New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-01-08

| loose swearing and such c0lfldent pleoBlnR vi
personal honor the case against the bulidozers
| must be dropped, indeed has virtually been
dropped, by all good Democrats. Whatever
NAV be brought ont by the Teller Committee,
one thing is certain that every Democrat
mind is made up as to the subject matter OF
the inquiry, and nothing will convince HIM
that anything improper or wrong has been
done by the white Democrats of the South,
who are anxious only for the welfare of the
negro and are willing to sink partlsanship for
the negrO's good
But as to the intimidation and bulldOzing
1T the North It j. different. The condition OF
things in Massachusetts, for instance, where
thousands upon thousands of the dOwD-tr0d-
den and oppressed desired to vote for Mr.. But
Ter for Governor, but were obstructed ana
hindcred in the attempt, and III thousands
! of cases compelled to vote for the
Republican candidate against their viii, *
narrowing in the extreme. Not as an offset to
the charges against the white Democrats OF
the S0uth--for that would be unstateSmanllAe
and demagogcal-bnt because OF their pro-
found sympathy with the toiling masses
under the heel Of the deSpOt III
Massachusetts, the Democrats are taking
steps to bring to light all the damning facts
connected with the late election in that State.
| The columns OF our contemporary The U0rd
have contained some of the most blood -curd-
| ling recitalS of these wrongs and Outrages
There was Captain Tarr," who was discharged
from the Boston Custom House with an insIn-
uation that his habits were bad. Certificates
have been procured as TO his habits, which
are said to be as good IA anybody's. 1t is be-
II. Al. Ill Gntsf mol fIan
reasons. Then there was Elijah Mcintyre,
discharged from the Boston Post Once on Il
nominal charge of embeMlcment OF waste
paper, but really because he voted for Butler
| Thomas Grimes, Of South Boston, was ar
rested and John OConnell, Of Plymouth, was
refused registration. Arthur ;. PrOut was
discharged from the Pittsiield Post Office
for taking too lively an interest III
"the Butler campaign.' Two men-namts
not everywhere discharged by the Or
angc Gold Medal Sewing Machine Com
pany, because they were active Butler
"mcn." In Whatcly, Clarence Smith was re-
fused registration, and " in suburb OF BoS-
"ton" "a certain physician "-namc not
givcn-tried to bride "a poor man '-hame
not giyen-to vote for Talbot. Charles otott
of Lowell, thrust a Republican ticket
INTO the hand of one Of his employee and was
"ho0ted and jeercd for 1t by fifty witnesses.
p. VI. Thompson, of Boston, discharged Il
"man named Green after he voted for But
lcr In Fitchburg Il man told his employees
" that there would be a tOrchhght pro-
| "crS>iOn' and an oyster supper. and he
would crpcci to see every one OF them
Gin the procession" Doubtless he compelled
them to eat the oyStcrs) john Blackwell,
! Oh the Clinton Wire Cloth Mills, was discharged
a week before election; and i'll Gardner, Albert
Sanderson, master of the Poor Farm,
was talked with pcrsuasivcIy' by one
of the Oyersecrs of the Poor. Then they
had dreadful state OF things in Manchang
village, and Eli Thayer was obliged 10 adj
" dress a Butler meeting in a barn. In spring
field there was such reign of terror that " a
oman might as well be dubbed away from The
"baIlot-box as winlled at by Talbot Sdpeiln-
"tendent." In Adams Butler meeting, the night
before fine election. was interrupted ma
hciousy with drums and noise" Then there
was a German discharged in Huntington, and
in North Adams reputable merchants were
afraid to declare their allegiance to Batter
&" for fear of being refused accommodation
cat the banks And this shocking condition
prevailed apparently all over the state.
1t is great comfort to know that the Dem
ocrats-Mr. Fernando Woods Committee doubt
lcss-are going to expose this whole business.
! They can do If without being accused of prcj-
udice or partialiy in the matter. For we
do not hear that any one was hindered by
bulldozng, or even by being talked with per
"suaSivcly," from voting the Democratic
ticket. 1t was the Butler ticket that suffered.
And it is very handsome in the Democrats,
after the Butler men got up in the middle
of the night and stole their convention
away from them, to come forward now, re-
turning good for evil, and demand Oh their
! behalf that the nefaIiOus conduct Of Buffers
opponents be exposed and punished. This GER
tainly shows pure love for abstract justice.
BY all means let lis have the investigation
proceed. even though the details harrow lis all
to pieces