Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-05
WoRoEsrER
SATURDAY. OCTOBER ., 1879
voting in Gseorgin.

In 1868, Georgia gave a democratic majority
of 45,6sS for Seymour and Blair. The whole
number of votes cast was 1856, and they
were politically divided as follows: for Grant
and Colfax, 81 ,184; Seymour and Blair 1O2, 1922.
A vigorous system of kuklux terrorism was
used by the democrats, which made the republic
can vote considerably smaller than it otherwise
would have been. At the state election in 1870,
the whole vote was 166, 507, divided between the
parties as follows: republican, 69S22; demo-
cratic, 96,6S5; democratic majority, 26, 1858. In
this election terrorism was not so generally ac-
tive, although still used with no little brutality,
in some sections of the state. The republican
party has steadily gained strength, since 1865,
but many OF its voters have been Systematically
scared or driven from the polls.
In the state election which has just taken
place, the obstructive and terrifying policy
seems to have been used against the republican
voters, more vigorously and successfully than
ever before. In the first place, the democrats,
having control of the legislature, enacted a law
which excludes from voting every voter who
does not previously pay tax of six dollars.
This, it was believed, would practically disfran-
chise large number of colored voters. This
law would make voting quite as difficult to
much of the "poor white trash" unless some
maneuver should be devised to nulliGy its opera
ton, in their favor. We hear already, on the
other hand, that many colored men who had
paid the tax have been deprived of their votes,
because they failed to produce the official re-
ceipts. What the brutalites of terrorism have
done against republican voters begins 10 appear
A. l.
chairman of the republican state committee,
sends dispatch to Judge Edmunds, at Wash
ington, from which we take the following
SAVANNAH, Ca, Oct. 2, 1S72-At the cleo
ton held in this city to-day the Greeley party
had full control of all the polls The managers
were all democrats, and disregarded the provs-
ions of law, and would not allow the republi-
cans, entitled by law, to cast their votes. After
attempting TO vote for several hours they aban-
doned the polls and went home. Over 1000 re-
publican voters were deprived of their right to
vote The good behavior of the coiored men
only prevented serious trouble
"Plug Uglies" were employed as special dep
uty sheriffs; and while these Officials" of the
"reform" sort, surrounded the polls, the demo-
cratic "Sabre Club" paraded on the streets and
pickeed all the ways to the polls, it being their
business to harass, scare, and turn back re-
dispatch says cat Macon, mob of Greeley
democrats fred into the colored voters, drove
them from the polls, aud killed several" A
dispatch from Atlanta, dated Oct. 8, says: "At
the election here, yesterday, every mode of
hindrance, obstruction, and intimidation was
resorted to; and this was done with unparall-
eled system, throughout the state" This is
the Greeley democratic method of winning
victory over "the hosts of cOrruptionists and
carpet baggers," about which the New York
Tribune is so extraYagantly eXtatic. How large
the Georgia democrats have made their major
ity, by using it so vigorously, it will be impossi-
bic to say, until the returns are completed. The
state has 1876 countless instead of 6S, as our types
said yesterday, or 16S, as they might have said.
They will all be heard from, after a time; and,
when all the returns shall be published, we may
compare the voting in this election with that of
the elections of 1868 and 1870. The Tribune
may now claim 60 900 or 10000, without obiec-
ton from us. Next time, the kuklux ''Sabre
Clubs" may seek 10 exterminate the republicans
and make the vote for their candidates unani-
mons