Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-12-01
HE POLITICAL STRUGGLE IN THE SOUTH
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE DEMOCRATIC COUP D'ETAT.

| SOUTH CAROLINA.
| THE DEMOCRATIC COUP D'ETAT.
| A dispatch from Columbia, dated yester
! day, says that the democratic house took
| peaceable possession of the state legislative
| hall al their regular hour of converting, II
O'Clock Yesterday morning, and proceeded to
| work under their organization. The republic
| can house entered the hall at IL O'Clock, their
| on the stand, Wallace, dem, in the chair;
| Mackey, rep, at the clerks desk. The two
| republican members who acted with the
democrats (HamiltOn and Myers denounced
| the action Of the republican house as illegal
and unconstitutional Everything was peace
able and good temper prevailed. No persons
| A later dispatch says: "SOme efforts are
being made to compromise, which may re-
suit satisfactorily" About 8 O'Clock yester-
| day Gen. Ringer sent his staff officer to the
| speakers stand and notified the democratic
| speaker (Wallace) that at II O'Clock to-day
| the democratic members from Edgefield
| would not be permitted on the floor of the
house. Upon the receipt of that order letter
! was Immediately sent to Gen. Ringer. signed
| by L. s. Senator Gordon, Wade Hampton.
ard A. {. Haskell. 1t recites that they
| have heard with surprise of the intention to
deny admission TO the Legislative hall of the
democratic members from Edgefield and
l.aurens counties. Continuing, 1t says
'When the outrage of Tuesday last was com
mitted by placing of armed sentinels at the
| door of the house of representatives, who de-
cided upon the admission of members to their
seats, and when the provisions of the cOnsti-
tuition and thu, decision of the supreme court
were brOught@b your attention, you distinct
ly and warmly asserted again and again
that your orders were misunderstood; that
you did not intend to have sentnels at the
door of the hall, and that you had not and did
not intend to assume to decide upon the le-
gality of any mans seat or upon his right to
enter the hall. You were then reminded by
us that your guard received instructions from
one Dennis, a citizen and a partisan of Gov.
Chamberlain, TO admit parties upon his own
pass or that of one Jones. and had, through
armed force. excluded all democrats from the
hall until the republican organization was
The letter then proceeds TO remind Gen
Ruger of other alleged assurances made by
him. and continues What now can Justly
measure our astOnishment at the issuance Of
such an order as the one just sent by youc
There is no breach OF the peace, and no pros
pect OF its disturbance We cannot refrain
from expressing apprehension that the fact
that a humber of leading republicans are
taking issue with the legality of the proceed
your views as to your line of duty. 1t is
proper that We should say in conclusion that
we relied on your honor as a man and your
character as a soldier tn maintain your
pledged position OF nOn-intervention. The
democratic members from Edgefield and
Laurens are entitled to their seats by the
judgment of the Supreme Court Of this state,
and we have advised them to remain in that
hall until removed by your troops, that the
issue may be made in this centennial year of
American Independence, whether we have
a government of law as construed by the
courts, or a centralized desrOtism whose only
law is force. Let the American people be-
h re peaid 6 6i ,b b'ga d Eeneral OF
Chamberlain In room or the State House,
and issuing his orders TO legislative body
peacefully assembled in one of the original
thirteen commonwealth of this UniOn.'
J,OJ7ISIANa
At the meeting of the returning board on
Wednesday Charles Tidwell was placed upon
the witness stand to rebut the testimony of
Mrs. Eliza Pinkston. He said he had Known
her for eighteen or twenty wears. and that
her character was very bad. He continu1 d
to the murder Of her husband: she toll me
tbere ucre live or sly neornas CONE 70 hnr
So,.sa aud tool. PipkStnp Ont and k;iIaS him
and tn. Il tn ILL her and her child. She ,ras
in nm NV house when She made this siateme %s
sbr ran,e abo,,t o'cirocI o nj waLaJ mo ~
che waS biaeSinS Uro,,W smart Sart INC To- up,
dnc,"r ,Dbo ca1a on,, 1raito1 on re. ~
IT, , MIC I' n, pnL and U ne., anu
Armstronc came IN nv honse. We vent mn 70
Coz her o,ed oSte, bsr IN III nrasnncaP ~ ~
,bo,., ei Z, anu , ,n,, Ill, er NJ; ~ S pse o
mem II she knew Wno k,i leu finkston ana
Tf,eon nr ,a anu ht. 1,,o, LII @ .
n,,d at.o,d n I'm IL, ou ~ mno os,,e eeIe
a 1880 ~, J" AiI LII, she went u OIler
piaces anu olo oiMeIenL stQ[yi unoer-
stand tnat sne says mat WIN. ParKer was
one OF the kllers, anu ne mas oeen dead Tor
tnree nOhtnS.
fresldent Wells'-W as the coroner notihed
al MS death!
"a "A. don't know, SIR; don't know that
out the murderers; there were q few white
men who came to my house and asked me
about 1t; they went around the neighborhOod
and made inquiries, but nobody knew any
lining about ut; there was no action taken
about the corpse, That know OF.
.. Evans also Iestlnea 70 he pao caarac-
Ter OF flnkstOn and ms vile.
The board met at 10 O'Clock yesterday.
PROTEST.
signed by all the republican candidates Tor
the city and parochial offces In the parish OF
Orleans was read, complaining OF infOrmali-
ties in the ballots, and requesting the board
to examine into the subject and have re-
count ordered.
On Tuesday morning, ii Is understood the
electoral vote, and also the vote OF the state,
will be promulgated. The members of the
board think that some testimony applies to
the state vote which applies to the electoral
vote.
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES
has been issued, containing the signatures of
Hugh Miller Thompson, rector of Trinity
church; G. Raymond, V. g., administrator of
the Archdiocese of New Orleans; A. j. Jour
dan, s. j.. rector of the Immaculate Concep-
ton church; B.. NJ; Palmer, pastor First Pres
byterian church; James X Guthrin, rabbi OF
Temple Sinai; Thomas A. Adams, President
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