Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-06

keen the votes or make the vOteS-What
did they cost and what were they worth ?
How many thousands of dollars have
been spent in this city. how many
hundreds OF thousands in this state,
and liow many millions in the country,
during this campaign, 90 keep up this
delirious excitement, this popular de-
mor.liZation and debauchery. What
have we left for it but the cl'arrcd sticks
OF spent fireworks.
The campaign is "yer. the voting is
done. people are settling down to their
ordinary pursuits, but it has left behind
it momentous questions which may prop
erly engage iiresidc discussion. The
dry ro: of our political system is creep
ing through: every community. Its
poison is being dffIscd through, our Sc
cial life. The reform il, cas-. Will the
better men of AL parties unite to effect
it
BN reference to the table Of complete
election returns, which we print. it will
he seen that the total vote polled in this
county Cor presidential electors was "0,-
:i9,. ly far the largest rvrrpOlied and in
dlcating the most strenuous efforts 10y
both parties to cas-; their utmost strength,
each Of the leading organizations show
ing an increased vote of nearly t. per
cent. over that i'aiie,l for president in
1876. The combined Temperance and
GreenlGick vote is scarcely onc-third of
one per cent. Of the whole. Our private
additions make tie Republican majority
S,G:.S 9 less than that obtained 10y the
foot;nSs of the clerks.
For district attorney it will he seen
that lie total vote po!ied is only oS,5l2,
or lh$: less tian the vote for presidei:-
tial electors, indicating that there are
thai number Of Republicans in the coun-
ty VIA" were willing 10 8 cut Davis,
and yet who could not rise to the height
of voting Tor his opponent. The !6o
votes 10y which James Black, esq, for
district at;qrnry led the Temperance
electors. may la. set down in the sane
category. These make 22.""i:i Republican
votes that protested only hall way
asains, Davis. Had they too been cast
for McMullcn, his minority would have
been reduced to l.lSl.
These figures prove Vel. plainly that
only the fact o: its being a presidential
year saved Davis from defeat. Had it
been otherwise than Il campaign in
which the politicians feared the effect
on The general canvass the cutting would
have been deeper and more effective and
Mr.. MrMullcn would have been elected.
THf. majority for Garfield III New
York is no! nearly 81, large in proportion
as was th, naiority :nr Tillcn in Louisi-
ana four years agn. The allegations OF
fraud i'm Louisiana four years ag" were
not nearly 50 specific nor 50 well sub
stantiated rs the evidences Of fraud in
New York ROW. The Republicans then
had one hn,l>n %. Congress to witness
Gratis now have both houses of Congress
to count The vote, I" reject such states
as they see III! and to declare such result
as tlieS mas find TIE circumstances of
the casa 1" warrant under constitutional
forms and according t" Republican pre-
cetipnts. II Mr.. B:.rilum should come
to Philadelphia and select Wm. Nc
Mullin AM! Samuel JosepllS to go over
to New York ia supervise the count of
the votes, tr make :li!i,!avits for Demo-
cratic witnesses rs Garfield made them
for Republican witnesses in New Or
leans, and in general to frame the Demo-
cratic case, we have no doubt they could
get III; i, mucl. better one for Hancock
than Garfield did for Til;len. If Congress
should then constitute MaSsrS. McMullin
and Josepils a high commission to adju-
dicate their case. in all human probabil-
ity they would decide the presidential
contest in favor of Hancock How
would the Republicans like to have corn
measured to them in their own b,lshel !?
How would Mr.. Garfield like to be hoist
with his memorable netarl OF 1s'G'7 !?
A wHlTEE in the Pittsburgh Post re-
calls. in a circGmStantial narrative, the
exciting events of four years ago, when,
at about this date, Il cabal of Pennsyl-
vania politicians roosting in Philadel-
phia planned the means by which. fraud
was then made triumphant in the pres
ftlentiai election, and the way paved for
the election now OF the man who took
the most conspicuous part in that con-
spiracy against cons itutional liberty.
There is 30 longer any doubt that what
was done in Florida and Louisiana in
1876 WAS the conception of the peculiar
school Of politicians who bnzzed around
Grant at that time. We have even been
furnished with satisfactory evidencethat
Grants dispatch about no lnan worthy
the office of president taking it il count
ied in was Il blind written 10y Don
Cameron himself.
The New York Iin,cS in 1876 - in
augurated revolution by holding to the
claim that Hayes was elected when he
was not. Tie Republican leaders en-
gagged III = selitious foolinS" to make
fraud triumphant and counted states
Republican that had . honestly and IL
revncably' gone Democratic. Now that
their OK is g"red how differently they
talk