The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-12-20
Morton ON lli.sis.inni.

Morton on mississippi.
The certainty OF Democratic senator
coming from Mississippi in place of the
present Republican, Mir. AL,pRN. seems To-
have seriously disturbed MIR Mogro>
peace ot mind. Ia fact, he has regarded
with sadness and recruitment all the recent
change, IN the south as Que 10y one the
cltpct-lag governments have dropped
out OF power under the stern demands of
sound public opinion, which would no
longer submit TO those atrocious ni-
qutios.
OF course the loss of these states, which
for years have been the main reliance Of
the Republicans, must seriously affect the
hopes Of leaders who are n-pirants for the
Presidency. They look IN vain elsewhere
to make good that deficiency. And what
makes the situation more vcxatious still is
the rapid melting away II the majority i'm
the senate. which would disappear alto
gcihcr with change of Administration;
for there are nj least four or iivcvotcs that
could not bc held hy amy party discipline
If the Democrats should come INTO power
next year
With an adverse House OF Representa-
tiVcs. Il changing senate, aud "A third-torm
candidate in the White House, II must he
said tho Republican outlook i not very
cheerful nj this time Mr.. MoRroN pro-
poses to reopen the old Paudoras box of
southern outragcs, and he has begun with
an attack on the recent election in Mssis
sippi, which everybody knows TO have
been one of the fairest most quiet, and
q 60. H.,1I -, hnt
When ANEs applied for troops before the
election, without u reasonable prctcxt to
Justify sending them, and was refused. the
result at the balot box was no lot ger
doubtful. The two races had been kept
apart by.forcc OF arms, and the Republican
ascendancy maintained solely 10y intimida-
ton. The day that pernicious influence
disappeared, the whites and blacks came
together 10y natural law. just rs was wit
messed i'm Arkansas. Alabama. and other
states where Federal bay onct- had driven
th'm n-uudor.
SIR MoEroN'- r,>olatiou Of inquiry not
only without The color of prrcodout hut %
is "a gross Interference with the rights of
the llou.o Of Representatives., for. - AS
,nuos 60 look into ihe election oftnem-
| n,r- II that body through "a rowing COM
miss. % OF partisan senators. The iwum-
! something extraordinary in it, way.
licre i-u specimen of it:
..,i t'r, ny p.r b, ,,,,r 1c r- ,'.,'.
.r- os l'e les'l,'r.. Ne cha a. r..ei ly .rr'.
! p..O.ar i.J.riu 20 p.r tnu 80 100 VS. D',..' r,
A.l IT. gilmore tA44 -, b, az.
He doe. not say by whom lit is nlloool.'
The President has made no such all,ea-
tiuu. Tho Governor ~ the state has made
none. There Is no memorial, petition. or
paper before the Senate containing this
charge. 1t Is therefore the invention Of
some cnrpct-baeger or scalawag who has
fabricated case TO fit Mr.. MoRroN'succos-
lily for prctoXt to oppose the admission
of new Democratic senator when he
shall be elected. That Is the whole story,
and no DISCUSSES can conceal it.
II the laws had been broken or frauds
committed nj TINS election, why did not the
wrougcd parties 90 before the courts or
come responsibility before Congress, 20 rs TO
bc seen and held 10 account for their
charges? A Republican Of the most radi-
cal stamp is Governor of the State. All
the Federal and State Judges were ap-
vQintcd rs pronounced Republicans. All
the Federal and state oiIicchoders are
Republicans. The jurcs are drawn 10y Re
publican marshals and shcrfs. Every ele-
ment Of political power is in the hands OF
this party, ana yet not step of any kind
has been taken TO warrant the statements
put forth by Mr.. MORTON. No better
proof OF their worthless character could
be furnished, than the failure Of AMEs and
his partsans 10 present case TO Congress
or 10 the courts.
Mr.. MORTON himself has exposed tn,
utter weakness of his position hy the mis-
cradle shifts with which he has attempted
to prop it up. He assumes that because
Mississippi under carpet bag rule and ter
rorism was counted Republican for scvora
years therefore Il change Of front, after he
ing released from that bondage is evidence
OF fraud. He says the Republican ma
jorlty in the state in 1869, on the adoption
Of the Constitution, was 3s,0S0 votes. II
ls12, at the Presidential election, it wa
3iss7 In 1873, it was 2!,016 votes. At tn
recent election, the Democratic majoIt,
was 80, AZ votes
These figures prove only that when th
military pressure WAS Withdrawn, the PEG
Pile voted according to their SENSE of Iight
II that sort of partisan logic prevailed
number of States would have to he in
yc.ugatcd, for the revolution in many q
j them was more remarkable than in Mis-
si,spli New York, in ISL, gave III
% 53Ajl majority, aud in ls,i gave IILnr
50,3l1 majority. Eighty thousand voter
I stayed away from the poll5,as shown by IN
I comparison Of aggregates at these two cleo
% tons, Massachusetts, in 1872, gave WAsl
q BURN 1,2il majority for Governor, aud i
y 1874 gave GAsToN :, 032 majorlty-an uupr'
r ccdcutcd reaction In that stronghold
u | az tho party. OHIO gave GRANT g, ISL III,