Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-10-30
DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS.
Methods by Which They Attempt to
Hide Their own Rascaiiy Schemes
Interesting Circular by The Repub-
Iiuan state Executive Committee.

Tie Republican State Executive Com
mi lee has issued the following:
OHIO REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE Rooms,
Columbus, Ohio. Oct. %, 1884.
To THE PEOPLE OF OHIO:
Under date of October is, 1884, the
chairman secretary of the Democratic
executive committen of Ohio issued a
libeIous and indecent address, in which
they seek 10 reconcile the extravagant
predictions made by them prior to elee>
ton with the unpleasant facts since de-
veloped by their humilistiag defeat.
In this whining circular they adopt
the old stratagem Of the cunning rogue
and cry stop thief" to divert attention
from their own rascally methods asd
thwarted attempts to defeat the honest
will of the people.
They denounce fraud to divert atten>
tion from the expensive schemes for the
perpetration of frauds. which were de-
Iecled and rendered imperative by Re-
publican vigilance. They condemn the
alleged undue use of money TO divert at
ed the enormous sum of S275,000 to cor
rupC Tue NOl6TS Oh OnlO--
They charge Gen. W. w. Dudley, as
gallant soldier and as pure a man rs
ever stood on tie battlefield, with re-
missness in the discharge Of official du
ties as commissioner of pensions to di-
vert attention from the fact that Gov.
Hoadly, his private secretary and all the
Democratic State officers have virtually
abandoned their Offices to lay wires and
manipulate disgraceful campaign in
behalf of solid South ana Congress
controlled by rebel Lrigadiers, which
would have no interest in the Northern
soldier except to crush him.
They charge the United States marshals
with improper interference with voters
at the pollsro divert attention from the
unfaiEuess and brutality of cloud of
DemUcl alic deputy Sheritfs appointed 10
protect ruffiaIis in their raids upon bal.
lot box, well knowing That DIS Tict Al
turney Channing Richards and the Re-
publican press Of tie State have .hal~
lenged tueln To show a singie instance
10 which federal officer has deferred
an honest man from voting, or sought
by improper means to influence vote.
They condemn yieleuce to divert at+
tentiun from the fact that in the Demos
cratic wards OF Cincinnati cOlored Re-
publicans were knocked down by organ
lied gangs OF Democratic Euf1ians. driven
from the polls, and huudi eds of them
thus DISTINGUISHED, While other cOlofed
citizens were arrested on false and friv-
olouS charges on the morning of election
day, and kept III prison until the polls
were closed at night. and from the fur
ther fact that prominent white men,
among them Bishop Jaggar, of the Epis-
copal church, Gen. Adams and E. L
Sprague, were challenged by Democratic
p.ug-ugies, then thrust from the polls
and not permitted 10 vote.
Tney allil m that 72,G00 votes were
cast in CiuciaDali. This statement is
absolutely false. There were but So 694
votes poiIed in that city. By their lying
figures they seek to convey The idea that
there were more votes cast than males
Of voting age, but in this connection
they fail TO mention the fact that the
vote would have been still larger than ii
was ii the seOundrels sent over from
Kentucky to vote the Democratic ticket
bad not been hunted down by honest
men and frightened from the city.
They reiterate the thread bare false
hood that the presidency was stolen from
them in 1876, AID yet omit in this con-
nectioH to mention the fact that 5000
Southern Republicans we're killed and
wounded in the elections of that year
by Democratic thugs in their unsHccess-
full efforts to give the States of Louisi-
ana, South Carolina and Florida to Til
den.
They denouEee corruption to divert
attention from the fact that ia the cities
of Cincinnati, Cleveland and Colun bus
their bold attempt to purchase voters
and lavish disbursements of the cUrrup-
ton fund became matters of such COM
mon notoriety that scores of honest
Democrats abandoned their party in
disgust and-voted The Republican ticket.
They affirm that they will carry Ohio
in November, wien they must know, if
they have any sense at all, that their
ticket will be buried under Republican
majority of 10000.
Beaten at the polls, with their schemes
to stuff the ballot box and defeat the
popular will detected and exposed; with
a campaign fund of S375,0o0 wasted on
WdIu SIIlhoiS dnu pOliIlCdi ucdu UcNLS /,
convicted as cheats and liars. these Dem
ecratic managers now howl like " hip'ed
ours over their merited misfortunes, and
afford to the world another verifcatioD
of the assertion that "the way of the
transgressor is hard"
JOHN F. OGLEvEE. Chairman.
JOSHUA K. Brown. Secretary.
IT was well established fact that the