fairs,
three times the power of the vote of the man who followed Grant.
The tendency of events guided by a growing popular opinion will,
I believe, secure this condition."

The meetings grew in number and enthusiasm. The largest meeting
I ever witnessed within four walls was at the Music Hall in
Cincinnati, on the 22nd of September. The auditorium, the balcony,
the gallery, even the windows were filled, and thousands outside
were unable to enter. This and similar scenes in Cleveland and
other cities indicated the success of the Republican ticket. Great
interest was taken in the canvass in Ohio by many other states, as
the vote in Ohio would indicate the current of popular opinion.
The result was the election of Foraker by a majority of 17,451,
and of Robert P. Kennedy as lieutenant governor. The legislature
elected was Republican by a decided majority, the size of which
depended upon the official returns from Hamilton county, where
frauds had been committed by the Democratic party.

Soon after the election I was urged by Senator Mahone to take part
in the canvass in Virginia in which he was interested. I doubted
the policy of accepting, but, assuming that he knew best, I agreed
to speak in Petersburg and Richmond. Governor Foraker accepted a
like invitation and spoke in the Shenandoah valley. On my way I
addressed a spontaneous crowd in Washington, the only place in the
United States where no elections are held, and there I could talk
about frauds at elections. I had denounced fraud and violence in
elections in the south, and at Washington I had to confess recent
frauds attempted or practiced in Cincinnati. The worst feature
that the frauds in Ohio were forgery and perjury, committed by
criminals of low degree for money, while in the south the crimes
were shared by the great body of the people and arose from the
embers of a war that had involved the whole country. I gave as a
sample of the frauds in the 4th ward of Cincinnati this instance:

"As soon as the recent election was over an organized gang stopped
the counting in fifteen precincts. Nobody but the gang knew what
the vote was. This could be for no motive but to commit fraud,
and frauds enough were committed in Hamilton county to change the
result on the legislative ticket of four senators and nine
representatives.

"There were probably 500 or 600 voters in the 4th ward, and according
to previous elections about one-fourth were Republicans and