Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-18
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Free ElectiOns-NO BayOnels at
the Polls.
Ewing and Thurman agree in the
proposition that Democrats everywhere,
North and South, demand free and fair
elections; and since they have now a
majority in Congress they are determin-
ed to wipe out the Federal election
laws, and so make the elections free i'll
deed. Such being the expressed determi-
nation Of the two great leaders-both of
whom declare also that the elections in
the South are as free and fair as in Ohio
it may not be amiss to inquire little
into the free election business in three
or four of the Southern States. Now
let facts be stated for the consideration
Of a candid world:
/. In 1878 the total vote for members
of Congress in the Third, Fourth and
Fifth districts Of Mississippi, both for
successful and unsuccessful candidates,
amounted in the aggregate to 14,1ss.
Brigadier Money, Singleton and Hooker
now occupy seats in the House by virtue
Of that election.
III. At the election in 1878 In the State
Of Georgia the total vote for Congressman
in the Third, Sixth and Eighth districts
(for successful and unsuccessful eandi-
dates) aggregated 9,565. Congressman
Cook, BlOunt and Stephens receive the
benefit of these votes.
III. At the Congressional election the
same year, the total vote for Congressman
in the Sixth and Eighth districts of North
Carolina aggregated 1922. Brigadiers
Steele and Vance answer Aye no No
mingling their voices with the voices of
Ewing and Warner-when their names
are called, because of these 1922 votes.
". The total vote for member of Con-
gress il the Seventh district of Alabama
amounted to 2,62S in 1878. Brigadier
Forney got the plum in that case.
V. At the Cong essional election in
the Ninth district of Ohio, in 1878, the
total vote for member of Congress
amounted to $1,000, or 1920 more than
sufficed to send nine members from the
free and Solid South. The average vote
in the Congressional districts of Ohio at
that election was within a fraction of
10000.
VI. No less than 4O,04O votes were
cast in the Sixth district of Michigan for
member of Congress in 1878, or S.S61 in
excess of the vote of nine districts in the
Solid South.
VII. The Thirty-seventh district of
New York cast 36,276 votes for member
of Congress in 1S7S-4,197 more than the
constituency of the nine Brigadiers.
VIII. At the Congressional election
in 1878 the Twenty-sixth district of
Pennsylvania cast 33.2S1 ballOts-only
1,2O2 more than the aforesaid nine free
districts.
TX. The Seventh district of Indiana
cast S6,6O1, and the Ninth district of the
same State cast 35,6SO votes at the Con
gressional election in 1878.
Y. 1t required 5O,247 votes to elect
one member of Congress in Nebraska in
1S7S-just 1s,16S more than were polled
in nine districts in the South.
XI. In 1878 no less than 51,O92 votes
were polled in the First district of Kan
sas, and IA, 1902 in the Third district, 70,
Congresmen.
XII. mime Northern districts, where
free elections are suppressed by Super
visors of Elections and Deputy Marshals
1852, SIS votes were polled to elect nine
Congressman.
XIII. In nine Southern districts
where shotgun brigades, rife clubs and
individual freemen armed with .revol-
vers, guard the freedom of elections, S2.-
O79 good and true men are sufficient to
elect nine members who-holding the
balance of power, as they dO,-control
the National House of Representatives.
XIV. If 32,O79 Southern men can
manage to exert as much political power
as 362,S7S Northern men, is it not true
that one Southern man is equal to five
Northern men; aye, equal to eleven
Northern men?
XIV. Supervisors of Elections Dep
uty bay onets at the polls!-
Republican fraudsl-local self-govern-
ment! Bah! ScatEOhiO State Journal.