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"ESTAB"LISEZD 1S56.
Oldest Paaor is tie State
BE0"WjNtYTLLE, KEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1880.
READING 3IATTER 0XEYERYPAGE
Y0L. 2.5. NO. 14.
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3UiilXi:SS CARBS.
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S. HOLT.iDAY.
Phriielan. i-;r-ca. OTnttetrlclan.
Graaii-Hi tt - w W mil a MS5.
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TJ ATTORXBi'S AX LAW.
0Ccf Cajy lwf. Bny tunic. Kehraska.
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A. 4TTOP.SEVATI.AW.
OSee -er Po OOee. Br,xiiwme .X'abraslta.
TXT T. ROGER
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Lttoraey Jtnrf Connelortl.w.
WTT i1t -!mrt at tm thiii n-rzxlne
frt' eire. X5 npini!tte Fast OQce.
T L- ROT,
Co-t ta4e shnrt andea. Three miles west at
J TV. GIBSON",
BLACKSMITH A5D HORSE SHOER
Wri-i t m on'- an3 "StHfartKvn csaraateed
xlrtrt. Hfsreen Mala and Attaatic. Brswi
C L I X E .
F.HIOTAnT.E
BOOT A2JD SnOE XAKER
CUSSTOJT WORK SKUlota nrdr. and Ra alwaF
inaraited. ReiatrtHg itIt ajripmnnKty deag
fehwp. Xo.r7 Xata teet nmrrte.NeB.
TATOB MAR0H2T,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
and dealer ia
FlneEarHB.Frenefe.Sc3tc and Fancy Cloth
Vitfiirs. Etc.. Etc.
B.
W. BAILEY.
SHIPPER. Ara BEAXBR IK
LIVE STOCK
MtOTfiryTTILLZ. 2TEBRASKA.
Farmers, ateoe enJI and sst srlees ; I waat
Co bamlle Tar stock.
OTIce Flrt NAtktaat Bnk.
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2STABI.ISSSB IS" 1856.
OLDEST
HEAL
ESTATE
AGENCY
EN :NT2T3:EJi.SI.
William H. Hoover.
Does r zsneral Bi BSat BwlneH. 5Hs
XJinds a Coramfsrfon. esaaslaes Titles,
makes Deek. Xortsaw. aai all J lustra -siesta
pertAtalDg to Uw transfer oC Real Es
tate. Kas a
Oomuiete Alstract of Titles
A,
to all Real S.state In Nemoba Coactr.
AT HATCHETT'S,
Everybody Knows the Place,
ICS-CHEAM
la a specialty. Cnstomers are accotri in dat
ed day er slsht to the choicest
IGS - CREAK
And the calls on SCNDA.YSbaTe ba so
scaemuii that gentlemen aad ladles Pre ac-comniO'lat-ed
to
ICS-CRSAM
on that daytat any hocr. aad are received In
to aeal parlrs and treated cordially. Ywbj
folks from thecantry are Invited to Hatch
et's to get their
ICS - CSEAM,
LeaiMade. aa4 Coafectlooa. Always go
where yo eaa get the best
ICS - CREAM,
and whereVecr garronnritnga are'mest ples-
E.C.BEEG-EE,
FASHIOKAHLE
.421IK 3' and Shoe
TJ -Tk - SLS St.
Havlnsr hocsrht the cus
tom shop of A. Robison,
I am prepared to do work
fvTnll Jr!ndat
as T3nocn?iiMia TJofne
Repalrlnff neatly and
promptly done.
Shop y. 62 Main Street,
Broivntnllc Wbraslza.
B. G. WHITTEHOREr
DEAtEHDi-
GSOCrERTES,
PKOVISIONS,
2,W.LNfcr MACHINES
SEWI5G 3UCKI3E REPAIBS A SPECIALTT,
willpay the hteheat market price for scrap
Iron and rags. Main st. West BrownvlMe.
TETTER HEADS,
a BILL HEADi
Neatly printed attbljtofflce.
"DAT
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?siS
IH ITS WEIGHT IN 60L9.
The Doctor's Testimony.
A-S.Eniner.of itarJon. WaTW.i.. 2T. T nars
The wonierfu! sneces of Thomas' Eclectnc Oil m 1
LSfl? acute -md chronic Innam motion, ca-
tarr
aandliir it
urmnrnis, lame nrwtr eta. ranie fh rf.
Terr trrfr !
The
Druggist's Testimony.
if e-nn. Fester iTIHwrn fc Co.
RezartHntrtlie sate orrtranas' Ectectric 0 we
ar cratf ed in beine atote to infa-m yea tfeat since
we wok th azencr three months a for the sole
and introdBcifcMt of Ectectrt OW. oar rerr hirs
wle prwvei cofteiiMtvelr Us ocr lotad-i: tbm nT
edy hai exuaardiaarr nernn sw witnessed br
the unprecedented iale. We anticipate a breia
etase is ueaale.a9 bs virtues becememarecener
ay kBowa.
VOurs traly.
fi. JOJTEHSOy.
BeaJers laOrngs and Sarical Iasinaents
Sold by A. TT. 5iefceH, Drarrfst, BroirnTille.
Gt STcice!'3 Sr3rs Freemaa"s Xew Tatlen
aljes. Ttr rfetaess and darabUity ,'etr
tnerareweiued. coiorito 5:ba.,pricei5eent9
Geo. Arkrsrriglii,
rracti c ai w ate n m aks r '
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la UNION- HOTEL, wrst of CocrtHwse.
HAS NOW A
COMPLETE NEW STOCK
OF
WALTHAM,
ELGIN,
SPRINGFIELD,
Mi
vements.
KEY . AXD STEaT-VIND
Sil-ver Coe.
Hunting & Open Face Boss Pal
Gold JVatcli Cjire.
Sleni-Winil Put. Dosi-Freflf Case.
Seth. Thomas
&c American
Walnut - Cascc
SpecfeLcIes & Eye-Glasses.
A Full Line of J"eA-elry
Onaiatlng of everythhtcjthat sees to make
Hp a first class assortflfreitt.
Repairing Fine Watehes a Specialty
ggWork don promptly and every care
" token to izive satfefectioit.
1)0, Sain St. Brownrille, eb.
T. A. Balh. Joseph Body. ;
BATS&fBODYi
proprietors
! t
HURffFT
I21H11 Hi
!.
are now prepared to accotnraodate
the public with
Good, Sweet, Fresh
M 'FIAT,
Highest nsarket price paid, for
Beef Hides
TJLXjXjO'VV'
First dar east t P.O. Brownvltle.
ICTBOUIZEB
S. GOVEI153IE3T.
SIiOWrT'3X-I"EL
Paiti-up Capital. 50.000
Authorized " 5003000
IS PREP ABED TO. TRANSACT A
General Banking Business
BCT A3TD SELL
OOTJT & OUEEMOY DEATTb
on an Hie srincJDal cities T the
United States and Srirope
MONEY LOANED
Oa approved secorltyBly. Tfen Drafts U.coant
ea.aad pedal ecoranjIrr!rratlleiHMit'
ra. Iea.lori a GO VERJTirEST ROXBS.
STATE, COOriTY & CITY SECURITIES !
TJBPOSITS
ReotTPdparairfendemasd.!iii4 rXTEEEST al
lowed m Hzseceruacmea ofipeatt.
DrRECTORS. Wm.T-r3. R. 3f. Baay. M. A
nay. t rant E. JfasB. Lateer Ssadley i
. .C ii3UCi.
J0HX L. CaRSOJu
A.R.DAVISOJr.CajiW-.
I. CJXcTTAOG HTOK". Arat.Caa Wer.
President.
JBxf Sale.
OZVE OALF INTEREST IS- THE
SHERIDAN MILLS.
For particrilarH call on. or address.
GEO HO"rFWOnn Hi0tt, -t,
wiu.nu3ii.WOOD, Sheridan, Neb.
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First National Bank:
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The Alabama Election.
0P THE DEM00EATI0
FRATXDS TJT TWF, LA
ELEcnoir.
An
AstonisMag Eecord of Easdalit
AcMeveraents cf tie Democratic Count-1
ing Maciine in iSome Tnstancea Eive
Times as Many Votes Counted as there
are Vsla Oimens in the Ccmrfrr.
.
The Republican State Committee of,
Alabama has prepareu and sent out the j
f olio win? address to the countrv.
ing a detailed statement of the stupen
dous frauds f the Democrats in that
State in the recent election. The doc
ument will kie found to contain import
ant evidence and worth serious atten
tion. THE ADDRESS.
To the Comitry:
When the Democrats came into pow-
er in Alabama in 1ST4, they found an
election law in force which provided
, proper safeguards for the ballot, and
i whieh was just and equitable with re-
spect to the rights ot tise two political
parties, xne ummta ere retiuireu 10
be numbered to correspond with the
numler opposite the name of the voter
on the poll-list; immediately after the
close of the election the ballots were
required to be counted and a correct re
turn thereof made, which return, to
gether with the poll-lists and the orig
inal ballots, was required to be for
warded to the office of the probate
Judge of the county, and there filed as . not shorter than five inches nor longer
public records: within a short time i than seven, not narrower than two
thereafter the probate Judge, sherifLinehes nor wider than two ami nnc-
and eierK. ot tne circuit
court, who j
were constituted a Board of supervi
sors, were required to again make a
count of the votes and to correct all er
rors, omissions or frauds of which the
1 the election might have
lHn niiltv If nffpr fh npHnn vf tlia
i irtrcxi uxiLY. ji, jatci mc iicuuu ut Lite
supervisors, anv suspicion tliat frauds
had been committed or errors had been
made remained in the mind of any
person, the ballots and the accompanv-
I ing papers were always forthcoming to
answer for themselves in any court
where the question might be tried.
Those who desire the purity of elec
tions eoukl ask for no better law. But
j the Democratic party was dissatisfied
j with it. It had just triumphed, but by
; a measre majority. It had been found
j necessary to inaugurate a reign of ter-
ror throoghout the entire interior of
state. Billings was waylaid and assas
sinated in Sttinter county. Shortly
thereafter the mail train on the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad was
iLurged in the same county in open day
by a band of armed men. ami ilail
Acnt Ivey was ri!lled with bullets.
ror having declared that the murderers
of Billings sitould be brought to Just-
. . .. -.. . I
the polling pfcice was broken into, the
-i- , , , . , ..-
billots destroyed, and in the attempt by
the mob to shoot the B.epcblie;in su
pervisor. Judge Keiis, his little fourteen-year
old son was murdered. The
murderers have never been punished
or tried, but more than one of the pf r
sos whose public reputation is to have
been concerned in the -runnier have
been hooored by Democratic ofiices in
the KepuWkair-couiicy thus made Dem
ocratic. Armed bands of men rode
through the streets of Mobile during
all of election day, assaulting and mur
dering inoffensive colored men. and
later on the terror caused by these
bands was supplemented by milit:iry
guards, with bayonets and uniforms of
gray, at each of the polling-places. Not
withstanding these aete and others of a
similar character which could be truth
fully enumerated, the Republicans,
white and black, had rallied to the
standard of their party, and under the
most adverse eircurostauces had polled
a vote of S(MQ0 a Yote which was a
standing menace to Democratic ascend
ancy. DEMOCRATS "KKFOR3r THE ELECTION"
LAW.
It was the consciousness of this f;ct
that caused the Democratic purty to
enter upon a "reform" of the election!
law, to the end that that which they
had accomplished with so mueh dinf
eiilty by violence, and which remained
so iiteeeure, might be made easy, cer
tain and secure b fraud. The statutes
of the States of the Union may be
searched in v;iin for a pareliel to the
election law which was then framed
awl passed by the Democratic leuisla-
tttre of Alabama. It not onlv utterlv
failed to provide safeguards where i
safeguards were required, but it crea-
K. At sprang liUUJiirhour counfcv.ibhifik, man- as wfeiinlv as thn whinh.SBme- -o uuues Esnispectuxpui; waau." r T" 1 1t. "1 T. "rr"T : TTr
ted opportunities and offered suggest- crats usually the only officers remain
ions which the most dull-witted eoukl i iag to the Republicans being the pru
not fail to comprehend. It was provi-1 bate judges, who, by reason of their
ded that the inspectors, after having ', tenure of office being longer than the
counted out the votes, should inclose other officers, and perhaps because of
the return with one poll-list, in one ! their judicial character, have been able
box. which should be forwarded to the j t0 resist Democratic efforts of displace
sheriff of the eounty ; and that the bnl-1 meat more successfully than the oth
lots. with the other poll list, should be j ers- It is a singular fact, upon any oth
retained by one of the inspectors for er hypothesis than that of an under
sixty days and then destroyed, unless stood determination to disregard the
in the meantime a contest should have j rights of Repubhcan voters, that in all
been commenced. It will be seen that ' eases the voice of the Republican mi
all eheek upon dishonest inspectors is j nority on those boards was ignored;
thus totally destroyed, because their i a1 althoutrh the law by some mishap
bare return is all the evidence before I provided that the election managers
the uoanl ot supervisors, ami upon
which they are required to declare the
result. In the meantime the inspectors
have the. evidence of their fraud in
their own possession, and have ample I aad passed by, and men for whose ap
time to make the votes- in the box ' pointment thev had not asked and
conform to the return which thev "lio, if favorable to them, were utter
have made, should a contest be threat- ly incompetent were appointed to
enetL Or. as has heen alleged, in some i gnard their interests. Such was the
cases where the boxes were required ; case in Montgomery. Autauga, Lown
the houses of the inspectors may be!es AVlkox. Madison, andall other
broken into and the boxes stolen"; or I counties similarly situated. In Lown
they may be "aeeidentallv" drooped in-'des the Democratic sheriff and clerk
to the are.aml burned; or the inspect-
in j, umiwu?; u, iiHatiitue as lu tne
dates, may destroy the boxes a few
days before the law permits. Por all
these misdeeds of and mishaps" to in
spectors this -wise" election law pro
vides no penalties. Shoukl these sub
terfuges fail, no great harm is done
any way. The fraudulent return has
subserved its purpose bv giving tlie
certificate of election to the Democrat
ic candidate; for in Democratic Aia
buraa no greater irnpossibQitr eoukl be
l conceived than for a Republican to
successfully contest in the courts the
right of Democratic candidates to of
fices to which they have been declared
i elected.
ONE point, t-ncotered. spefditt t-
TENDED TO-
r -
3 de-
xae law was tonna to nave no
feet, however, in federal elections the
i federal courts have jurisdiction, of elec-
; TJZ,. i.ul: I J5i
tion officers and those courts, taking
.autmt uiiauapwAuis eiecuon
managers, had reached forth their
nanus unexpecteuiv, ana uj means ox
their process taken possession of the
ballot boxes "with the ballots, and held Democratic candidate. It is instruct
the same to be used as evidence m the i ive to interject here. parentheticaHv,
prosecution of indictments for election
frauds. An unsympathizing grand Ju
ry had found indictments on the evi
dence thus presented, and several hun
dred of "our best citizens' from the
foar quarters of the States were drag-
; ged from their homes to the courts at
Montiromery, ifobile and Huntsville.
Some even were convicted by these
"alien courts" of an "alien govern -
merit," and were made to suffer the ig-
nominy of imprisonment in the com -
mon jaiL and the hardship of restaur- J immediately counted, as the law mrert
ant fare paid for by a sympathizing ed, but could not persuade the other irt-
and admiring people (which afterward
rewarded manv of them for their mar -
tyrdom with offices of trust and profit),
tiow to remedy the delect which made
this invasion of the rights of the citi
zens possible was the question which
was presented at the next session of the
leirislature. It was then and there de
. termined tbat the law which provided
i for the numbering of the ballets did not!
i comport with the theory of the secre -
cy of the ballot, and a law was enacted
r that the ballots should no longer be
i numDered. J-est some vile anasedi -
J tious wretch should still be tempted to
invade the sacred secrecy of the ballot.
by putting sme mark or brand on his
ticket, by which means he might there
after identify it, or, by showing its ab
sence, bring the self-sacrificing gentle
men who acted as election managers to
grief, it was further provided that the
ballot should be on plain white paper.
half inches, and that it should have no
mark or device whatever on it. All
ballots not conforming strictly to these
requirements were to be rejected as
void. The debate on this measure in
the State Senate and House of Repre
sentatives at the time of its passage
would be interesting reading for the
northern neoDle. Some timid snnls i
there were who suggested that the law
provided for an election by the inspect
ors and not by the people, but they
were overborne by the advocates of the
measure, who declaimed about the
"sacred secrecy" of the ballot and the
outrage of dragging innocent men awav
t from their homes ou the testiraonv of
ignorant and corrupt negroes that they
had voted contrary to the ballots in the
boxes purporting- to be theirs. Such a
travesty of iaw and of government by
the people never was before present
ed. The foregoing constitute the chief
alterations made in the election law by
the Democratic party sinee it acquired
power in tliis State, although there are
innumerable minor changes, necessary
ta the smooth and easy working of
their scheme of fraud, which point to
their determination- to disfrancluse the
I
isLruiKinise Lie
t. i . ! - r.
have heretofore been indicated.
iltwl
Ex.varpr.Rs of dahxtxg FK.vtr.
A few instances, not intended as an
enumeration, but as simple examples
of that which occurred all over the
State at the election of the second of
the present month, will show that the
spirit which actuated the Legislature
and the Governor in the passage of
these iniquitous election laws is alive
and active in all classes of the Demo
cratic party, and that there is no divis
ion in that party upon the proposition
that the negro skull not be permitted
to have a voice in the government of
the country where he lives, although a
brief examination of the late Demo
cratic census returns will show that he
is largely used to swell the basis of rep
resentation. It should be premised
that a majority of the Republican
county officers who have been elected
at previous elections have been forced
from theirpositions by a law which re
quired them to find bondsmen within
the limits of their own county a law
whieh was designed for no other pur
pose than that which it accomplished.
Xo good reason can be given why offi
cers should not be permitted to make
their bonds, in whole or in part, any
where within the limits of the State,
except that by confining them to as
small an area as possible, such of them
as were Republicans would, in some
localities, be subjected to the mercy of
a class of property-holders who are hos
tile to them and inimieal to their re
tention in office. It happened that in
all the large Republican counties dur
ing and preceding the present election,
a majoritv of the board of oificprs
charged by law with the dutv
of ap-
pointing election officers were
Demo-
should be taken from both political
j parties, the persons who were recom
mended by the Republicans were, with
some immaterial exceptions, "snored
met without notifying the Republican
probate judge, and made appointments
to suit themselves. After they had
completed their work, they notified
the probate judge that he cockl azree
to it or not. as he pleased, but that it
should stand as the action of the board.
This shameless and disgraceful action
of the county officers" foreshadowed
very plainly what was to follow on
election day.
atm"ghee"s switch.
At McGhee's Switch, in Montgom
ery county, the Republicans polled ST2
! votes by actual count, the Republican
vuteia leceivinguierrticsetsirom one
man. giving him their names and going
straicht from him to the polling-place,
i x v.rx .x-.r iT i- - i -
j nulling meir Lich.ec in view ro enaoie
him to see that they deposited thesame
ticket they had received. These pre -
carrtions were adopted in order thatthe
" epuoucan oxes pMiea
thereon that day might be fixed and as-
certainea Deyontl a donbt, because at
the election In that precinct for mem-
i oer 01 congress two years oeiore tneir
votes had Leen returned as cast for the
that B. E. McGhee. one of the Demo-
cratic inspectors at the former electron,
and who is at present under indictment
in the United States circuit court for
'stuffing" the ballot-box on that occa
sion, was one of the persons chosen as
a guardian of the people's ballots at this
box at this election. After the election
i had progressed, without one threaten-
1 ing incident, to its close, at 5 o'clock,
the Republican inspector, a colored
. man, demanded that the votes should be
spectors to join him m the count, first
, one excuse and then another beimr of-
t feredrfor the delay. About six o'dock
a military company rroni .Montgomery,
the "Grays," under command of CoL
Jones, commanding the Second Ala
bama militia, appeared upon the
grounds, supported by an armed posse
i of about
thirty citizens from Mont
The cause of the delav then
jromery.
i became apparent.
The wretches who
j ere housed inside, contemplating the
villainy they were about to perpetrate.
' uecame airaia oi uie inoagnaoon ana
wrath, of the large number of colored
men who were quietly waiting on the
ground to hear the result of the elec
tion announced, and had sent a report
to the city that they were threatened by
the colored men, and there was danger
of a collision. The Governor of the
State had thereupon issued his man
date, and mustered his bayonets and
dispatched them with all speed to the
assistance of his threatened compatri
ots. The soldiers took up their station
and the count proceeded. The details
of the farce enacted here have been be
fore published. After counting 116
Republican and 59 Democratic votes.
tlie cmdle was aceidentaTty extinguish
ed, the ballot box disappeared from the
table, reappeared, the candle was re
lighted, the boxw;is discovered to be
full of tickets, where it had before
teea J partially full, by reason of
' flft HiTninit'iriAn onool rw Tfa-wv I
ready counted, and large numbers of
Republican ballots were scattered all
over the room, where before there bad
been none. The colored inspector, in
experienced though he was, could not
mistake the meaning of all this, and
timid as he was inexperienced, he yet
raised his voice in protest. This was
the point to which it had been desired
to bring him. The other inspectors
and the clerks pretended to be indig
nant at an "imputation upon their in
tegrity,' and resented the same with
Lmguage of such force, acctinpanied by
demonstrations of such character, that
the gailty individual made haste to Join
his friends outside. After being some
what rettssuredby them, he attempted I
- - --- i r i
to suram enter tne poums-piace aan. re-
TT T i . T
"lcu "-' ": awraucui, luil . ir imx
.nnf I-.T- -fi.a o-f..-,.. ,-t.i-...- i. t..i
voluntarily abandoned his post he eoukl
not resume it. The inspectors then
proceeded to the count, and imule a re
turn giving the Republicans 132 votes,
and the Democrats 540 votes. There
are two singular circumstances in con
nection with the election at this point,
which shoukl be marked down. The
first is that, of the first ITS votes taken
from the box while tlie Republican in
spector was there. 118 were Republican
votes, while of tlie 500 votes taken from
the box after tlie Republican inspector
had abandoned his duty, only ltf were
Repu!ocan votes. The second is, how
132 c Jored men were enabled to terror
ize 540 Democrats, white and bfctek. at
that place, ami put them in such deadly
frkmt that they raniired a military
company, uniformed and armed with
bayonets, to assist them in collecting
the votes of the freemen who voted
there on that dav.
AT KENDALL S BEAT.
At Kendall's Beat, in Moatgomery
county, at which pfctee a list of natas
of Republican voters was kept for the
same purpose asatMeGhees.544 Repub
lican votes and 65 Democratic votes
were depositetL At this pfctee the Dem
ocratic inspectors, relying on the isne
rance and timidity of the okl colored
man acting as the Republican inspector,
who was also partially blind, proceeded.
with slight efforts at concealment. toJ
substitute Democratic for Republican
ballots, but were not enabled to make
as complete a revolution as in the other
beat, because the okl colored man de
veloped an amount of inteilisence and
decision ot character which prevented.
The Republican majority of 4T5 was re
duced, however, to 4V. the onlv majori
ty allowed anywhere in the whole eoun-1
ty at this election, and even this major-1
ity was not allowed us by the board of j
supervisors who compared the returns
and taoufeitedthe same, but was thrown
out because more votes were returned
than appeared on the poll-lists. The
inspectors had got things mixed.
AT ROBLNSON's CROSS ROADS.
At Robinson's Cross Roads, Mont
gomery county, a record of the Repub
lican votes was kept by M. Dillard, one
of the oldest and best citizens of that
precinct, and it showed that 5S0 Re
publican votes were polled. The Dem
ocratic vote at the outside limits did
not exceed 50. The only disturbance
during the day ocenrred about 3 o'dock.
and it was between colored men, one of
whom was wounded by a pistol shot.
The polls were kept open until 5 o'clock,
as by law retiuired. and voting continu
ed until the very dose. The colored
man who acted as inspector then pro-,
posed to proceed with the count, but
was informed by the other inspectors
that they did not propose to count, that
the disturbance at the poite at 3 o'clock
had'mvalkiated the election. They then
closed up the poffing-piaee. carried off
the hox eontairurg; the ballots, and
from that time to this no information
has heen received in any official quarter
as to the votes in this box.
AT PORTER'S BEAT.
The same thimr occurred at Porter's
Beat, where the vote was about 400 Re
publican, to 50 Democratic, bet at that
precuicu mere was not oneracmem ota1
tlireatening character upon, which to ,
ground an excuse for not counting.
Why they were not counted is not.
known. We -onlv know that the in-
spectors, after receiving votes all day,
have utterlv failed to make anv return
. whatever, and bv their arbitrarv ami
unlawful omission have disfranchised
r about 500 voters. Whv the monotoav
was vaned. at this beat, and the 4epl-
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lican majority only suppressed instead
: of being transported, is perhaps ac-
counted for by the fact that the Repub -
neans. rpmempermcr tneir experience in
former elections, waentrteyhad been
: counted out, deterrnined to remain at
the polls en masse until thejr votes had county, for the first time since the war,
been declared. This fact, aided by sua- is made to return a Democratic major
dry remarks which were made iteriagj itr of over2,B00.
the day and night that the Republicans sample nrus rx i.ow-des coxtt.
uiuv wunteu a xair count, ana ubk iaev
would have that, anpears to have had a
Sfilnfnn? cfFo1- rTt Ua. -minAcr rrF Ut Si
cnootni; tiv .tl.1 e f
close the building and go awav with ?e Hhcans, was this time steleninthe I" ! palter schools of
the banot-boxTin the presence "of tte'JP $2??$ ftal - K aicI?a.ed to "f
crowd outside, without giving it a paci-1 of SS- At the lb Pf " m ?SfeP.bosoa fZ sbeot
fying assurance. The sfcitement P voters were kept by mtelh- as thetherssho aaj get up aap
n.nr,Krri TO,i& t. i. ..Mw ui-' &mt men, each voter giving ms name petite roc breakfast by killing a Yak
ti,fl vov: A,mM ckna-fifion.!,
".- n3 Ut? VUllUlU. UU IFU itiKTAtcpulf"
beans to have 350 majority. Neverthe
less, they were suppressed all the same.
AT -PT.-ttr.
At "Old Elam" the Bat of votes as
kept showed thut4-i Repubficaa votes
had been polled to 18 Democratic The
count proceeded at this place until 200
Republican votes and 5 Democratic
votes had been counted. At this junc
ture the candle expired, and it appear
ed that no other light could be procur
ed. It was accordingly proposed to
Charles Pope, the colored inspector.
who had been selected for the position
because of his ignorance and stupidity,
tbat all the votes be placed together
and sent to town in lieu of a return,
which proposition Pope accepted. This
proceeling vitiated everything, be
cause, under the law, the inspectors
are required to make the count imme
diately, and it is upon their return, and
not by a count of the votes, that the
oouni ot supervisors aeehires the re
sult. To make the thing safe, howev
er, and to make the injury resulting
from their action irreparable, the votes
as cast and all the loose paper awl
trash in the room, with several hun
dred ballots of both parties, which hud
not been voted, were dumped indis
criminately ia a bag, and sent to the
sheriff's office as the return from Ekue.
AT TTSION" ACADEMT A-ND DOOLEY's.
At Union Aeademy and Dooieys,
where the Republican votes exceed the
Democratic, the latter have been re
turned as having majorities. The fea
tures of the count in those beats do not
differ materially from those related as
to the other beats, except that the in
spectors, instead of transposing the Re
publican and Democratic votes, as wag
done elsewhere, appear to have at
tempted to extend the Democratic vote
beyond the Republican vote witbotit
diminishing the hitter. They did not
bear in miwl the hue eensas returns.
however, and have returned more votes
from their precincts than those returns
snow tuere are male einzens over
twenty-one years of age.
en" the crrr or Montgomery.
In the city of Montgomery, where it
i was not supposed any attempt would
be made to falsify the count, the pre
cautions to ascertain our vote were
not taken, as in the connrty precinct,
and the Republican majoritv of 1.4tK
.IT l.n TIT1II ! T,Vll..&k .. .T1 T,. T9mM Fl mMlT-
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in i ". wis ibk nme sniftFax-fij rum
a Democratic maioritv ot about 800.
There are still some indicia extant.
The intelligent white Republicans,
who had been offered by the Republi
cans as inspectors at the city boxes,
had been rejected for colored men who
could neitlier read nor write, or who,
it was supposed, would be pliant in the
hands of their associates. The Demo
crats became aware before election day
that a mistake had been, made as to
one of these appointees, who was a
smart and resolute colored man. On
the momimr of election the hitter pre
sented himself at the votiag-pfctee to
assume his duties half an hour before
the time fixed by law for opening the
polls. He was refused entrance to the
room on the pretext tbat he arrived
too late, and that the election officers
had already met, organized and filled
his place. The Republicans in the
city had no candidates for justice ot
the peace and constable. Manv of
them picked out some name no one
else would be likely to think of, aad
voted it for one or the other of those
offices. It is noticeable that not o&e of
the persons so voted for is returned as
receiving a single vote.
MONTGOMERY COOJTT.
To show in figures the glaring
frauds committed in Montgomery, the
capital eounty of Alabama where the
Republicans were this time more uni
ted than ever before, the eountv thor
oughly canvassed, and no objectionable
ticket, composed entirely of white men.
Republicans and Independents, in the
neki. whieh was unanimously nomina
ted by a convention of colored men,
while many business men, Democratic
in politics, voted for the Republican
nominees, because men
better known
for their fitness and
integrity,
and
many, not daring open opposition, ab-
tained from votimt. for sign of apathv
they were arraigned in strong terms
by the Democratic orsan next dav we
give herewith the following official re-'
port ot toe last tour elections netd in
Montgomery County, Alabama, which
shows the necessity of United States
supervisors at elections as the only
safeguards asainst fraud.
SAMPLE MANTFA CTTRED RETCRN5.
The features presented by the elec
tion in other counties of the State are
pretty much the same as those occur
ring ia Montgomery, with here and
there some peculiarity of fraud, which
renders it worthy of mention seporate-
iy-
Before the election the leading Re
publicans of Wilcox county, fearing
the easienL end of tBe e&aafej cooeind-
rhir rm.LV AAnarf rvr- aar a t-a AAMMf m
ed to advise the Repabiicaws ia several
precincts not to vote, and then the
Democratic steal would be made more
palpable. Republicans posted them
selves near the polls, aad took down
the name of every colored man who
voted. At Snow Hill seven colored
men. voted. The Democrats gave
themselves in. their official return at
this precinct 50 votes. Bet accord
ing to the census returns of last June
there are only 132 whites Kviagin the
i precinct over twenty-one years of age.
i "? white the seven colored
" "- : " . xr .urc
polled, at this precinct, 40 less than
tfae official return. At ADentoa pre-' jo the hands of the" Democrats. It is
einct two colored men voted. The'.siaTDiv like the Greenback ixirtv. as
Democrats gave themselves 34 votes,
The last eensas shows hat 62
whites
in the precinct over twenty-one years
of age, TotaL 64 votes 2S3 less than
the official return. It vraa the same at
, Pine Apple.
In Bonbam's precinct the retaras
( gave the Republicans
Democrats 4Tt.makin
2 votes and the
nwHTVT n Tnf-oT vara ?
! 40S, or 142 more males twentv-oae
vear ot age than resMle in the precinct
according to the census. By sack
. fracas as these this strong Republican,
Lowades county, which has a lesi
- T ? . ?Ti . s. .t
itimate Repubiicaa majority of 3,000,
I a"1 which has always cast its vote for!
t au he possetl u to vote, and aa exam
as he passed up to vote, and an. exam
ination of those lists shows that the ' Southern Student's Hand-Book of Se
the RepoMkaas never voted more sol-! lections for Reading and Oratory,." by
idlv. We give herewith some official i Joor G. James. Superintendent of she
Secures, as instances of the shameless
frauds committed in that county:
Coffey, Democrat, 3,5utl; MeDeffie,
Republican, l,Gu; Oveii, Independent,
508.
Bentoe heat returned 125 votes for
Coffey, TO for MeDeffie. McDuffie has
obtained the names of 1W men who
voted for him. there. Net fraud is. Ben
ton beat, S3 votes.
Church HS1 beat returned Coffev ifO
vote, MeDtt&e 13. MeDume has the
names of 4 i men who voted for him.
Xet fraod in this beat, 164 votes.
Collerine beat returned Coffey 251
votes. MeDume. 2-L MeDulfie got here
230 votes, aad the Repubiicaae of the
beat stand ready to swear to it. Net
fraud in this beat, 206 votes.
Unaironville AinJJanne voters reg-
f istered their names pubficry, giving
442 votes. The returns gave him 102
votes; the remainder to Coffey. 2Tet
fraud, 340 votes in this precinct. At
this beat there were white men who
voted for MeDuSe and not for the
balance of the ticket, ami yet the Re
publican ticket got the snwe vote fop
all the candidates on it according to the
returns.
Hopewell beat McDaffie has the
names of 13 persoas who voted for
him. and vet the Fetvras give only SO
votes for MeDume, bet 96 for Coffey.
Xet fraud In this beat, id votes.
Brook's beat The returse give Cof
fev 236 votes, while there were not 25
Democratic votes ia the whole beat,
and Coffey did not get, colored votes
and aH, over 50 votes. Net fraud in
this heat, IS- votes.
Prairie Hill beat Thore are but 4
white men living here, and oeof them
voted for MeDume; the returns gave
Coffey 96 and McDoSe only TT votes.
MeDeffie has the names of IStf men
who voted there for him. Net fiaed
in this beat 86 votes.
Letohatchir beat 1ST men voted for
Muffie; the returns give Coffey 212
roiesr McDuffie, SO. Net fraud in this
beat. lT votes.
Steep Creek beat-McDuffie's voters
registered 19 names, all of whow east
their ballots for him; bat the retsrns
show 10C votes for Coffey, and only 9tf
for MeDaffie. Net fraud ia this beat,
l votes.
. Lowndesboro beak MeDeffie get 44fT
votes ; the returns give him 244 votes
and Coffey 2T2. Net fraud ia this beat,
196 vtiies. At previous elections the
Democrats did not get over T5 votes
at this box, and a less number of col
ored votes were polled for them, there
at this time than ever before.
St. Clair McDuile received 1T6
votes, bat the returns gave him only
46 votes, and CmSer im. Net frand in
this beat. 131 votes.
Whitehall precinct MeDume has
the names of 2T6 persons who voted
for him; still the returns give him
only Tl votes, but 22 for Cofiey. Net
fraud ia this beat, 225 votes.
It would be possible to give a de
tailed account of frauds which oc
curred tbroaghont the State at this
election which would occupy the en
tire space of a daily newspaper, but it
would be a mere repetition of what
has already been given. It is snlB
eient to say that in ail eases where it
was possible Republican majorities
have been deliberately counted for the
Democrarv, or thev have been nullified
and destroyed by the action of the very j
men who were appointed to receive,
record and preserve them.
To-day Alabama is Republican by
20,800 majority if the votes which are
pet in the ballot-boxes were honestly
counted.
By order of the Republieaa State
Committee of Alabama.
Geor62 tcrxkr. Chairman.
Montgomery, Abu Ang. 10, list.
A Irani.
Probably no better iMastratien of the
potitkal aselessnflss, moral pervers
ana mental lmoeciuty ot a certain we
known class of three-cornered peopre
can be found than the proceedings of
the Maseaebnsetts probibitkm conven
tion on Wednesday last.
The chairman of this rabid bodv
gleefully predicted the defeat of the
Mepnotican party in tne national eon-
" ws received with
tremen-
doog applause. Of coarse if this ap
plause had been meant to express the
joy of the convention over the prospec
tive election of Neal Dow. the prohib
itionist candidate for president, it
would have been natural enough and
appropriate. But that was not the
tboosht that filled the convention with
so uen eacnnemsm. it was the coa-
vieuoa teat it uaraeio. wno never
drank intoxicating drinks, probably in
his life, was defeated. Hancock, the
regular "soaker," would be sneeessrui.
.Notluag oettgn&s yoar geatnae aro
hibitkmistsso'moch as the defeat of
practical temperance men who do not
sympathize with their fanaticism. They
bail a drunkard with joy as the victor
in sach a contest.
Then a resolution was introduced bv
a meiaberdeeiariittaat bo prohibition
ist could support James A. Garfield
for president, which was referred with-
oot debate. The whole proceedings
of the convention indicate that it was
a fraud, and that instead of being what
it pretended to be, a temperance body, i
it was composed of soared aad sore-!
headed Republicans, who long to vead
their petty spite upon the party for
failing to properrv recognize their
greatness bv throwing- the election n-
asststaat Dot-Tatie firrrmw-itwra -oat.
, only in Massachusetts, but ia every
State where it attempts to parade itself
as a political party.
SLS'flSSS'Ei
If TT-Vll TiajAJ rmt- .A a. t..,., .feza ft,
i "ui uurcrturo w nsj IQUg UIUC w
else where. State Jwtmal.
, -,. , . . . . , . ,
A Massachusetts oar about as higa
as the counter recently came into a
bookstore and asked lor a book Skt
j ten cents with a murder in it
Sosrt&enr Scbccl literatnre-
From She ClalaaaU OramersJalv
"SVe have receatly had ccasien- to
- lraake Botes- or the choraofcer of thfttexc-
PtT T .. . I- - i.
books which the Steheca .triote pce-
pare and pebSsh lor the use of pesiis
- t Of this class of Hteratare is "The
Texas Militarv Institute. The enlv
thing Northern about it is the printing;
and binding, which was done by Bar
nev & Co-, of New York. The Selec-
i tiens are exclusively from the speeches,
poems and essays of Southern writers.
Of this there is of course nothag to
complain. The South has produced a
few writers from whose works selec
tions might be made that woefcl grace
any book of selected pieces.
The book opens with a passage from
Alexander H. Stephens, ia whisk thac
gentleman consoles himself for the pos
sible failures of the confederacy with
the thought that "a land without rains
is a land without memories.' Where,
however, he speaks of "aa uasillied
public character' as one of the things
surviving the general rain, the editor
should have supplied ia a toot note the
fact that Mississippi. Louisiana, Ar-
f-kanaas, Tennessee aad Virginia have
either repudiated their honest debts or
are tryiagto. It wonM Save inspired
respect in the school boy for the ua
sulfied public character.
The second selection is John Jan
neys speech to General Lee oa inves
ting him with the command of Virgin
ia's forces, in which, however, there is
nothing beyond the fustian of rhetoric.
The third setectioa is from a speech
of Linton Stephens on Southem Re
construction. despntinsr the validity
of tiae ratification of the amendments
to the constitution. He admits that if
three-fourths of the States, acting
through their conventions or Legssia
tares ratify, thea the amendment
stands as part of the original instru
ment. Bt it mast be True ratifica
tion bv a true Legfefatare or a trrse
convention of the State." If none by
a spurious Legislature." it will not do,
and such, Mr. Stephens eontendg.
were the Legislatures of the Southern
States tbat did ratify the amendments.
This passage is evidently selected to
impress the youthful Southern mind
with the idea that the amendment? are
not truly a part of the constat vtioa ami
ought to be set aside. When the op-
f portunity arrives, as it is hoped it may.
when Hancock becomes president, the
Supreme Court will be reorganised, aad
enough Judges of Mr. Stephens way
of thinking; added to the bench to over
throw the amendments aad leave the
South free to restore slavery or disfran
chise the blacks. This is a port of the
Democratic programme.
A passage from, o&e of Ben HiBrs
characteristic speeches follows thfe, ia
which he denies the existence of any
Confederates in Congress, and asserts
that the Union never wronged the
Sooth, bet that when the booth left is
she bagged the constitution to her
bosom and actually carried it off with
her.
A Mttle further en e art extract from
a sfeech of W. C. P. Breckinridge, the
substance of which is a prophecy that
the time win come when those who
levied war upon the United States to
destroy the Union will not be thoosnt
of as traitors, bat patriots, and when
Lee will be more than what Cromwell
is in English history, and when the
names of the Southern dead will be in
scribed on the common roll of iilaetri
oos sons. No mention of a pension for
the surviving friends, but, like an ad
verb, Kjmetimes it is andia&tcod, if
not expressed.
It wooki require to amen apace to
foQow the selections deriatun. Samce
it to sy that the larger part are front
the spehfcs of Senators and Xencesea
tatives presenting the &trthera view
of the sovereignty' of the States, and
treatrnc the Union as a compact be
tween them lacking the sovereign pow
ers of a nation. These, with eulogies of
the -God-Hke Lee," the "God-like Jack
son" and other demi-god of Southern
chivalry, maee up the book. One trmte
scattered through the book saeh lee
phrases as "Confederate soveretgnties,"
"Majestic ideal of a sovereign State."
"Equal ammer "quals. liege soveretga
tv. aad whatever eie in f irai can be
ftmade to convey the idea that the first
khrty of a citizen hi fealty to the State.
There K hardly a word said m praise of
the Union; nothing to inspire national
pride or patriotism. Nothing in fact,
bet strained and conceited provincial
ism. and that of the saeanebt ami nar
rowest kind.
Readinrthis book, one would be led
to suppose that the Sooth hadprcdaeed
all the great men of the aee. made the
most astonishing advances m civilisa
tion, and taken the world by sunrise by
the tremendous extent of hrr agricul
ture and commerce, and we have a
doubt taut znwltkades of yeang- people
are growing up to think that way. with
very little more km of the extent of
the commerce and manufactures of the
1 North, and the almost illimitable extent
of her resooxces, than Chinese
stets.
A wesrz8edEScS.
Dftcior HnH, of the Paebfe Jhmtrraf,
io opposed to martial law. The dector
i knows just as much about that as he
does about the practice of mediciae. A
married woman was once sick, as snch
women are sometinus;. Theaeicabor-
Jae: women bad gathered there, as
! neighbors do on sack occasions. The.
husband sent for oarPnebJo Democrat,
who hastened to her bedside, felt of her
pake, prescribed a aase of salts, and.
was lexvins. when one of the women
said, "Doctor, I fear that yoa don't
understand this case." "O. yes." re
plied the Doctor. "I have just cared a
f the same eompfeant.'
! i2KTficaa.
lfTBtr
The BeSaio .Earpress- snysr "Every
day brightens the prospect fee Gnraekl
pority"so rapkny as the ItepabScaa
iaaaartaar. jto eaa&e ever zrew in
t -. ,. -.
caae has sown dannf the east tew
weeks. At this rate it will be a verv
I solid North that wiB stand tie count
' asaiast the soBd Soeth."
: "
' m
A Dakota Kirmer has a sineje wheat
j field coveriag thirty-sb: sqeare mSes.