Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-10
NEARLY PLAYED OUT.

publican speakers and journals were
about to lose even the POOR little gain
Of consolation which has heretofore
been afforded them in the campaign,
in the waving of the bloody shirt.
The humbug is becoming too trans
parent and is nearly played out. The
people are beginning to realize that
the garment is not half as CORY as has
been represented, and that the crimson
stains upon its folds, instead Of genuine
life fluid, are nothing more or less
than the cheapest kind of coarse red
paint, applied by the most miserable
botches to be found in the association
Of Republican artists. A few days
days ago the State election came off in
Georgia, and was the quietest and
most peaceful that has eve transpired
turbance occurred at any precinct in
the State; whites and blacks walked
up to the polls and voted according to
their political and personal preferences,
and the result was an overwhelming
majority in favor of the Democratic
ticket. There was no intimidation of
the colored voters, nor is there the
faintest trace of a rumor of any at
tempt to infimidate them. This shows
that a large portion of the negroes
themselves have lost confidence in the
white ~scaiawags and carpet baggers
with whom they were formerly allied,
who used them only to subserye their
own selfish purposes, and have con-
cluded to shake them off and in the
future to obliterate the color line and
act in political concert with those with
whom their best interests are identi-
fed, and who have proven themselves
to be their best and most lasting
friends. The result in Georgia was a
severe blow to the sensation manufac.
turers of the bread-and- butter brigade,
and they we're at their wits ends for a
new supply of raw material with
which 20 construct another garment to
be used as a political standard, the old
one having become tattered and thread
bare from continued use. Governor
Chamberlain, of South Carolina, was
equal to the emergency. He imnedi-
ately issued a proclamation declaring
the State to be an armed camp and or
dering all organized bodies of whites
to surrender their arms and di sband at
once. This was followed by al address
issued by the Executive Committee Of
the carpet bagsers, which contained a
chapter of horrors calculated to arouse
public sentiment abroad to the highest
point of intensity, and calling upon
the General Government for troops to
protect the colored voters from a sys-
tenn of outrages which the local au-
thorities were powerless to suppress.
The ruse was working finely, and
would doubtless have had the desired
effect if the thing had been permitted
TO pass along without interruption,
which the ~origlnators evidently
thought would be the case, until at
least it had served its purpose in the
elections which come off to day in H.
diana and Ohio. But they reckoned
without their host. By reference TO
our te~legraphic columns it will be
seen that the whole business is explod-
ed and the falsIty of the statements of
Governor Chamberlain and his unprin-
cipled coherts proven beyond the pos
sibility OF a doubt. Chief Justice Mo-
Sos declares that he knows nothing
which leads him to conclude that the
State Is In the condition represented
In the Governors proclamation or
that there Is any occasion whatever
for the interference OF the General
Government. Justice Willard and
Judges Mackey and Cook, all Repub-
licans, have written a joint letter de-
nying any knowledge of the statements
In the proclamation or the address.
Mackey, moreover. charges Chamber
lain with conspiring against free ball
lot by seeking to intimidate the whites
and that portion of the colored voters
who i1send to support the Conserva-
tive ticket. The entire business from
beginning to end was a tissue of shame
less falsehoods, concocted for the
double purpose Of political capital
abroad and the suppression of free
ballot at home. 1t is evident that the
sanguinary banner of the plunderers
Of the nation is fast losing its potency
as q rallier of the Republican hosts,
and ere the ides Of November 1t will
have been trsnpled in derision under
the iron heel of an intelligent people
who will evince their disdain at so
paltry a device to draw their attention
from the real issue Of the campaign,
which is embraced in the single word
/" Reform"