The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-11-12

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The careful and wellsinfoymed Now York cors
fespsalsnt of the phiIsd>tpbia LEDGER ySrktss
suhtcr dai e'of Friday night:
There is something important going on among
tho Democratic leaders which promises to create
sensation. The State executive committee pro-
fess TO be cogDizant Of illegal voting in thM city
and brooklyn to an'eSteni which, they Affirm,
will inyalidnic the electoral vote for Gea Gur-
field and giyo the State TO his opponent, but
they will furnish no details at present, except
TO call attention TO some extraordinary Repub-
hcan results ID particular. districts. In due
time, they say, it will all be made apparent
Your correspondent heard some limitations Of
this kind at headquarters on the morning after
the election, but did not attach sufficient impor-
tance to them to give them publicity. The
tion OF the executive committee in announcing
through the morning journals that in certain
localities "a vote has been cast largely in excess
of the legal vote,'' and that 'rhe unaccountable
increase in the Republican vote in Ne" York
and Kings Counties is plain evidence of fraud"
shows that in their Judgment at least there is
something behind those int isnations. What it
all means we shall soon see. Meanwhile you
Will observe The committee request all citizens
or this State. in each aud every locality, who
favofthe right of thespeople to popular govern
ment, aud w o believe.a very fair vote and nm
honest countessential TO the perpetuativn OF our
instifutf IONS TO aid by oil means in .thsir power
tho aseertainment Of this results The city
to what this proceeding means, and they raise
warning accordingly The Tribune says
"Mr. BarRum will dc we'll to stop right where
he is. The business public are in no. mood to
tolerate seditions fooling No human being in
New York doubts that the State has honestly
and irrevocably gone Republican" The Times,
even more pointedly remarks "Thc Republican
electors have majority in the State of at least
28,OOO, and in oil the Democratic arsenal of
trickery and fraud there is no method by which
the Republican party can be cheated out Of the
fruits Of victory. The Democratic Congress
which refuses TO count the vote of New York for
Garfield and Ar hur will inaugurate revolution
Per contra, Truth, which seems to be the organ
OF the Democratic Executive Committee for the
time being, declares that Hancock is elected"
and closes with the following highly wrought APP
peal: "Let us not again submit as we submitted
in 1876. This fraud of 1880 is the greatest of ALL
We call on every Democrat in the land to help, by
voice and action, in the overthrow of this terri
BILE wrong, and sec to it that Gen. Winfield s.
Hancock is next March seated in the chair to
which he has been honestly and rightfully
elected
John Kelly's evening organ, The Express, has
the following, with the closing sentence in ital-
les: "Facts are coming rapidly to light which
go to prove that the Republican success is due
TO wholesale and corrupt use of money, to
systematic colonization of illegal voters, and to
nm INSCRIPTIONS use of machinery for interfcr-
ing with the elections under the prctencc uf
supervising them. These three points demand
Immediate and thorough investigation. If the
Republican managers hare perpetrdtei systematic
and gigantic frauds OF the bdHOt-bor in this and
either States, and the fact, can be proued they must
take the consequence Of their acts"
Outside of party lines people hardly know
what to make of all this. They are rather dunn;
founded. If there is anything more than an
other upon which the community have been con-
graduating themselves since Tuesday it is the
fact of our escape from another contested cleo
ton and it is fcrvently to be hoped now that
nothing will happen to prove that these congra-
tuations were premature. The Republican
leaders contemplate the movement with derisiou.
In Wall street it was the subject of more or less
remark, but it had no direct influence ON thsS
markets. f,