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, 1876-12-22
DEMOCRATIC VICTIMS OF BUILpoz1NG

DEMOCRATIC VICTIMS OF BULLD0ZING.
The testimony which Mr.. MORRISON and
the other Democrats Of the House Com
mittee have dug up to Offset the horrors
of the story Of ELIZA P1SKsroS and
! other victims Of the bulldozers is
now in before the Jury Of the country It
is the testimony upon Which TINT jury is
asked to return the verdict that the true
bulldozers wero Republican negroes, and
that their victims were other negroes, who,
upon high patriotic grounds, voted tile Dem
ocratic ticket, or would have done so but
that they were bulldozed. This testimony
is suggestive study. 1t is given by the
negroes who, for their Democratic proclivi-
ties, were bulldozed. The first matter that
occurs to whoever scrutinizes this testimony
is the ,nilduess with which the victims were
bulldozed. The witnesses who appeared to
testify rs the victims Of that brutality, none
of them, had been shot, shot at, stabbed. or
even received the regulation "bulldoze Of
one hundred lashes. In fnct, but one of
these colored Democratic victims Of colored
Republican bulldozers testified he had been
violently dealt with. That was WILLIAM
MAYSELI. whose testimony was Us follows:
Voted the Democratic ticket at the Inst election.
Never told any one what ticket he would vote but
wns suspected Of being Democrat. Was fire.
qucnt9y threatened by colored Republicans. The
day after tue election was knocked down by two
colorcd men. who said they Soald kill me for yot-
ing the Democratic ticket. The name OF one is
RsS FRANKLIN. Since the election haye not gone
out alonc as threats were being constantly made
to NY wife.
Granting the truth Of all MAYSE11's state
ment, this certainly is the mildest case of
bulldozing on record. II was no visitation
by an organized armed band, like "Capt."
THEoBALDs company'of Ouachita bulldozers.
He wasn't dragged from his bed ut dead
Of night, tied to horse's tail, as was MAn1o.;
RHODES by THEoBALD's men, dragged to some
distance, and shot dead. But he got into
political discussion that ended in blows and
was knocked down, after which he was
threatened with all that ferocity with which
men are threatened when somebody who
dare not do them serious harm wants to
**scare them. and, to further scare MAY
NELL, nobody threatened him or attempted
to waylay him, but :" threats were constantly
made to my [his] WIFE"
Such is the worst case aof Republican
negro bulldozing of Democratic buIldozers
that Mr.. MORRISON and his fellow
Democrats Of the Committee could discover.
True, one negro Democrat, WILLIE Howard,
OF 0uachita, was found who had been shot !
, 1876-12-22

The number of hogs cut in this citx !.
packers. during the four months of 1ast v;o
ter, which constitute the regular packjn,
season, was 1,5:'2, OG:3. The number c,t -
the same time by the fye cities, Ciucirn.t;
st. Louis, Milwaukee, Louisville. and 1nd;on
apo1is, was 1.C21,557, which only s1iob,l.
exceeds the record of Chicago. 1be rri,
then established bids fair to be observed th;s
year also. From the 1st Of November tot.,.
Saturday, the five cities above named bs, e,t
between them only s3G.504 hogs. against
8l9.996 killed in this city alone. The mat.
resulting from the tremendous onslaught
now being made by Chicago packers is be;n,
carried away from us in steady stream of
125 to $50 loaded rail-cars each lay.
, 1876-12-22

tion OF direct antagonism which must he ,-n;.,-
and may be disastrous. 'uaese
The Board hEs now new lease of a.
years in official life, with IN e4nrass;o- -4e.
popular approval to prompt it to fnr,hs.
progress, and there is reason to hope far -.
thorough an establishment of the non e.a.s
ran free-school system iu England tbot :.
can never again be assaulted. Tbe n1o..sl'
thing about it for us is that such sroo-a.
in England will render our own system ~.
stronger and more permanent.
, 1876-12-22
FRIDAY, DECEMBER %, 1876.


The novel and curious precedent was yes
terday established by the House of recog-
nizing message by telegraph, in the hand
writing of a telegraph operator, as an official
aud formal document for all the purposes
Of Congressional action or procedure. The
errors and imperfections Of telegraphy, rn-
ayoidable under certain adverse electrical
conditions, may some day carry this prec-
edent to ridiculous and possibly danger
GUS conclusion.
, 1876-12-22

Before Oregon was heard from. tue {pov,x -
the one Electoral vote needed was contcun,,t.l
by the Democratic managers in South Caro;n,
They discovered that HURLEY, the Rcpnb|ics,
candidate on the Electoral ticket who. II 49,.
telegTaphed, was nine hundred votes behind III,
rest of the ticket, had been defeated, mn. ,b,,
the meagre majority given him was secured b,
buIldozing the returns. The Congressional
Committee sent to South Carolina by the Dem,
ocratic House to expose this bulldozinp Of ths
returns by the Returning Board stralphtw,r
proceeded to investigate thematter What thpv
discovered is reported by the New FORK HsraIT,
special from Columbia, OF date the 18th fn,t
which says:
The House Committee has been engaged ,o-aer
IN routine work comparing, returns, and rx1ain.
ing witnesses. The only important facts devil.
oped were in the Vse Of the Summeryil]e poii
where the correction OF clerical error riyps II,r
LEY, Republican Elector. lSU votes additional
having been incorrectly written for 4.7 On lbs
returns.
That is, on going over the figures it wal
found that HuRLET's majority hasl been r.-
duced $50 votes by mistake in addition, Fur.
thcr inquiry also develops that the Returning
Board, which was so intent upon bull!ozing thu
returns, actually rejected votes cast for HrnLEr
because Of q nlisprint Of his name upon nun.
her of the tickets. Fur ther investigation DE-
relops that the 1900 Republican majority II.
turned from Robbins Precinct, Barnwell Couu-
ty, was rejected by the Returning Boarl b.
cause OF irrcgu1arity in the returns Thu
irregularity was due to the fact that,
after the votes had been pollcd, the bullloze!s
fired vollev into the Dolling-room, wherein
the managers, without waiting to consider the
regularity OF their returns, hastcned to get or,
Of range. The vote, having been cast, ought ia
justice and fairness to have been counted; and,
BY, not counting it, the Returning Board enabled
the bulldozers to disfranchse one OF Tie
strongest Republican precincts in the STATE,
the'vote Of which would fetch up thr Republ:J-
an majority in the State to $500. And yrt t!a:
throwing away Of Republican najori:; upoa
technical point Of the Republican Returning
Board is the chief case Of bulllozine OF the r.
turns that the Congressional Committee has
discovered.
, 1876-12-22

Mr.. T11.uES has been elected. When the proper
time comes he must be inauyuratcd. or The r!shts
OF tile people OF the United States are aaantoheu
forever. lie will be inauguratcd peaceably Il ~.
sible. and, II any boud Is shed. the responsibility
will be upon those who retist the quiet con'uriE9
ton OF the peoples wishsa. a.-FortNayae st"f'ns'.
But Mr.. T1LpEN has not II been elected AMI
hence no s:proper time" will ever eome when
he can be legally inaugurated. He needs ~
Electoral votes to enttle him to the Presidency
and 134 are the utmost his friends caR eouHt u''
unless they include the bogus vote Of she os'
feated rascal CRoS1S, and his vote will never oe
allowed to scat any man iu the Presideu'la
chair.
, 1876-12-22

7. b. UATEa.
(Remork5 ut 4 Berenade
rendered by the people
Of Dayton, o., Dec.
49,:
*Whatevcr may be
the result at which the
lawful authorities ar
rive, you antt / u'itl
gnletiy submit
, 1876-12-22
SOCIETY MEETINGS,

DEARBORN LODGE. No. 31O. 4 F. and 4. NJ
Annual Communication at their lia1 American Express
Hutidn.. - MunrDe-st.. this tFrlcay) evening. Dec.
ycrs are ret,,esseL present business uf impur
tance viii CONT Up 10: action
JOHN SUTTON, II, II.
j. D. MCKAY, Secretary.
COSMOPOLITAN LODGE. No. 6, X Of Especial
meeting their Castl. Hall. Atals aud Lasae-
stt Friday evening, bee. -: work tt.c first
AID third ranks Brethren OF sister lodges cordial
1y invited. W. i, IVES, H. or r. d. =
, 1876-12-22

One prominent Democratic paper in NT. i'@
DENIS own State-the Troy I'rexs-glves II ap
and admits that RUTHERFORD blRta4"0
HAYEs' is the Presdent-elect. And, Is !! ~
clinch this sensible conclusion, it SAYS tDal u0'
HAYES will without doubt be inaugurated r1e't
dent Of the United States ou the 18th dss VI
March. The Prexs adults that 1.-THE coun'l!
cannot afford another war, J" aud it proposes 80
wait patiently for Democratic snccess lou'
years hence This is al example Of eeaFsSp.'
edness and candor that We submit to 1ne ~ :.
eating concern in this city, run BY W1LBrk E.
KEENAN,, for his admiration and imitation
, 1876-12-22

1Itt frl&RF'S TheNfFd~
Madison street. between Dearborn and State.
E"ca.rncE- o. the keilusE Opera Troupe, - The
RI. lug uuiclIn,lu.
, 1876-12-22

Randolph street. 1etween Clark and LaSaile. El
Sasenlent Miss Nelson. ''I:0ulcu and juliet"
, 1876-12-22

Woods 1llseus.l-
Monroe street. between Dearborn and State. " Rob
Raw
, 1876-12-22

As the Springfield Repudtican observes 'ns ~
Erie Railroa1, the weak sister among Inc io@'
east aud west trunk lines reports Tor LIE p'oe
ent year total earning Vi SIT, G,559,oo9' sa'nAA'~
, 1876-12-22

The latest public utterances OF HAYES SUI
T1LDES in regard to the Presidency Is EeFs ue
scriptiye Of tho two men. W: place them u
contrast: I,
, 1876-12-22

Imet and organized myseN and appo,nittn, - ,r ~
T. MILLER Of Jackson County. tu act Win I.so ;o
We together then selected JAMES PARKER, u Lila
County, u the third man--f'rohM-
Called to the Office Of Chief Magistrate " 'ns< ,1
United States by the vote OF Mr. coSlS; h''so''''
Eicctor of ttreeun, assume, etc. Aash, ,st.
It il to uphold this programme that the po''
office seekers are calling ou the Democratic p@1'
ty to 70 to ''Wah.' Il
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01
Texa.-Facr- and FancIe..

Burglars are going through Marshall.
Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew are both
in ertrsmis.
The average wheat crop about Sherman
is twenty bushels per acre. .#
Four hundred teams are employed in ex-
tending the International road.
Col. Loughery, of the Marshal Herald, is
going to start daily at Jefferson. a'
Mike Iangly was shot dead by police,
man in Denison in varieties den.
Major Penn still draws large crowds and
floods of penitent:al grief in Waco.
The Fort Worth stage robbers left two OF
the horses taken from the coaches near Me.
Kinney. RI.
The coroner's inquest held that Mrs.
Biering, of Round Top, was foully muir
dered.
Rev. Dr. Kendrick has resigned the pas
torate of his church at Collirene Her name
was Fannie Bush.
Coll w. A. Saylor, of Austin, is bis
bidder and contractor for army supple:
next year out West.
The Hearue Enterprise is for sale, and q
good printer with head on his shoulder.
could make money there.
Rev. w. G.. Ball, of Austin, has been APP
pealing to SINNERS in sherman The raw
material is wanting in Austin.
A special to the Dallas Commercial say,
sour wire 10 Galveston has busted. +,
Everything else over there has ''busthead.
Tom Thumb was not waylaid and totet
of when here by grasshopper as basel,
alleged by the Inter Oceda-or any othe
man.
Most Of the newspapers of the State ar
anxious to have the whipping post set ul
as substitute for one OF the branch peni
tentiaries. M
The corn crop of Mason county is excel
lent, and bread will be abundant. Their
were never finer prospects for bread ana
immigrants.
Deep driaking generally makes Dalla
fellows feel their oats; but Mr.. Foster o
Waco made eighty bushels per acre b,
deep blowing.
General Jasper W. johnson of Oregon
at the Cincinnati Convention, stated tia
Texas had lost 500, 900, 900 BY robbers 0
the soAa tibra.
LAmpasas is about building street rail
read to the Sulphur Springs. A connection
with Col. Swisher's Austin line is tn
grand desideratam.
Gen. Ham r. Bee is en- rVuts to Austin
having left saltillo, Mexico, ON the thir
teenth instant, as we are advised, and
should be here even now.
Drinks, in view Of coming ''local option
aud = general smash-up. have declined Il
ten cents IN sherman, and the roughs ans
nhisk -euzslers are eminently happy.
]. X DAnlel. four years ago Of Americas
Georgia, killed himseif eating opium AMI
drinking choral n W AGO. He wss Of 600.
J pareatage and originally genilemzn.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01


THE fighting between negroes and whites
effective in exciting Northern people as if
there were outright war between the races
everywhere in the South. Where local SUI
premacy is exercised by the negro, the
veriest knaves are in Office, and Morton,
when in the South, saw and told how farms
were laid waste and homes have gone to
decay, and how robbery, under the forms
of law administered through the interven-
ton OF savage suffrage, was dominant.
No industrious, progressive, intelligent
people can or will tolerate incapable and
corrupt masters. 1t is not the Union or
constitutional amendments the people detest
and cannot endure. 1t is the result Of uni
versal suffrage in county and municipal
elections that is contemplated with horror
This h the evil that should be amelIorated,
and this can be effected without wrong to
the blacks or violation of the amended
Federal Constitution. Restrict suffrage,
as Greeley proposed, ut least in local cleo
lions, to intelligence and receipted tax bills
or to either, and never negro would be
wronged and collisions of races would be
no more. But Radicalism's grasp upon
power depends upon the frequency of race
conflicts and Democrats are often led by
demagogues who must pander to the preju-
dIces Of ignorance in order to win office,
and Radicalism and Democracy in this be-
half cooperate to perpetuate state Of facts
that make men of the South here and there
believe, with the New York Herald,
that the election of Democratic
President will be the signal for
the practical Acknowledgement If not for
the slaughter of blacks. Nothing would
be more impossible, and yet local systems,
shaped by negro-chosen masters, are simply
unendurable, and while such systems exist,
the people, never thinking of Union or
disunion, will revolt against them.
In Texas, while the Legislature is defin-
ing amendments to the State Constitution,
the sure preventive of this greatest possible
danger to the peace and prosperity of the
South and TO the triumph of Democracy in
the Union is easily accessible, and yet none
appear with the courage or ability to lead the
way and become the truest reformers and
benefactors of Texas and the South.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

W. II. NOBLE, sheriff OF Wilkerson
county, Mississippi, writing on the disturb
ances in West Feliciana parish, Louisiana,
which have created such delightful
6ioody-shirt sensation in Blaine's bosom.
says That politics had nothing to do with
the affair, and it is only unfortunate that
the negroes had been advised by their lead
ers to klll all whites from the cradle up. -
The negroes would not listen to others, bet
ter Informed of their own race, and there
was no help for the slaughter Only two
or three were killed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01
sUPnENTE COURT.

An article appears in the Telegraph of the
twenty-seventh inst, over the signature Of
Mr.. Geo. Goldthwaite, accompanied by a bill
suggested by him for the Legislature. The
article objects to the bill proposed by Judge
Terrell for establishing an g Intermediate
Court of Appeals, because it seeks, says
Mr.. Goldthwaite, to establish an independ-
ept tribunal with final appellate jurisdic-
ton. Surely Mr.. Goldthwaite has not
read the bill in question, in which the
difficulty he suggests was carefully guarded
against. It provides, in section s, after re-
curing the Judgment of the intermediate
court of appeals to be forwarded to the
Supreme Court with the Transcript, that
''thereupon such judgment shall pc rendered
by the Supreme Court as the chief justice
and judges thereof, after such inspection
Of the record as they may desire TO make,
may determine, - thus leaving final juris
dictlon still in the Supreme Court.
1t was stated by Judge Terrell, aud we'll
understood in the Senate, that his bill was
offered for consideration only when al
hope for constitutional change which he
desired to see made of the Judiciary article
was lost, and that he wished no report or
II until that time. What all desire is t.
relieve the immense blockade Of cases nov
in the Supreme Court, in some way; some
thing must be done, and we have no doub
the Legislature viii adopt the best plan I,
accomplish this, if new judicial article
in the constitution cannot be submitted
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

READ the report of the financial commit
tee of the House. 1t covers exclusively
the debt and bond question. and we are
few days since, upon the same subject, so
nearly conforms to the position taken in
the report. Mr. Kopperl, of Galveston, as
chairman OF this committee, has been la
bering hard upon this question, and he is
regarded as one Of the very best inanciers
in the State. The report seems fully to
work out the problem involved, and 1t is
not SO ugly as some would make the public
believe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

FoRr woRrH looms up grandly in the
future map Of Texas and Austin only needs
the narrow gauge, with branches to the
mining districts, TO invest the capital with
mAtchless astractiveness. The Texas Cen
iral Railroad Company are locating the ex-
tension Of their Waco branch from Waco,
via clsburne, 70 Fort Worth. Work win
commence a once, Il is said. The Trans
Continental Railroad viii be built from
sherman TO Fort Worth this year. so say
those who ought TO know. aud the Texas
Pacihcs terminus for years TO come will be
At Fort wcrth-until Huntington's road.
now coming east mile each day, reaches
FL Paso.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

WE do not see how the disorderly swell
mob of Texas is to be destroyed unless the
Governor be invested with power to remove
and appoint or suspend sheriffs. If Cover
nor Coke could send McNelly, clothed even
temporarily with the functions of local su-
premacy, into county rent by factions or
overawed by highwaymen and Jail break
ers and stage coach robbers, the sheriffs
would exert themselves much more vigor-
ously in suppressing disorder and Furnishing
crime
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

The Great Northern railway was started
from Houston by the people Of that place.
Once started, the enterprise was taken hold
Of by the capitalists, and put through to a
grand success. If the people of Austin
will do likewise in regard to the Austin
and Lampasas Narrow Gauge, should they
see fit to dispose of their interest, capital
lists will be glad to get it at good price.
This road will pay, and the probability is
that our people will add to their stock il
stead of selling it To others.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

JUDGE TERRELL's jury bill, requiring
that no man shall act as a juryman in this
State who cannot read and write the Eng
lish language, has passed the Senate with
only five dissenting voices. 1t will pass
the House IN the same shape in which it
has left the Senate. d
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

IL any office had been sold by Speaker
Kerr it would have been the best, since it
would have paid most, and Fi,zhugh's
place would have gone to the highest bid
der, But Fitzhugh was poor as church
mouse, and is now beegared. Kerr could
hardly have risked his fame, even if devoid
of moral scruples, for the pitlful sum of
$500, alleged to have been paid by some
Radical underling accustomed to buy and
hold sinacurau
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

Mrs PATTERSON, who presided in the
White House during Andrew Johnson's ad-
ministrauon with admirable tact and grace,
and Mrs. Lide Merriweather, the poetess of
Huntsville, Alabama, are at Hot Springs
The place is so crowded even now with
people, street cars, the narrow gauge, and
with doctors and the famed and manned
and halt and blind that the compacted viii
lage is swollen almost to BURSTING.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

THE Corsicana Observer observes ''that
the Legislature, for the encouragement of
this branch oflndustry, mig exempt from
taxation for term of years all machinery,
buildings and lands bought in the State or
used for manufacturing purposes. This
would, we believe, invite capital and give
an impetus to our manufacturing interests
The Constitution renders such an exemp-
ton impossible.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

The mud at the mouth or in front Of
Eads's jetsies is within seventeen feet OF the
surface instead Of thirty feet, as il was q
few weeks ago. II Eads fail to perfect
access to the river from the sea, the ca.
lamity to cities Of the valley of the Mis-
sissippi will be inealculAble in. ruinous re,
suits. But why did not Congress dig Cow
don's canal nom New Orleans to Barrata,
ria Bay In the first pIaceg None can sues
.tion the success Of tins plan Of upbuilding
staggering emaciated States and cite,
along the shores Of the mighty arm of the
sea Was not Eads'sl plan preferred be
cause Il was of doubtful success and
utilityl
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THURSDAY. 49,. ...... JUNE /, 1876
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PONDEFTS.

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10 their papers or business, will please state
the postofice to which the paper is, or will
be sent, or the answer must be mailed.
They will also state whether they take OF
iesre to take the DAILY or WEEKLY.
By SO doing, much delay and trouble viii
ba avoided ".
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

THE leakiness of the penitentiary has
flooded the country with thieves and high
waymen. Plans are maturing to caulk
it and then the people need not be
plucked by taxgatherers to evade plucking
by highwaymen. .F
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The Mexla Ledger thinks that if the Gall
weston Ne'cs will continue to assail Coke
and laud Hancock ''Coke will be President
and Hancock GO to the penitentiary.p Co..
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