The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-06
GRANT AT HOME.
Washington Regenerated
THE MAT0RAAITY DISPUTED.
tux COUNCILS DEMOCRATIC.
Radical Loss Of Two Thousand

Human nature has indicated ITSELF The
white men of this city have asserted their
tinaienable rights. The victory of the black
radicals last year has been turned back with
a loss to them Of more than TWO THOUSAND.
Had moi, negroes infested thespolls after vot-
| ing, and had there not been designed and
| concerted slowness in receiving the votes of
the whites, whereby hundreds were shut off
from voting, our majority would have been
| from THOUSAND TO FIFTEEN HUNDRED,
with gain of near four thousand. All this,
though TWO THOUSAND whites, exclusive of
clerk In departments, failed 20 register rom
| supposition that the radical success ot last
gear, based upon fraud and force, sooatd oe
| repeated. From fUe hundred to thousand
more ueoroes voted than could be well called
| for from their real population. Many of
| them came TO the polls without being able
to. give the names by which they had been
registered. BY what hocus pocus they got
names from white tricksters, so that they
could be preferred in renewing their claim
to VOTE passes human comprehension, save
upon ideas of fraudulent completely. Blacks
were in throngs at the polls ct the early
| dawn. They were voted rapidly, except
| when more or less could not remember any
| thing about their names. Then they were
posted off to certain headquarters, where
| the matter of names and place OF residence
was made all right. AS general thing,
| when white men came to vote 1t was slow
| process. Hundreds could not get to vote
| before the closing of the polls. The polling
places were so arranged that there was an
| immense crowd at some of the polls, and
scarce any at others. At them there were,
| BY design it would seem, some of the slowest
| of men and the most stupid processes of
receiving votes. The zidentifc cation of ne
groes as to their place of resilence, or as to
| the double voting of many of them, was
nearly impossible. Misrepresentation were
made as to age. Many voted who had no
true residence here.
$50 But, notwithstanding all the network OF
fraud and wrong, the Jacobins stand defeat
They had the eclat of General Grants
presence here.
They had that of the usurping and reyo-
lutionsry congress. .ss e ro,s
They had with them, or sympathizing with
them, the standing army of five or six thou
sand radical Office holders here. z
They held out to the people menaces Of
severe congressional pains and penalties,
| should the white people assert their right
ed many Of the more timid and credulous of
our citizens.
But all in vain. There are some shame
full conditions of vsssalage, under promise of
reward, TO which human nature revolts. The
! soldiers in the city, of the regular army, were
almost to a man against the radical opera
| tons here, who had al the head Of their tick
cts the picture of General Grant. 1t was a
| Grant issue. 1t was the first battle of the
cam paign after his nomination Mt Chicago.
1t is in consistence with like results by states
| and cities upon the surety that such nomins-
| ton would take place. In them he will see
the certain defeat of himself in November,
| and with it the final downfall of the Jacobin
party.--JpashingtoR hateliiqeHcer.
The same paper says the black-and.tan-
guans impeachers claim ma jority of Sc on
mayor, but the conservative white folks
have q majority in the councils, and, says the
IateIligencer-
"a purgiAg of the polls viii gireus hundreds
of maj Gritty on the mayoraIity. In effect the
metropolis of the Union is redeemed from negro
domination. and the voice of the capital has pro-
claimed the coming and certain defeat and down.
fall of radical rule and corruptisn. 1t is with
mors than orlnary satisfaction that we record n
result which >rebukes the tyranny OF unsrupu-
lous faction, aud relieves city from the re-
proach of irresponsible negro government"
The IatelliSeacer further says
Threats, persuasions, and promises were
unscrupulously used 70 affect The votes Of
public employees in any way dependent on
congress. The frsedmen's bureau, which is
now nothing but a radical party machine,
costing the people twenty-five millions year
for the profits of plunderers and the support
of idle negroes, directed its whole energies
to this election, and imported blacks by hun
dreds from Virginia and Maryland as ready.
made voters s& FEf&f f6EF
The whole political and personal influence
of the Chicago nominees was thrown into
the scale for the purpose of operating favor.
ably on the. result, and it was openly an.
! nounced that the defeat of the radical can.
didate for mayor would be regarded and
accepted as a portentions sign of the defeat
OF Grant and Go1fax in November, in which
opinion we fully concur.
The chief justice of this District, disap-
pointed IN his expected promotion to the
supreme conrt, eliminated n parts an opin.
ION Q few days ago Intended TO prevent
qualified soldiers from exercising their priv
ilege as citizens, and elevating above the
men who had perilled their lives to maintain
the Union ignorant and yagabond negroes
who do met know their own names when
forced like cattle to the ballot box By their
new masters, the radical slave-drivers,
Byspeciai legislation ofcongress, intended
to control our municipal elections, the reg
listers, judges, clerks, and other officers,
were placed in the hands of the radicals, so
that they had the entire manipulation of the
vast electioneering machinery, and doubtless
employed it without stint or scruple, as they
have done everywhere else with similar
power. II is safe to assume that many
hundreds of negroes were fraudulently reg
istered and allowed TO vote who were ifsti-
gated to perjury by their radical overseers,
and are liable to prosecution for felony
Yet, in spite of all these combined efforts,
tricks, and expedients, the people of Wash
ington City--that is to say, the resident citi- |
zens. of worth, property. probity and char
acter, whose homes are here, and whose fu- |
ture is identified with the growth and gran
deur of this capital-have risen up in their |
strength, and put down in their councils,
the ruling power,) once for all, the unwor-
thy attempt to impose negro and barbarian /
rule upon a free and enlightened com
munity. k4sA4 C " ND
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