Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-28
A New Democratic Infamy.

The Democratic party is notorious for
its Infamous crime in Presidential years
In 1854 it advocated craven and dis
honorable peace. That was crime
which the patriotism of the country has
never forgiven. In 1868 it carried New
York State by systematic frauds on a
large scale at the ballot box. That was
a fragrant outrage upon political liberty.
In 1876 it entered into conspiracy TO
buy up the electoral votes of three States.
That was a scandal without precedent
in the political history of the coHntry,
and by the cipher disclosures it was
brought home to the political managers
of the Democratic party and to the
household of their candidate for the
Presidency. In $780, on the eve of the
election, the infamous Morey letter was
forged and circulated from Maine to
California by the Democratic National
Committee. The chairman of that
COMMITTEES is charged with melting the
forgery, with guaranteeing its genuine
ness, and with attempting to sustain it
10y employing the original forger to COM
init subsequent forgeries and to subOrn
witnesses. That was a crime, or rather
n series of crimes, against public morals.
Ii was one of the meanest and most con-
temptible tricks imaginable, and its po-
litical uses were eked out by means of
bribery, false personation, fraud. and
perjury.
Every Presidential year has its char
acteristic Democratic crime against lib
erty and public morals. What new in
fanny have the Democrats in store for
the American people this year? Any
thing more fragrant than the cipher dis
closures or more despieable than the No
rey forgery? Has Democracy exhaust
ed it's resources of treachery, effrontery
and meanness? Are there lower depths
of partisan malice and depravity to be
sounded in the present canvass? Is a
corrupt Democracy already wriggling
and sqirming to Surpass even its own
infamies by new and more abomina
BILE outrage upon public decency? Let
us see.
What is this story Of the DETACHMENT
of child's grave in Maine? In the
cemetery at Augusta has stood tor near
ly thirty years little white stone erect
ed to the memory of Mr.. Blaine's son,
Stanwood Blaine. 1t was a spot conse-
Grated by parental love and grief and
the little stone bore silent testimony to
ii sacred sorrow--the first vacancy in a
happy and honest Christian home. Now
the story is told of an atrocious act of
vandalism. That grave has been secret
ly visited, the last figure in the record of
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and defaced and the date of June Is.
1851. has been made to read June IS.
lS5@ 1t is also known that two pho
tographic negative plates of the defaced
stone showing the altered date were Ia
ken after this act of vandalism WAS
committed. The negatives are repre-
sented to have been made "for Western
customers" and copies of the plates are
said to have been sent to Democratic
newspaper offices in various States.
Now until the foul hoof is actually
seen stirring the mud at the bottom, it
is never safe to say in what deep water
the demon of Democratic malevolence
lies hidden. But this desecration of an
innocent child's grave has the aspect of
meaner and more despicable outrage
Mr. Blaine in order to defend the honor
of his wife and family from vile SLAM
der has branded it as an atrocious and
abominable lie, and has promptly seized
the slanderer by the throat and sued
him for libel Why this invasion of the
cemetery in Augusta. and the deface-
ment and alteration Of the date on the
little marble stone there, if not for the
purpose OF manufacturing evidence to
| O.ster up the infamous Democratic
SANDER? Why have negatives of that
defaced tombstone been sent to Demo-
cratic newspaper offices throughout the
country, unless for reproduction. precise
ly as plates of the Murey forgery were
scattered East and West by order of the
Democratic National Committee? Isl
Democracy now to be charged with the
vilest of the long series of infamous
crimes which have overwhelmed it with.
reproach in Presidential years?
Yet all this is done, like the Morey
forgery. in the interest of Democracy
hypocritically prating of purity and re
form. and rendered desperate. now as
then. by predestined defeat.-N. Y.
Tribune.