The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-06-18

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fepssiom nnd Illegal voting iu Nsw York
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npt Governor Fruf1n and NE lltpubllcan
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lent voting, and preserve snd secure pm.
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ton I'm the premises, and althat timc Con.
gr,sl an not assert that 10 bad the right
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this bili n h the business Of the gov.
Gnment Of Coh Slate ~ guard The ballot
and Ftnton aud The Republican Lteiala.
tufe were Crimiuhlly neglected. nt their
duty II they paid no attention lo this bust
nces.
There ~ something In THE rev b0fn
zeal In Congress and tho Republican
party Tor purity Of elections which looks
Suspicious For years the national legis.
lature has been exclusively occupied in
partisan legislation, and Tho enactment Of
measures Intended 10 secure Republican
trlumphs by trampling on The rights Of
voters, and by bribery Of classes and capt
talists, This has been apparent, not only
in all the stages Of the reconstructi0n IN
hmy but In all Of the financial lcgis lati0n
Of Congress.
Among the manufacturers, and bankers,
aud railroads men TO whom have been
voted millions Of money aud hundreds Of
millions Of acres OF land, and bondhold-
crs and others proating by class legisla
ton, there can DO found many Democrats
in name, but they all vote the Republican
ticket, They have been brihc1 to vote il
by laws which were framed TO benefit the
capitalists OF the country, 10 granting to
them special privileges, and thus bring
them to the support of the ruling party,
The man whose profits are doubled by
lawFa ,xa.unl E,r Ia AV.1,.sg, aI,.rN.,.
or the advantage Of the class to which he
belongs, will work for the party e%nacting
such laws.
With legislation Of the character above
described smeariHg almost every page of
the national statutes for the last ten years,
II is indispensable etlrOntcry In Congress
now to gabble of regard Tor purity Of
elections.
Outside Of such legislation, the party in
power has shown q determination to per
petuHte itself by any means, however
criminal, necessary to this end. Not long
ago, the Times referred to the brutality
! and crime ofSmntOD in imprisQniag Con-
missiuners from New York, one OF whom
IL now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of that State, who were carrying Demo.
cratic tickets to the army of the Potomac.
He refused transportation to Democratic
soldiers He withdrew regiments from
the army, and sent them into States where
they did not belong, to vote the Republi.
can ticket. He diamlssed an officer in dis
grace from the service for distributing
Democratic votes. He told manufacturers
in New England that they must dismiss
all men who would not vote for the party
in power, or the Government would make
no purchases from mills refusing so to do.
In all this he vas defended by the politi-
clans and press Of the ruling party.
One of the most prominent Republican
Senators in the United States Senate said,
oslya few days ago, that the people of
the Southern States were compelled to
vote for negroes or carpet. baegeTs, Or not
at all, because they were denied the privi.
lege of voting for the only men qualified
TO conduct public business.
Such is the Congress, and party, and
press which now moralize on purity oil
elections, and affect to lament oyer vices
and oorruptions growing out of such
wicked legislation and abuses of power as
are here set for.h.-Chicdgo Times, June l.