Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-10-19

years before his death, and he seemed
greatly pleased with 1t, and asked to see
1t again once'or twics afterward.
THE TARIFF OF 1s42 AND THE DEMOCRATIC
TREACHERY-THE CAM
PAIGN OF 1874.
Among the early fruits resulting from
the election of Gen. Harrison was the
good protective tariff passed by the wing
Congress of 1912. The democrats were
charged by the wings in 1874 with being
hostile to the protective policy OF the
wings, who claimed that the election of
James X. Polk as president and George
M. Dallas as vice president would result
in the repeal of the tariff law of 1912. This
charge was stoutly resisted and denied by
the democrats Of the North Mr.. Dallas
was a Pennsylvania, and his name alone
would be a guarantee that the protective
system would suffer no detriment. Wei, by
gigantic election frauds in New York and
Louisiana those States were counted for
Polk and Dallas, although Mr. Clay had
the legal plurality of those States, and
with them would have been elected. But
Polk and Dallas were inaugurated. The
tariff of 1912 came before Congress for
repeal. The Senate was equally divided
on the question of repeal, and George M.
Dallas as presiding officer, gave the cast
ing vote for repeal Now, he it remem-
bered that in all the democratic news
papers of Pennsylvania there was inscrib-
ed this motto: POLK, Dallas and the
Tariff of 1912" This was also emblazoned
on all the banners of the democratic party
in that and other Northern States. But
this fraud was no more pronounced than
that exhibited IN New York and Louisiana
In New York the Empire club under the
lead OF the noted Isaiah Rynders, APP
preached the wing State committee, with
an offer to secure the State for Henry
Clay, the whiQ candidate for president
for the consideration of $25, 600. The offer
was declined, rs Mr.. Clay was very popu-
lar among the people of New York as well
as OF other States, and the greatest en-
thuslasm for him prevailed everywhere.
Capt Rynders then went to the democrat
1c State committee with similar offer,
but precisely what trade was made | have
never known. But more than 10000
fraudulent naturalization papers were is
sued to foreign born persons, who had
not been in this country the proper legal
time to become authorized by law to vote.
Polk plurality, with this immense fund
to help him, was little oyer G000 above
the vote cast for Mr.. Clay in New York.
This gigantic fraud was clearly proved
after the election, but too late to remedy
the mischief done. Without this fraud
New YORK would have given Mr.. Clay the
election. In Louisiana Mr. Folks plural
lty over Mr.. Clay was about 600 only,
while q known fraudulent vote of more
IMAM that number was given IN one parish
alone. Large numbers of flat boatmen
from Tennessee, Ohio and other States far
up the Mississippi river were brought to
the polls in New Orleans, but their votes
were rejected by whig committees, when
they were put on board of RATS by demo.
cratic committees and taken to the parish
n n ,ty,xv r,tt 1
below New Orleans, noted for its live-oak
Swamps, and where wood choppers cut
and carried off timber belonging to the
government without let or hindrance.
And here these fiat boat men voted to a
man for Polk and Dallas, giving the dem.
ocratic ticket plurality two or three
times AS LARGE as the whole legal vote of
the parish. 1t was estimated that the vote
mere cast illegally more than wiped out
the plurality cast in the whole State for
FOLK. have no more doubt that Mr.
Clay was the legally elected president of
1914, than have that Abraham Lincoln
was legally elected in 1860, or that Frank
lin Pierce was elected in 1852
What record the history of the
democratic party presents for the past A
years, with its record Of fraud at the polls,;
It's record of financial plundering in the
municipal administration of the city of
New York. under the Tweed Tammany
iihsSi anu It's itCOIu VI u.SlUydlty among
lts party leaders, when II States attempt
ed to destroy the Union by an armed re-
bellion. Franklin Pierce of New Hamp
SHIRE, democratic eX-president writing
from New York to Jefferson Davis, while
the south was arming, that if fighting was
TO take place, it would not be confined to
the South, but that blood would flow in
our Northern cities and streets-and when
such leading democrats as Paul Diliing-
ham of Vermont, aud Daniel 5. Dickinson
and John A. Dix of New York had to
save their personal honor and that of their
country by abandoning the party they
mad served during nearly life time, and
Identifying themselves with the republi-
cans. With such a record, coupled with
the attempt by Judicial decision to force
human slavery oyer free territory and even
into free States, how can intelligent and
honorably ambitious young men think of
enrolling their names with that party ?
Its professions in favor of projecting
American industry and labor can no more
be trusted now than in 1914. TIL.