Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-12-21
Democratic Investigations Sou, Ii.

ne committee sent down TO Lou
isiana by the Confederate House ire
investigating at lively rate. Trey
are not trying to disprove the charges
made and proved to the satisfaction
of the Returning Board of that Site
Their policy seems to be an acknowl-
edgement that the Pinkston and other
Democratic outrages are true, but to
prove that Republicans also promot-
ed their success by intimidation. If
dispatches received are true they have
found man who testified that Re-
publican commissioner attempted to
prevent Democrats from voting that
this commissioner had said to him the
day after election that the Democrat
ic commissioner would be arrested
and then they would take the box and
fix it up to suit themselves that the
box was in his possession and that
they undertook to take it away from
him-he being Republican Supervis-
or; that Casey knocked him do wn and
swore at him for going back on his
party, etc. The careful reader will
note that Notwithstanding all this
that box was taken care of in the way
that the Democrats wanted it done,
and that the votes it contained were
counted as they wanted them and not
as they represent the Republicans
wanted them. Another colored Dem
ocrat has had an arm broken and an
eye put out son account of politics.
Another had fight with negro
just before election but with the help
of razor came off first best. Anoth-
coored Democrat had "canvassed tn
State at the expense of the Democ at
ic State Central committee" etc Any
one acquainted with facts as thov are
down there will readily understand all
this. This last fellow, observe. was
paid by the Democrats for canvassing
the State. In doing that the other
negroes would naturally regard him
as a traitor to his race, which he W as,
and they would say hard things of
him. He had probably obtained all
he could from Republicans and
squandered it, and then rather than
honestly go to work, went to living
upon Judas money. We have before
us a Huntsville, Ala, paper W.. b
Internationally cites just such cr1e.
Fonr years ago yellow negro mar d
Council, to the writer hereof v ell
known, was employed to canvass d
work for the Republican party. Ie
was smart, was quite speaker, nd
could make himself useful. At The
organization of the Legislature he
was appointed to place on eight
dollars a day pay. To go there he
borrowed money from white Repub-
licans who lived on less pay, pledging
his honor to pay with his first money.
He did not pay with his first, second
or third money. He was there on
that pay for six months, went back to
Huntsville and said he had no money
and could not pay off his friends.
Then he ran away and left his family
without support, after borrowing all
he could from others. In the cam
paign this fellow turned up as col
ored Democrat and canvassed the
State under Democratic pay. lie had
heeced his Republican friends out OF
every cent he could and now, as a
bombastic .'Reformer" he undertakes
under pay of the Democrats to destoy
his old friends and give over his race
to the mercy Of their enslavers. Nc
wonder such would meet with the
taunts and jeers of the honest negroes
But we have no accounts of any Of
them being killed. That is bust
ness that belongs to the other party.
Tho investigators in South Caro-
lima and Florida do not find even this
much success. On the contrary they
are becoming Disguised by the dc
ceptions practiced upon them. They
are sent into Republican countie.
where they are told of immense Re
publican frauds, and when they get
there and begin examinations tn>y
End the frauds were all the other " Ay
We hope they will sift the whole mat
ter to the dregs.