Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-10-10

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regls;ry IL tie oOuniry where he
lived H.. opportunities Tor lnfsr-
marion were therefore Unsurpassed.
aud he make, - .. thIs Tlaia state
meat Of last. within Lie Ierso-2l
knowiesige:
Tie elections held there were an
utter farce throughout. In making
tie registry the registers were ex.
Tec;cd 20 reject white men a; option,
and Ia enrol every negro who pre-
seuteG himself. After the first reg
is;ry. the lists were revised and as
MANY names were stricken off Ne II
vas thought necessary TO secure
Radical success in the Stale, or tor
individual Radical candidates. There
were three registers on every board,
all of whom subsequently ac:ed as
Judges at the election. and all of
them who desired to become so,
were candidates for office. The
election judges travelled about the
country taking votes, and were oc-
cnpied seven days in the business.
No man could vote whose ballot the
judges thought proper to reject.
Our informant states it to be known
to himself, and to be notorious
fact, that where the success of the
Radical candidate was doubtful,
through other frauds of the charac-
ter mentioned, negroes were impor-
ted from another Jurisdiction in sutfi-
cient numbers to supply the def
cheney. While the negroes vote was
thus doubled in many cases, the total
number of white votes distranchised
in the States were tens Of thousands.
III electing themselves or other can
didates to office, the registerr were
amenable to no authority that would
recognize the act of fraud. In brief,
the work of carrying the election,
regardless of the will of voters, was
doomed by the registers as part of
thrir official duty, aud a proof of 10y
atty to Congress and the military
authorities present, and any other
course would have subjected the reg
istry officers to suspicious and pro-
scription. In the division of the
offices, candidates were elected to the
Legislature who never saw the coun-
ties whence they were chosen, eX-
cept as the members of the registry
board, who will never return to the
counties they represent, and who do
not know a white man among their
constituents. AS for tho negroes,
the mass of them took no active part
in the elections but to deposit the
votes furnished them by their white
Radical leaders.
Our informant is graduate of
Geneva College, a gentlemen of rec
ognized probity and intelligence, and
was always a Republican until driv-
en- from the party by sheer disgust
at the mockery he was compelled to
witness as one Of his agents in the
reconstruction scheme. His name
will be furnished to any on who is
curious on that point. lie tells us
that he was offered the position of
State Senator, and that he would
have divided the spoils with others,
who seem to relish tho proceedings,
and do not hesitate to partakc of the
fruits of tho mockcrv and fraud; but
he preferred to live aud die an
honest man to the acceptance Of
honors and emoluments which he
can but regret as the price of absO-
Lutte crime against God and man. He
naturally wonders at the stupidity Of
those Northern Republicans who
seem 10 believe fha; these proceed
ings have any other object than the
government OF the South. and the
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