Year: 1879

elGasetie's Ravings.


No, no escape from the censure OF the
REPUBLICAN. Our neighbor, the "0az-
ette," in its extreme trouble asks Inc
question: is there no escapes It tnen
says in complaint that if man raises
his hand in opposition to the Ke' uoli'
can party here, that paper is sure 10
assail him in some unfair manner, and
instances the fact that we refer in not
very complimentary terms to the new
Democratic club just organized. II
saws we have selected out some men
belonging to it and slandered them, and
then in revenge 1t intimates that
the editor Of the REPUBLICAN some
times meets with chicken thieves
and men who adorn the post aid pill
ory. Now all this is very unfair, and
only shows the bad temper Of the "Ga-
zstts" for no cause whatever. We have
never yet made any attack without
cause, but when we find an organized
and evidently prearranged system OF
fraud carried through at q city election
like it was at oursa month ago, the
REPUBLICAN will most assuredly lift Its
voice againpt 1t and condemn in unspar-
ing terms not only those who
did the dirty, mean, contempti-
BILE work at the polls, but those
who concocted the plan, furnish
ed the material and put it in oper-
alton. This we have done, without
stopping to consider whether men Of low
or high degree were Concerned in it.
We do confess that We have written in
vigorous terms against the low dirty
spewinss Of society who debauched tie
ballot boxes by going from poll to poll
led by police officers, voting as high as
twelve or fifteen times. We confess
that We have been severe on those who
hold up their Leads high in social dis
tinction who acted az the veiled and
shielded agents of a stupendous fraud
and outrage, and We farther confess
that we have had no honeyed words for
the papers that have defended these
frauds by covering them up and de-
ncunced those papers that brought
them to the light. We have done all
this but in doing 80 We have incurred
the displeasure Of the Gazette" and
we are accused Of all kinds OF bad things
from slander to lying. In the face Of
surrounding circumstances we are con-
tent to bear the maledictions of our in
csnsed neghbor, and no matter what
ne may say the horde of bummers from
"Gus" O'Donnell up to Dave Findley,
who did the repeating, know whether
We are truthful or not. Some of the
men who figure in the new Democratic
club organized since the election know
whether We are telling the truth or not
though they may cry out "liar" and
get the "Gazette" to assist them in do
ing so. Sergeant Dolan and some other
police officers know whether we are
truthful or not when we accused them
Of aiding the repeaters to vote, no mat.
ter what they may say about it, and
the sergeant's threat of vengeance
which we disregard, is but the farther
proof of his guilt


Yes, We do acknowledge that We have
been severe in our denunciations of
such an unheard of fraud as was never
psrpstrated in Wilmington, and our
manhosd and self respect compelled us
to be severe. If the Gazette" would do
what it should do, it would join US in
our denunciations and would not cease
its efforts until the horde Of repsa.ers
and their abettors, who turned the Will
mington election into a contemplate
farce, would be punished to the fullest
extent of the law. We have never made
chicken thieves our associates If We
knew it, but even if we did it is ridisu.
lous when we consider the character of
the repeaters whom. the "Gazette" is
afraid to condemn. A paper that mere
ly says it is opposed to illegal voting,
and that fraud should be punished, in
kind Of general sense, shoTs its utter
insincerity when it attacks another pa
per that goes to the root of the matter
and shows who the repeaters were,
where they voted, and how often they
voted, and also by whom they were
voted. Miller, the young boy compost
tor, who voted at nearly all the election
polls in the city, and twice at some
of them, says he was paid dollar for
every time he voted. Where did this mo-
ney--come froms Brannon, the Philadel-
phia repeater, whose name appears in
nearly all of the poll lists and who po-
lice officer Carey positively refused to
arrest even when he (Brannon) was
taken to him, by a citizen, must have
been paid more than dollar.for every
time he voted. What bonanza that
election was to such i,npecunious re-
,o.tar,aa Iohn Brislley. REYNOLDS, the |