The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-20
Democratic Methods and the Labor
Vote.

seeds of great political changes. Mr..
Carlisle claims to be elected, and will
get his certificate, but that is not the
end. A dispatch announces that Mr..
Thoebe will contest the seat, MAIN
tanning that he was counted out after
the established Democratic fashion
in dealing with Republican victories
in Southern States. For fifteen years,
Democrats who profess to be respect
able have been perpetrating or coun-
tenancing terrorism. ballot.box stuff
fing, forgeries and perjuries in South
ern States in order to overcome
Republican majorities. New that it
becomes needful to extend the pro-
cess to a district bordering on the
Ohio line, why should they hesitate
because the candidate to be fraudu.
lently counted ont is called Labor
rather than Republican candidate !:
1t was all the same, Democrats say;
most of mis- vote came from Republi.
cans, and he upheld the Republican
principle of protection, and would
not have had chance of success but
for his Republican attitude and subs
port, and there he should be treated
just as other Republican candidates
have been.
That does not please the candidate
of the knights of Labor. and he con-
tests. Mr.. Carlisle will 60 to the
House, in that case, with disquali-
flying cloud upon his title to seat.
He claims, in published interview,
that he was almost beaten only be-
cause Kentucky Democrats by the
thousand did not know that he had
any opponent, and so neglected to
vote at all. But files of papers pub
lished in the district prove that the
name, opinions and popularity of his
antagonist were discussed before the
election, and it was predicted that
Thoebe would have large vote. The
more reasonable explanation in this
case, and the only legal Interpretation
of the event. is that several thousand
voters who do not approve Mr.. Car
isles free trade zeal and energy,
when they found candidate against
him who was in favor of defending
American industry, either wanted to
vote for his opponent and were de-
tered by the despotsm prevailing,
or deliberately chose not TO vote, so
that his opponent might have bet
ter chance. The fact that they did
not vote for Mr.. Carlisle is prima
facie evidence that they did not want
to vote for him.
More than half the votes of the
district are cast in Kenton county.
which includes Coyington, opposite
Cincinnati. and in campbell county,
which includes Newport. In both
counties large manufacturing inter-
ests have been growing rapidly of
late, and employ host of workers
who are intelligently hostile to free
trade. The change in the number of
voters. and in their political division
since the last Presidential election,
cannot we'll be estimated because the
great revival of industry has brought
new men into the shops and mills.
But Campbell county gave major
ity for Mr.. Blaine Kenton county
gave majority of 1000 against
Blaine, but nearly 1000 majority
against Mr.. Carlisle this year. The
six other counties in the district lie
along the Ohio to the westward, and
cast in 1884 only 11,073 votes in all
against 14,37S in Campbell and Ken
ton. That free trade leader should
be beaten in such district is not
more strange than that Mr.. Morrison
should be beaten in mining and
manufacturing district opposite st.
Louis.
Mr.. Carlisle can easily be voted in
to his seat by the Democratic major
ity. But in doing so that majority
will pave the way for clearer ap.
probation by labor voters throughout
the country OF Democratic methods
at the South. 1t is possible that the
vote of partisan majority against
Mr.. Thoebe may have some effect in
future elections wherever there are
knights of Labor. The Democratic
majority can also elect Mr.. Carlisle
Speaker of the House, if it chooses,
and so give him power to appoint the
Committee on Elections, which has
to pass on his own case and on other
cases of contest. But if it does so.
Mr.. Carisle's seat still being contest
ed. it will virtually. judge the case
without hearing any evidence, and
that will not tend to propitiate Mr..
Thoebe's friends. On the other hand,
to set aside Mr.. Carlisle and elect Mr..
Cox would not be gratifying to the
Western men who consider that New
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