Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-13
HOW TILDEN is TO SECURE a
.SOLID SOUTHw
IxDEsCRIBABLE HORRORS
Men Shot Doun Like Dogs, and TIL
Law Poueriess
Evidence a Mississippi Grand Jur,
Ignores for Fear.
II FAD AND SEE!


LIS Democratic votes and only 9Sl
Republican votes. The testimony given
before the Mississippi Committee will
prove how this revolution was accom-
plished.
+. W. Hall was one of the Registers
of Chickasaw county, and in the per-
formance of his duty had to travel in
every "beat" or township. He swore
that be heard members OF the Demo
cratic party say before the elections on
various occasions that they intended to
carry the election at all hazards, /" if
they had to wade in blood up.t to their
necks, kill hundred men, aud numer-
Gus such expressions as these"
Pinckoey Miller swore that sc on the
Saturday night previous to the election
Felix Arnold and three other men came
to my house and made me get Oh a
horse with them, and carried me out
about half mile from my house, and
and made me take an oath that would
not go TO the polls on election day.
Felix Arnold administered the oath to
me while another one of them held a
pistol on me. Felix Arnold said they
intended to carry the election next
Tuesday or spill blood. They then
turned me loose and told me if went
to the election they would hear of it
and voulG come and see me again.
Then they told me that l could 60
home that | was all right; that they
had nothing against me, only L voted
the radical ticket. did not go to the
polls to vote ON the day of election, on
account of this oath they made me
take"
Humphrey Miller swore that on the
Saturday night before the election
Felix Arnold and three other men rode
up to his fathers house, three and q
half miles north of OkoIona. His broth
er, his mother, his brother Eli, his
brother Thomas, a sister, aud another
girl were in the house at the time
"When they first rode up they called
for Thomas-said they wanted him to
snow them the Okolona road. l told
them | would show them the road. They
said no, they wanted Thomas. | told
them my father would come. They
said no, they wanted Thomas. | told
! them my other brother would come.
They said they intended 10 have
Thomas, and if he did not come
they would fire in On us. We told
them he was not coming. They then
commenced firing IN on US. They shot
/ six times and rather STOPPED. My
mother stepped to the door to see ii
they had gone. just as she went to
the door they fired two more shots
through the door and shot my mother.
My sister hollerei and told them they
had shot my mother. They replied
they did not care if they killed the
whole - thing. Tom was in there,
and they said that if he voted on next
Tuesday they would hang him that night
| They then rode off.
IL was at Okolona on the day of cleo
tion saw great many men there arm
ed about 2:30 O'Clock in the after
noon EG. Ezell went to the cOlored
Baptist Church 1.-THE headquarters of
the negroes from the country and
came back down town aud asked a
crowd how it was going?
They replied to him that the Demo
Gratis we're nearly done voting, and
that the Republicans were go ahead.
Ezell said 'if that is the case we are
beat now,' and said something about
the negroes who had not ye; voted who
were at the Baptist Church.
Pollard said, No, we are not beat y
Then he told the men to get their guas
aud fall into line and they rode down
town yelling and shouting and firing off
their rifles. One ball went through a
negro's hat The alarmed blacks at the
church ran in all directions, aud sure
enough Pollard was mot beat For
these black men did not vote at all"
A large number Of witnesses testified
to these facts before the Grand Jury,
and especially as to the scene at the
Baptist church, giving the names of the
ringleaders. No true bill was found, for
the jurors are as much afraid of these
rufiians as the negroes are.
This man Pollard went to the co!ored
people a: the church ana told them that
he intended "to go down and bring up
force and scatter the negroes
away from there and out of town, or he
would drive them to h-ll."
Another Democratic leader named
M'IDtosh sent them an order to leave
| in five minutes or an armed force
would disperse them. Of course when
| the armed horsemen rode down on them
these unarmed and peaceful voters scat
tered in terror. l. was afterward pre-
tended that the colored people we're
armed, but it was well known and re-
peatedly attested under oath that there
were neither shot guns nor pistol In
the crowd
Amos Ward and John Reed swore
4 'Hat aS 'uOy "Oic SoinS homc ou tuc
Saturday night proceeding the election
six armed men surrounded them.
"Tbey made US hold up our hands
and swear that we would not vote at
all on the day of election"
One of these witnesses seems to have
understood that be was underO neither
legal nor moral obligation to keep his
forced promise, ard that it was not an
oath. He said that he went to the elec-
tion intending to vote, but saw SO many
armed men in the streets, and their ac-
tions were SO threatening that he did
not dare to do SO.
Henry Montgomery swore that j. n.
Carlisle said to him that ''We had
just as we'll come and vote with them,
they intended to carry the election if
they had to carry it with guns and
bayonets." Remember this mans name.