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An Acknowledgement

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
September
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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A copy of a democratie paper, entitled the Truc Issue, published at Birminghain, Ala., has been received here, which contains an acknowlcdgement that the democratie majority at the recent election was fraudulent. The paper is edited by R. llaudol]li, and bears at the top of its columns, as its national ticket, the names of llnneock and English. In the course of a leading editorial on the situation, the Truc Issue says : The democratie papers realiza the fact that great damago has been dono to Gen. Hcuieoek in his race for the presidency by the put-up majority of 95,000. The cry of l'raud has been raised by a cheated and wronged people, and is repeated throughout the land, exaggerated doubtless, and it is telling fearfully against hiin in the north, and blighting chances that were bright up to the time the manipulators handled that iniquity that disgraces the egislation of the lat session- the new election law. Hadit not boen uscd as it was it would have failed, perhaps, of its purposes. It bears on its lace farad, and, of course, as it is intendod to defraud, it was so used. It was too much, however, and and the 95,000 looks about as ugly now as the eight to seven commissiqn did four years ago. Both these democratie performances are understood by the great mass of the people, and they are not so much surprised at either as the preus seems to be now at the 95,000 majority. Thcy know who planned and executcd them, and what fqr, and they will not fail to say if Hancock is defeated that the defeat came to him through the same channel as the cheat did to Tilden. There was, in our opinión, no necessity for so gigantic a fraud for any party purposes. Twenty thousand or 25,000 majority would have been enough to fully secure all of the officers of the state and tested the working capaeityof the "machine," - amachine that can grind out ballots and add up majorities that don't exist, that disfranchises the people and denies them the most sacred civil right evorwrested froni the citizen. Alabama, carried by the fraud of a mean, villainous election law, loses to the party in the United States the choice of a president, and aiakes perhaps a radical cougress. What inay the people hope froni a party that so outrages them and their rights? Notning but woe to them and the country. The Mt. Clemens Monitor very graphically and briefly presenta the political situation: "The deniocratio party is erainently a sectional party. In the first place, ïta strength is sectional, beingalmost whollyin the south. In the second place its ideas are purely sectional. The democratie party has not a single great national idea. In the east deinocracy is for hard money, (except, perhaps, in Slaine) in the west for soft money, in the south for stiltes rights, in the north for uationality, in some sections for tariff, in others for free trade. In uiarked contrast is the republican party. lts strength, on a free ballot, is to be found in all sections, its principies are the same from Mainc to California, from Michigan to Mexico. It is the true national party, the enemy of sêctionalLsm." The millenium is certainly near at hand. Mothcr Shipton's prophecy must bo true. Klso how is it possible that the Dowagiac Tirncs man seos all this glorious panorama ofrepublics: " When a iuestion comes to be agitated as a matter of general importance and is pertinent to the government itself, it means revolution or chango in a greater or less degree. And so it is with the British problem as to the continuance of the House of Lords. Gradually the house loses its hold and the Commons say, "would it not be botter to have none?' Alter a time t will go into history. One more step toward republicanism. After a decade or two tho people will agitate the question as to their modo of government, whether it is the best or not. Finally they will cry, ' Down with your lordships, let the people rule.' And the Commons will have to ko. The royal house will lose its Alberts and Victorias and the histories will scal the last vestige of titled aristocracy on Britain's soil. France ia a republie, England and her dependencics will not wait many years. After Britain turns, the other countries will follow until the wholc world will be a republie." T'he Cincinnati Commercial briaga to th public notice thecloudof dangernow hardly so largo as a man's hand : " Wheu theie is not a menibcr of the democratie party able to read, write and dphei who doan't know that the vholc pretenso that Tilden was elected president grows out of the politica] influeiice of blootly muder, nullifying the constitution of the United States, the truc character of the prolonged howl abont tiie Crand of lsTCp becomes apparent. It is an inarticulate ussertiou of the ileternihiatiou of the democratic party to rule irrespéetive of the rights of electora or the forms of law; and that amounts to a threat of civil war.''

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