The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-11
THE VOTE OF NEW YORK.
Talk Of Disputing the Fairness of Gar
fields Majority.

The careful and well-intormed New
York correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger writes under date Of Friday night:
There is something important going on
among the Democratic leaders which
promises to create sensation. The State
Executive Committee profess to he cog
INFANT of illegal voting in this city and
BROOKLYN to an extent which, they affirm,
will inValidate tho electoral vote for Gen.
Garfield and give the State to his oppo-
nent, but they will furnish no details at
present, except to call attention to some
extraordinary Republican results in par
ticular districts. In due time, they say,
it will all be made apparent. Your COR
respondent heard some intimations of
this kind at headquarters on the morning
after the election, but did not attach sut-
ficient Importance to them to give them
Committee in announcing through the
morning journals that in certain locali-
ties s'a vote has been cast largely in ex-
cess of the legal VOTE" and that 1.-THE un-
accountable increase in the Republican
vote in New York and Kings Counties is
plain evidence of fraud" shows that in
their Judgment at least there is some.
thing behind those intimations. What it
all means we shall soon see. Meanwhile
YOU will observe the committee request
all citizens of this State, in each and
every locality, who favor the right of the
people to popular government, and who
believe a very fair vote and an honest
count essential to the perpetuation of our
institutions, to aid by all means in their
power the ascertainment of this result"
The city Republican journals do not
affect ignorance as to what this proceed
ing means, and they raise a warning ac-
cordingly. The Tribune says: "Mr. Bar
mum will do yell to stop right where he
is. The bust ess public are in no mood
to tolerate sedltious fooling.. No human
being in New York doubts that the State
has honestly and irrevocably gone Re-
publican" The Times even more point
edly remarks: sThe Republican electors
have a majority in the State of at least
$4,000, and in all 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 Arthur will inaugurate revolution"
Per contra, Truth, which seems to be. the
organ of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee for the time being, declares that
"Hancock is elected" and closes with the
following highly-Wrought appeal: 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 terrible wrong, and see
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 En-
press, has the following, with the closing
sentence in italics "Facts are coming.
rapidly to light which 60 to prove that
the Republican success Is due to whole
sale and corrupt use Of money, to sys-
tematic colonization of illegal voters, and
to an unscrupulous use of machinery TOR
interfering with the elections under the
pretence of supervising them. These
three points demand immediate and
thorough investigation. II the Republican
managers hare perpetrated systematic and g'gG'l
tic frauds on the 6dN0t-bor IL, this and other
sI ie ea eosseees sns ss Of sa er Ss dcts % '' N
Outside Of party lines people hardly
know what to make IF all this. They
are rather dumbfouuGe6. If.there is any
thing more than another upon which. the
community have been congratulating
themselves since Tuesday, it is the fact
of our escape from another contested
election, and it is fervently to be hoped
now that nothing will happen to prove
that these congratulations were prema-
ture. The Republican leaders contem-
plate the movement with derision. In
Wall street it was the subject of more or
less remark, but it had no direct influ-
ence on the markets.