The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-12-14
THE PROGRAMME OF THE sTALwARTs.

The universal order and good will that have
obtained at the south since the withdrawal o.
the military leave no room for hope to the
stalwarts of reviving that system. \ bloody
shirt campaign, however, would be hopeless
without southern outrages and the problem has
been how they can be managed without the
restoration of government bayoncts. The so
luton has been found in what is known as the
"lIayes Programme While il is sclfcvidcn'
that with military rule the South did not en-
oy free government, the stalwacts who have
captured Hayes are 10 be credited with the
discovery that abuse of civil processes can
be made rs pcrncous and dangerous rs the
use of the "corpora's guard" The Hayes
Programme, therefore, is to accomplish by
civil process, with the aid fcomplaisant officers
and facilc witnesses, what Grant more honest
ly reached by executive proclamation and
martial law. The pretcxt for this restoration
of "hcll III the South" on new plan is the al
legged gigantic frauds at the late congressional
elections there whereby, rs Blaine in his
speech on Wednesday said, the negroes are
virtually DISTINGUISHED and "the whites have
captured the representation of the colorcd pco
pie" To understand the exact nature of the
plan We have something more than its mere
outline in speeches and on paper, for il Is al
ready in practical operation. Mr.. Hayes stated
in his message that the laws gave him pcnary
power in the premises, and he proposed to at
tend to their prompt enforcement He is as
good AS his word. The Hayes system is at
work in South Carolina to-day, and we have
some cdifying specimens of it in the Charles
ton papers. One of the counties in South
Carolina in which, more grossly than almost
any other, it Is alleged election frauds in No
vembcr were practiced was Barnwell county,
Thithcr, therefore, Mr.. Hayes first dispatched
his civil" emissares to unearth the frauds
and make arrests The Charleston Necs thus
explains the modus Operaadj of the programme:
Barnwell county has two thousand colored
citizens, if not more, on the rolls of the Demo
cratic clubs. Sevcn-ninths of the democratic
ticket were Endorsed by the radical county con
vcntion The radicals made no canvass of the
county, beyond holding Il meeting at Black
vile Barnwcl's majority is, therefore, the
natural result Of the work of the democrats,
and the disorganzation and Indifference of
thcirs opponents Yet United States com
missioner hastens TO Backvllle, and punches
Of warrants Of arrest are placed in the hands of
the deputy marshals. The larger number of
warrants are for the arrest of "colored demo
Gratis" One of these, Osceoa CAN'T, was ar
rested on Saturday night after he had gone to
hic hpl The officers ii IN ppp1 hin, ont nf baI
tore of the only garment he had on, thrust IA
pistol IN his face, cursed and abused him, and
dragged him OIL to Jail Can't, who is Il tim
id and inoflcnsivc person, is charged with in
timidating Fred Nix "a bold and desperate
muatt0, who is the sole remaining radical
leader in Barnwcl county. Mr.. Commission
or Wiggin who represents the United States
in Barnwcll, is the individual who was elected
circuit judge by the legislature when Moses
and Whipper were elected, and was described
by ex,Gov. Chamberlain as IA leaf upon the
current" This he still is, inasmuch as he told
the citizens of Barnwell when the arrests be
gan, that the warrants were only issued for eff
feet, and that, if the accused gave the moder
ate bail he would accept nothing more would
be heard of the cases,
The Ne,os details the working of the "pro
in the only three or four other coun
ties in which election frauds are alleged, and
with slight variations, such as "throwng down
and choking" the accused, the proceeding in all
was about the same as above. In most cases
the accusation of intimidation" fraud" &c,
rested upon the most ridiculous and palpably
perjured evidence, and without exception the
had clearly but one object, and
that was to goad the victims of this outrageous
system OF executing civil processes" into vio-
lent resistance, SO as to justify a dispatch to
the north of a renewal of southern outrages and
'murdcrous assaults on civil officers, &c. The
Hayes Programme" as thus exempliied in
practice is palpably ten times more despicablc
han the Grant military coercion, because
while partaking of all its lawleSsness it has
none of its blunt, bold recklcssncss, but in all |!
is essential features sncaking and is cowardly. |