Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-02-26

/ for as Smiley fell the death rattle sound
ed in Ale -ander's throat.
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How Southern Republican was Cheat.
cd Out of His Seat.
The story OF yere HARRISON, colored
member Of the Fcrty-fourth Congress,
and who was q candidate on the Re
publican ticket at the last election in
the Alabama district row represented
(?) by the Confederate Brlgadier Shell
ley, who was never elected to his seat,
is one of the most forcible illustrations
yet furnished of the infamous manner
In which Republicans have been cheat
ed out Of their rights in the solid
South. His memorial to Congress is
the strongest document that has yet
been submitted, and the accompanying
proofs of outrage are so overwhelming
that the Confederate Brigadier should
be instantly expelled from the House.
Mr.. HARRISON shows in this memorial
that when the returns were counted
large number of votes we're thrown out,
so that the record stood: HARRISON
(Rep.), $50; Shelley Dem.), 8,115;
and Henry (Gr.), 3l4. Tho false
character OF the record is shown
on its face, since the registra-
| ton Of the district shows the whole
number OF white voters to be $500 and
of colored $4,000. Out Of how many
votes HARRISON was cheated it is impos-
sible to say without knowing the ex-
tent to which Republican voters were
bulldozed out Of the right of suffrage,
but it is evident that if there had been
fair eotion he would have received
majority of several thousand. This,
however is of little consequence, for
Shelley appears with q majority 1915
larger than the entire registered white
vote, which OF itself is an absurdity, and
! shows that he was elected to the seat he
now occupies by theft and swindling.
The infamy did not stop with frsudu-
lent counting and destruction of votes.
Shelley used money in corrupt man
ner. After HARRISON, indignant st the
Infamous manner in which he had been
| treated, filed o notice of contest, no
Justice of the Peace would take the
afHdavits of his witnesses. When the
Judge of the First Judicial Circuit at
last consented to act in that capacity,
| Shelley had thrown Haralson's wit
nesses into Jail, and procured an indict-
ment against HARRISON himself upon a
trumped-up charge. At last, when the
bulldozers found that he was de-
termined to pursue his rights, they
waited upon him with arms in their
hands and ordered him to leave the
State under penalty of instant death,
whereupon he went to Washington. He
has been cheated out of his election.
He has been driven from his home by
force. He has been deprived of all
lawful means Of establishing his right
to his seat, and, as the freedmen have
been deprived Of their civil and politi-
cal rights, it is impossible for him to
get their dispositions. There WAS 10
resource left for him except to memo
rialize Congress to order an investiga-
ton of all the circumstances of this in
fanny, in order that he might have the
opportunity to prove his right to the
seat, and, had it not been for the sense
of fairness that characterized the
rulings OF the Speaker, the memorial
itself would have been suppressed, in
stead of taking the usual form of refer
ence to the Committee on Elections.
1t is, perhaps, too much to hope
that the committee will do justice to
MIR. HARRISON in the premises; that
even if an investigation is made it
will be anything more than farce;
or even that, il the investigation
should show that Shelley had stolen
his seat and was never elected to it, a
Democratic House would compel
| him to restore it to its rightful
owner; but the infamy remains on REQ
ord all the same. II is only one
in the long list of Southern outrages
for which q future reckoning will
come. 1t is only one more argument
that will arouse the Northern people
next fall to the necessity Of revenging
such infamy at tho polls.-Ch,cago
Tribune.
The MOnstrOus PaDthers of MendOcinO.
[From the Ukiah Prcss.l
! Will Hunter and Lucir Edwards sent
q panther's paw into town last week that
was as large rs pie-plate. The animal
killed sheep, and they went on his
track with dogs, but only one dog stayed
with it. They chased him mile before
freeing, finding where he had killed a
spike buck. AS they came up, he jump
ed out of tree, ran a few hundred yards,
and freed again. This he repeated for
about four miles, being shot at as he ran
until all their cartridges but one were
gone With this last one they broke his
back, and then finished him with clubs.
He was very fat, and measured nine feet