The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-04-07
STOP THLEFI

STOP THIEF!
There is no longer any doubt but that
the Democratic leaders, in Congress in
tend to steal the Presidency. Their idea /
is to get up a pretext for throwing the
election into the House of Represents
tives and they are putting that body in
to shape to carry out their purposes.
.Rnar0ize Chronicle.
We remember reading, long ago,
in book entitled Sketches of Life
in London" of a common dodge
practise d by the counter-lifters and
sDeak-thieves in that great city.
One of the light-fngered gentry
would seize upon some article in a
shop or store and break through the
street in a full run, shouting at the
top of his voice stop thief! stop
thief!' This was done to call of
attention from the real criminal, to
excite suspicion in another direction
and to enable the thief to escape I'M
punished with his plumber. Some
times the dodge was successful
sometimes it was not.
The leaders of the Radical party
in 1877 made a big steal. They
stole from the people the electoral
votes of the States of Louisiana and
Florida; they stole the office of
President Of the United States from
Mr.. Tilden, who had been elected,
and conferred it upon Mr.. Hayes,
who had been defeated. Another
election for President takes place in
November Of the present year.
These Radical leaders knowing tina:
the people of this country feel in
dignant at the great robbery com
mitted upon them. and at the great
outrage committed upon our cleo
tive system, and fearing the wrath
of the voters upon whom they com
mitted the menstrous wrong in 1877
are beginning to run here and there
up aud down the country, and tc
shout at the top of their lungs, stop
thief! stop thiefl" The old
| old London cry ceased to deceive
people more than a century ago. II
will not have any effect on the PEG
pie Of the United States this year
They know who the President-stGal
ers are they know who went To
New Orleans and hired the infamous
Returning Board to commit forgery
and perjury they know who chang
ed the figures and falsifed the vote
OF Florida; they know who stole the
Presidency from Mr.. Tilden and in
augurated a fraud and a swinGle in
his place, and it won't do any sort
of good for these Radical editors TO
run round and yell "stop theft
That Dodge will not answere. We
all know too we'll who did the steal
ing; we know who the real robbers
are, and we-the people-mean to
hold them to a stern accountability
for the crime.
1t makes very little difference to
the Democracy of Tennessee wheth-
er the Cincinnati Convention nomi
mates Tilden or Bayard, Hancock,
Thurman, Hendricks, Judge Field
or the Dark Horse, this State will
give the nominee fifty thousand ma
iority all the same. The Fraud com
mitted upon the ba!lot.box and upon
Liberty by the Radical leaders in
the last Presidential election was
the first, and it must be the last Outs
rage of the kind ever permitted to
be committed and stand. This is
not Mexico. The Presidents of the
United States Of America are to be
chosen by the free ballots Of a free
people. Hired Returning Boards,
composed of unprincipled wretches,
can never again be permitted to cast
aside the votes of independent men,
to change the result of an election
in a State and to hoist into the high
est Office in the Union usurper or
miserable fraud. The constitution
prescribes the mode and manner Of
electing the President. That instru.
ment must hereafter be looked to
and obeyed to the letter in the choice
of the Chief Magistrate.