Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-12-07
Why Is 1t!
Over four week. have ELAPSED sine,

WIZ ia S'IoOh'ifsi sicClicH, anu still tll'
people are kept in suspense as to tht
result of the contest as to which O
the presidential candidates has receiv
ed the greater number of electora
votes. Usually result of presiden
tial contest can be announced from one
end of the land to the other in the
circle of week, and so it could BIZ
now but for the determination of the
Democratic party through its bruta
leaders in the three Gulf States tc
count in its candidate by fair means OF
foul. These men who cast their al
upon a die and determined to win.
To this end they have been solidifyine
the South for four years past. Bull
doing and violence of the most he'll
lish character have been resorted to
and when the seventh of Nov. came
they were sure of decisive victory,
counting New York where the bulk of
the work had been put in in the South
for Tilden and reform. They content
ed, however without their host. Not
withstanding they carried New York
by the most stupendous frauds, the
states of South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana with their nineteen electoral
votes have gone against them. Why,
it is asked, if three states be for
Hayes, are they not so declared? The
answer may be given in one sentence.
The bulldozers are determined they
shall not be counted for the Republi-
can candidate, therefore they are, by
various subterfuges delaying the can
vass in Louisiana, hoping to SO delay
the count till the time shall have
elapsed for the voting of the electors
on the 9th instant, when, if no decis-
sion shall have been arrived at, the
result must declared leaving Louisiana
uncounted Such a result will give a
majority Of the electoral votes to Til
den, and on the 18th of February, he
will be declared elected, and of course
inagurated on the 4th Of March. We
trust, yea we believe the Republicans
in Louisiana are too sharp to be caught
in any such net. The law specifics
the time when the canvassing board
must close its labors, and we trust the
board will fearlessly do its full duty.
South Carolina, Notwithstanding the
action of corrupt Supreme Court, has
declared through her board of canvass
ers, for Hayes. Florida, is without a
particle of doubt Republican by a ma
jority of forty or more, and with a
just count, Louisiana will be shown to
be for Hayes by at least 1000. The
terrible atrocities perpetrated in Lou
isiana ought TO be examined into, and
fathomed to their lowest depth OF
fiendishness. but not at the sacrifice of
the electoral vote by leaving the state
out of the general count. Let the
canvassing board cast out those parish
es where it is clearly obvious that in
timidation has been the rule, as in the
case of the parishes of East Falincia
and others, and investigte afterwards,
for as sure as there is justice in Heav-
en-, there has been the vilest wrongs
presented, by which thousands of vot-
ers were kept from the polls, as facts
clearly show When parish shows
1000 Republican voters registered and
only one Republican vote cast, and
where there are from 1000 to 1000
more votes cast than there are voters
registered, it requires no superior in
telligence to discern fraud, and thai
of the vilest character. A few days
more and the question will be settled
DURING THE session of the Re
turning Board on Tuesday, in Louis
lana, the colored woman Pinkston wa:
brough: in on cot, and holding up hel
left arm, her right being shattered
took the oath and told her story The
scene is thus described in a special t.
the Inter- Ocean:
During the latter's pitiful recita
that her husband had been emasculateC
and then killed before her eyes, tina
her babes throat was cut in her arms
and that her own throat was gasheC
and breast and limbs mutilated, anc
finally that she was outraged by two
white Democrats, ex-Gov. John Pal