Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-09-16
How to Keep the South solid.

tirely suppress the Republican vote IN
those sections of our Republic. The
bnlljozing and intimidation so much re-
sorted to in 1876, were followed up and
supple mented later by the tissue ballot
frauds. and now Alabama inaugurates the
plan of counting out the Republican
vote, by tamperlng with the ballot box,
the election officers seeming willing to
take the contract to furnish any required
Democratic majority to order. The fact is
notorious and indisputable that many
places where there is known Republi-
can majority, either by intimidation,
by force or by fraud, the voice
of that majority is suppressed or
overborne, or utterly reversed, while in
Democratic districts the vote is some
times swelled to figure even greater than
the entire population. Where one of the
favorile methods will not accom- plish the
purpose, another is resorted to, and ii
neither slngly seems sufficiently effective,
the whole are combined. No means are
left untrIed to stife the voice Of the mi
nority, and often of the majority, and to
utterly destroy the great foundation OF
representative Government, tho freedom,
the purity and the sanctity Of the ballot
That these are not mere partisan state
ments. is to be shown by the public press
and the public men Of the South, which
must be taken, upon general principles, as
the reflex Of the dominant public senti-
ment Here is scrap OF Gov. Is. r.
PERRY's opinion, as set forth ID the
Greenville g. c. Neps, an Influential
Democratic organ:
Every true Democrat and every honorable man
should rise up In the majesty OF his strength and
swear on the altar OF his country ano his COO
that this (Republcan success) shall not be, let
the consequences be Whit they may. The poor,
miserable, unprinciped white man VINO tries 10
restore the Rad cal party TO power IN south Car
DINA should be socially ostrari.ei aon not even
spoken to on the streets. lie should be treated
as an enemy TO his race. "llDsts human gene
ris." The colored man should be told that MS
leaders are max ny tools OF him only 10 CRAFTY
their ptiable ambition and have chance OF
stealing his hard earnings, He should he tod,
too, that i he Will vote to place tosnS1 ana scoun
dres in office and power, no honorable Democrat
will employ him in any way. THIS should be re-
solved on and adhered to throughout the State
social ostracism for the white man and no EN-
ployment for the colored man.
Les. Il spite of social os'rscism
and every effort Of moral suasion,
the Republican leaders should still strug-
gle along, should organize and finally
conquer success, the matter is still to be
followed up, and Republican organlza-
ton is to be nipped in the bud, and the
Aiken IS. O. Journal shows how it must
be done. II says:
The Garfield and Arthur Club in Aiken makes
considerable hustle, bat II strlkes as that all nus
Is but part of a deep and well-laid scheme 10
attract our attention to them and keep uS de
ceived "a to the resl organiz 'tions The negroes
are forming all over The country IL th.h De,
hooves the Democrats to 90 to work At once ana
iorestall the plans of the Radicals RE GrSt
thing 10 be done Is TO reorganiss "s rea sh M
n'0unted clubs, Let esegy msstntg, De"'oera"e
or Radicdi, be taiy attended 6y them.
The cred shirt mounted clubs" have
heretoft re proved very effective In per
suading the negroes not to vote the Re-
publican ticket, and their appearance at
the polls often inclines the colored per
sons not to vote at all, but to quietly leave
for their homes, happy even II those
homes are not invaded by the murderous
gang. The Charleston Ne,os and Courier,
another influential Democratic organ, has
. suggestion to throw in upon the allah
sorbing subject of keeping South Caro-
lima solid. Here is It's alternative.
The Democrats can meet the Rep bncsus and
oyercOms them NJ they uid In 1876, snd IN no
other WAY. II we allow them TO consolidate the
colored vote we shall be beaten. They viii not
have more votes than the Democra 3, II ne waite
people, as they did four years ago, exert thcm-
selves individually 10 secure or hedtTd'ise co''F-
sd u0tes, The election does not depend on lne
machine, as some persons suppose IL depends
on votes. There Is no manner OF DOUBT lhtt' II
the Democracy abstain from political work. they
will be defeated, To win, they llusi labor even
harder than In 1876,
This has more desperate tone than
the givings out of the other organs. 1t
intimates \ fact about which there is no
doubt, namely, that the uuintluenced, un-
terrorized snd untampelei.with vote OF
South Carolina would be largely Repub.
lcan-that that party would be largely
In the majority. But nobody has any
real apprehension that such majority
will ever be declared The Democrats,
are in earnest slout IL, and they propose
to take hold OF the matter IN practical
aud effective way a recent special dis
patch to the Columbus Is. o. Register