The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-20

i'm Alabama Hancock's idea of Z" free cleo
ton, full vote and fair count" was applied afler
this fashion In Lowndes county Judge M. DUFF
Geld got $3.50 votes, every voter showing his
ticket ss he voted It, There are not over 800
Democratic voters In the county; nevertheless,
he was defeated by 1890. And 80 It went all
over the State. No one preiends to dispute these
statements The figures prove them. In Florida
the only special interest we have in the matter Is
what the Democrats think Of it. Alabama may
not want immigration, but Florida does.-Sun
and Press.
In Alabama there was virtually no OPP
position to the Democratic ticket. A few
prominent Republicans attempted to make
combination with the Greenbackers, but
the effort was signal failure, Republicans
like Judge Sam. Rice and Ex-Governor
Smith repudiating the fusion and refusing
to support Pickens, the Decentralization
candidate The result was that the me-
groes, finding that their own party had
practically given up the fight, not know
ing Pickens as Republican, voted with
the Democrats by thousands. We know
nothing of the alleged facts cited by the
San and Press, but suspect it will turn
out that they are all made for the occa-
sion. The vote of Lowndes county is
given by the Montgomery Adrertiser as
follows Cobb, Democratic candidate for
Governor, 3,5l7; Pickens, Greenback
candidate, 2,344. The election was as
quiet all over the State as any ever held
in New England.
Since writing this we find letter in
the New York San of the 10th written
by D. r. Hundley, of Mooresville, Ala.
and dated August Is. 1t bears directly
upon the election in Lowndes county
Mr.. Hundley says:
There are now published in the State of Ala
bama several papers edited and owned by colored
men. Two of these, and by far the two ablest,
are edited in the interest of the Democratic party.
The Herald, of Huntsville, is one of the two. II
is edited by w. H. Council, who is also the Prin-
cipal of the State Colored Normal School at
Huntsville. Council is not yet thirty years of
age. He was born a slave, and has educated
himself since the war. During the days of carpet
bag rule he was violent Republican. He is q
man of rare gifts, however, and is, besides pos
sessed of great force and independence Of char
acter. 1t took but few years of Democratic
rule to convince him of his early political blum
ders. He not only had the good sense to see that
| the State had been benefited by the downfall OF
his party but he also had the maniness to confess
as much. When he first began to give public
expression of his change of sentiments his life
was repeatedly threatened by his colored oppo
nentA have myself seen him, on the stand
face bowling mob OF ignorant blacks with the
dauntless courage of Roman gladiator. This
brave colored man is born orator, and but few
white men of his own age can surpass BIN as a
stump speaker. During our late canvass he was
on the stump constantly for the Democratic
ticket Among the counties visited by him was
Lowndes-a county reported 10 be controlled by
the shotgun policy" The following is taken
from his paper of August 6, giving an account Of
what he saw and did in Lowndes. Lei tho Re
| publicans of the North, who are declaiming SC
| furiously about the solid South, read and ponder
| it we'll
We went to Lowndes county week before last
to assist In the canvass. On the night of oul
1
house. We never met kinder people than We
found in Lowndes. The white people of the
county are laboring earnestly by acts of kindness
to convince the coored people that the tales cir
culated by their vicious leaders are untrue.
| On Wednesday of last week a barbecue was
given, to which all were invited irrespective Of
party or race. 1t was the incest affair we ever
saw. The first people of the country were out
and the olive branch of peace was offered the
| colored people and we are proud 10 say that the
better class of the colored people in LOwndes
were willing TO forget the past and clasp hands
".sr tho bloody chasm."
Up until last month colored men never voted
their sentiments because of the bulldozing car
ried on by the Radicals.
Ii coIored man voted the Democratic ticket
he was afraid 70 confess it or let II be kno wn.-
Dozens Of colored men in Lowndes will testify
TO this There may be places where the Demo
| Gratis bulldoze, but we have yet to visit place
wicked teachers 10 politics that these poor people
have had among them. A young man, Frank
Hamilton, said 10 our face at Burksville last Sat
| urday, that any man who would vote Demo
cratic ticket 4" Is evidently
endeavoring TO provoke fuss Austin Chapel
at the same time and place. said that if the other
| colored men were OF his mind, they would take
! the id traitors (meaning colored Democrats
into the woods and hang them. 1t is prominent
| fact that cOlOred men in that county have been
bulldozed and frightened into sticking TO The
Radical machine, and until recently dared moi
| vote their sentiments and make it known Let
Mr.. Hayes send soldiers down there to protect
these honest citizens 10 the exercise OF the elective
franchise. But. thank God, the sun of liberty
has arisen,in Lowndes, and more than Thousand
colored men voted the Democratic ticket there
last Monday, and will hereafter be protected from
the assaults of the bulldozer.