Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-11-01
HAckETT,s cLRcuLAR.

Honest Newspapers Denounee the Re.
publican scheme for Bribing Voters.
MIR. Harrison perhaps is not response
bic for Hacketts doings, but he must be
aware of this scandalous direction in
which his campaign is being moved,
aud he can put a stop to it If he will.
He knows that with the enormous sums
of money fried ont of the protected
manufacturers in 1888 more was done
to debauch the franchise and under
mine the foundation of free govern
ment than can repeatedly be endured
with any safety to the nation. Presi-
dent Harrison cannot afford again to be
an accessory, before or after the fact, in
such a crime against government and
society as was openly committed by the
Republican managers and openly bonst-
ed of by them in 1S88.-Springfeld Re-
publican.
A MERE BEATING OF ToMToMs.
The chief significance of the exposure
is that it is a confession on the part of
the Republican managers thus early in
the campaign that their only hope of
success lies in bribery. All loud swell
ing pretensions that President Harrison
is to be reelected as the result of a
campaign of education go for nothing in
the light of the revelation afforded by
the publication of the Hackett circular.
The 80 called campaign of education i
to be mere beating of tomtoms, while
Hackett and his agents with "the abil-
ity to keep secret" are purchasing the
venal voters with the golden stream fur
nished by the protected manufactured
Philadelphia Times.
a "BLoCKS OF ONE" SCHEME.
Chairman Hackett explains that he
was after Democratic names for the dis
tribution of campaign documents. That
makes the import of the circular all the
more clear. Does it require Gan exer-
else Of discretion and the ability to keep
a secret" to get names to which to ad
dress campaign literature? It is simply
a blocks Of one edition Of Dudley's noto-
Tious blocks of five circular of 1883.
Hackett is getting up in New York
such :'list" as Dudley worked up in
Indiana. Springfield Republican.
ARRANGING FOR SYSTEMATIC BRIBERY.
Chairman Hackett says that he mere
ly wants the names of Democrats to
whom circulars and documents may be
sent. The FEASIBILITY of this explana-
ton is smashed into bits by the injunc-
lions of discretion and secrecy contained
in this Confidential" circular. Repub-
icans, those of you who are honest and
candid, do you approve of this palpable
attempt to arrange for systematic brib-
cry? Does it indicate clean election or
a clean administration by the Repub-
ican leaders who are striving to benefit
by it?-Newburg Register.
HAcKETT's GREATEST SIN.
It is reported that the publication of
the circular has caused CONSERVATION at
all the Republican headquarters. Talk
about removing Hackett from the chair
manship of the state executive commit
tee has already begun. His greatest
sin in the eyes of the Republican man
ayers is that he was found out.-Syra-
cuse Courier.
AN ILL ADVISED CIRCULAR.
The only fault charged to Mr.. Hackett
is the careless way he did his work The
desperate fight the Republicans are MAX
ing in the hopeless cause of carrying
New York state could not be better
shown than in Chairman Hackett's i'll
advised circular.-Pittsburg Post.
BLOCKS OF FIVE TACTICS REPEATED.
What do Republicans who are op-
posed to corruption of the ballot box
think of the adoption in New York by
their state committee of Dudley's "blocks
of five" tactics in Indiana four years ago?