the fact before steps
were taken to prevent the accomplishment
Of his intended crime?
was not called upon to give Mr.. Jewell
an opportunity to make the absurd pre-
tence that the telegram was u warning
against Democratic repeaters, because
knew that such u pretense would be false.
Mr.. Jewcll's language in the telegram was
not that Of man exposing an attempted
crime by his adveisarics, but that of one
declaring his own work. 1t expressed no
warning, but announced y fact, and that
fact was the sending OF $50 men TO Florida
by Mr.. Jewell procurement.
Besides, how absurd it is. after tho
cry about 4 "sOlid South,' to
frigh;cn the Northern people from voting
for gallant Union soldier, to ask them to
believe that the Democratic party were
sending rcpcatcrs to the South to make it
:clid!
As to the prctcncc, that the men We're
sent to Florida to work on n railroad, why
should the Republican national committee
trouble itself about railroad laborcrs?
The falsencss OF these pretcnses is shown
by the fact that though Mr.. Jewell has the
custom house and the post Office at bis
aud the telegraph company,
annoyed by the mistake it made,
is anxious'tO help him to tho utmost, and
the owners of the vessels will give him all
the information they have. he is unable to
connect any Democrat " 18th the sending Of
the men, or to show that they were to
work upon any railroad, except the fraud
uient one npou which Mr. Jewell sought to
lay q track TO the White House.
The fact remains beyond controversy
that Mr.. Jewell has been caught in an at
tempt to carry the Florida election by
fraud. Every sensible man knows that
tho success OF such schemes must be fatal
to the perpctuity of republican institu-
items. Yet the Esening Pest is silent when
such attempts arc mace, but eager to help
the guilty to escape when they are caught.
It winks at the crime, ard libcls those
who expose it. When the paper was edited
by Bryant & Loggctt it had high rank
by reason Of the elevation of its tone and
the vigOr with which it denounced every
wrong. How great the descent to its pres
mt course! WILLIAM II. BAENCM.