Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-10-15
A ULEAR CASE OF ExrnEnEs

a CLEAR CASE OF ExTREMEs.
Ins0Ieuco Rebuked - How the
Democrats IN the south Carry
Basfness Int Politics.
EDIToRs OF THE REPUBLICAN,. - The
Editor Of the Every Evening IL his dia-
tribe In last Saturdays issue seems TO
have resolved himself into q committee
Of the whole on the code In general
and the private affairs Of others in par
tioular. We have yet to learn that our
successful nufa,turers and business
men, ever needed his advice in the
management Of their enterprises, or
that our intelligent workingmen de-
pend upon him for counsel as to the
beet course for them to pursue. From
our Wow Of the case the impsrtinence
Of the article In question IL only equal
led by the vanity Of tile would be ad.
wiser. As he seems to be hunting for
a case Of bulldozlng and intimidation
we would gently refer him to tie fol.
lowing article clipped from prominent
paper showing how his rebel friends
In Alabama manage their little affairs
Of this kind, and having once learned
the modus eperandi We trust he will
not be SO apt to mistake the symptoms.
Yours Truly, is.
WHAT 1T cosT5 TO BE A REPUBLICAN IN THE
SOUTH.
WAsHTNsroN October IL, 1880.
1t now appears that the spirit Of in
tolerance did not die out with the elee.
ton, but that the bulldozs,s have
since then prosecuted those who were
prominent in organizing the opposition |
last summer and even gone SO far, in
at least one case, as to drive a good cit
izen out Of the State to save his life,
for no other reason than because he
tried to defeat the Bourbon ticket. R.
Campbell is the name Of q lawyer who
went from is,onsin to Alabama in the
spring of 1879, and settled down to the
practice Of his profession in Morgan
County. He at once picked up a good
business and for time everything
went smoothly, but he was Rspubli.
can, and when the canvass for last
runners election opened and the
Bourbons found that he proposed to
stand out against them, they began to |
abuse him. The leader of the gang ,
was D. M. Russell, bitter Democrat, 9
who, under the Key regime. was ap. /
pointed Postmaster al Somerville, and /
v no aspired 10 the Office of Probate I
Judge. This Postmaster opened several n
etters addressed to Campbell, and from n
me Of them took out check for twenty D
our dollars belonging to colcred eli
mt and put her mark upon 1t without
Ter consent. When election day came u
10 did all he could TO secure Russell's a
lefeat, and succeeded In cutting down
he Democratic Majority at his precinct G,
espite the efforts OF bulldozsrs, who p
'eat and sho: one colored Republican .,
md frightened number Of others ,'
way. After the election Campbell 9,
ound that the feeling against him did -
lot subside, aud before long he discov- =,
red that his life was in danger. w
Finally ons evening, as he was driv-
ng to his home, three Democrats way n
aid him and would have shot him had
Ut little girl living in the neigh .,
orhood apprised him Of the conspiracy II
nst in time for him to Jump out of his -
uggy and escape. Being unable to p,
each Somerville, the County seat, to y.
btain a warrant for the arres. Of these u
illains, he went to huntsville and ap.
ealed to the United States officials N
here but found that they could do n
othing for him. On his way back, p,
hen about two miles from home, p,
lend who had been riding in advance ~
rsconnoitre came back and told him n
lat the same gang we're again lying in b(
ait for him and determined to kill
i'm this time. What followed cannot
, better told than in Campo ll's own al
'aphic language in letter he has hr
st written to Colonel Lee Crandall of ~
lis city, himself an Albanian:
"Before We had time to alter our Eo
urse they all came in sight, and |
fought it best to abandon my buggy nj
I'd take to the woods, where | re- Sd
ained all night, leaving 1t with its an
vslise with valuable papers nj,
ID my pocket book containing $2l5- Di
the mercy of those miscreants. | by
yer reached home again. | sent
.ssenger to my wife 10 inform her SD,
lere was, as she had been told that co,
lad been murdered. When these ma
etches found that | had escaped pai
EN- and that | was trying to have wo
EN- arrested, they obtai ned a warrant acc
ainst me for an attempt to kill them Rl
tn q double barrelsd shotgun. | tia
On, under cover Of night, walked to did
the county town, and pro me
red a warrant to have those wretches ha,
rested. The Sheriff gave 1t to me, the
t, will you believe 1t, he appointed I
8 OF the aforesaid villains, with VOL
other Of the same stripe, to execute | al
remained in the county town all tina
int, and was informed that these wor
IN, for whose arrest had a warrant nv
re coming to arrest me, and l was was
vised to leave at once. II,
took the advice and walked to Hart this
rs, ON the Decatur Railroad, some
10 miles distant. met my wife and o
Id at Decatur and took them to Dial
ntsville. My pursuers were still
or me, for sbout 2 O'Clock in the
rning those same wretches, with the o.