Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-09-13


4 1868 Supervisors of Election APP !
pointed, and of these l ,779 were APP /
pointed in the State of New York,
nearly one-haIf of them in that
single State. Again, there were
1910 Marshals appointed and more
than one-fourth of them were APP
pointed in the State of New York. |
But now look where the money was
spent, for that is the main point.
There was expended under these
acts in that year the sum of $780,
921.27. How much of it was eX-
pended to protect the poor freed
men at the South? In the South
ern States, to-wit: Alabama,
Georgia, louisiana, Mississippi,
Missouri, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia, $4S,719.86 were spent,
while in the other States, S237,-
1921. That is to say, one-siXth of
the money was spent in the South
and five-sixths of it spent in the
North. That is the way they pro-
tected the poor freedman. They had
given him the right to vote, they
had compelled the South, in self
defense, to give him the right to
vote. They guaranteed him against
any discrimination on account of
race, color, or previous condition of
servitude; but when it came to
using the money of the United
States, for 81 that they gave to pro-
tect him, to guarantee him, they
spent So 10 corrupt elections at the
North and to deprive them of their
right to vote at the North.
'tHow much of this money was
paid in order TO fix up the elections
in New York City? / have shown
you that the total expenditure was
1886, 1921. OF that $156,000, being
more than half the whole amount,
was spent in the State of New York.
That is the way the right of the
freedmen to vote without objection
on account of race, color or previous
condition was enforced.
''But let us pass on; and l must
pass on or Ishall never get through.
! Let us come to 1878, and we shall
find another specimen of the same
thing. The Supervisors appointed
in 1878 were forty-eight hundred
and eighty-one. OF these, nineteen
hundred and fifty-three, nearly one
half, were appointed in New York,
and sixteen hundred and eighty
two were appointed in Pennsyl-
vania. That made thirty-six hun
dred and thirty-five in those two
States alone leaving only twelve
hundred and forty-slx for all the
other States in the Union. That is
the way they took care of the poor
freedmen at the South. Of tht
Deputy Marshals forty-seven hun
dred and twenty-five were appoint
ed, and of these about One-half
tWenty-three hundred and eight
were appointed in New York, ano
in all the other States of the UnioI
only twenty-four hundred anC
seventeen were appointed. Thai
, made of Supervisors and Marshals
ninety-siX hundred and six. The
expenditures were $222,714.22, for
] want to be precise; and in the
Southern States from which return!
J were made, to-wit: Alabama
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana
South Carolina aud Virginia, wha
portion do you suppose was eXpend
, ed of this $4,000? OF course. yot
: would suppose that as the Ku-Klu2
ragged down there, as the White
Leaguers ragged down there, a!
} there was no such thing as free
, elections down there, as the poo
negroes were maSsacred in orde
that the whites might carry the
: elections, you would suppose, as al
, that took place according to Radi
cal authority, that that was tn'
J place where the most of the Deputy
Marshals of the United States were
appointed and where most of thu
money was spent. But, 'singularly
enough, of this 1922, 714.22 expended
{ in 1878 the amount used in thu
South was just $18, HOG; that is t.
say, about one-twelfth of the whole
J expenditure, while eleven-twelfths
of it was expended in the North
Why was it expended in the North;
Let the gains of the Republican
party in New York, in New Jersey
and in Pennsylvania answer the
question why it was expended there
The gains in the House of Repre-
sentatives will answer it better than
anything else can answer it. AT
one single election there was a gain
of more than fourteen members Of
the House of Representatives, and,
singularly enough, the greater the
expenditure of money, the greater
} was the gain of Republican mem.
bers of Congress"