The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-13
LIoH5n Day 81 Jae1s0H.

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The PabIicgn ticket ah'
Cant per-u1jo sou 70 vote The
Democratic urkctT
No. s0h.'
You are afraid To vote q. are your
No. sab not o bit
'I1 bet two dollars you are afraid
10 step up there and vote the Demo
cratic ticket
Me lraii! No, Yah +; dis Niger
amt 'fraid ;
We'll, III bet yon two dollars
you are afraid 10 DO it,
Put up your money. Ill take
dat bet, sab I'm no skeary uigter.'
The money is handed 10 q third
party. The negro il given a Dem,
ocratic tick +, and accompanied to
the poll. By a white man, who sees
that it is voted. Then the negro
returns, and is paid the wager be
has won!
An old negro man, apparently too
old to work, and looking to be real
ly needy. stood near the polls with
o Republican ticket. A white COY,
not over thirteen, said to him {:
Uncle, why don't you vote the Dem
ocratic ticket? these carpet>baggers
don't care anything for you. They'd
let you starye to death
4 dunno but they would replied
the old man, for I'm hungry right
now. If you'll get me a little
money to get some bread to take
home, I'll vote the Democratic
The boys face frightened up.
went to the bottom Of his pock-
cts. turned them inside out, but be
could find nothing but a fye~cent
Giving him that and a
Democratic ticket to the old man,
be went after more, and | have no
doubt gained a vote for the Demoe-
racy.
There were some trickery, and a
few votes were gained in ways that
are dark
To protect negroes who could
not read, the Republicans printed
their tickets on yellow paper. The
straightway printed some
on the same sort of paper, hoping to
gain something by the mistakes
men who do not know q letter
the book would naturally make.
After all argument had been ex
lausted upon a certain negro, and
by no possibility could he be got 10
agree to vote the Democratic ticket,
he was, in a few instances, brought
INTO it 10 this wise:
AS they approached the polls, IT.
line, a white man would saw Well,
uncle, yon r going to vote the
straight Republican ticket, are your
YES, sah.'
That's right. Let every man
sote with his color. I'm a white
nan, and vote the Dmocratic ticket
unfolding it. why goodness
alive! I've made a mistake. and got
Republican ticket. Now | don't
want to lose place on the lines to
yet another. Let me see yours,
The darkey unconscionsly hands
,ver bis ticket.
why, old man, you've make a
mistake, too! Yours is a Democratic
Somebody has played off on
'ou; it's id mean to take that adj
-antage of a man who can't read.
But we can just swap can't we?
hat makes it all right. Now we
re both fixed
He adroitly gives the darkey a
Democratic ticket Of the same color,
which he, not being able to read,
'uts Into the box, thinking that he
discharged biz duty to the Republi.
an partyl
These we're a few instances of
npOsitions of the sort-not many.
Towards IL o'clock it became
.nown that the Democrats were
largely at each box, aud
hat it was owing to the colored
voting with them.
What is the result? Tonight, in
Jackson, the feeling between the
aces is better than it has been in
even years. The Democrats have
the county and the State,
nd r overlooking with praises
or their 'colored friends who voted