The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-11-16
No Ku Kluxing the Elections.

One of the parties in Florida sends
report that the other party has wrecked
a train and Ku Kluxed the election re-
turns" The report is probably untrue,
but the phrase is we'll used. 1t reminds
us to tell the politicians of both parties
that the people will stand no Ku Klux-
ing of election returns this time. They
mean to have peace and fair play. If
the Democrats have carried Louisiana
the people will not allow Governor Kel-
logg and Mr.. Packard, with too conve-
nient Returning Board, to Ku Klux the
vote. They were allowed to do it in
1872, so far as the result had only local
Importance; but the Senate refused to
admit the Senator elect by their fraud
They did it again in 1875, but public
opinion forced Republican, Congress to
condemn the fraud in the most positive
and conspicuous manner by unseating
some of the members of the Legislature
who were Ku Kluxed in by the Return
ing Board. We beg the New Orleans
Republican managers to remember that
their previous frauds are we'll known
in the North, and that as men already
detected and exposed in Ku Kluxing
election returns they have need to be
conspicuously fair and upright this time.
All their acts aud proceedings will be
watched with the most jealous eyes by
honorable men of both parties in the
North, and they should remember that
the presumption lies fairly against them,
because they have already been detected
in the same trick of which they are now
suspected.
So, too, in South Carolina, we warn the
adherents of Governor Chamberlain
against attempting to Ku Klux the elec-
ton returns. They cannot hope to sue
ceed, for they will be exposed, and their
own party in the North will disown
them. 1t is very we'll understood here
that the South Carolina election ma
chinery has been constituted in susplcl-
ously unfair and partisan manner. Judge
Mackey, of the Supreme Court of the
State, himself Hayes Republican. but
opposed to corruption, has exposed the
manner in which Governor Chamberlain
arranged for count of the vote. There
is q Board of State Canvassers the ma
iority of whose members are candidates
for election on the same ticket with
Chamberlain, and are thus, by mons;
trous perversion of fair dealing, allowed
to canvass and decide upon the votes of
the State and declare whether they them
selves are elected; and not only this, but
of the ninety-six Commissioners OF Elec-
ton in the counties seventy are Cham
berlain's declared partisans, and forty
arc office-holders who hold their places
by his appointment;
Now, no one ought to be condemned
on mere suspicion but if we find man
going about on dark night with KIT
of burglars tools he cannot blame us if
we keep our eyes on him; it is ungener-
Gus or unjust to regard him with sus-
picion and to require him to give clear
account of himself. In Ku Klux times
in Arkansas a State law, still on the stat
ute book, authorized any citizen to shoot
down any one caught with the mask and
parpahernalia of Ku Klux. We do
not desire to bring odium upon Messrs.
Chamberlain, Packard and kellogg; but
we warn them that thoy are known here
in the North; the honest men OF both