The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08
PREPARING FOR FRAUD.

In New York dispatch will be found the
following
''The na,ional Democratic committee has
taken very active measures to insure fair re-
turns in all DELAYED and doubtful districts
Counsel is employed to watch the official can
vass, and arrangements have been made to
insure transmission of correct news over the
country. TO meet the expenses of this action,
which are necessarily heavy, friends in>yarious
sections are starting subscriptions. Money
will be thankfully received by the national
committee, and any aid of this nature to as
sist in enforcing the popular will should, to be
effective, be promptly rendered"
In connection with this we reprint the fol-
lowing telegram from the chairman of the
New York Democratic State committee:
''By official returns, reported from every
| county, Cleveland and Hendricks have carried
| New York State by safe and sure majority
No Vaccinations, or false claims, OF pretended
doubts of Blaine's managers can change this
result. The friends of honest government and
| honest elections can be everywhere assured
that the Democratic State Board of Canvassers
will see that the true vote is correctly de-
clared DANIEL MANNING"
Mr.. Manning sent this dispatch before the
''oficial" returns in the counties could pos
sibly have been counted, and he purposely
lied when he made the statement, which, by
the way, was sent to the New York Evening
Post, paper that has shown itself to be ut
terly without conscience and honor Taking
both these dispatches together, we ask any
fair-lninded man, whether he be Republican
or not, what they mean. Do they not mean
fraud9 Do not they justify Mr..
Blaine's assertion as to the commission
of fraud by the Democrats If
the Democrats had an honest majority on the
face of the returns, is there any sensible man,
of any political faith, who believes they would
issue any such manifestoes as these9 The
means that a corruption fund is to be raised,
either to pay for frauds already perpetrated
or to pay for some contemplated, and that are
necessary to success. The count of the New
York returns is merely clerical, under the law
of New York, and the only legitimate expense
could not be much, even if the Demo
perts" to make the footings. Why are law
yers needed Mr.. Manning has revealed the
plot. The final canvassing board is Democratic,
General Carr, the Secretary of State, being
the only Republican member The plot is to
either alter the returns from the counties before
they are received, or to alter or throw them
out when they are canvassed. The Albany
Argus Democratic, on Thursday morning,
also mentioned the plan, and served notice on
General Carr that if he stood in the way he
would be killed, and the legal consequences of
the murder taken care Of afterward. AS an
additional evidence of the plot, the Democratic
national committee has assumed the election
of Cleveland and Hendricks, and ordered
salutes fired at noon to-day, and meetings held
at which, we may imagine, all sorts of infam-
matory speeches will be made by Mr.. Cur
tis's 'hungrv" Democrats. This manifesto
the elimination of the plot, is simply in
famous. 1t is direct Indictment to
trouble. 1t is adding oil to the
flames of already improperly aroused
passion in the minds of needless and con-
scienceless men. Every Democratic newspa-
per is filled with infamed appeals and denun
Citations. There is no Republican newspaper,
nor any leading Republican in the country,
that has suggested or limited at fraud, OF that
has not said that if Cleveland and Hendricks
have the plurality Of votes legally returned by
competent authority, they must and will be
naugurated To this end tie Republican
party would be the first to repel any move
ment in opposition. But the Republican
party and the vast majority of the people
know that it does not lie in the mouth of
party which, with cipher dispatches, at
tempted to buy the presidency, and
with COMMUNICATED by no less Democrat
than Governor Hoadly-to steal it, to cry
out in advance against fraud The
Democratic cry is the cry of bafled ambition