Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-15
THE sToKRRs IN Trouble.

the Radical Stokers. 1t appears |
from what we can gather from exs
CARNATIONS uttered between spasms
of boo-hooing, that the invention |
has returned to plague the inven-
tors. Mr.. W. L. Waters, of Wilson
county, who is a seeker after legisla-
tive honors, writes to the Stokes
organ under date of July IL las
follows % '-o1 'l"'
If am not mistaken in the intent and
meaning of the Brownsville Supreme
Court decision, which have net read,
there is no use nor sense in any longer
canEassing the suffrage question. i have
made inquiry, and cannot hear of white
citizen anywhere in this county who has
not certificate as registered voter, ex-
cept a few who had certificates handed to
them, and knowing they were not entitled
to them under the law, destroyed them
"Universal suffrage can do no more
than has already been done for the dis
franchised Of this county, and / am eredi>
bly, informed that other counties are not
behind. While the gubernatorial candis
dates are wrangling over the question,
the Governor is having it opened to all
applicants, and it is now best to turn at
tention to other issues, as that is settled.
"The real issue now is, shall the De-
mocracy have the ascendency in the next
General Assembly,? If so, another star
in the galaxy of States has set, perhaps,
to rise no more another fire. brand will
have fixed its faRgs in the heart of the
nation, which sooner or later will de-
velop its hideous proportions. Shall the
Republican party Of Tennessee tamely
submit to the treachery Of those in
power, and see the labors of the last war
sacrificed on the altar of the party that
drenched the nation in blood Shall
we ?'' .-.-
Mr.. Waters is in a decidedly bad
way. He is among those innocents
who fancied that the Democracy
had been so effectually killed with
the franchise law as to leave no pos
sible chance for resurrection, but
he has had a glimpse of the apparl-
ton of Democracy, and it troubles
him. He is sore afraid that the
Democracy was not killed, and he
spasmodically exclaims, "The real
issue now is, shall the Democracy
have the ascendency in the next
General Assembly ?" Possess your
soul in patience, Mr.. Waters. The
people of Wilson county have de-
termined that you shall rest from
your arduous legislative duties.
That's what troubles Mr.. Waters.
The Stokes organ is also dis
gusted at the manner in which the
franchise law is being executed
in the matter Of the registration OF
voters. 1t declares that "the regis
tering vicegerents of Gov. Senter"
are handing out certificates to every
body who will have them, and send
to those who do not call for them.
These terrible registering vice
gerents' will run the State into the
hands of the Democrats, if some
thing be not done to stay this reck-
less manufacturing of voters. The
organ recommends a resort to in
dictments, but then that mode oil
redress might turn out as poorly as
its recommendation about injunc,
tions. In its desperation, the State
Journal declares that "Gov. Senter
has long since sold out to the
Democracy" Seriously, the Stokes
organ is making itself ridiculous
about this matter of registration
While Gov. Brownlow was declar-
ing the registration of whole coun-
ties null and void, and not only that,
but was throwing out votes enough
to select Radicals where the quail
fed voters had elected Democrats,
the editors of the State Journal
had not one word to say in their
Jonesboro paper in condemnation
of this unlawful interference with
the rights of citizens, this out
rageous tampering with the ballot
box, if they did not approve and
defend it. When registrars ap-
pointed by Brownlow were refusing
to register hundreds of citizens in
almost every county in the State,
simply because they would not vote
the Radical ticket, the JOnesboro
Flag, of which the editors Of the
State Journal were then and now
the editors, did not condemn this
extreme partisan action on the
contrary, they rather liked it
When the BrOwnlOw registrar for
Shelby county was handing out
large numbers of certificates signed
in blank to his friends 10 be filled
up with such names as they thought
proper this prior to the late judi
cial election, the State Journal had
no word Of denunciation of the
registrar. Oh, no! He was
helping the Radicals then, and it
was all right. When Gov. Senter
removed this registrar, (Williams,)
the State Journal was very solicit
GUS that the injunction against
Senter's appointee should be sus-
tanned, and so thoroughly was it
disappointed at the failure that it
has not to this good day mentioned
the fact in its editorial columns that
the Supreme Court has affirmed the
right Of the Governor to remove
registrars at pleasure. We suggest
that until this record is wiped out
or forgotten, the Stokes organ is in