The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-05-20
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..Tiiien. like Jacks "a. ,aay lie voted
f.r aher lie IL. d-ad. by IL "a Demo
Gratis, bat he can hey r x: elected
while liyIng.'-R nc JoasEAL
Sir. Tilden waa elected 10 the Prcsi-
dency once, aud can b, sgain. IL nomi-
mated b. the National De:n Oera,ic Con
ven:ion; but unless the race Of Repub-
lican Christian Visiting Statesmen shall
have become extinct, fraudulent Flee.
toral Commissions nade impossible,
and stultiied 7xS courts be confined to
their legitimate functions, he would
doubtless be again defrauded of the Of
ice, aud a second edition Of Ruthy The
Good aust tho cheeks Of honest Amer
leans to burn with shame at the humil-
istiug spectacle .ot q I pusillanimous
usurper deciding adversely upon the
claims Of those Of his. w political
complexion whose title to office had
been secured by virtue of precisely the
same vote and means upon which be
had been foisted into a position to
which he was neve elected.
The success or failure of either can
didate was OF triAing consequence com
pared with the Importance Of maintain
ing the purity OF election; for the le-
gitimate fruits of the crime committed
by a clique of villainous political cOn-
spirators, by which the will OF q large
majority was set at naught, have APP
pearsd in greater CT less p~roiusion TO
| plague tho inventors, at every election
since 1876. By c~ondoning that crime,
tho Republican party assumed the re-
spnu5ihIl.ty Tor tho violation of a prin-
oiple upon wlich the grand slIuc:u e
OF Republican government securely
rests. ana without which il cannot be
maintained. The demoraiizing fleets
Of the success Of that villainy are as
widespread a. tho continent itself, ap-
peariug III contested elections at the
close Of each campaign in every quar-
ter Of the Union; q state of affairs
never before existing upon the CONT
Ient OF America. MOI can our Repub-
lican friends hope to escape the bitter
consequences of the great fraud Of '7G.
The stealing Of the Presidency Ia, by
far, the mildest count in the indict-
ment, for by that Gct a party merely
lost their Chief Magistrate-elect, and
the mass OF the American people, IKE.
spectiye OF party affiliations, we're eys-
tematically pluudered by the same set
OF harpies, for another four year. But
by the Endorsement Of the, theft, the
Republican party stood sponsor for 4
crime, the magnitude Of which can
only bo estimated by the flood Of evils
II has already engenlerod Gnd by the
torrent of corruption yet to flow from
its pestiferous source. The consa.
quences Of trampling upon n fuuaa-
mental principle of just government, are
national in their character, and the
punishment for such sacgilege nccessi-
rily falls upon the eutire people ofya
Nation permitting such outrage, so that
the lash prepared exclusively for Dem
ocratic backs, has, aud viii continue. to
fall with equal weight upon The dc.
visors and abettors OF n wicked scheme.
tho punishment for which they fool
ishly expected to escape.
There ere few who envy Mr.. Hayes
the possession Of tho Presidential sal
AIRY, and fewer still, perhaps, who sovel
tho place ho will occupy upon the
pages of the political and moral history
OF tho period in which lac lived. Yet
there arc Republican organs - political
harlots-whO HseG p.oud Of their par
tvs disgrace, aud invite DISCUSSION Of "A
subject which Il majority Of Republic.
ans desire to avoid. SIR. TiIGen should
be tho very lust man in this world whom
Republican journals would wish to
eensure. All tho important ia,ts in
connection With the Presidential cleo
ton Of &c have now become q part of
history, aud further attempts 10 hood
wink and delude tho masses with re-
spect to any matters CONNECTED there
with, will prove futile. Lr. IIlden
stood among the conspirutors 10y whom
ho was suT-oundcd-not oil Of whom
were Republicans % Colossus among
pigmies, both morally md intellect
ualiy, and the sublime distance DO.
tween himself and that yenal herd has
never been lessenod to the present day.