New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-14
ALABAMA HOPEFUL.
A CONSERVATIVE VICTORY FOLLOWED BY
INCREASED CONFIDENCE.

TIE CAMPAIGN CARRIED ON AGAINST fEAhr ohoA'A'
BACON AS BRIBE-THE NEGROES FRIGHTENED
INTO VOTING THE GRANT TICKET-THE ELECTION
QUIET AND oRDERLY-TuE RIOT AT EUFAULA.
IFRoM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRlBuSEI
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov 6.-The returns received
from distant counties of this State settle Deyohu
question the triumph Of the Conservative party Oh
Alabama in the election of last Tuesday, and as the
people begin to realize this welcome fact. they Turn
again to their accustomed business with hRh'er
hearts and brighter hopes than they have dared 10
entertain before for six long years. Ii good ihteh
tons and hard work ever entitled ponticai parry
to success the Democrats Of this State nave
fairly earned their victory They went into tne 'a'e
canvass against fearful odds. Opposed to them was
party led by as INSCRIPTIONS men as ever packed
caucus. coined an ablebodied lie or bonght votes
with Government bacOn-men who. at the close OF
the war, did more than any others to shape the
policy which caused the unfortunate misunder
standing between the North and the South, ana
which brought down upon this State the vengeance
Of Congress in reconstruction times. 1t was party
led by men who when their ill-adyised plans Iaiieu
deserted the Republicans in time to be present ac
and share in the division of plumber wnch tooh
place in all of the Southern States soon after Con-
ress turned them over to the tender mercies Oh the
most desperate set of political adventures anu
thieves that has misruled people since the iuBi-
tves from ancient Troy welcomed to their Nc"
home in Italy the carpet baggers from the surround
ing States who left their country for their country
good and to save themselves from the penalties Oh
broken laws.
Tie rank and file OF the party led by these men
was composed almost entirely of one solid mass OF
ignorant blacks whom it impossible to reach oy
argument and who were kept in line not only by
oaths and semi-mitary organizations, but by the
excitement of their fears and the circulation OF lies
about the punishment which the United States Gov
eminent would visit upon them if they failed to go
to The polls or to vote the Radical ticket. have
heard during the last three days, of hundred
tricks by which it was attempted to prevent the
negroes from deserving the Carpet BaggerS' ana 10
get them all TO their cOuntryseat'. where the man
ayers could not only make sure that they voted but
that they all voted the Radical ticket.
GOVERNMENT BACON AS FACTOR N POLITICS.
One of the devices was the distribution OF Govern
ment bacon on the day before election. 1t may be
remembered that, during the frcshet in the MiS5is
sppi River iu MAY and June last Congress made an
appropriation for the relief of the sufferers from the
overflow, not OILY in Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Arkansas, but along the Alabama and Tomb gbce
Rivers III this State. The demaud at that time was
II
ern States are dependent upon the planters whose
land they work for all of their provisions while the
crop is growing, and the planters, in turn are en-
abIed 10 feed their hands only by getting advances
from the cotton factors or bankers i'll the cities
where the crop is to be sold and 10y giving mort
gage upon the. crop as security. VI men the water
came up over the cotton and the and destroyed
it, the planters credit was gone and he was unable
longer TO supply his hands with food. There was
at that time, therefore, actual want But when the
water subsidized corn was repantcd and by Septcin-
Der was sufficiently developed to furnish roasting
ears Late in October or early in November il was
ripe enough to gather, aud although the people may
be without money they are not now without food.
The time Of their great need was during the SUM
mer months While the corn was GROWN Q, and then
the overlooked bacon" should have been given
ont Bat the distribution was intrustei 10 Spencer
and the Radical Rcpres ,utativcs from this State,
aud they appointed slb-dgents candidates on the
Radical ticket, who Kept the bacon until the time
Of need was passed and the campaign opened, and
them late in Septembar, began to give 1t ont in
small quantities where it would do the most
good"
For instance when the distribution took place in
Mont gomery, six OF eight weeks ago hund reds Of
negroes were here from Pike County, 10 part OF
which is within thirty miles of the Alabama River,
and which did not suffer from the overflow. In an
other county where some of the "oyertlowcd bacon"
had been stored, | told by respectable citizen
that on the Saturday before election two barrels Of
il was used for Republican barbecue. A distri bu
ton was made in Grcenayile, Batter County, the
day before election in order 20 attract all the ne
arocs to that place and to secure their votes the
next day. At Wetumpka $500 pounds of the Gov
ernment bacon was in;rustcd to s. p. Cain, who is
said TO have distributed < 81 worth of it. and now
finds the Government in ,bt to him for storage and
other charges, his bill amounting to more than tho
value of the meat The fact is that this overlooked
baconn has been used this State almost exclu-
sively for election purposes.
LYING STORIES TOLD TO BRIGHTEN THE NEGROES.
The negroes were frightened into voting the Radi-
cal ticket against their Judgment by lies told to
them by their leaders. A planter who lives i'll town
told me that he asked twenty negroes who worked
on his place TO vote with him. They replied that they
could not do that but that they did not care to vote
at all and should stay at home and gather com. On
the day before election OF them came into town
20 tell the gentleman that they would all have to
come in and vote the Pat. Robinson RADICAL ticket
"TTow is that 7" he asked.
yves got word we'll all be shot eff we don't" was
the reply.
&" Who said so F."
"Oh we heard it, and we seen the Yankees our
selves as we come to town over by the EuIauia
depot. Yves got to vote shore"
And they did all come in and vote. Some of the
candidates had actually sent them word. that all
negroes who did not come in and vote the Radical
ticket would DO shot, and that the yankees"
Federal soldiers had been sent here to DO it, Some
of the negroes who voted the Conservative ticket
here in town have since been very much alarmed
about the consequences of the Democratic triumph
i'll the State and have been coming in great trepda-
ton to the white people to ascertain If it is really
true that they are TO be put back into slavery or