The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-11

| main facts are known by every lnleHl
gent citizen Of Ohio. They commence
Ia the election OF 1888 at Cincinnati
when at the Highland House CONVEX
ton a reckless and desperate gang sui
stituted list Of delegates who were No
elected for those who were elected, an
thus seized the machinery Of the Demo
cratic party, II may be said that TIL
was a'ight In the Democratic part
with which we Republicans had nothin
10 do, but was Just ne corrupt and col
rupting as II they had seized the bAllo
boxes and changed the ballots, tor Ties
preliminary moyements o. parties are
part OF the necessary machinery OF cleo
tons, This was followed by open
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
in the election Of Mr.. Payne as . sena
torof the United States, | do not car
to dwell upon this, for II was ADMITTED
and denounced by leading Democrats
papers, and, II am not mistaken, by ~
Democratic papers published IN thi
county, / do not say that Mr., Faynt
participated in the bribery, but that !
was done to promote bis election may b
stated as an established fact, In TIL
election OF 1884 the same criminal gam
were guilty OF repeated Outrage, VIC
lence and fraud. /,
Mike Mullen on the day before cleo
ton arrested $50 colored voters and KEEP
them In custody until tue election wa
over At the next election IN Ulncln
natl, that Of 1885, the same desperate
gang, reinforced and encouraged by for
mer successes, seized the polls IN many
OF the voting precincts Of that city Rld
substituted Democratic for Republican
ballots, stuffed the ballot boxes with
tickets never voted, forged election re-
turns and thus converted q large Repub'
liCan majority into Democratic major
ity, These crimes were not confined 70
Cincinnati, but extended 10 Other parts
OF the State. In Columbus there was
an open, pRlpable forgery Of theEetuEaa
Of tile election that would have changed
the result, and In other places similar
crimes we're attempted or pracllced. u
does not lessen the gravity ot these facts
TO say that leading Democrats did not
approyeof these methodist that Judge
Thurman denounced the forgery Of Col
umbus and aided in prosecuting the Of
fender; that Governor Hoadly In his
parting speech on leaving Ohio on the
28th OF February, 1887, confessed aud
grieyed over all or more than | have
stated, will read his language:
"One trouble with the Democracy OF
Ohio Is, that they have learned the trick
OF changing the ballots after they have
heen put Ia the box. The Democracy Of
Hamilton county must take a new de-
parture,
dieting the past alone and looking
only to the future, the duty Of the
Democratic party Of Hamilton county Is
this:
NEVER AdA1N-NEvRR AGAIN
allow an honorable man to contemplate,
as | haye had 10 with shame, my name
accredited with 02Q votes ! never re.
CeiYed in the Fourth ward, apd my
friend Judge Foraker, In Precinct A,
Fourth Ward, accredited with iorty.Blx
only, when he certainly received 20O.p
In spite Of this 1t Is still true that the
Democratic party organization held on
to the advantage they had gained by
these crimes; that the four Democratic
Senators were sworn in on their fraud.
ulent certificates, and that all the Demo;
cratic Senators left the State with the
four fraudulent Senators, In order To
prevent the action Of the Senate In ex.
.pelIlng them. A more bold aud des
perate attempt 10 subvert the vote Of the
people was never made.
And, fellow citizens, this tampering
WITH TIE PURITY OF ELECTIONS
by the Democratic party Is not confined
to Ohio. Every great fraud in the United
States In the elective franchise has been
committed by the Democratic party.
The Plaquemine frauds In Louisiana In
1874, where a small number going
around and around school house and
voting each many times gave that State
TO James K. Polk instead Of 10 Henry
Clay. The frauds In Kansas when I
first became acquainted with this kind
Of elections enabled the Missouri
rutiians, supported BY the adpinistra.
ton Of Buchanan, to tyrannlSe over the
free State settlers OF Kansas.
In the Presidential election In 1868 In
the city OF New York, controlled by the
infamous Boss Tweed, frauds were com.
mitted by stutting the ballot boxes and
various other devices amounting 10 more
than 1900 Yotes, or enough 70 change
the vote VI that State from General Grant
10 Horatio Seymour. The iaCts in this
matter were proven by a committee Of
Congress at the head Of which was Judge
Lawrence, Of Ohio, and the facts ascer.
tanned have never been questioned or
disputed, 1.-THE election that year had
turned upon the vote Of the State OF New
York, In all human probability it would
have