Daily Republican., 1879-04-22
Demoerats Deee,vi.s the People.

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repeal Of such important laws, at ieas
until it is fully established that ever!
citizen In the United States can safsl.
vote Just once and no more, and at tn
same time vote for whom he pleasss
1t is very we'll known that this is no
the case yst, as there are thousand
and tens Of thousands throughout th'
South that dare not vote bat at the risl
Of their lives, and rather than risl
their lives in doing SO they choose MOI
to vote. Then there are thousands o.
others who were marched up to the
polls and at the muzzle OF the pistol
made to vote just the contrary way
they wanted tc vote. True they might
have resisted, but If they had the whole
rebel hord of the South would have
called it an insurrection, and would
have sprung to arms to put it dowr,
and q war Of extermina alton would have
been commenced at once. Southern
politicians, with their Northern doIgh
faced allies, tell us that an era OF peace
and good will has been established,
and the Democratic papers, with such
independent papers as the Every
Evening"" still more truculent, dishon-
est and vindictive, reiterate the cry.
1t is all delusion, a snare, a cheat.
A bigger lie was never uttered than
that there is AN era of peace in the
South and honesty at the elections.
and those politicians and papers that
circulate such abominabls stun know
they lie. There are Congressional Dis.
tricts in Georgia, Alabama and Missis'
sippi in which only from 1000 to 5000
and 5000 votes we're cast at the last
Congressional elections. As each dis
trict has 10000 votes, many Of them
more, we would ask where are the bal
ance of the voters, and why did they
no. vote' 1t is well known that they
would vote if they had chance to vote
unmolested, and for whom they pleased
to vote. If free and fair elections were
held there is not Congressiona! Dis
trict in the South that would not poll
2S, 900 votes, and yet men come up to
Congress pretending to have been elect.
ed, having received, in many instances,
one vote out of every twelve in the dis
trict, and this, toe, where there was but
one candidate in the district. Massacre
Chalmers says that in the district,
which he misrepresents, and from
which he was never elected, the no.
groes dressed in red shirts and led by
bands Of music marched up to the polls
and voted for him.
Perhaps they did, but il so, it was
because there were companies OF rebels
in the rear that marched them up at
the muzzlss Of cooked pistols. After
all this bulldozing Chalmers made out
to get about 5000 votes out OF over 80, =
600 III the dlstric:. The coorsd voters
of that district must be very forgiviIg
to overlook the massacre OF Fcrt Pillow
80 soon, and thus to honor the man
who had the unresisting negroes shot
down in cold blood. II there is any
comical side to this question, it is in
the facts that this same blatant rebel
Chalmers, who knows he lies, coming
into Congress and offering bill TO pro-
vide for the purity OF elections and pro-
lection of the ballot boz. Was there
ever such mockery and farce made
Of elections that Chalmers has made,
and yet he ~ on. OF the Democratic
idols that the /" Every Evening" de-
lights to honor. Az we have already
said the assertion that there is no
more need FOR these Federal election
laws that are sought to te repealed, lie
a cheat, a delusion, a lie. They are
sought to be repealed, that Southern
politicians, like Massacre Chalmers and
Butcher Butler, may always be enabled
to keep their hands on the throat Of the
colored Republican vote Of the South
and choke it to death when necessary
to attain their selfish and ambitious
ends. They want to Introduce the
sam. plan in New York, Cincinnati and
other populous cities of the North, that
the honest vote OF the people may be
buried beneath fraudulent ballots and
Nav York AMI Ohio carried for the
Democracy. The Southern leaders
know that in an honest vote they could
not hold Juth Carolina, Florida, Ala.
lama, Mississippi, Louisiana and some
other Southern States, hence their
anxiety to rtm9ve every vestige Of law
for the protection of voters, that they
may carry those States by violence aud
fraud, sni they know that they must
carry ali The South, New York and
another large Northern State to elect
their Pres iGsn:. This is why the Fed
eral election l,vs which are terror to
fraud, are t, be repealed. The argu-
ment that the era of le CO and Lonesty
las dawnsd, and that these election