Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-08-26
Beaten by Bulldozers.

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Although, up TO the present date, the
news from Alabama is meagre and i'm
perfect, enough has been obtained to show
that the most outrageous frauds were com.
mitted by the Democratic bulldozers and
ballot-box suffers. We give q few in
stances OF how things were run:
WASHINGTON, d. e., Aug. The fol-
lowing private letter was received to day
from gentleman well known in this city,
and whose statements are entitled to full
credit:
MONTGOMERY, Ala Aug. 4 DEAR
Sir: The Democratic battle.cry is now,
'Bayonets at the polls, provided they are
Democratic bay onets. The infamous farce
they called an election took place day
before yesterday. Our returns as received
from reliable men We had stationed at the
pools show that we have carried every one
oil the precincts in the county, and our
majority is over $780, The official Demo.
cratic returns show so far that they carried
the county, but they don't give all the
figures yet, and it is left with them to
declare the county carried by either two
or thirty thousand, although they have no
more than 1000 votes at the highest.
give you one instance, the most fragrant,
showing their moduS operandi. In one
precinct, land you can Judge how
much truth there is in the Democratic
platform cry of Fair elections and an
honest county, at McGehee's Switch, in
this county, one of the very few places
where Democratic managers of election
give us, certainly by mistake, an intelli.
gent colored man as an election inspector,
the Democrats saw no other way of carry.
ing that box than by wholesale intimida.
tion, and without the slightest pretext
without a show of right or an excuse for
their action, for the utmost quiet pre-
vailed during the whole day, the Demo
Gratis down there telegraphed here, ten
miles distant, for the militia. The Mont.
gomery Grays, with bayOnets on their
muskets, reinforced by about 100 armed
citizens, who went down as volunteers,
were dispatched by special tram to the
voting place. We had in that box over
800 majority, counted by the above-men-
toned cOlOred inspector. After the militia
arrived one Of the Democratic inspectors
blew out the light in the room, and threw
all except Democratic ballots ON the floor.
Tbcy afterwards burned them all and
| led the box with new Democratic bal.
los. This was done within about three
m'utes, when the lamp was relightcd.
| In ,colored inspector Indignantly refused
TO i've anything more to do with such an
lnia'ous fraud, refused to lign the re-
turn and withdrew, not, however, until
they, .hreatened his life, pointing to the
miIltl'Dutside, if he refused to retract all
lnsinutons of unfairness. | forgot to
say tha'at dinner time they tried their
pest 10 l-suade him to go to dinner with
them ano cave the box in the room, and
were qulttudignant, talking about I'm.
famous nlter suspicious" when he re.
fused to lea his place by the ballot-box
ihe name { the colored inspector is
ananlaS oIivi, and that of the Democratic
inspector, WIN he charges with the
crme' Dr' Mculee. Oliver made affidavit
to those lacts esterday before United
states NGommInisS1er Gardiner, OF this
city, Inc olnGlaoemocratic return gives
in that box Denrntic I1H'I-iiv $50
a steal OF nearly 100 at .. .yy. We.
had 800 majority tie, and Cue Democrats
:: in that precinct, evG one n. .em being
well known, numb less nam ,iylty
Two Yeas ago the.prac!iegd tlc sane
: fraud at the August tction. while at The
November election, IN United Sta es
supervisors at the pO the, bad loc
up the county by near l,ClO majority I'