Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-16
NO. 20.

exists between these men When you have
dropped that question, Hancock is nowhere
and Garfield stands alone. Behold him the
self-made man. We find him friendless boy,
struggling with poverty and thirsting for
knowledge. No West Point opens its hos
pitable doors TO receive him. but we find him
working as a mechanic, laboring on the tow
path of the cana, teaching school boys what
he has taught himself, turning his hand TO
any honest occupation which will enable him
to support his mother and acquire an educa-
ton. And VIC find him magnifcently success
full. In few short years he is not only a
college graduate but professor not only a
professor but profound scholar not only a
scholar but learned lawyer not only law
yer but a colonel Of volunteers not only a
colonel but general Of volunteers not only
general but most distinguished Represent
ative in Congress not only Representative
but Senator-elect and, to crown all, not
only Senator but soon to become President
Of the United States And he has achieved
all this distinction while pursuing the straight
path Of Republicanism. No sympathy with
slavery or slave masters for him. No Mississ-
ippi plantations for him or for his children.
No tenderness for rebellion and treason, but
straightforward reverence for liberty, for
the rights of human nature here and every
where, and passionate abiding love for that
perpetual Union which our fathers established
and cemented with their blood. Such is
JAMES A. GARFIELD, whose career resembles
romance, and is so typical of our own dear
country that it would be impossible in any
other. How do you like him 7 He may not
be quite 80 Overpoweringly handsome as his
Democratic rival he may not be so grand
aud stately in the style of his manners. But
look at him lie is the man of the people
one of yourselves-the hero, the scholar, the
orator. the progressive statesman, best beloved
where best known
We must elect this man President of the
United States. Vermont must say SO in Sep
tember as emphatically as in November. And
if Vermont says so very loudly in September,
the people of the Northern States will heed
her voice and crafty her wishes But, in Or
der to elect him, the whole North must speak
out emphatically. This innocent Democratic
party, which so loves to cry out Fraud"
when an election takes place, only copies the
pick pocket who steals your purse and forth
with joins in the hue -and-cry of ''stop thiefp
A more utterly corrupt defler of the purity of
elections never existed than that same inno-
cent Democratic party. Its whole history is
stepped in fraud, dyed through and through
with swindliug, diversified with the deeper
shades of violence and murder. They want
free elections forsooth, but they never want
fair elections. They have always opposed
registry laws and those of New York were
enacted against their utmost opposition.
Within only few days the Democratic su-
preme court of Indiana has set aside a con-
stitutional amendment adopted and ratified
by the people, which provided for the regis
tration of voters. This partisan outrage was
perpetrated in order that the surplus Demo-
Gratis of Kentucky might continue to vote in
Indiana, as they SO long have done. From
the time of the Paquemine frauds, of many
years ago, to the theft of the whole State OF
Maine by Garcelon, the dishonest dealing of
the Democrats with elections has been uni
form and notorious. Tweed's circular, to
which he appended the innocent name of Til
den, as chairman of the State committee, is
one instance the frauds by which New York
and the presidency were stolen from Clay and
given to Polk make another; the monstrous
naturalization frauds in New York and Penn
sylyania, in 1868, furnish still another exam
pie. And why do the Democrats oppose any
supervision of national elections at the polls !?
Why is it that they fear to marshal their vo-
ters before the officers of the law {? 1t goes
without telling.
But above and beyond all the instances of
Democratic fraud, we must refer to the last
presidential election. know the Democrats
claim that they were defrauded at that cleo
tion, but that again is only the cry of the
pickpocket They had fixed their own frauds
SO deity that they supposed they had then
what they have now, a solid South. They
had suppressed the Republican party in Miss
issippi, Alabama, and other Southern States,
not only by the free use of fraud, but also by
means of violent outrages, which included
torture and murder In Mississippi a fair
Republican majority of over 80 600 was trans
formed into Democratic majority of 30, 900,
which in 1877 was swelled to 90, 600, and still
keeps growing, until unanimity has about
been reached. 1t is by counting Southern
majorities procured in this way that Demo
cratic conventions shamelessly figure up a
popular majority of $50, 900 for Tilden. For
Democratic purposes, ballots shot for like
pigeons, or obtained by free use of tissue
paper, are just as good as honest votes, cast
without intimidation, one by one instead of
by the ream. For their purposes there need
be but one voter behind the election returns
OF whole precinct, provided he knows how
to stuff the ballot box with Democratic votes.
Is it not astounding that, in calculating the
elements of fraud which entered into the last
presidential election, the Democrats never
once allude to Mississippi, or Arkansas, or
Alabama? Is it not curious oversight that,
when they claim to have carried Louisiana,
they never allude to their methods in that
State namely false counting, violence and
murder? Their claim is, in effect, that by
fraud and violence they had succeeded in get
ting more votes than the Republicans and
they howl like bedlamites because under the
and blood-stained ballots were thrown out by
the returning board. 1t was just SO in Flori-
da. By throwing out the fraudulent and ille-
gal votes, as the law required, the State Off
GERS returned Republican majority. There
the howl came in again not because there
had been Republican frauds. but because
Democratic frauds did not succeed. For a
time they claimed that through their frauds
and outrages they had converted Republican
mo rii of in Gn,ttb into
Democratic majority, and the infamous Mo
ses, and the more infamous Willard, compos-
ing majority of the fragrant State supreme
court, attempted to act as a Democratic re-
turning board, until it was found that in spite
of all the Democratic frauds, and counting
the whole of them, the majority for Hayes
could not be annihilated.
The Vaccinations by which the Vice Presi-
dent was prevented from counting and declar-
ing the electoral vote are familiar to all of you.
To avoid great public calamity, both parties
agreed to submit the question to high court
of arbitration consisting of judges of the su-
preme court of the United States, eminent
senators and representatives. A majority Of
this august tribunal decided not TO 60 behind
the returns of the lawful State authorities
and declared Hayes elected. The minority
wished to go behind the returns and consti-
tute themselves returning board Had this
last plan succeeded, who shall say what the
result would have been? Is it not quite prob
able that, after going into the details Of the
returns, there might have been a unanimous
judgment in favor of Hayes Yet, to hear
the Democrats talk, one might suppose that
the minority had actually decided in favor of
Tilden. As time goes on, it will become more
and more apparent that the judgment of the
majority was correct and that the contumely
heaped upon their honorable names, among
which is included that of our spotless Ed
munds, is without justification or excuse.
Republicans do not impugn the motives of
the minority, Probably they acted honestly,
although they erred in Judgment, as fallible