The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, June II, 1879.

WASHINGTON, June II, 1879.
Mr.. EDITOR Within the, last week
the House Of Representative @ has
passed the different appropriation
bills, but with, proyisoes that are in-
tended to prevent the execution Of the
laws passed by the Republican party
for the purpose of securing honest
elections. which, i in consideration of
there being no election for Congress
men within the next fiscal year, were
sustained by majority Of the Repub-
licans in the House, 1t is expected
these measures will pass the Senate in
the course Of the next week, and tha5
Congress will adjourn by the last of
next week. b A few Republicans in the
House, believing that nothing should
be conceded to the Confederate Democ-
racy Which they would not be perfect
ly willing to concede at any and all
times, opposed the Army Appropria-
ton bill, among whom were Hon.
.Chss. G. Williams and Hon, II. L.
Humphries, of Wisconsin.
Republicans can we'll learn lesson
from the Confederate Democracy in
using the material furnished by invest
igating committees in their speeches in
Congress-. The Democrats use the tes-
timmy taken by them relating to the
election in 1878, before they give Re-
publican members of the committee
an opportunity of examining any wit
nesses, while the Republicans, with al
most the single exception Of Hon. c..
G.. Williams, have not used the mass
of testimony taken by the Teller Com
Mite showing that the elections in
Loui.iana and South Carolina werethe
greatest frauds ever perpetrated in any
Christian country upon the face of the
earth / I give few extracts of the
Testimony as given by Mr.. Williams
in hisspeech. Hon. E.. ". Mackey tes-
tifeI:g34 orf goI .fa1. au, INV 81
Il lave a, map of Charleston Coun-
-ty, which W1llfshow the location OF the
polish that county. We will take, for
instance, what is known as Christ
Church parish. Under the act of 1875
there was a polling place at Mount
Pleasant; then there was another at
the -Four Mile Church, which was four
miles from Mount Pleasant. Farther
up, on the same road, there was a poll
ing place also, at Wappetaw Church,
which is fifteen miles from Mount
Pleasant, or eleven miles from the Four
Mile Church. Then, continuing up the
same road, there was a polling place
at the Thirty-Second Mile House in
Saint James Santee, which is seven
teen miles from the Wappetaw poll.
About eight miles further on there
was another polling place called Board
Church. When the Democrats got in
to power by the act of 1878 they abol
ished all the voting precincts between
Mount Pleasant and the Thirty Second
Mile House, and left that whole stretch
of country, a distance of thirty-two
miles, without a single polling place.
They abolished the two intermediate
polling places. Then they established
at Moultrieyille, less than a mile, an
other voting place, where there is a
large Democratic majority. This new
poll was sure to give "a Democratic ma
jority, while the other polling places
abolished used to give large Republi-
can majorities. Again, after leaving
the city Of Charleston, as you GO out
Of the city on the State road
which runs through Saint James
Goose C1eek parish, there was a polling
place four miles from the city of
Charleston; and another at ,Whalley's
Church, about twelve miles from
Charleston then another ut Summer
vile, twenty-five miles from Charles
ton. Nov the act of 1878 abolished
all these polling places, and established
a precintt twenty-five miles from
Charleston. There was also a poll at
Mount Holly, and that was abolished.
They abolished in the parish of Saint
James Goose Greek all the polls BEL
tween the city of Charlestown and the
Twenty-Scond Mile House, being four
in number. All Of these were large
Republican polls. In the upper part
of Saint James Goose Greek they al
lowed tht two polling places to re-