Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-07
SOME SPECIMENS OF RADICAL
ENFAMK.

INFAMY.
An Arkansas correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, who claims to be Re-
publican, has given history of the
manneri in which sffairs in that State have
been manipulated for the benefit of the
carpet-baggers who had control of the
government there. For instance, he
states that when our civil war closed,
there were class of men In command
ihere-most Of them from Kansas-who
were determined to control the State at
all hazards, and conscience stood not in
their pathway as a barrier. Reconstruc-
lion required majority of registered
votes to adopt constitution. Gen.
Smith was then the Military Governor
and to get the majority of the registered
votes cast, he kept the polls open for
thirty days, and Notwithstanding the CON
stitution was defeated by over ten thou
sand majority, il was proclaimed ADOPT
ed, and Powell Clayton elected Governor
Roots and Boles, from the first
and third congressional districts.
We're given certificates of election,
although they had each been beaten by
from five 10 ten thousand majority. In
the second district they struck out five
counties, thinking that would be enough
10 secure the "electiOn" of Elliott, who
ran against Col. Rogers. But Rogers was
elected by LOO majority. There was no
excuse for militia, nor for disfranchsing
whole counties, so the men in power Lad
TO resort TO another expedient. There
were NO ku-Klux, no outrages; so the
Governor determined 10 win by manipu.
lating registration. Gov. Clayton APP
pointed Registrars, " and seut them into
various parts of the State with secret in,
sirucions. They began by refusing TO
register every man of ability or promin-
ence nearly all over the State-and this,
right in the face of the constitution, that
declares the only classes DISTINGUISHED.
This correspondent states that the cleo
ton in the second Congressional district
was a mockeIy aud sham, and that not
lees than five thousand legal voters were
refused the right TO vote in the election
for members of Congress and members
of the Legislature In Columbia and
Union counties, with not less than 2, 800
white voters, only 900 We're permitted to
vote In places where 100 votes were
east for Rodgers and only one for his
Radical opponent (Snyder) the whole of
the Rodgers precincts were thrown out.
In Ouachita county, the first register sp-
pointed by the Governor made reglstra-
ton; but whep Clayton found that BIS
man would not perjure himself, he.re-
moved him and sent a stranger in his
place, who Immediately struck off 700
names from the books, and by this means
they carried the county by geo majority.
The law requires the registrars TO be Cit
zens and residents of the county, but in
many instances men were appointed who
were strangers. By these frauds and out
RACES, rhey have defeated Rodgers by
500 majority; but the seat viii be con
tested, and unless the Republican party
wish to losd themselves with weight of
crushing Rinfamy, they will not counter
ance thdse base frauds. The Tribune
correspondent also says:
'There are many of us, Republicans,
long residents of the State, that desire
the success of the Republican party, as
il is advocated by such journals as the
Chicago Tribune and the New York
Tribune. But, if this is Republicanism,
the sooner it is defeated and overthrOwn
the better it will be Tor the country. Had
the administration possessed ability and
honesty, it might have won 10 IFS sup
port the intelligence and wisdom of the
Sla.c. But it has chosen TO pander 20 the
low and vile, and hopes TO accomplish,
through fraud, what Il might have won
by liberality. II hes been defeated in
the First and Third Districts by respect
able majorities, notwithstanding their viii
lainy, and, Il fair vote could be had
tomorrow, Il would he defeated by TWEEN.
tY thousand in the Slate. "
II it was nos known that this CORES
pondent was Writing about affairs in Ar
kansas, the Tennessee reader would be
tempted TO believe that he was laying
bare the frauds and usurpations Of the
! RrnwnlnM desnoiism in this State.