Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-03
THE OLD FRAUD FLAVOR.
lneinnati Commercial Gazette.

character of the Dayton Convention an
the object lessons there displayed, proc
of the prevalence of the politicians ider
titled with fragrant and scandalous tran:
actions in the State, and they have bee
enabled to mark through the progressiv
stages of the campaign the characters
tics of those who had began their con
spicuOuS career with the Highland Hous
Convention, continued it in the Payn
purchase of seat in the Senate of tn
United States, exemplified their crimina
eXpertness of the frauds eliminating il
forgery in 1885, and gathered strength
to repossess the Democratic part,
through its representatives assembled il
Dayton. The whole business has TO
all intelligent citizens an unmistakabl,
flavor. 1t is that of the frauds of 1888
1884 and 1885.
The monstrOus fact is before the peo
pie of Ohio that the Democratic party
is in the field demanding the destruction
of the safeguards of the ballot box that
represent the enlightenment of the peo-
pie through most painful experience
and their indignation at finding them
selves defrauded of their electoral rights
by the arts and the violence of criminals
Mr.. Campbell, the Democratic candi-
date, may talk as gently as he pleases
hereafter about the objections to the Re-
publican clerks of non partisan Election
Boards, and his solicitude that there
should be some other means found of
appointing Election Boards than to have
it done by the Governor represents
a direct assault upon the election law as
it stands, and would utterly destroy its
value by the changes he proposes. There
is no man, Republican or Democrat, in
the State, who has information on this
subject, not aware that this is the precise
truth.
OF course, no other question before
the people CT Ohio is to be compared in
Importance with this. 1t is question
with us whether we shall 90 back into
the barbarism from which the State has
just emerged, whether we shall return to
the worst condition of any State in the
Union, with the possible exception of
some of those in the South. The Ohio
election laws are now the best existing
There never was more admirable cleo
tural machinery than that applied to
seventeen Ohio cities. No man has
made complaint against it based upon
individual wrong. Each voter is abso-
lutely assured that he can vote one time
as he pleases, and that his vote will be
counted as cast.
1t is an astonishing impertinence in
those who are regulating and running
the Democratic party that it should be
put forward to make war upon system
that has served the whole people so ad-
mirably. The election Boards of the
cities of the State are composed equally
of good men of both parties, and the
law is the very best that has ever been
enacted. The criticism that the action
of the Governor has been tyrannical in
this case is thoroughly unwarrented and
scandalous. Even Mr.. Campbell, when
it came to the point, had to say that the
Election Board in his own town was well
constructed, but he did not want to go
and register his name.
There is fatality about such a de-
claratiOn; it means that Mr.. Campbell is
the most ignorant man in the world
about what has been going on in Ohio,
or that he has not any scruple about
casting aside the measures that have
been employed and found effectual in
preventing frauds.
However he may struggle to seem to
confine his objections to the law to the
appointment of the Boards, people can
not fail to observe that the true intent |
and meaning of those into whose hands |
he has committed himself are that we
shall resume in the old localities of fraud |
the old rascalities, and that the experts
in the celebrated infamies in Fourth |
Ward, A, Cincinnati, and the Thirteenth |
Ward, Columbus, shall be resumed and |
perpetuated, and, of course, extended to |
the utmost.
We may anticipate beyond reasonable
question that if the Boards are knocked
out and registration abandoned, the
Democratic fraud machine in Hamilton
County will be run up to ten thousand
voting power
The Democrats who propose to follow
their party in this raid upon the rights
of the people to have free voting and
fair counting should remember that the
law authorizing the appointments to be
made by the Governor is constitutional,
under constitution made by cOnven-
ton which contained majority of Dem
ocrats, as construed by the Supreme
Court when the majority of the Judges
upon the bench were Democrats; and
more than that, when the plan was pro-
posed to place the appointing power of
the boards in the hands of State Board,
so that the prominence of the Governor
would not be so considerable, the meas
ure, though drafted by some of the most
Democrats of the State,
failed through lack of Democratic sup
port.
The Democratic party is fighting our
election law-the best in the world
hoping to restore the reign of fraud.
That is the main matter.
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