The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-22
TIE cINCINNArI INN FRAUDS.
Evidence Going to shaw That There Was Il
Plot To StOnl tho Nntah.


Plot to steal tho Votes.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 2l.-A Washington, D.
O., special says: The following letter wag
received to-day from gentleman who for,
merly held high position here. He has
excellent opportunities for knowing what
issoIng on behind tho sceuesI In Cincinnati,
and this should attract attention TO his
statements that the certificates for the
Democratic Legislative ticket were pre-
pared in advance Of the beginning of the
count:
at isnot strange, rs Eastern dispatches
assert, that the eyes Of the country are on
Cincinnati. 1t was thought that the
criminal cases would not, go soon after
the burning OF tho public building1 by q
mob, get the city by the throat, but, be-
yond question honesty and decency are In
the gutter, under tho feet OF the gang,
while crime runs riot and criminals hold
high carnival under the protection Of a
thug police.
"Nothing Ike II has ever been witnessed
in any city in this country before. IS
"There is no doubt felt or expressed by
either Democrats or Republicans that the
outrages on the ballot boxes last Tuesday
by the Gang are the most infamous in
point Of Rhameless boIdncss and open def
ance OF law that have ever heen praotiGed
in any city. Nobody seems TO doubt that
tho Republican ticket received majority
OF the honest ballots by from two TO five
thousand, and the citizens everywhere,
Democrats and Republicans, are wonder
ing II II is possible for gang OF outlaws 10
deliberately debsuCh the ballot box and &C.
cure unmolested the fruit oltheir crimes"
1t ig made known here, through Demo-
cratic sources that tho fraud was planned
and the details sgreed upon and arranged
some days since. The certificates OF cleo
ton are all ready for the signature of the
clerk, who Is himself beneficiary in the
scheme. 1t baG probably hGen determin-
ed beforehand by the gang Of criminals in
charge Of the city, to whom the certificates
should have been issued, and the "otiicial
count iB mere form. It Is fair to pre-
sumo that the tally.sheet have not been
neglected, nor the ballot. boxes left in .
condition to cast suspicion upon the re-
vised tally-sheets.
The question is constantly asked here,
Is it possible that any city in the Union
can be so thoroughly and utterly in the
hands and under tho control OF a criminal
gang? That Cincinnati is down in the
gutter and bleeding, and that honesty and
decency are fleeing from the highway,
and hiding from the thugs and roughs,
the creatures OF their bosses, is recognized.
by the whole country, aud it excites Won
der that the shops and factories, the mills
and stores and every place where honest
men labor for bread do not sent forth an
army to push the criminals into cells and
give honest men a breathing spell. Il
1t Is stated here that ex.conylcts and
graduates Of the work house shadow de-
cent citizens, and listen near groups OF
law-abiding men, in order TO report to
their masters the degree Of indignation
expressed in regard 10 the rule OF lawless-
ness which reins. Where are Cincinnati
workmen? Where are her honest artl'
sans and mechanics, whose children at
tend tho schools OF that\city2 Are all
honest influences dead? Are all arms
that arc strong enough 10 tear the hand
OF crime from the City's throGt paralyzed? ?
Has not Cincinnati touched bottomP Can
she get any lower2 When will abe cleanse
herselfP The country waitS to see.