Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1882 — A “FAIR COUNT.” [ARTICLE]

A “FAIR COUNT.”

What It Means According to the Repub- . lican Standard. The action of the House of Representatives in Congress in the determination of certain contested-election cases on record is an indefensible, outrageous proceeding. Mr. Robeson and Mr. Hoar had decided- that the country would not be entirely safe without n half-dozen more Republican memliers of the House, and. with the help of Mr. Keifer, the extra half-dozen were voted in. These, in turn, assisted Mr. Robeson, Mr. Hoar and Mr. Keifer to save the country by their votes for the old ilag and an appropriation. Two of the seats stolen in this conspiracy to save the country belonged to Alabama constituencies. There has since been an election for Governor, Legislature, etc., and the election for Congressmen will occur in November. In one of the Alabama districts (the Fourth) declared vacant by the House conspirators, the Democratic vote in this last election was 14,940, and the combined tag-rag and bob-tail opposition polled 4.873. In the other Alabama district (the Eighth) for which the House conspirators declared Mr. Lowe to bo the worthy bob-tail, the vote was 11,827 Democratic and 11,521 opposition. The Eighth district was believed to be the stronghold of the bob-tails —if they had any stronghold—and the most of the bobtail State ticket was made up of supposed influential persons from that mountain region. If the Eighth district had given a bob-tail majority, all the Republican press would have pointed to the result with pride as a vindication of the act of the majority in the House, who had assumed to override the decision of a previous election. As the Eighth Alabama district did not give a bob-tail majority for Governor in the election of Aug. 7. it only remains for the Republicans to declare that there was no election, and to demand a “fair count.” Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, has taken that “shoot” already. Ho tells the women they must stand back and wait for a “fair count” before questions of female suffrage, prohibition or any other thing can lie considered. A “fair count” was once 185 to 184. It is a great burden on the minds of some persons that they should be for so long a time charged with the responsibility of saving the country. They ought to be relieved of it.

The Democratic Sentinel OVyiCIAIPAPKB OF JASPKIICOIiNf f . FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1882.