'As the campaign proceeds, the issue is seen to be joined, not between the THE REPUBLICAN AMPAIGN TEXT BOOK FOR 1880. PUBLISHED BY THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 1880, From a Speech of Hon. Mr. Horr. We of the North do not seek sectional strife. * * What you really need is to go to work. [Great laughter. You should have more schools, more enterprise and thrift, and less recklessness of life, less hatred of what you call carpet baggers-damned Yankees! Your business enterprise should be conducted more with piety and less with pistols! What Mississippi needs to-day is more corn and cotton and less cussedness, [laughter and applause); more mills, more manliness; less murders, less moonshiners. What would improve South Carolina is more hams and fewer Hamburghs. She should raise more horses and hogs and less hell. [Great applause."-Congressional Record. From a Speech of Hon. Mr. Blackburn, of Ky., 18% We do not intend to stop until we have stricken th last vestige of your war measures from the statu book." Robert Toombs to a Friend in Washington. "But what are we to do? We cannot put in one our own men this time, and have to take a 'Yank That being the case, let us take one who is less blu bellied' than the most of them. You may depend upo it, sir, that, 'Yank' or no Yank,' if elected, the ol boys of the South will see that 'Hancock' does th fair thing by them. In other words, he will run th machine to suit them, or they will run the thing them selves. They are not going to be played with an longer. If you hear any man say that 'Hancock' ca not carry all of the South, you may put him down as fool." d R 2 Ir 1880 CONTENTS. Ja 18 CHAPTER I. The Impending Crisis. PART I-Page 1-The Paramount Issue of the Hour-Democratic Leaders preparing for Violence-If Fraud fails, then Force-Democratic belief that Tilden was 'legally elected-Tilden cheered as "President" in 1880-Democratic leaders declare in advance there shall be "no Arbitration" this time-Wallace shrieks "Aggression"-Representative Hill declares that they will inaugurate Hancock whether they elect him or notSpeaker Randall and Inauguration___ by Force-Governor Stevenson declares Hancock is "Elected" President-Declarations of John Kelly, of New York, Barnes of Ga., Montgomery Blair, General Preston of Ky., Col. Williams, Col. McDaniel, and others, showing the Programme of Force. PART II-Page 3-The Power behind the Throne-Direct as well as Internal Evidence that Hancock was Nominated by the "Solid South"-Testimony of Senator Wallace, General Joseph E. Johnston, and Wade Hampton-Hampton's condition pledge-The evidence conclusive. PART IV-Page 8-Further Testimony as to the Spirit of the South, from Southern Democratic, Greenback, and other sources Senator Morgan says the recent Alabama Election shows " conclusively the Spirit of the South!"--A Greenback Orator Astounded in Alabama-"The Confederacy still exists!"-"Jeff Davis is yet our President!". A "Solid South will give us control, and we can redress all our wrongs Voice of Virginia's Democracy-The hour at last has come to take the Presidency, "and resume the Record of Glory where in 1861 it unhappily closed!"-Governor Wiltz of Louisiana says the South is solid for Hancock- "There is no occasion now for Bulldozing." The Negro must side with the Democrats, "or go to the Wall". "The Imperishable Heritage of Glory" transmitted by Rebels-White Republicans to be branded as Enemies-White Republican candidates to be "Saturated with Stench "-1,000 Democratic votes "equal to 5,000 vile Radical" votes-"We have the Count "The Democrats control South Carolina, and "intend to Retain it at every Hazard!"Heroic deeds of Rebel Sires--We offer no Excuse for being a Solid South-The Central National Greenback Organ on the Spirit of the South-The party of Hate, Malice, and Subversion-Advises Greenbackers to Work against it, Vote against it, Refuse its Alliance! 66 CHAPTER III. Revolutionary Proceedings and Purposes of the Democratic Leaders. PART I-Page 10-Introduction to the Evidences of Tilden's Revolutionary Intentions-Democratic Revolutionary Proceedings thus far-Their remarkable growthHow a Minority can Overthrow a Government-Forcible Illustrations of the peril that Potter strove to Precipitate-Plausible pretexts for Revolution always ready. PART II-Page 13-The first Potter Letter declaring the Election should be thrown into the House-That the House is the sole judge of Presidential Elections, can act alone on its own information, and is Su- preme-Tilden as Commander-in-Chief. PART III-Page 15-The Electoral Commis- sion Act-Votes proving it a Democratic Measure-The Electoral Count-the vote as announced-Subsequent Revolutionary pro- ceedings of the House before th Adjourn- ment of the Forty-fourth Congress-Field's Quo Warranto bill and vote on it. PART IV-Page 17-Report of House Com- mittee affirming the right of the House to go behind returns, and its Authority over PART V-Page 17-Morrison's letter on Til- den's "pluck"-Tilden thought he had "packed" the Electoral Commission-Hen- dricks urges the House to declare Tilden duly elected-Votes by which the House makes that Revolutionary Declaration— Subsequent Democratic Protests declaring Hayes "a usurper"-Tilden officially noti- fied of his Election-Did he take the Oath ?— Revolutionary Talk-Hewitt's enforced PART VI-Page 20-The Manhattan Club Reception-Orders which the Democratic House did its best to Enforce-Treasonable Utterances of Tilden, Dorsheimer, Dudley Field and others-One Thousand Distin- guished Democrats from twelve different PART VII-Page 23--Maryland selected to make the First Movement in the Plot-The Montgomery Blair Quo Warranto Resolu- PART VIII-Page 23--The Potter Iniquity founded upon the Maryland Initiative- Randall's ruling on Question of Privilege— PART XIII-Page 31-Alex. H. Stephens' Sec- PART XIV-Page 31-The Burchard Resolu- PART XV-Page 33-The next Democratic PART XVI-Page 33-The work of the Potter lution-The Democratic Caucus Refuse to Declare that "it is not Intended to Disturb Hayes "-Republican Caucus Warning the People that the Potter Movement is Řevo- Intionary-Republican National Congress- ional Committee's Address to the People Declaring that the Potter Plot is to Suborn Witnesses, Declare Hayes an Usurper, and PART X-Page 26-Alexander H. Stevens' Letter of Warning to Potter-The Tilden- Potter Ruffians Hoot him Down in the House-Interview with Stephens-"Snug, the Joiner"-"The People want Peace and Starving Out," instead of "Shooting Down," the Government-Extra Session-- Threats of Senators Beck and Thurman and Representatives Hurd, Muldrow, Singleton, Tucker, Kitchin, O'Connor, Chalmers, Me- Mahon, Sparks, Tucker, and Blackburn- "He who Dallies is a Dastard, He whe PART XVIII-Page 37-Beaten at all Points, (see chapters containing Vetoes) the Demo- cratic Leaders fall back on the Fraud Issue -The Game " Played out"-The Bitter End to which they seek to Drive the North- PART I-Page 38-The President's Call for an Extra Session-Why it was Necessary to PART II-Page 38-Veto of the Army Appro- priation Bill-Military Interference at Elec- tions-Supervisors and Marshals Prohibited from Preserving the Purity of Congressional Elections-Votes in House and Senate on PART III-Page 42-Veto of the Bill to Pro- hibit Military Interference at Elections- Votes in House and Senate-Brief History of the Act which this Bill Proposed to Re- peal-It was a Democratic Measure De- signed to Support the Rebel Brigadiers in the Field-It reacts, and hence the fight PART IV-Page 45-Veto of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bill -Repeal or Modification of the Law touch- ing Supervisors and Marshals at Congress- PART V-Page 48-Veto of the Judicial Ex- penses Appropriation Bill-U. S. Marshal and Deputies at Congressional Elections- PART VI-Page 49-Veto of the U. S. Mar- shals' Appropriation Bill-Votes in House PART VII-Page 51-Message of the Presi- dent to Congress, urging the Necessity of Immediate Appropriations for U. S. Marshals and their Deputies-The Democratic Con- gress Contemptuously Declines to do it- Senator Windom's Bill Making Appropria- Regular Session (2d) 1879-80-U. S. Mar- shals and their deputies-Vetoes and PART I-Page 51-The First Deficiency Bill General and Special Deputy Marshals Political riders-Veto and Votes in both PART II-Page 53-Special Bill regulating pay, etc., of Deputy Marshals-Veto and PART III-Page 55-Payment of Marshals and A History of Democratic Election Frauds PART I-Page 56-"Counting in" Peculiarly PART II-Page 59-Popular Votes vs. Electo- ral Votes-Popular and Electoral Votes of Harrison and Van Buren, Polk and Clay, Harrison and Cass-Tilden's Pretended 'Popular " Majority-Votes in the Free, Border and Slave States-Real Voting PART III-Page 61-The Florida Case- Bloody Violence failing, fraud and Judicial Usurpation--A brief History of certain Fraudulent Proceedings by which Tilden strove to Capture that one needed Electoral Vote-Facts, Figures and Incidents. PART IV--Page 64-The Louisiana case— Population and Votes-Ku-Klux Crimes of 1868-Tilden Rifle Clubs of 1876--The Ter- rible Outrages and Murders in the Seven- teen Parishes-Sheridan's Statement--The State Returning Board--Its duties-How PART V-Page 67-The Hale Amendment to Frauds-The Oregon Corruption and Bribery-The Louisiana Bull-dozing and Frauds-The South Carolina Bribery and Corruption - The Mississippi Shot-gun Frauds, Registration and other Statistics. PART VI-Page 69-The Page Resolution condemning Tilden's attempt to steal the Oregon vote, and denouncing the Infamy of Cronin, defeated by the Democrats-Only two decent men in all Israel. PART VII-Page 70-The shameful story of the Cipher Dispatches and the Tilden "Bar'l "-Bribery and attempted Bribery to secure Presidential Electors in Florida, PART VIII-Page 71--The Maine Larceny- PART IX-Page 73-The Wallace Investiga- tion--Infamous New York Election Frauds- John I. Davenport's startling Revelations on the Witness Stand--For twelve years Tam- many Hall has voted Thousands of Men who never lived!-Repeaters' Frauds-The Su- preme Court turned into a bogus Natural- ization Mill--Testimony of a Democratic Tammany Judge on cross-examination-A -- |