Daily Republican., 1884-12-29
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1854.
H,m.crnsie 4 condemnation.
A good many Of the Democratic pa
pers put on show of Indignation Al
the Chicago fraud perpetrated by bal
lot box suffers 10 the interest Of Car
ter Harrison and IL they Yere not fully
unders ood they might beive good
many honest minded petanS We can
heartily Join hands with any paper In
denonrcing frauds upon the ballot,
whether hose frauds are intended to
elect Democratic United States Sena-
tor or neither Intended to elect Demo
cratic President Of the United States,
but WE cannot $40 that any extra pun
ishm-ut should be melted out to the
first while nothing whatever Is said
against Dem ocratic President elected
by the most shameless kind OF fraud
and intimidation. A rascal Is never
more or less a rascal whatever his social
or political relations may be. Our plan
would be 10 punish fraud by whom
soever practi ced and without reference
to persons or any political affiliations
But since these Democratic organs are
moved TO such pretty show OF indig-
nation because single ballot-box was
stuffed in Chicago, we hope we may not
be thought impertinent for asking what
wou'd have been the fate Of Grover
Cleveland in the late canvass had there
not heen hundreds of ballot-box %
stuff Il in the Southern States In his be-
half That no election passes there
without enormous frauds upon the bal
lot is as well, yes, and much better
known than that there was q single
ballot box stuffed at Chicago. The
proofs are as formidable In one case as
in the other.
The frauds upon the ballot In the
South are also perpetrated by Demo-
Gratis in the interest of Democrats. IL
there any more reason why Mackin and
Gallagher, the ballot box suffers OF
Chicago, should be severely punished
than there is why hundreds more Of
respectable. Democrats in the South,
habitually guilty Of the same thing,
should not be severely dealt with J.?
Why should these Democratic organs
have 30 much to say against this CON-
paratively small crime in Chicago while
they have not word to say Of the great
ocean of corruption let loose In the
South ? 1t is true that Msckin and
Gallagher did not perpetrate their
fraud in behalf of Grover Cleveland.
They were working in behalf Of Carter
Harrison, the defeated candidate for
Governor of Illinois, who they wanted
to send to the United States Senate as
General Logan's successor. The ballot
box stuffing i'll the South was done to
keep the South solid for Cleveland and
Hendricks. But we cannot see that
the crime is any less crime because
Grover Cleveland is its beneficiary than
II Carter Harrison had reaped the re-
ward. OF course we do not excuse
Mackin and Gallagher, but, on the other
hand, neither do we excuse the Demo
cratic leaders and ballot-box suffers of
the South. They are equally in act
but unequally guilty N intent and In
the volume of their wickedness Had
the fraud in Chicago succeeded it would
only have sent Carter Harrison to the
Senate.
He would only have been one Sena-
tor from the North elected as the result
OF fraud. But these ballot-box stuf-
ing frauds in the South have not only
elected ten United States Senators from
the States of Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
but they have elected Grocer Cleveland
President OF the United States. His
Title 10 the Presidency is blurred and
SCARED all over with the blacklist and
most damnable kind of fraud, and vet
These Democratic organs that are crying
out In mock hypocrisy against Mackin
ana Gallagher, only because they have
been nicely caught, have not a word to
say against the greater crime of electing
Ten nlted States Senat md A presi.
uehi OF the nited States by fraud.
HAD The Chicago fraud succeeded only
carter Harrison would have been sent
10 The nited States Senate. and he
would have been he only Senator from
northern Safe elected by such
methods But III the Senate from the
south There are Senators Jonas and
dihsen from Louisiana, Lamar and
,i7ofgt from Mississippi, Morgan and
iSh from Aiabama, Brown aud Col
unit from fr-orgia, and Butler and
II inpton from South Carolina ten IN
d ana every one Of them the bene-
II aflee ot The rankest kind of frapd
hu3 nc Deih9eratil organ has a word tn
say aoo Y .ils great crime upon the