The daily gazette., 1876-05-16
90 Smaller by Degrees and Beeuti.
fNiIN LesS."

The ComnsercSaPs influence in Whining
ton, if it ever had any beyond the small
number of men whom it pander 10, has
grown very small indeed. 1t was what
Democrats used to term negro-wor-
shipper" and bowed at the shrine of ne
sro-uomen, whose natural right to
suffrage it advocated. During a" the
last eight years its editors, including at
times and by turns several members of
toe legal profession, have steadily ad-
vocated the equality of the negro with
the white as voter and to be voted for
But never dared to urge the negro to
PUT forward a Leyro candidate
At the primary election it declared it.
self against Mr.. Scott, whom it termed a
member of the Old Ring, and in favor Of
Mr. Hastings, whom it said had not been
guilty of the "dirtiness it attributed
to the other side, urging the negroes to
divide their vote, and not be led TO cast
it solid " for the bad men who were
running the Republican party. Well,
the election WAS held, and after all its vi
client opposition, assisted by the Netcs,
the organ of the Internal Revenue Col
Iector, and the Commercial is compelled
to eat the "leek,' as it shows in its own
report as follows:
Delegates on the Scott ticket were
elected In all the Wards Of the city on
Saturday. The figures in each are given
oeloW. Inc vote was very large, reach.
ing the extraordinary total OF 2657. A,
the city election of last September Val.
entine, for Mayor, had only 258S yotes.-
In the Sixth Yard the vote for Nalen.
nne was 467, while on Saturday $40 votes
were polled, The colored voters sup.
ported the Scott ticket solidly and in the
seventh Ward, the vote for that ticket
was composed Of about $50 colored men
and IS whites, while the vote on the 9th.
or side, 1856 in all. was made up of about
lSS whltes and IL blacks. In the Fifth
ward, the same line WAS drawn though
perhaps not quite 80 sharply. In the
Axth Ward the vote was enormously
swollen by colored men brought out ot
the Fourth and Eighth Wards, and voted
under the direction of Isaac J. jenkins
Joseph u. Walker, and others who wer,
working with them, while it is charged
that many Democrats, including n par
OF the force who are employed by tn,
City Street Committee, also voted. [,
will be observed that while the Scot
ticket prevailed in all the Wards, vet il
the Second it had but 36 msjority; in tn,
Third l3; in the Fourth 81 in the Fifth
40; and in the Seventh, 10; making il
those Wards, which together elect 2.
delegates, AN aggregate Scott majority O
bat l39, in total vote Of 1885,
New what are we to infer from that re
soss. Does not the Commercial, at ono
admit that the negro vote is a frau,
apen the elective franchisep IL it doe
not moan that it ought not to coun
equal with :ke white mans vote what i
the use of it citing the fact that it vote
solid for one clique Of its party, an
without it the other clique would be tn
vicsors in the contest electing in certai
wards 2 delegates. Every one know
that tho GAZETTE has ste adily maintain
sd that the negro vote would be used b
sad men to defeat the most intelligent
and here we find the Commercial shown
this truth up in our own midst, that ha
20 forcibly demonstrated itself durin
the past ten years in the South.