Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-29
oUTRAcES IN the MISSISSIPPI
ELECTION.

We quote some comments of James
Redpath on the Mississippi election,
showing that it was medley of trag-
cdy, comedy, and villainy. He says:
Yazoo county contains a white pop
ulation of 1854, and a black popula-
ton of 1886. This gives black
majority Of 1911: It gave Grant, in
1872, vote Of ,433, and Greeley 922.
Last year the shotgun policy was
inaugurated, and Yazoo county gave
a democratic vote of 4,0A, and a re-
publican vote of z! And of these Z
votes, it is reported 3 or 4 were
thrown in, as q joke, by the democrat
ic banditti, "to give the - Radicals
some show" This far Yazoo county
gives only republican votes.
Madison county, from which the
Mississippi correspondent reports II
republican votes, has white popula-
ton of $500, and a black population
of IL, 139, IA black majority of $3.50.
In 1872, it gave Grant 2,5l2 votes,
and Greeley 765.
In 1859, it gave Alcorn, republican,
800, and Dent, democrat, 629.
In 1873, it gave Amcs, republican,
1928 votes, and Alcorn, opposition,
4Ol votes.
In 1S75-shot-gun ycar-it gave the
Democratic candidate for State Treas
urer LASS votes, and the Republican
candidate 1857 votes. When the De-
mOcracy denouncc the carpet. baggcrs
Of Mississippi in the North, they al
ways remember to forget the name of
Dent. Dent, the Democratic candi-
date, was a brother-in. law of Pr.si-
dent Grant, and he was expressly i'm
ported into the State by the Dcmoc-
racy-although he had never lived
there, and did not mean to live there,
and did not own foot of soil there
in order to defeat Alcorn, the Re
publican candidate, who had lived in
the State from his boyhood, had al
ways been conscientious politician,
and was enc of the largest slave :md
land owners in Mississippi.
So much for the Democratic carpet
Dagger Dent.
Lowndes County has a black popu-
lation of 23,022 and white popula-
ton of 1880.
1t gave Greeley 765 votes, and
Grant 2,5l2 votes.
Lowndes now polls 4 votes for
Hayes. The Democracy of that coun-
ty produced an impression on the
minds of colored Republicans by this
method:
The colored Republicans desired to
hold political meeting in Oktibbe-
ha. The leaders Of the White Line
clubs forbade it, saying that they
would not allow another Radical
meeting to be held in the county
The younger Republicans, in the eve
ming, met at q cOlOred church in the
country, away from the dwellings of
the whites, so that no one could pre-
tand to be disturbed by them. They
made bonfire, and had clustered
around il, when the White Line Club
stole up in the darkness, and, with
out word of warning, opened fire
on them. Four men were killed and
twcnty-sevcn men were wounded
'"The road next day was still red
with human blood, and looked" said
a Democrat, s'as some one had been
Strengthening hogs there"
So Lowndes is now secure to de-
mocracy.
Amite county, as stated in recent
letter, like Wilkinson County, and the
adjoining parishes of Feliciana in Lou
isiania, is dominated by outlaws, who
have utterly subjugated the Republic
cans. 1t has o white population of
4, l96, and black population of GIFT.
In 1872 it gave Greedy SIS votes
and Grant 995. Now Hayes gets
Not one!
Like East and West Feliciana, its
Republican vote has been bulldozed
that is to say, in the English tongue
whipped and exiled, and assassinatcd
out of existence.
And this is the way Mississippi was
carried for Tilden and reform! And
yet these Reformers have the impu-
dence to pirate about the Returning
Board counting out the bulldo !ers in
Louisiana, They rejoice, however,
at counting in the bulldozers of Miss
issinni.