The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-10-20
THE GEORGIA ELECTION.


THE GEORGIA ELECTION.
CLEAN swEEP-THE coLoRED VOTERS
UNANIMoUsLY DEMOCRATIC pFtFGATTON To
coNGREss-PEACE AND GOOD ORDER
letter to the Courier-Journal dated
Augusta, Oct. s, gives an account of the
Georgia election: As telegraphed You last
night. we had an election in Georgia yester-
day for members of the lower house of the
State legislature and half of the Senate.
1t resulted in the almost utter annihila-
ton OF the radical party. OF the 1877
counties in the State it is net probable that
they have carried over eight or ten. At the
hour OF making up this letter the only one
reported as gone for the republican ticket is
Dougherty-a county whose population is 20
per cent. negroes, and the home of Wniteley
the radical member of Congress from the
Albany district, who has worked hard to
keep 1.-THE poor remains of friends" together
In order to secure his reelection TO Congress,
Inc congressional election throughout the
State takes place in November There NAV
be few counties along the South Atlantic
coast which have voted the radical ticket.
The party had seventeen members of the last
legislature, and, as the matter now looks,
thai number has been redu ced instead of in
creased. The returns from many counties
Indicate a unanimous vote for the demo-
cratic nominees. There were a score of
independent candidates, many of them
being elected; but every one is
democrat, and will act with the partv upon
every PARTISAN test question. 1 must do the
more intelligent members of the radical
party in Georgia, white and black, the JUS
tlce to say that the course of their party in
Congress and the Southern States for the
last five or six years has excited their aver
sion. The white leaders are as bitterly op-
posed to the civil rights bill as the most pro-
nounced democrat in the State. They can
see nothing in the future of that measure
put the direst trouble to the colored race.
The great bodyof
| THE BLACK PEOPLE
do not want any such rights conferred upon
them. In every county where the party
could get any one to consent to run, candi-
dates were put forth. But never did party
enter upon campaign in such despair-never
were prospects less promising Among the
| heavy items ofthe load their speakers and
| candidates had to carry, was the great
Freedman's Bank swindle. That enormous
fraud upon the poor colortd people OF
| Georgia was the first direct and undoubted
theft perpetrated by the radical party upon
them. They fully understood it as such.
They look upon the repeated efforts Of the
officers of the bank to get their pass books
from them as but an effort to rob them of
the only evidence of indebtedness they have.
Having lost all confidence in the entire con-
Germ they are no longer willing to trust
them with even these books, documents
which all the world would, except
themselves, know TO be nearly worth
less, whether adjusted" in the hands
of depositors or in the exploded bank.
As body the colored people of Georgia are
done with the radical party forever. The
leaders OF that organization have cheated,
swindled. lied to and deceived them for the
last time. AT the election yesterday whole
battalions of them voted the democratic
ticket. In Bibb county, where the colored
vote is much stronger than the white, and
where regular candidates were in the field,
representing both parties, the democrats
In the city Of Augusta there
were almost as many colored
men who voted the democratic as the radi-
cal ticket. One or two of the counties re-
ported as having gone solidly for the demo-
Gratis have large black populations. 1t took
the negro long time to find out who was
his best friends-to learn that his old master
was aman who would do to trust thousand
times more than the carpet-bagger. Wilkes
county, the home of ToOmbs, did not cast a
single vote for the republican party The
negro who has heard
TooMBs AND STEPHENS
speak looks upon them as supernatural be-
ings. Many of them can not be made to
believe that such eloquence comes from or
QlndTy UnOTbdlS. In many respects the next
legislature, which meets in Atlanta, in jan
uary, will be important. The question of
calling State convention for the purpose of
| framing new constitution will be brought
directly before it, The indications all point
to the certain passage of such a measure.
| We elect members of Congress on the Sd day
of November. The radicals have no candi-
date either in the Augusta, the Rome or the
Columbus district. They will have none in
the two former and perhaps none in the last.
The only ghost of chance they have is in
the Savannah and the Albany districts. But
the election yesterday unerringly indicates
that the next Georgia delegation in Congress
will be unanimously democratic In the
doubtful districts the party is most thor
oughly aroused and united. "There is no
room in the Massachusetts, delegation in
Congress for a single representative of that
the democratic) party" says Mr.. Dawes.
/ We answer, there is no room in the Georgia
delegation for single representative who
habitually votes for Massachusetts and not
Georgia measures. 1t has now got to be even
nauseating to the negro. The election
disturbance of any kind which has
been reported. The most kindly feeling
now prevails among the races. The white
people bear no ill-will toward the colored.
They have always censured them for being
duped by carpet-baggers and voting for no.
torious malefactors, but forgaye them, for
they knew not what they were doing. But
now that they have repudiated both the
carpet-bagger and the scalawag, there is not
even this cause of quarrel between them. It
is to Congress we must now look for causes
of strife. There are none here.
| SHARPsHooTING.-St.L Louis has a'team."
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