Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-11-01
Col j. FairJar Mclaughlin on the Pres
fdentiaL Outlook.

Col J. Fairfax Mclaughlin, of New
York. addressed the New York Democracy
in Tammany Hall on the 18th ult., in be-
half of the National ticket and to judge
from the enthusiastic reception he received
from the braves the fires must be burning
brightly in the wigwam. The speaker pro-
posed resolution that Tammany should
print hundreds of thousands of the full
Democratic electoral ticket for President
and Vice President, and distribute them
house by house throughout the city of New
York. and also that thousands of posters
with the name, of the Democratic electors
be struck off and put up in all public pla-
ces in New York He invited the Demo
cratic newspapers to print the lists conspic-
uously in their columns for the information
of honest voters who are in danger of be-
ing deceived by spurious Republican bal
lots bearing the names of Cleveland and
Thurman at the top of the ticket as a fraud
and a cheat
Col. Mclaughlin declared that the most
bitter and perious contests in the whole
parliamentary history of the United States
had been those which had grown out of dis
putes in the electoral colleges. The Presi-
dency, he asserted, has been time and again
endangered from 1901 when Jefferson nearly
lost the electoral vote of Georgia through
an error in the returns, to the foul and I'M
paraleled fraud of 1876 when Tilden from
the selfsame cause was robbed of the Pres
idency Tammany he declared as the ever
faithful sentinel in the great cause of JEFF
fersonian Democracy now gave the first sig
nal note OF alarm, and as the National and
other Democratic committees throughout
the Union will no doubt also do offered
his resolution to print the lists Of Presiden-
tial electors in New York to prevent frauds
at the polls. Col Mclaughlin declared
that while the Tammauy constituencies
were confident of the election of their gal
liant standard-bearer Hugh J. Grant for
Mayor, yet they stood ready to sacrifice
every local consideration in the transcen-
dent battle of the age and for the election
Of the great captains in the great cause OF
Cleveland and Thurman Mr. Cleveland,
he said had with a courage never surpassed
in the history of the United States staked
his fortunes and his political life upon the
greatest issue of this last quarter Of the
nineteenth century, the expulsion of the
robber lords of monopoly and Capitalization
from the Treasury. He had laid his hands
upon the tariff juggernaut which now
threatened to roll onward crushing him be-
meath its wheels in one common ruin with
its millions of victims throughout the Re
public of Washington and Jefferson and
Jackson Tammany Hall would sacrifice
everything, every candidate rather than
suffer national defeat in such a national cri-
sis and with such standard bearers as Cleye-
land and Thurman. Col Mclaughlin
speech created a great, sensation and the
whole Democratic press of New York re-
viewed it favorably the next morning His
resolution was unanimously adopted. We
regret we have not room for extracts from
the New York Herald and Hor1d. In West
Virginia the voter should scan the tickets
closely to prevent imposition of wrong
names. Be on your guard against spuri-
GUS tickets.