Daily Republican., 1886-09-08
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1886.


Democratic Fraud Coming Home
How 10 this for reform? One Demo-
cratic candidate tells the County Demo
cratic Com mittee that he 10 afraid he
will be cheated out OF the nomination
for Representative to the Legislature,
by the inspectors the Democrats have
appointed to hold such election. He
asks that he may be permitted to put o
friend in the polling rooms that he may
have fair count and fair play, but his
request Is denied.
Another has withdrawn entirely from
the canvass and become candidate for
nomination by the reformers, because
rs he Gays Democratic nominations
depend largely upon the csprioes OF the
election Off GERS" that is in PLATA Lam
guage, .he inspectors appointed by the
Democrats to hold the election would
cheat him out of the nomination even
II he got the votes. This is Democratic
not Republican authority. 1t has a,
last been left upon the record by their
own party that Democrats cannot and
will not hold honest elections any more.
A nomination "depesds largely upon
the capriees OF the election offict re" say 8
Mr.. William N. Mccormick, Demo
Graf who tries to be as honest in his
politics as In his business. ~ do not
believe will have fair play" says
Colonel Enoch Moore, while pleading
in vain to have safeguards thrown
around the ballot boxes next Saturday.
The actions and words OF these two
gentlemen named are q sosthing ar
rAigpment OF the dishonest practices OF
the Democratic party. The articles OF
impeachment say in substance that
their own party is corrupt; that fair
elections cannot be held any more; that
election officers and not the voters
make the nominations, and that there
is no use for honest Democrats to seek
q nomination ct the hands of their
party.
We are sincerely glad 1T has come
TO this. The debauchery Of the ballot
com menoed in 1873, when Mr.. Bsysrd
has his peculiar assessment laws pas
sed by the Legislature and placed upon
the statute books. These laws then
were intended only to cheat the Repub b..
lican party, but this monstrous outrage
upon political party has come home
to plague the inventors. Year after
year the Republican party, which num-
bered large msj GRITTY Of the voters OF
the State, has been cheated out OF the
victories 1t would have gained had 1t
not been for dishonest assessment laws,
dishonest collection OF poll taxes, dis
honest election inspectors and dishon-
est counts. To speak plainly, organ.
lied frauds upon the ballot have been
legaliz.d by the Legislature In
the passage OF the assessment laws
OF 1873. These frauds have done the
work for which they were intend I'd.
They have cheated the Repu blican
party out Of victory SO long that that
party has retired from the field for the
present. There is no Repu blicsn ticket
In the field to-day and there Is NO
enemy for the well-trAined Dem ocratlc
msnipulators to face, no Repu blican
party upon which 10 practice fraud.
In this emergency they have turned
upon their own party. They must
have something to do and have turned
upon each other They have already
succeeded in placing two Democratic
tickets 10 the field for Sneriff and
Coroner In New Castle County, each
claiming to have been regularly nomi-
mated Their nominee for G overnor is
charged with debauching the voters o.
his own hundred with money and
whisky to secure his nomination,
though ne poses before the people as g
retormer, temperance man and q
christian. The half OF the Deaocratit
party hates him, and would rather IL
heart see him defeated than elected
Both sides cheated all they knew no "
but one side cheated more III Va le O .her
Having been trained for twelve year
TO cheat Republicans, they turned thei
weapons win terrible effect upon them
selves when there WAS no Republic Al
party In the held to cheat. 1t Is n
wonder such men as Col. Eco oh Moor
and William n. Mccormick are driver
TO adopt the plea OF Save me from M,
friends. We can only say to tn
warning factions OF the Democrat
party tina. we have no sympathy what
ever for them. The election fraud
that have returned to p sgue them ar
OF their own invention. The men VIII
manipulate the primary nomination
for one side or the other are the sam
men, to great extent, who hold th
general elections, As they have bee
taught to cheat at the general election
they will cheat at the nomina alton elet
tons Of their own party. The Demo-
racy Is only having q taste Of the bite
herbs they prepared for the Republ,
cans. Though We would not retalis
and return evil for evil, yet 1T is q sin
cere satisfaction to Republicans to kno
that the bitter dose prepared for II
Republican party is no more palatab
to the Democratic party, now that the
are compelled to drink 1t Let us 81!
cerely hope that the middle OF frat
may end In honest election Ia w, hone
elections and honest counts.