The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-07-23
Tbe same Old Tactacs.

The cheek that inspired the plank in
the Cincinnati platform declaring in favor
Of Free Ballot cannot be too much ad-
mired. Ii reads
The right to free ballot is right pre-
servative Of all rights. and must and shall
be maintained in every part of the United
States.
The man who framed, and every fntelli-
geEe, reading Demoerat who voted for the
above 'splank" knew that there has not
been for years, and there will not be in
November next, . tree ballot in at least a
majority OF the Southern States. They
knew, also, that the party leaders are de-
terInined there shall be no free ballot. be-
est count there would be no ''Solid SOUTH
For Hancock and English. Why, the Con-
vention that adopted the platform contain
ing the above plank had scarcely ad-
jouTned before the work OF intimidation
commenced. On the 18th inst. the ''solid"
work of the ''free ballot Democracy was
fnaRgurated In Alabama. Major Bowie,
M independent candidate for the Judge
ship Of Dallas county, and tho independent
candidate for sheriff in TaIladega county,
were compelled to withdraw from the can
v4ss by Democratic threats. With the fate
Of Dixon fresh in their memory they acted
prudentIy. In Virginia the Ku-Klux busi-
ness was revived within three days after
the nomination of Gen. Garfield, according
TO information officially furnished the At
toFney- General at Washington. The Ku-
Klux now style themselves s'the Regula-
tors, . and they have already shown their
activity by seizing and ffOgging. under the
cover Of night, large number of Republi-
cans who had attempted 70 organize po-
htical campaign. and one OF whom had an
nounced himself as a candidate for Justice
of the Peace. A long list of names OF men
both white and black. who had been taken
out by the Regulators" overpowered by
numbers and cruelty flogged. was annexed
90 the report sent to the Attorney General
The Democracy of Dallas county, in thus
forcing an independent candidate from the
field. By Terrorism, were simply exempli-
flying what the Democracy mean by the
Stree baIlot.'' Silice 1s77 the county has
been the hot-bed of bull-dozers. Although
the county confirms an overwhelming ma
jority of Republican voters, for three years
past they have not been permitted to ap-
proach the polls except at their peril. In
1872, when the Ku-Klux were overawed
by the Government, the Republican. vote
in Dallas county was 7.0s1, TO Democrat
ic vote of 1884, while the elec- ion returns
of 1878 showed only Sol Republican votes!
And these sol votes were only placed upon
the poll-books for the sake of appearances.
These could and would otherwise have
been suppressed IN the same manner that
the other six thousand Republican votes
were. had the Democracy not feared that
the outrage would have been too glaring
for even the Democracy of the North to
swallow. Such nnbIushing and continued
outrages in the South must make the blood
OF every honest man everywhere boil with
indignation. And what honest man who
rsyeres the constitution and loves liberty
and justice. can vote to place In power a
party that nphOIds the whipping aud muir
dering of men because of difference of
political Opfnios