New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-26
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danger.

| What is the Democratic claim about Con-
gress? Stripped of DISCUSSES, simply this II
Governors can be found to refuse certificates
10 n few Republicans, the Democratic Clerk
can make up roll with majority of Demo
Gratis. who can then organize the House and
vote each other into contested seats and there
is no legal redress At one precinct in Ten
| nessee Republican majority of over 100 was
cast and legally returned. Then it became
known that the majority in the House at the
organization might depend upon the refusal
of certificate according to those returns.
Affidavits were forwarded by Democrats that
persons from another State had voted at the
precinct in question. These votes had been
received and returned by Democratic officials,
but the Governor, without hearing the other
side or having any right under the law to try
the case at ALL proceeded to throw out the
returns of all votes from that precinct, making
pretended majority for the Democratic can
ddate. On a certificate so given, it is now
claimed, men can be placed on the roll with
power to vote themselves or each other into
contested seats.
If anybody doubts that the disposition to do
such things exists, he has only to look at the
returns from Georgia, Alabama Mississippi and
Louisiana States adjoining or near and con-
troled by the same party and the same process.
In Mississippi the total vote is about 10000
but eight years ago there were 80, 81 males
twenty-one years of age and over, 100000
white and 13OO 900 colored. Does anybody
really believe that there was free vote and
an honest count? In Alabama eight years ago
there were al 900 white and 118,000 col
ored males twenty-One years of age and over
and the increase since 1880 has been very
great; but the total vote is 10000. In
Louisiana there were 100000 white and
! OS, 900 colored males twenty-one years of
age eight years ago now the total vote is
returned as $4,000. The complete returns
from Georgia have not yet been published, but
will present the same general features.
In region where the only elections held
and returns made are such as these, one ne
publican nevertheless gets clear majority on
the face of the returns. Thereupon part OF
the returns are thrown out on assertions by
one party only in order to elect the Democrat
With the one vote thus obtained it is gravely
proposed by Democrats to organize the House
to turn cut Republicans enough TO make a
for this great Nation for two years If any
body objects, the newspaper attorneys for po-
itical swindling reply: "There is no legal
remedy the certificate of the Governor and the
roll of the Clerk must be observed" In that
case self-government has become farce or
fraud
This great Nation of sixty millions of people
will start with the idea that there is remedy
for crime like this, and that the first duty OF
the President and of every other official OF
every branch of the Government is to find and
apply that remedy. What that remedy may
be those charged with official responsibility
must determine. But if this Democratic con-
spiracy to count out Congress elected by the
people should be pressed to test, the free
people of States where law is respected and
obeyed will rightly demand that the Govern
ment shall find a remedy and apply it without
delay The time has come to put stop to
systematic defeat and defiance of the Consti-
tuition and the laws in States subject to Ma
tiOnal authority.