Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-08-05
Boarding the Lion.

struggle. He claims that contest
should be made in the coming election,
and that as many Republicans as shall
dare to vote have their ballots duly
counted There is in the State of Missis-
sippi an undoubted Repu blicsn majority,
but the ruie-or-ruin minority have, tor
several years, by fraud, intimidation and
red handed murder, held undisputed pos.
session OF the Government. To induce
the Confederate Bourbons OF Mississippi
to tolerate tree ballot would require
opposition TO their shotgun policy in
kind; If the majoritv had been composed
largely of Anglo-Saxons, the remedy
would have been tried before this, but in
a contest Of that kind the ex-slaves would
be engaging in most unequal struggle.
II is because the numerical ma ority in
opposition have not been willing or able
to meet their prosecutors with their own
weapons, that Mississippi Is now In com
paratiyely undsputed possession OF the
Democracy.
bS DNnpNiotiS pSiiN1 VI hSiioi
carries its own condemnation in the very
remarkable change which has taken place
in Mississippi under 1t. BY the census OF
1870, there were in the State A37 900 ne.
groes and 353 900 whites. 1t is neither
claimed nor is it reasonable to suppose
that the increase among the whites has
been in greater ratio than among the
blacks. There is a considerable white
Republican element IN the State, as the
DIXON and CHISHOLM affairs and the
Congressional Investigation clearly prov.
ed; while the negroes, when left free to
vote as they wish, cast Republican ballots,
almost without exception. In 1872 the
Republican majority in the State was
$4,000; IN 1878, 10000; in 1876, TILDEN
WAS credited VII. majority of nearly
$4,000, while the following year the Dem.
ocrats made STONE Governor by a major
ity Of 96559 in total vote Of 80, S95. In
sixty-two OF the seventy-two counties in
the State, not single Republican vote
that year was cast Yszoo county was
one Of the ten returning Republican votes. |
1t gave three votes against the Demo.
cratic ticket. The year before there were
two men found bold enough there to vote
for Mr.. HAYES Previous to 1875, the Re-
publican vote in Yaz,o county WAS about
$500. In that year il dropped to seven.
We are promised that this year in Iazoo
not single vote shall be cast for GAR.
FIELD and ARTHUR. In four Congress.
sional districts in Mississippi choosing
Republican Representatives, in 1872 there
was a total Republican vote OF 609l5. |
In 1873 the Republican vote in these
same districts was but 2,712.
But what measures can be taken to
assist Republicans in voting, IN Missis
sippi, Is indeed a vexed problem. Mr.
HAYES declares that the Administration
will do all in Its power, hut that is neces-
sarily but bagatelle. The existing ma
,ionsl law enables the President to com
pei an approximately fair vote in cities OF
over &c, 900 inhabitants, but Nlcksburg is
else in Mississippi can Federal Super
visors and special Deputy Marshals be |
appointed. Even In cases of domestic |
violence, arising through the attempts of
the Confederates to suppress Republicans
by the wholesale, it requires either the
application Of the Executive or the Legis-
lative branch of the State, 10 enable the
national authorities to interviews. Never
theless, the dstranchised Republicans OF
Mississippi, as of other Southern States
should be stimulated and assisted to the
full extent of possibility by the Republi-
cans OF the North. Very likely our en-.
desvors may be impotent to effect pro-
per recognition OF the rights OF our
Southern brethren, but we can a, least
enter this our active and solemn protest
against the greatest political crime of the
age--the crime that makes the alleged
freedom of the Southern black more OF
form than 3 fact. 1t Is therefore meet that
Senator BRUCE aud his Republican coad.
tutors in Mississippi be awarded all the
aid, moral and substantial, that the party
in the North can legiumstely give them
If for nothing more than to have had the
satisfaction of assisting IN righteous
struggle, and exhibiting to the world the
true spirit of the "chivslric" Democracy
lar, al a, !, t,l INT