The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-08-14
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The Democrats of y aEoo county, Mi7sis-
sippi, are said TO be greatly ss.onished at
the fact that their late political matinee"
should have attracted SO much attention
throughout the country. They were not
aware that they were doing anything out
of the way, aEd supposed that putting a
political opponent of the track at the mug
zle of shot gun Was q regular and legit-
mate campaign practice. They say,
that's the way we'uns alius do, and we
can't see why you all make such a fuss
about it, Baldozing has been The rule ST
every contested election in the South dur
ing the last half dozen years. State after
State has been wres,ed from the rule Of Re
publican msjorities by intimidation
and violence. To the same agencies
scores of Democratic Congressman
have owed their election, and but for
them the Republicans would now have
majority in each house of Congress The
men OF Gszoo county have not been back
ward when party necessity has called them
TO help in carrying elections, and the sto-
ries of their murdercus doings in the car
vass Of 1875 cover nearly one hundred and
fifty closely printed pages of the reports of
Congress. Recently they have been doing
a little bulldozirg on their own account.
There were no assassins,ions, no whippings,
no burning OF homes, no banIshments. They
simply told msn who was running as an
independent candidate for office that he
must leave the State or abandon the can
vass, and be, knowing the men he had to
deal with, gave up the contest, and is once
more q: pesce with his peighbors. There
is hardly county in Mississippi, Louisiana,
Alabama, Georgia, or South Carolins, where
sreater outrages have not been committed,
with the approval Of public sentiment. at
tie South, sud with the silent assent. If
nothing more, OF large portion of the pso-
pie OF the North. The Boston TrcUeller,
commenting upon this condition Of affairs,
says
within twelvemonth, newsnapers put-
ting forth claim TO respectabliiy have Dc.
precafed the publication of reports of such
outraees, and have been encouraged nv "a
portion OF their resders TO indulge in sneers
at the newspapers and men who had the
ouraee To cal such acts by their right names
and cenounce them and their authors Now
all is changed, as the lazoo county peopIe
l,sve learned. II is the men who make the
bloody shirts rather than those who wave
hem who are the subjects of popular con-
demnafion now. In no year since The war
has there been such a healthy growth OF
public sentiment as during the past twelve
month. As the Ohio candidate for Gov
ernor has said: eve are all stalwsrIs now-
The discussions in Congress, the reports of
visitors IN the South, and the negro exodus
with the revelations ofits causes have he ped
70 educate the country. Yszoo county was g
Iiftte slower 10 learn than some other Dor
lions OF the bulldozed States that there is a
growing public sentiment i'm favor of free
saeclloos, aud the censure IL has broush
ooOn upon itself Is a revelation almost as
MING n lightning froru q clear noon-day
~. 1ne solid SOUTH begins to shske in
tne eeftnqunke Of public opinion, and Yazoo
coonV teeis the full force OF the unexpecfed
s0ock. There will be further surprises. and
severef ehocks, II those Who have prcfifed
~ e6e.e outrases in the pest attempt TO
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