The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-11-30
The4lampaign: of 1880 to be Con.
Quoted Upon the Bloodiest OF
Bloody.Shirt Principles.
Special Dispatch to,the Enquirer.

Special Dispatch to,the Enquirer
New York, November l5.-Persons
ofPwsident Hayes personal lotteries,
in this city to-day, say that the re.
cent news of his abandoning the non
interference policy in the South is a
misinterpretation of his avowa' to
have the violators of the election
laws prosecuted in the Federal Courts
and sent to the Penitentiary. lie
proposes to put on foot series or
Ku-Klux prosecutions, without the
military repressive measures once
adopted by Grant before the lndc'-
ments. Governor Warmoth, of Lou
isiapa, whose friend George A. She'll
dan is close to tho President, said Oh
the subject as follows:
"IIayes is right, and consistent,
too. Indignant, but determined to
punish in tho lawful way, he Will De
aided by a white public sentiment
The Citizens party in New orleans
has been cheated as well as the re-
publfcans, and want satisfaction. Ihe
Judges of the Federal Courts there
arc lecided men. and both Northern
ers. Jndge Woods was an Ohio Colo
mel of volunteers, and Judge Bill
lings il. from Massachusetts. Tue
Judges pay the Commissioners wh"
will select the juries to try the of1end-
ers. l. Fhe District Attorney, Albert
Leonard, is q native, an ex.mcmbel
Of the White Lo"s"n and q Bull
dozrr, bat he ran for office "o Re;
publican up in Caddo Parish and
they counted him out, too, 40 that n"
ia mud as hornet. Backed by a
considerable sentiment in New Dr.
leans these officers will prosecute
without fear or favor the heads of the
late ii cotton performances, and have
nosiasibt will send some OF them to
the Penitentiary.
"'rbe election was a sweeping out
,aee. In Tensas Parish there had
nsyrr br~ y scandal. The public
funds i, II u.ver been stolen, and the
Credited no parish obligations was
at a premium. There were $500
blacks there, and 300 whites. Many
of tho best whites were Republicans,
vet by bringing in armed militia com,
panies from Mississippi and killing 100
neg, oes, the parish is counted Demo-
cratic by $500 votes. Only one white
maj, ,i11 out 81 fifteen is elected to the
Legislature, and that is myself. They
cut my majority down to one fifth,
but knew that | would not stand a
counting ont. Hayes, no doubt,
mansvyto put the W hole legal ma
ehifery to work to punish these peo.
plsssr and if he fails, no can, with
pStlic opinion, in the campaign Of
iUs6: reca,t tho army from the plains
antt doncent rate'it 10 those doll'dozed
States"
1.-THE coming Congress, continued
Warn,oth, twill serve loud notice 90
the South, and in 1880 you wi i'll see
the biggest bloody shirt campaign we
kaps aver had in this country. The
American people are not going to see
a President chosen by rebels, murder.
itig md cheating through the length&
breath of whole States like Louisiana
and South Carolina, Nor will, Hayes
allow it to be done, These legal pro.
eeedings, begun tWd years before the
Preside initial election, I mean that at
the proper time he is going to inter
pose the authority Of the United
StSteS I'll prevent such q rape .of:the
sdhrnke.! Governor Nichols. id "a
good man, but from the country par
Gs. Who does not see that they
&@funning over him while they are
using him. "fhe Democratic lead
ers N Tho State are Major Burke, the
chief beneficiary of this business, and
Fitzpatrick, an Irish boy, brought up
around New Orleans. When Nichols
wass elected the j Democrats felt So
weak that they had lto put up men
eeshsracter but as soon as they got
pessess,on the lower element threw
otY The respectable element, and have
elected the lowest class of officials.
ST. bad were their nominations that
in New Orleans, where they have 49,.
O0t Democratic majority, the Demo
cratic ticket only got a plurality this
year, and, that by a cheating count,
which has made the Citizens ticket
supporters more incensed than the
RI pAbscans."0 r Z - =. Z. i Il
Warmoth thought that Enstis
would be defeated for: 70. election to
the United States Senate, and Dun.
can F. Keuner get'his place.
GATH.
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