Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-19
Election Frauds 10 Secure Negro
Supremacy,

Not content with voting all the negrosi
10 the Southern States. il il now openly
charged that tho radicals rcsorted to irauJ
in order 10 obtain possession Of politica
power. In an article upon tho Sou,herI
elections, the New Haven. Connecticut
Rsgister presents the following fac,s in re
!aiion 10 this subject:
II IL somewhat significant that in sevcta
Of the Southern States we have had no ono
ial report Of the ELECTIONS" All that Is
said upon the subiec, is ,ha: the conven.
ton is carried Ia Mississippi, u was SAID
that the result was doubtful. after AteP'n5
The polls open eiepea days. and whom the re-
port came We took occasion to say that !.
would, after little delay, be again repofseu
that the convention WAS carried. Inc
mort nov comes that some four ihous""s,
more than half Of those who were resls's'eu
voted. In South Caroins the J'oHo
still more open. Returns rom near!
th,.e. fonyths Of the State were puoished,
,nd rad sr,yv pe,son registered :" the re-
,rc;o;., carton ofths State. fhs eonrsntton
,r,,,Li H., h,<n dsfested by several thomsand
ro,.. Eu, the military and bureau officers
49, hold OF the matter, and now u IL re-
,,or,.J that tie convention Is carried ny
s,om six 10 nine thousand majority. 40
ne,,.>. NJ, oirsa. The whole business is ia
he hands OF . set Of unprincipled polite
isns. who would not hesitate at any means
10 gain their end The convention must be
carried. or their political aspirations could
not be realized.
In Georgia the fraud is still more glazing.
Only negroes voted in that State. A few
Northern bureau agents went with The ne
groes. but the number WAS very small. In
The city Of Savannah, which contains hun
dreds Of Northern men. only Gity-five
white men voted. Ofevery town and coun-
~ in the State thc same thing can be said.
In several counties not chite rote sras
pslisd. And yet the Opisson. Pope's Official
organ. at Atlanta, asserts that thirty thous-
and white men voted in the State Of Geor-
gia. No other figures are given by which
to prove the truth OF falsity Of the state
ment that the convention 10 carried BY .
Large majority" The matter has been
hushed up, and We are lsfs to conjecture
where the "hsavy vote" in favor Of . con-
ven,ion must have been east. The oonssr-
vstivc convention, which met ct Macon last
week, denounced the whole thing ~ q
fraud. The fifth resolution reads: "Thai
We enter on record. in the name aud on Be.
half Of the people Of this Staas, our solemn
protest against the assembling Of the con
ventien, which W affirm, With the ecidsncl
fore ~s, has been ordered. usdsr Yretsss'
Of sstes ilegaiiy authorized to Be (oreiLlj
procured, iraudulsntty received. and Jalssl,
| counted"
Il will be noticed that The dslegatso YER
not abiding to vague reports Of rsuaoss.-
They declare that votes we're illegally pro
cured, that votes we're fssuduleasiy vscsis
ed. and that the votes were JolseIy counted
and they ASSERT that they make thsee grav
charges Nth the sridsnes Of tAsir SrvM b
fore them. What say the advocates Of ne
gro supremacy 10 those frauds. which the
are pleased 10 call ELECTIONS ?"