The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-11-25
Political Notes.

A telegram to the Charleston Nes0s anc
Courier reports serious trouble in Beaufor
county, s. G. 1t appears that ga colored
Democrat was severely beaten by Radical
negroes" in Lawtonville. Upon warrant
issued by a magistrate FIVE Of the offenders
were arrested by constables posse. The
posse were attacked by armed negroes, two
of the white constables were killed, and
the prisoners were rescued. On hearing
the news the sheriff started for Lawton
vile. 1t was reported that 1000 armed
negroes were gathered near that place,
swearing vengeance on every white man
in the county" Other accounts say that
the posse consisted only of the two men
who were killed, and that the body of one
Of the victims was found on Friday morn
ing with the head chopped open" 1t is
also rumored that there was o fight at
Stafford Cross Roads, near Lawtonville,
on the 10th, between q whites and 300
"well armed negroes" and that "no me-
groes are reported hurt" kilograms we're
sent along the line of the Port Royal and
Savannah and Charleston Railroad Friday
morning, calling for help, and it is said
"help was sent"
The OREGON PRooRAMME.-A press
dispatch from Salem, Oregon, says it is
announced by the democrats here that the
following programme will be carried out
in reference to the case Of ]. w. Watts,
presidential elector on the republican tick
ct, who was postmaster of Lafayette. The
law Of Oregon provides that the secretary
of State, in the presence of the Governor,
shall count the votes, give the persons
having the highest number Of votes a GER
tifcate of election, giving the secretary no
power except TO count the vote and issue
certificates. But it is asserted writ will
be served on the secretary to DO issued out
of the Supreme Court enjoining the is
suance of certificate to Watts aud giving
it to the highest elector on the democratic
ticket.
The republican leaders scarcely compre-
bend what they are doing when they pro-
pose to dispute this election and claim
what an actual enumeration Of the votes
will not allow. They cannot be wholly
blind to the grave responsibilities they as
sumo in first throwing the body Of the
public credit recklessly into the scale, and
afterward the combined business and in
dustrial interests of the country against the
insane hope of forcing ascertained facts
and verified figures to do party service.
With these desperate men it is party
against country.-Boston Post.
The New Orleans Evening Democrat
says that two Of the Republican Electors
in Louisiana are ineligible, as they held
Offices Of profit and trust under the United
States at the time they were voted for.
One of them, o. H. Brewster, who was
U. s. Surveyor General for the State, sent
in his resignation the day after election,
and he is accused of having antedated the
document. Levisee, the other Elector, is
an United States Commissioner.
There is prevalent error to the effect
that the present Congress passed the bill
for the admission of Colorado as State,
and the Democratic party has been con-
demned for short-sightedness in that con-
nection. This is On error. The bill was
passed by the Forty-third Congress, and
was opposed by the Democrats, and by
number Of Republicans, among them Judge
Z. r. Hoar, Ellis H. Roberts, of New
York, and c. w. Willard, of Vermont
Baltimore Gazette.
Peter Cooper has published "card" in
reference to the Presidential complications,
in which he expresses the belief that "both
parties are led by men Of patriotism, who
would abide by the legal decision of their
respective claims, and resort to no revolu-
ton or violence to rectify what they may
consider injustice in that decision"
Before the election, the Republican war
cry was, A solid South what did it mean?
Was it not that the South was solid for
Tilden ? Why now claim the votes of the
three disputed States for Hayes upon the
grounds that they were always Republican?
This is contradictory.
The term "Bulldozers," which is so va
riously printed in the New Orleans dis
is the name applied to an organi.
zation Of armed white men, whose ostensi-
bic business it is to keep the negroes from
stealing the cotton crop.
In the Little Rock Arkansas district,
Cravens, democrat, is elected to Congress
over Mcclure, republican, by 269 majori-
ty. This makes the Arkansas delegation
unanimously democratic.
Peter Cooper's vote in Maryland was 81
and in about the same proportion in other
States. 1t is safe to say that Peter was