Posted on 10/21/2016 4:45:29 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Joseph Stalin, a man many Democrats have admired over the years, once said this about elections, “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
The original “Florida 2000” was perpetrated in 1876.
During the attempted theft of the presidency by Al Gore in 2000, remember how the Democrats kept fraudulently referring to the Republicans having stolen the election of 1876?
They knew the public schools run by their pals in the various teachers unions didn’t teach the truth and they rightly counted on their media cheerleaders to smother the truth as they always do. Here is what the Democrats, their union masters and the media don’t want you to know. During the Democrat’s attempt to use voter fraud to steal the Presidential election of 1876, the Democrat National Chairman, New York Congressman Abram Hewitt sent John Hoffman, the former governor of New York, to the South where the results from South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida were in doubt.
As the Harper’s Weekly explained at the time, Hoffman had orders “to buy or count” one more Electoral College vote because the Democrat Samuel Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes were tied at 184 votes each. By way of background, the magazine reminded its readers, Hoffman had been elected governor of New York State with the voter fraud help of the New York State Democrat Party Chairman, Samuel Tilden.
The Democrats scheme blew up in their face and Hayes was elected. Four the next four years Democrats angry they were discovered and stopped in their attempted theft called Hayes “His Fraudulency.”
As they have done ever since, Democrats in the House accused Republicans of doing exactly what they themselves are always guilty of. In 1878 the Democrats’ controlled the House of Representatives. They used their position to conduct an investigation of “Republican voter fraud” in the 1876 Presidential Election.
Although they intended to use the process to embarrass Republicans, nothing of the sort could be discovered or even fabricated. To counter the Democrats’ corrupt plans, The New York Tribune published an expose describing how the Democrats used a series of “coded telegrams” which the paper’s staff had deciphered. The telegrams were exchanged between 1876 Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden, his nephew William T. Pelton and other Democrats. The messages proved the Democrats attempted to bribe key election officials in an effort to steal the Presidency of the United States. Kind of like the wikileaks of the day.
In the same way 2000 Democrats mocked and lied about George Bush claiming he was “Selected not elected” Rutherford B. Hayes was called “His Fraudulency” by Democrats during his term in office. Nervy people aren’t they?
The Potter Committee
All of the Democrats’ charges of fraud led to a committee being formed in the House under the leadership of New York Democrat Clarkson N. Potter. Predictably the Democrats stepped in it again. Potter’s investigation went nowhere because it was based on Democrat lies. This cover up led to The New York Tribune’s investigation heating up.
The man at the other end of William Pelton’s messages was named as the editor of the Democrat controlled New York World, Manton Marble, and election officials in the three contested Southern States.
A media stooge working to elect a Democrat; same old same old.
The Tribune revealed Marble’s code name was Moses and one of the election officials was code named Fox. To insure its 19th century readers would accept the authenticity of its story the Tribune carefully explained how it had come upon the story and received the code breaking cipher. The Tribune’s series of stories compelled the Potter Committee to investigate the telegrams and their secret messages.
By January 1879 Democrats, Samuel Tilden’s nephew William Pelton and Smith Weed of South Carolina were forced by the evidence to confess that they were involved in a bribery scheme to steal the 1876 election for Tilden.
Today’s Democrats are no different than their 1876 grandfathers – crooked corrupt and willing to subvert the true will of the people of America to feed their greedy demands for riches and power. By the way, America’s first female arrested for voter fraud was of course a Democrat.
While the Republicans can rightfully claim the first woman elected to serve in the House of Representatives, the Democrats can claim a “Female first” that suits their character just as well.
The first woman in American history who was arrested for voter fraud was Denver Colorado native Mrs. M.A. Ratcliffe, a Democrat activist who on, April 9, 1901 voted in a precinct she was not registered to vote in.
Federal troops occupying the Southern states and the Republican “carpetbaggers” were a force in the result of that election, but a deal was cut in the end to resolve the 1876 election dispute where Democrats were shouting “Tilden or Death”.
The final deal over that election dispute was that the Dems accepted Hayes as POTUS, but the federal troops were pulled out of the last Southern states they occupied so the Democrats could take over and begin the process of imposing Jim Crow and disenfranchising all the black voters who had been voting GOP in the Reconstruction Era.
House of Representatives, the Democrats can claim a “Female first” that suits their character just as well. The first woman in American history who was arrested for voter fraud was Denver Colorado native Mrs. M.A. Ratcliffe, a Democrat activist who on, April 9, 1901 voted in a precinct she was not registered to vote in.
The Cooping Theory
Coincidence or not, the day Poe was found on the street was election day in Baltimore and the place near where he was found, Ryan’s Fourth Ward Polls, was both a bar and a place for voting. In those days, Baltimore elections were notorious for corruption and violence. Political gangs were willing to go to great extremes to ensure the success of their candidates. Election ballots were stolen, judges were bribed and potential voters for the opposition intimidated. Some gangs were known to kidnap innocent bystanders, holding them in a room, called the “coop.” These poor souls were then forced to go in and out of poll after poll, voting over and over again. Their clothing might even be changed to allow for another round. To ensure compliance, their victims were plied with liquor and beaten. Poe’s weak heart would never have withstood such abuse.
http://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poedeath.htm
It goes a lot further back than that. Tammany Hall was one big Democrat voting fraud machine.
And look at the number of conservative, black congressmen elected in the interval between 1865 and the beginning of “Reconstruction” which slammed the door to blacks elected in the South for 100 years. Courtesy of which party and it’s covert Army, the KKK?
Absolutely true... but also NOT news
All parties break the rules but this Liberal crud wrote the book on voter fraud. They are past masters.
I don’t think there was ever a Democrat in the WH who wasn’t smuggled into office via voter fraud.
Maybe Truman and Johnson are exceptions.. both became President by default.
Just search for "Johnson Box 13."
The NYT's 1990 story on the incident is titled How Johnson Won Election He'd Lost, which to me sounds like they admire his MacGyver-like cleverness.
I have copied and shared your post to my facebook page giving you credit for it. I also copied the last paragraph and entitled it “A Republican first and a Democrat first” supplying the name of the congress woman (Jeanette Rankin 1916, Montana) and posted it separately. Sue me later but I felt it was important to share beyond Freeperville! I now await incoming barrages!
Electoral fraud will never be seriously addressed until the GOP is seen as benefitting from it.
To be honest both sides in 1876 were crooked.
It was a matter of who would out scam the other.
The fact that it was a mere 100 years after 1776 was what really made it sad.
“I have copied and shared your post to my facebook page giving you credit for it. I also copied the last paragraph and entitled it “A Republican first and a Democrat first” supplying the name of the congress woman (Jeanette Rankin 1916, Montana) and posted it separately. Sue me later but I felt it was important to share beyond Freeperville! I now await incoming barrages!” Why would I sue this is the truth and I am glad you helped get it out THANK YOU
BTW this is the link for the first Democrat woman guilty of voter fraud 9. http://www.prairieghosts.com/graft.html
This comes from my book but I am not hawking it I just want the truth to get out.
Read the details of the 1800 election. That was a real ugly one too.
Benjamin Franklin published the obituary of his rival right before the election.
I would peg it to around the time of the Civil War, when my Irish forbearers were being signed-up to work for Tammany Hall machines as quickly as they were getting off the boats.
Good chance the vote counters were Democrats...
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