The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-26
EMPoRIA NEWS.
NATIONAL NOTES.

The Un1errIaed Democracy
and the UnGerrIGed President
"True Inwardness" OF -. e
and Louisiana.
Special Correspondence ofthe Emporia News.
r WASHINGTON, Jan'y %, 1877.
NAVIGATING TILDEN BY FORCE.
The Democrats held a meeting
here on Monday. There was
heap big. talk as the Indians
say. Talk OF bringing 100000
"unarmed" democrats to Wash
ington to inaugurate Tilden next
March. Talk of ''despotism,"
and "rights,n and "Constitution"
by defenders of the Thugs of
Louisiana; by eulogists of the
banditti Of South Carolina; and
by the rebels who fought for
i, four years to destroy the Consti-
tution and the Union. Grant enjoys
these explosions. He is the most
: placid man z in America. He
means that the candidate whom
the Senate declares elected shall
Z be inaugurated; and all the blus-
tering Of "writers and debaters"
will not q move, him one hairs
breadtI. There have been good
Republicans who have doubted
at times has capacity for civil
leadership. but there is no one
now who does not believe that
he is the right man in the right
place to-day. ~
~ Southern IMBoRGLIos."
South Carolina and Louisiana
are in precisely the same coDdi-
ton. The Hampton and Mich
oils government" rest on the
same foundations. They claim
!, that (although they prevented
thousands of Republicans by
fraud and violence from casting
THAR ballots) they shall be re-
|. coginized as the rightful rules of
these States, because, on the ''face
of the returns" they had the
, majority or the votes. 1t is q de-
Smand1 that assassination, Ballot
Q lRoxetuffing, repeating, and returns
signed at she muzzle of the re-
yOlyer, shall be accounted legiti-
mate methods of determining the
,, will of the people at popular
election. That is the whole of it.
It IL plan enough. There is no sim
,broglio" abont it. So.
COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VorE.
There is great deal spoken
and written about the constitu
tional mode of counting the
Electoral vote. Life is short; one
cannot study every thing; and
there Is no use in wasting time in
discussing technical issues. 1
know that the leaders of the
Senate-the men on whom the re-
sponsibility OF decisive action
rests are determined that If
the Reports of the Senate Invest;-
eating Committees is South
Carolina, Florida and Louisiana
shall show that Hayes and Wheel
er received the rightful vote of
the citizens or those States, the
Republican candidates will be de
cleared elected, and that they will be
inaugurated on the Fourth of
March. II it appears that Tilden
and Hendricks were elected no
partizan preferences will prevent
their Inauguration. Tho rumors
of disaffection are unfounded.
Honest Senator's will act on the
. evidence presented to them, and
neither the threats of demagogues
y nor the prayers OF partlzaus will
swerVe them from the path of
absolute rectitude.
REPUBLICAN PRESCRIPTION IN S. c..
- i do not mean to say any more
at this time about the South Caro-
lima troubles, excepting to tell
about the prosecutions of "Dem-
ocratic niggers" of which the
Northen Democratic papers have
loudly complained. The DEM
ocrats of South Carolina, under
the lead of Wild Beast Butler
(as the Hamburg slaughter is
sometimes called to distinguish
him from another Gen. Butler)
are trying to prove that the only
political prescription known in
their State is the ostracism oil
colored Democrats by the black
Republicans. Every black man
who has been snubbed, or hooted
at or sneered at or hustled by
colore1, Republicans is eagerly
Sought out and brought forward
to testify. There is evidence
that, as a rule, negro Democrats
are thoroughly despised by their
own race who remember slavery
and remember what party it was
that destroyed it. But no threats,
no violence, no dismissals from
employment, and no assassina-
tions--the four chief agencies
of political conversion on the
part of the Democrats - have
been proven against the black
Republican voters. ALI the black
Democrats say that it is the
women who are their chief
prosecutors" One old darkey
testified that his wife left him
instantly, and refused to come
back to him afterwards, because
be voted the Democratic ticket.
His son, he said, lost his wife in
same way. The old fellow seem
ed very jolly over it. 1t is said
in South Carolina that several
negroes voted the Democratic
ticket IN order to get a sure and
cheap divorce. The remedy was
always successfuf. Another nc
gro testified that the women
'nearly pulled his clothes off,
as lie came from the polls after
voting for Hampton. Colored girls,
(as the Southern phrase is, every
where declare that they "haint
got no use for Democratic niggers
nohow.' Married women ali
over the State have been heard to
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