Daily Republican., 1879-04-15
Military at the Polls.

0x-OOnIouoTdtes dSdlust VIC oImy' AS
editor, who used to be an incessant
kawler against jeff. Davis, and want
cd him hung on sour apple tree, and
would have rejoioed the more If Bayard
had kept him company, can now see
nothing good except in the Confederate
Generals entrenched at Washington.
His righteous indignation recoils at
the thought of a soldier at the polls,
and yet he never has word to say
against the Southern cut throats, armed
with knives and pistols, who surround
the polls in the South and only allow
those to vote who vote for what is call.
ed the Democratic ticket. The fact is
that since the wsr the soldiers at the
polls have been but an imaginary
dream. Only ON two or three occasions
have they been sent to preserve the
peace at the polls, and that was under
the most urgent demand. There were
few sent to South Carolina during the
last Presidential election, to quiet
Hamburg Butcher Buffers cut throats
that we're numbering inoffensive black
men, women and children, and even
with the soldiers at the polls in that
State the backs could not be prevailed
upon to vote, owing to the certainty
that some of them would be butchered
after the troops should bs withdrawn.
There is not sensible man, woman or
child in the country, uninfuenced by
partisan feeling, who, if they knew the
horrible murders that have been CON-
mitted by the every Evenings"
friends on the eve Of important cleo
tions, would not heartily agree that
soldiers should be placed at the polls,
not to prevent people from voting, but
to aid all who had right to vote. No
one knows better than this same editor
of the "E. E.' that the civi! power of
the South so far as enforcing The laws
relative to the elections is concerned =,
is mere mockery. 1t is only efficient
on the side of fraud, stuffed ballot
boxes with onion skin ballots. There
have been hundreds of black men shot
down and murdered in cold blood
simply because they were active Re.
publicans, and through the long record
Of crime in the South, net a solitary
white man has been punished by the
courts for these inhuman murders. But
on the contrary, Butler, tle leader Of
the outlaws of Elepton and Hamburg,
has been elected Uli:ed States Sena.
tor, and Gully, OF Mississippi, the as.
sassin who imbrued his hands in the
blood of Judge Chisholm, Ills teautiful
daughter and his little son, has bt en-
elected Sheriff Of Kemper county.
We might write column after column
Of these political murders all done by
white men, hut these We have men
toned are utii' lent TO show the stat,
of society at the South, the place
where, according to the Every Even
ing's" " view of the case, the people arr
insulted by tie appearan of hand
full of troops at some of the most disor
derby polls. The presence OF troops a
the polls, as We have already said, i.
but mere myth, there not being suf
fcent of them to place one man at eacl
poll, but being placed at some of thu
most disc orierly points, the lone s-nti.
mel stands as an emblem only of th'
authority Of the nation. The Every
Evening" wants every vestige of thi
authority removed, that there can b.
no possible bar to the perpetration o
fraud and no hindrance to violence
The - Every Evening" wants 10 brint
its view of the matter down and apply
it to Wilmington, and asks if We neec
squad of Federal soldiers sent here i,
day or two before the election to Sc,
that the Mayor and police do thei
duty. 1t takes it for granted that ther'
are men who will sanction such move
,uent. We recollect the time when tn
editor Of the Every Evening" was il
favor Of soldiers at the polls, and ap
plauded the government for sendin
them into Delawar. and even int
Wilmington that far election nigh
be hell. We do no: think any hart
would rpsHlt fro'n squad of soldier
still being placed at some of the poll
of this city, where it is dangerous for
colored man yet to vote, and hundred
of them are kept from the polls ly viz
lence. We do not favor generally tn
keeping Of the peace at the POLLS wit
soldiers but W here police officers not onl
fail in preserving the p}ace but some
times join the dsorderIy mob there is II
resource # but an appeal to strong
or power, and ever right here in Wi
mington a little application OF tina
power woIld have wholesome intlu
ence.
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YESTERDAY IN THE House, the Green
hackers under the protection of thei
allies the Democrats, got in soue {
their financial schemes, aai by the al