The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-12
The Desperate Schemes Of Unseru
pulous Trlcksters.

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For the past forty-eight hours Mr..
Jay Gould has been using the Western
Union Telegraph Company to spread
abroad through the. United States
| false information as to the result of the
election in the State Of New York. The
proof of this is well known to every
| intelligent journalist in New York. 1t
is the same thing that Mr.. Gould did in
| October with reference to the election in
Ohio, when not one specific statement
capable Of verihcatiOn or exposure was
allowed to pass over the Western Union
wires, and when the statements that we're
sent were shown within two days to be
conspicuously and Intentionally false
As to the vote of New York the plot has
been nearly identical, and has been car
ried out with the same persistence. The
returns are sent out in Jumps of ''elec-
ton districts" which are not named, and
cannot be identified, and the publication
Of these have been made in sums and at
times to suit the subscribers. Occasional
pronunciamentos from the Blaine Com
mittee have shown that returns from
comparatively remote points have
been used promptly while those
from points within an hours ride
of the Western Union building
have been held back. Meanwhile
there have been long breaks, during
which no returns whatever have been
given out, and these intervals have been
used to issue boasting bulletins in vague
terms as to the general result. All the
time the dispatches in the Offices of real
newspapers from county committees of
both sides, and from county officers
holding the official returns, have stead
ily contradicted both the doctored fig
ures Of the Gould men and the bulletins
of the Blaine managers. The motives OF
the Gould-Blaine combination are
obvious. They have determined to keep
back the truth to confuse the public
mind and to inhame the passions of
their followers or dupes in hopes that by
fraud and corruption in Virginia, West
Virginia or Indiana, they could secure
enough electoral votes to dispense with
New York. They have alsodared to think
there would be an opportunity to falsi-
fy the vote in this State. and If every
/ device elsewhere failed them to steal
the Presidency here. Besides this was
the plan to hedge all the heavy bets
which their confidence in their ante cleo
ton plots, in heir alliance with the
arch trickster Butler, and in the cor
ruption fund T. sed at the Field Gould
/ dinner, had led them to make There
was also the chance of recouping their
heavy election expenses by the manipu-
lation of the stock market. But the
main purpose was to carry ont the dea-
perate scheme which was to place Blaine
in the White House, put Geuld's Judges
in the Supreme Court, and open the rich
leads of official patronage to the principal
partners in this blind pool, Gould and
Blaine, and to those whom they should
choose 60 admit to the share of the pro-
! ITS. This scheme was obviously rotten
" corrupt; It was plainly desperate; it
was moreover dangerous for its authors
to degree which they could hardly
realize. shut out from intercourse with
honest men, surrounded BIZ plotters
whose necks were in the same halter,
and whose greed was fired BY the same
hopes. and BY fatterers who thought that
theft would follow fawning. Neither
/ Gould, nor Blaine who is subordinate "a
Gould, couldIrealize the height or depth
Of the Indignation which their base de
signs aroused in the public mind. MOI
accustomed to listen onlyto those whoxt
wits were hired BY themselves did thes
conceive Of the sharp inspection, thu
uRtiTing vigilance, the trained acumen,
Of the honsst journalists and the politics
leaders who h4Fa been on their track
they thought in the blind pursuit Of theil
own gain, that the men who for months
havs Seen following them ateFery step tx
posing their falsehoods, laying bare fhei
tricks and battling their laid plans uonIl
now humbl7 vel their eyes and slani
silent while the people uere robbed d
the priceless victory for honest govern
menf which had been 20 labofiodsl j
ssriven fol, 20 gloriously won. They haT|