Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-10-10
MORE RECONCILIATION" "
HO,c Greeley's Heart-brOk-
en- Friends in Georgia
are RecOnciJed.
Ku-KIux Outrage and 0ficiaI Fraud and
Chicanery in Universal Use to Carry
the State-The CoIored Republicans
Actually Disfranchised.

| Actuaiiy UisIranchiseu.
| Especial Dispatch to the New York Times.l
Atlanta, Ga. Oct. 4-Yhe Sixty
three counties heard from give
Smith a majority of over 10000.
Less than half the negro vote was
cast. This is admitted even by the
Atlanta San, one of the principal
Democratic organs. In many places
the negroes were driven away from
the polls, although they had paid
their polltaxes, and held receipts
for the same. In Troup county,
the day before the election, the tax
collectors bondsmen surrendered
his bond, thus leaving no one in
The county authorized to receipt for
the payment of poll taxes. This de-
vice kept 700 or S00negroes from vo-
ting:
Authenticated reports of ballot
box stuffing by Democrats come in
from all parts of the State. In
some counties where the negro
vote was majority of from 800 to
1000, and where there are a respec
table number of white Republicans,
the Democrats countl 900 and 800
majority. iitf y
Taken all in all, there has, perhaps
never been, on this continent, an
election fraud comparable with the
one perpetrated in this state two
days ago. Considering q fair cleo
tion impossible under the existing
Democratic rule here, and unwill-
ing to subject the negroes to fur
ther outrage and personal danger,
the Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee will call
a meeting Of the Committee and pro-
pose the withdrawal of all candidates
and electors. .on the Republican tick
ct, thus declining any participation
whatever in the November election.
This course has been earnestly re-
commended by the leading Repub-
licansin the State, and will in all
probability be adopted by the Com
mittee.
Smith, the Democratic Governor
elect, made an inhammatory speech
last night in which he declared for
Greeley and Brown. In the course
of his remarks said: rff q
1 will use anything for the pur
pose of beating Grant. If the devil
himself, coming up from the infer
nal regions, smelling of birthstone,
was a candidate for president under
the present circumstances, l would
take him rather than take Giant.
This speech was vociferously
applauded by the Democratic, audi
ence, and it is published in. one of
the Democratic papers this morning.
Several warrants have been issued
in this city for parties charged with
violating the election laws, but as
this was State election, and the
State Courts will exercise jurisdic-
ton, no one expects the conviction
of the guilty parties.
kilograms, letters and special
messengers from all portions of the
State shows universal and outrage
ous interferences with the freedmans
suffrage. |
Savannah, Ca, Oct. 4-Reliab!e
news ofthe election comes in slowly,
but enough is known to show that
the Democrats everywhere resorted
to fraud and violence to accomplish
their purposes. ~ = i-e "
The Clerk of the Superior Court
of Thomas County, now in this city,
reports that on the night of the
election his brother, Repu blican,
and one of the managers OF election
for that county, was dragged from
his bed by band oftwelve or more
disguised men, and brutally beaten
until supposed to be dead. His
body was than laid across the track
in the hope of concealing the crime.
He recovered sufficiently to crawl off
a few moments before a train pass
ed, and was found in the morning
nearly dead. There is a great ex:
.citement in the county, and the col
ored men are watching every train
that passes to prevent the escape
of the Ku-Klu who are known.
Warrants where issued to-day by
Commissioner Stone, of this city for
their arrest.
In Dougherty county more than
a thousand Republican votes were
polled, and but three hundred re-
turned by the Democratic managers.