Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-09-28

september y, 1910.
There is dismay in the Cross Roads
Sence we he'd the direcshuns of At
torney General Taft red to US, threat
enin the employment Nv troops in the
Suthren States about eleckshun time
we feel that all hope Nv freedom i:
gone, and that we mite jest as well gil
out our chains, and go to clankin u1
EN-, first as last. When the Cros:
Roads can't run its eleckshuns in iti
own way, ther amt no more freedom
Freedom is throttled, and eff she DOM
shrek now she is tuffer old virgin
than ever give her credit for bein.
What is the necessity Nv sending
troops down here on eleckshun day:
To perfect the niggers? Can't we per.
tect EN-? Shant we hev the guardin
Nv the ballot box, and wont we see that
evrybody votes wich we consider enti.
tied to the ballot? This is an outrage
wich is well calkelatid to onsettle the
; devoshen Nv me and Issaker Gavitt to
the government.
To show how unnecessary this inter-
ference is, will state that we he'd al
ready made full and ample prepara-
shuns for peeceful and quiet eleck-
shun. We he'd organized the white
citizens Nv the Corners into guard to
preserve the purity Nv the ballot box,
and to see that no dis.urbiu elemence
come in. Wv course we exclooded
Pollock, Bigler, and the two carpet
baggers who hev wagon factory here,
wien they bilt ten years ago, and wich
hez disturbed US ever sence, ez they
are both Republicans. We he'd taken
an invoice NV the shot guns in the ma
berhood, and he'd detailed our quickest
and most akkerit shots to yoose EN-,
and he'd matters SO arranged that there
coodn't be no disturbance at the polls.
Our method wuz simple snd States
manlike-I originated it. That ignO-
rance mite not be pleaded ez an ex-
Goose, we notified all the niggers with
in the limit Nv this precinct, to prevent
trouble, they must not come to the
polls or attempt to vote; that, eff they
wood keep keerfully at home all that
day, they would not be melested or
harmed; but that, If they attemptid to
vote, or in any way interfere with the
eleckshun, trouble wood inevitably en-
500. We also, in the interest of peece,
he'd men detailed to. stand on each
road to stop all niggers wich shood pre-
SOON to move toward the village that
day, with strict instruckshens eff they
persisted in comm, to blow the top NV
their heads off. Peace at all hazards ,
wuz our determinashun.
In the precinct below US, they wuz not
so conservative. To prevent trubble
on eleckshun day, they determined to
kill the heft Nv EN- before; and many
nv our people insisted that that wuz
the best method, but I refoosed to do
1t. 1 am materially conservative and
yieldin.
To show how much we desire peece,
will state that we hev two niggers at
the corners wich profess DimOcrisy.
They hang around Bascom's, and we
hev tolerated em, for they act ez neerly
ez we do as is possible for niggers.
They desired to vote, and Deekin POg-
ram wuz in favor Nv lettin NV EN-. Our
citizens protestid. Its establishin a
precedent said Issaker Gavitt; 'ef one
niger votes, why not all? and, when a
niger votes, the fioodgates is broken
down.
But said /, 'kin we afford to lose
them two votes for Tilden and Re-
form?'
'Ef we keep them out, and need
them two votes, can't you and l, in
the interest NV Reform, vote twice.
said Issaker.
And so, ruther than violate princi-
pie, we hev exclooded Dimocratic
votes.
This ought to be satisfactory to the
government. The niggers know very
Well that the site Nv one uyRp in a
state NV freedom, pertiklerlyH he hez
boots on wich hev no holes in EN-, is
espeshelly aggravatin to the proud
Cawcawshen, his sooperior, whose
boots are not waterproof. lssaker
Gavitt remarkt, with teers streamin
down his cheeks:
'Ef ary nigger shood come into the
Corners on eleekshun day, ridin NV
his own mule, while I, his sooperior,
am obleeged to come afoot, ii wood
drive me to the verge NV madnis.'
And every niger knows that, when
1ssaker Is druv TO the verge Nv mednis
at a niger, and hez his shotgun ham
dy, that nigger is very apt to become
q colered angel. Why, then, can't they
keep out NV Issaker's way: Why do
these inferior beins goad us to despera-
Bhen with their mules, and boots, and
other close? Why do they provoke US?
KNOWN ez well ez they do that their
presence irritates us, why do they in
Hist on shown themselves on eleckshun
days, when we are together in sich
umbers! Z. s <. r.i4l---.si
Nv course, ef the military comes here
TO perfect these inferior beiEs, the Cor
pers will suffer loss NV all its prepa-