The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-02-12

Right here we may recur to the
fact that these agencies were SINH
lar to those by which, in 1868, in
New York, Tilden counted in''
Seymour and Hoffman when
Grant and Griswold had carried
the State. Tilden's infamous con-
fidential circular, by which he ar
the machinery for that
fraudulent count, was modelled after
the circulars and edicts resulting in
the turning over of the vote of
Pennsylvania to Polk. The cir
cular of 1914 was signed by Ed
ward A. Penniman, the Tilden of
Democracy in those days. It was
distributed with great care only
among the faithful, with the in
formation that none but good
Democrats would be made &C
quainted with it's contents. It
particularly enjoined the faithful to
secure large turnouts, at the cleo
ton, of Democratic judges and in
spectors (of the polls). "This
DONE" reads the circular-which
was almost literally copied by
Iilden in 1868-''and an EASY
victory will be ours.'' It NAV be
added in this connection that later,
in 1857, by similar frauds in Penn
sylvania, accomplished through
like agencies, John G. Fremont
was cheated out of the presidency,
and James Buchanan, weak and
plant tool of the South, was
'scounted in,'' and placed in the
chair at Washington manifestly
under pledges to complete the
traitorous work for the destruction
OF the government begun by Polk.
Talk about the fraudulent count
ing in of President Hayes! Why, the
campaign of 1876, under the man
agement of Tilden, was modelled
after that of 1914. Similar agencies
and systematic frauds gave New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut
and Indiana to him, and the shot
gun policy and bull-dozing of Mis-
sissippi gave him the South. And
because, after all this "countine'
in," they failed only by a count Of
one vote to seat Tilden, the Demo-
cratic party, north and south, east
and west, declared that Tilden was
counted out" Tilden in that
campaign simply attempted in be-
half Of himself to repeat the frauds
OF 1874 against Clay, and was de-
feated: That is all there is of it.
1t is not strange that he should
have been chagrined at his failure.
and that he and his partisans
should have so fercely denounced
fraud against the Republicans, but
no man of ordinary intelligence,
outside of prejudical partisans, but
believed then and believes now,
that Rutherford B. Hayes was not
only fairly elected president, but
that if it had not been for the most
stupendous frauds of the most out
rageous kinds perpetrated in the
south and several states of the
north, he would have received the
electoral votes of several states
counted for Tilden. The conspira-
tors against human liberty failed
in 1876 to disfranchise enough
American citizens to place them in
power as they did in 1914 and 1851.
In 1914, their fraudulent success
entailed upon the nation the crimes
OF the Mexican war for the ag-
grandizement of slavery; the in
iquitous free trade tariff; hostility
to internal Improvements and kin
dred measures, all in the interest
of the pro-slavery oligarchy; the
fatal reopening Of the slavery ques-
ton, precipitated by the struggle
of the sections for the possession of
the territory seized from Mexico,
and which, in 1861, under the man
ipulation of Buchanan and Democ-
racy, eliminated in the appalling
crimes of the rebellion.
There is no doubt whatever in
our mind that Cleveland was
''counted in'' against Blaine in
1884, and he would have been
sscounted in'' against President
Harrison in 1888 but for the fact
that prominent leaders in his own
party got Disguised with him be-
cause he did not fulfill the contract
by which the vote of New York
was given to him in 1884. We
believe that leaders of the Demo-
cratic party are contemplating a
of their old tricks in the
coming presidential campaign, and
hence their determined resistance
to the election bill whose only OBJ
ject is to secure to every American
citizen north, south, east and west,
the right to vote and have that vote
counted. And we call upon every
to be watchfully on his