Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-10-26

/ y 1OOOHiI '1ASAAOV GiOih OOJOSN II GU luCy
are elected on the It'll of next Novem-
Der. With their election will come
the elimination Of their Internal de-
signs.-the fruition of all their Ions
cherished hopes. The recent boast of
the democratic press that in four coun-
ties in Georgia ''pot one republican
cote aces poEled," does not mean that
there were no republican votes in
those counties, but that no republican
aoas permitted to approach the polls
To SO do, was certain death; Georgia
has republican majority to-day, but
she polls no republican votes. The
boast of the SOLID SOUTH is too true.
We ask our Democratic friends to
point to one act or utterance Of Samuel
| j Tilden condemnatory of these vile
wrongs. They can only remain silent,
as is their Standard bearer, as with him
as party they are IN sympathy.
We append ouIy one statement of
massacre, which has taken place in
South Corolina only recently. 1t is
an official report, and is vouched for
by most trustworthy witnesses. What
is occurring in South Carolina is oc-
curing throughout the SOLID SOUTH,
but the Democratic press maintain
rigid silence in relation thereto. If
the Republican press mention these
outrages, why, its "fauntlng the
bloody shirt
SOUTH CAROLINA.-THEB BLACK MAS
sACRE AT WHITE LINE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct 16 =
The following is contained substantial
ly in the official report of the South
Carolina White Line massacre, which
has been submitted to the President
in connection with Governor Chamber
lain's application for troops. The
Captain Butler mentioned, is known
as 'sone-armed Butler" and is broth
er of the General Butler of the Ham
burg massacre. Cocker was a colored
member Of the South Carolina Legisla-
| ture.
On September 10, Rife club, COM
manded by Capt. A. 2. Butler, went
to Ellenton and took a wood-train,
with which they proceeded to a station
called Robins. Here they found Co.
ker quietly sitting on his valise waiting
for train. Some Of them exclaimed,
''There's that radical niger Cocker" -
| Capt. Butler went up to him and said,
Cocker, I'm the nigger-ruler, and you
have got to go with me. Then the
unfortunate man was surrounded by
Buffers command, and dragged into
one of the cars on the wood train,
which then returned to Ellenton. Ar
irving there, Cocker was taken into a
field. and Butler said to him:
Cocker, what's your business?"
Il am representative from Barn
we'll county to the South Carolina
Legislature. :"
cali the BETTER said Butler.
Representative or no Representative,
you are a Radical niger, and have
got to die.
"For Gods sake, give me time to
pray, cried the unhappy negro.
sCertain," answered Capt. Butler,
'spray away; but pray quick"
Cocker then knelt down and began to
pray. While he was in this position,
Butler slipped back six or eight feet
and shot at him twice. He fell for.
ward on his face, bleeding and dying.
Butler then made sign to his men,
and six of them fired into the wound
ed man. Ae died. The men who
killed him took his watch, money, and
his gold shirt buttons, and then, leav-
ing the body to rot, returned to Rob
ms.
These facts are sworn to by three
eye-witnesses, who state that Coker's
only crime was his Rep ublicanism.
VIZ hlLLED-FOU TEEN WOU NDED.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Oct. Is. The
Joint canvass of Charleston County
by Democrats and Republicans, which
has been in progress for some days,
resulted in serious collision at Cain
hoy, about three miles from here It
had been agreed that both whites and
blacks should attend the meeting with
out arms. During the speaking an al
tercation arose bet ween two individu-
ais of opposite parties, and a shot
having been fired by one of them, the
negroes belonging to the State militia,
and composing large majority of the
meeting, secured their muskets, which
were secreted near by, and a volley
was fred into the unarmed whites from
the bushes that skirted neighboring
ravine. The whites, being few in
number, and altogether unprepared to
fight, retreated to a steamer which had
brought them from the city, but not