New-York tribune., 1874-10-12
RAW HEAD AND BLOODY BONES POLIIICS.

R1W HEAD and BLOODY BONES POLITICS.
Tomorrow the Southern Republican Con-
yention will assemble in Chattanooga. to wave
the bloody rag of "Ku-Klux outrage" and
persuade the country, if it can, that nothing
but the continuance of Republican rule in the
South, with tho prospect of a third term for
President Grant in the near future, can save
the negroes from a general massacre. Some
of the choicest representatives OF reconstructed
Republicanism are among the delegates. Mr.
Pinchback is going to speak for Louisiana,
and Mr.. Darrall of the same State
will be there to enlarge upon the
letter he wrote to Kellogg last Janu-
ary. about the Presidents scheme to
upset the Kellogg Government so that
Casey might come to the Senate and promote
the project of third term. Mr.. Packard, as
one of the signers of the call, will probably
occupy a prominent position in the assem-
blage, and Senator West, who is also signer,
will have good opportunity to explain what
he did with KellOggs check for $1,000 Arkan-
sas contributes an astonishing amount OF hon.
esty and craftsmanship. Mr.. Powell Clayton's
name speaks for itself, and whatever he says
will doubtless be substantiated by Chef-Jus-
tice Mcclure, commonly known as Poker Jack.
From Alabama will come Senator Spencer,
who once made bargain to give Gen. Grant
the control" of the State, and several other
eminent persons, the most important of whom
by all odds seems to be the Hon. Charles
Hays.
For Mr.. Hays is the living embodiment of
the present campaign. His letter to Gen.
Hawley condensed into two columns of type
every variety of falsehOOd. misrepresentation,
and cruel suggestion of slander with which
the managers of the Administration party
have been flooding the Northern press. He
told tale of murders and brutalites so hor-
rible that the whole country stood aghast.
If these deeds were done under Republican
State Administration Gas that of Alabama is),
what might we not expect in those unhappy
regions of the South where the White League
holds the reins of power and tramples
upon the lowly without let or him
derancei Last week we published reply
from the prosecuting officer of one
of the counties included IN Mr.. Hays's
black list, and it certainly seemed to convict
the Congressman of gross and inexcusabe
laundering in that part of the State for which
the writer claimed the right to speak. Our
special correspondent in Alabama afterwards
exposed the falsity of what Mr.. Hays said
about the condition of things in Montgomery.
To-day we have from the same trusfy, clear
headed and unprejudiced Investigator a gem
eral review of all the stories in the Hawley
letter which it had been possible to test
at the time he wrote, and we have also had
brief notice by telegraph OF his subsequent
inquiries. The result is soon stated. Except
in Sumter County, where the murders of Joy
and Billings are universally execrated by all
parties, the Outrages reported by Mr.. Hays are
purely fictitious. In not one single instance
so far has the honorable gentleman told the
truth! Most of the alleged Outrages were
never committed at all, and the others seem
TO have had no sort of connection either with
antipathies of race or animOsities of politics.
AS in Alabama, so in other parts of the
Soutb. The War of Races in South Carolina
turns out to be a negro scrimmage. In Ken
tucky it is q ruffanly feud between white out
laws. In Tennessee it is case OF lynching,
OF the familiar pattern which has always been
SO lamentably common in certain parts of the
limited States. In New-Orleans the White
League takes possession of the government
and Immediately orders that One-third of the
appointments on the police force shall be given
to the negroes. If we can believe the bull
letins issued from the office OF the
Attorney General who seems to have
added the duties of court-newsman to
his other functions as general superintendent
of elections and commander of the troops,
rampant rebels are harrying the whole South
with sword, pistol, rifle, and raw-hide, shoot
ing and scourging Republicans. and making