Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-08-25

imam anOfher IL Is Tor the infamous
crimes it has repeated at least at the
three last Democratic elections, and the
manner in which it is entering upon
the present campaign is evidence that it
is willing TO go down still lower in
infamy to effect its purpose. Those
who were voters in 1868 have not
forgotten the fragrant outrage upon the
ballot box in New York City through
means of false naturalization under the
Tweed reign of fraud and dishonor. In
1872, the party threw away all the priu-
ciples for which it had ever contended.
and willing to he anything or nothing
for the sake of getting possession of the
Government, endorsed Horace Greeley
for President.
The result was greater defeat than
the party had ever met before. In 1876
the bloody era was inaugurated and the
Democratic party will have to answer
for the political murders through which
some of the Southern States shat had
before given from $4,000 to 40, 900 Re-
publican majority, were suddenly cou-
verified red handed to the support of Til
den and the Republican party in those
States anIihilated
This reign. of terror and blood made
the Southern States solid for anything
and anybody labelled Democratic, and
to-day through these red handed crimes
upon humanity the franchise and the
ballot box, those same States
stand ready to hand over the 153 solid
votes of the South to the nominee of the
Democratic party, Grover Cleveland.
Yet in 1884 1t is called reform party
Was there ever greater farce, more
bald-faced fraud ? In addition to the
bloody crimes by the Southern wing of
the party in that year, is to be added
the dishonest attempt even by the great
Democratic saint of reform himself,
Samuel j. Tilden, to buy up.the electo-
raj votes of three States of the South
that in spite of bloodshed and murder,
had elected Republican electors. Vic
lence from the South and fraud from
the North, joined hand finland to place
Democrat in Lincoln's chair, but an
all-wise Providence over-ruled the plot
and placed the Government in honest
hands.
Failing in fraud in 1868, in deception
in 1872; in violence and bribery in 1876,
in 1880. the managers of the party had
the Morey letter forged and spread from
Maine to California. Here we have
the chairman of the National Democrat
ic Committee not only suggesting TO an
infamous tool the forging OF some kind
of document got up as a letter from
Garfield, but that same chairman
vouching for the genuineness of the
letter that he knew to be forged at hi,
own suggestion. Gould infamy stooT
lower?
This was high handed crime against
the morals of the nation, and was one
OF the meanest and most contem bic
tricks imaginable, and its political use
was mapped out and put in operation
by means of bribery, false persona, ion,
fraud and perjury.
First, Barnum employed Hadley II
forge the letter. Hadley's price wa
81, 800, when it was forged, altered il
the private Office OF the Democrat
National Committee, handed back I
Hadley to make the correction III I'll
assumed hald writing of Garfield, 1T WA
sent upon its errand to do its damnin
work, and then Barnum despatche.
Hadley under the assumed name G
o. NJ. Wilson, of Lynn, Massachusetts
to suborn evidence to bolster up the for
gerry and fraud. While the forger WA
at Lynn, Barnum telegraphed hin
under the name of o. NJ. Wilson tell
ing him that he was wanted at the hea
uarters, but not to come until he had hi
Work CON pIeOcu,
ffar Do q III
o. M. Wilson II letter OF introduction t
William M. Pierce, a Democratic elet
tor in Western Mary land recon uIende
him as one high in the confidence OF til
National Democratic COMMITTEES. Wi
son was on the hunt of more perjure
evidence, and he got it, but his sui
orned witness was sent to the penitei
tiary for his perjury.
In 1884 what do we see ? The san
who were responsible for the dastardl
fraud of 1880 at the head of the Nltiol
al Democratic Committee again. l.
stead of the Democratic party huntil
down these men who instigated al
perpetrated the forgery and prosecutiI
them to the fullest extent of tie law,
has laid their hands beIignantly up(
their heads, and has commissioned the
to commit further crimes against mora
and against tue ballot box. Can d
party descend to still lower depths
degradation ? Read the history Of d
facing a child's grave i'll a cemetery
Maine and see For nearly thirty yea
marble slab has marked the lit
grave Of the first child of James
Blame. 1t was humble testimony
parental love and grief, and attest
parental sorrow over the first vacan
in a happy and honored christian hon
That grave has been visited by Den
cratic vandals. The little gravesto
has been defaced, and the date June
1851, has been made to read 185-. III
tographic negatives have been taken
the defaced stone, and copies of
negatives have been sent to Westt
Democratic newspapers. The Sill
serpent is at work again, but in IL
mean and despieable manner than
the forgery of The Morey Chinese lett
Why this invasion of the cemetery
Augusta, and this DETACHMENT of
little marble slab, if not for the purp
of manufacturing lying evidence
bolster up TIE infamous Islander t
has appeared in an indianapolis Del
cratic newspaper, against the mt
character of James G.. Elaine and
estimable wife Why have negati
of that deiaced tombstone phoiograp
and sent to Democratic newspaI
throughout the country if not for
production precisely as plates of
Morey forgery were scattered by