The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-11-11
Saturday Night, 18th
inst.
New York Herald, 7th inst.
They Chhh0t Do II Twice.

They Cannot DO 1t Twice.
The republican party cliugs to thu
power which the people have voted thai
| it shall lay down. There is conspiracy
to steal the Presidency and Vice Presi.
dency of the Unitad Ststes again for
candidates whom the people have re.
iscted. Eight years ago the robbery
was done in Florida, Louisiana aud
South Carolina. To-day it is attempted
in New York. .Audacity is the repub-
lican policy now as it was 10 1876.
z,cbariah Chandler is dead, but Stephen
b. ElkIns and Jay Gould survive. They
are the chief conspirators-Elk in
spring the Republican National Com.
mittee, Gould controlling the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
During the last two DAYS Gould, by
false reports OF election figures through
his telegraph agencies, has been execu
ting his share of the plot by preparing
republican partisans for fraudulent
claim that the vote OF New York has
been cast for Blaine and Logan. Yes
terday afternoon, when Gould's work
hsd been going on for twenty-four hours,
it became ripe for Ekins, and the r.
publican N .;ional COMMITTEES, which Ell
kins owns as solutely as any gang Of
negroes ever was owned in the slave.
driving times. issued proclamation
advancing the plot to It's second stage
This proclamation claims Indiana a.
we'll as New York for Blaine snd Logan,
AYERS as to New York that there is "no
ground for doubt" of the claim, impu
deutiy imputes an intention OF fraud to
Governor Cleveland and the returning
officers, and summons the people to "re-
si-tance." It is the old table Of the
wolf and the lamb and the turbid water.
The republican wolf ate the lamb in
1876. But IL we know the American
people be cannot do that again in 1884
and il We know Grover Cleveland the
wolf will ind more than its match in
strength and determination.
It is the official returns Of the ballots
of tire people Of New York, honestly
counted, and j. is not Jay Gould and
bis Western Union Telegraph Company,
that are TO determine the electoral vote
of this Stste. We believe that those
returns, II bosestly counted, show that
a majority OF the people have voted for
Cleveland and Hendricks. We also be-
lieve that Gould and Eikins are conspir-
ing to cheat in the count.
Our counsel is for peaceful methods
and careful abstinence from any others
till the last extremity. But Il the Re-
publican National Committees call for
resistance" is meant to incite republi.
cans to resort to violent means to de-
fend frauds on the pretext Of preventing
them, upon the heads Of Elkins AMI his
fellow members OF that committee rests
the responsibility FOR the stirring up Of
any violence that may ensue. The
people Of the United States have been
cheated once by the republican party in
a Presidential count. and have submitted
when the cheat was ratified by an srbi-
traiion. In the fifty.fve million inhabi.
tants OF this country there are not fifty
five thousand, II they can read and write,
who to-day do not feel in theft hearts
that from March, 1877, to March, 1881
the two men who exercised the offices
Of President and Vice President never
we're elected to them fairly. There will
he no arbitration this time, nor any SUBJ
mission.