The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03

found in a box it is the duty of one of the
managers to draw out such excess One Of
them was accordingly employed for this pur-
pose, and in drawing out this excess OF l. OF.
he drew out every Republican ballot but FIVE,
and when Mr.. OConnor placed that man
upon the stand, he had the impudence to
swear that he felt for the Republican tickets,
and that the reason those five were not
drawn out was because he could not find
them One fellow whom Mr.. 0'Conor called
said he could tell them by their feel" as
easily as he could tell a piece of sheet-iron
from tissue paper
The Chicago Tribune, in an editorial said
lately: ut cannot be charged against he
publicans that they have raised
THE BLOODY SHIRT
this year as campaign banner The fight
against the Bourbons IN the South has been
abandoned TO the GreenbacEerS, the Read
justers and the Independent movements
Yet there has been no lack of Southern out
rage. Within week bloody affair occurred
at Lancaster, where Colonel Cash, former
Confederate, is an Independent candidate
for Congress, and protests against the bad
faith the Bourbons had displayed in their
dealings with the negroes. Cash was not at
tackled personally, as that might have been
dangerous to some of the red-shirts but
when he and his immediate friends had quit
the ground there was an onset upon the ne
groes. The blacks withdrew, as they always
do in such cases, and went off to distant
part of the town, but the red-shirts were not
willing TO forego SO excellent an opportunity
for killing niggers,' SO they laid in wait, re-
neWed the attack. shot SIX negroes dead and
wounded eighteen others. many Of them
mortalIy."
Other violences have been so pronounced
that conservative journals could only write
the heads in this manner, especially refer
ring to the contest of Small VS.. Tiliman
s'Lawlessness and violence rule supreme in
Edgeheld County-The grossest of frauds
perpetrate Bourbons armed
with guns and pistols. patrol the streets, firss
ing and yelling and assaulting Republican
voters. At one poll they made the Repub-
licans smell helP-UniGed States Supervisors
beat over the head with clubs, their COM
missions wrested from them and forced to
leave the polls 0nder threats of death-Re-
pubhcans assaulted, shot, wounded, and
killed"
Yet Mr.. Winans and his speakers sheer at
waving the bloody shirt of twenty years ago.
When remember that Charles Sumner
waved it and would not be put down by
blows or bludgeon, when remember that
have seen Oliver p Morton stand in your
Senate House amid the jeers and sneers of
the Representatives of the South, still de-
nounclng those outrages, when remember
grand old Zach Chandler on the soil of Rock
County, standing on the crumbling edge of
his own grave, denouncing and declaring he
would ever denounce these things until they
should cease, SO /, though standing far from
these great men, renew the VOW here again
tonight, that whether in Congress or out of
Congress. with such strength as God shall
give me, will denounce Them now and for
ever, until these heliish outrages upon the
American baIlot-box shall cease. loud ap-
plause.]
Now guess we will get to the
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
Americans love fair play. When the Presi-
dent vetoed the bill OF which I am to utter
NO criticism, what was the charge brought
against those who voted to pass it over the
veto? Why, that it was an SIS, ZOO, 900
steal and our opponents go from town to
town, county to county, night after night,
deLouncing this as an 81 600, 600 steal.
They divide that amount among the States,
Congressional districts, and counties; they tell
you that the farmers of this district will
have to dig out by hard toll $54, 600. Are
these gentlemen ignorant, or are they MA
licious? Eighteen million dollar steal! Will
you have no river and harbor improvements
in this country? Will you allow your works
to go to decay Why suppose we had failed
to pass river and harbor bill, and to pass
any other than this in the temper of the two
houses in the concluding days of the session,
when members had already packed their
trunks and were leaving or ready to leave
on the train, would have been i'm
possible. You could no more have passed
a modified bill than you coald have overset
your marble CaplLOl WIN your own NAKED
hands And yet who acquainted with the
fact. would dare adjourn without appropri-
ating at least 80 000 900 for rivers and har-
bors? This appropriation was to cover the
present fiscal year. Defeat it and not dol
lar could be used until the first day of next
July TO keep up the improvements and re-
pairs of your rivers and harbors, nothing but
the remnants of last years appropriations
left Yet every man who decided to
CHOOSE BETWEEN EVILS,
placed as we WERE is denounced as
q thief Is George F. Hoar of Massa-
chusetts thief? AS pure man as stands
between the two oceans Tonight; is he a
thief? He voted for the river and harbor
bill Is William w. Rice. is w. W. Grape, late
candidate for Governor OF Massachusetts, a
thief! He voted for the river and har Dor
bill Is William Window, Senator Macmillan,
Philetus Sawyer, Angus Cameron-a major
ity of the Western delegates--are they
thieves? Is honest Joe Cannon, of Illinois,
who for nine years has fought every extrav-
agan5 appropriation who fought and de-
nounced the star route steals before James
ever dreamed of them, and has won the
title of ''Watch-dog of the Treasury and
almost reputation for parsimony in exces-
sive zeal. SURPRISING Holman, of Indiana,
himself. Judge Cannon is thief. He voted
for the river and harbor bill. You will not
hear Democratic speech this year on ex-
travagance In appropriations where the
figures will not be taken from chat apostle
OF Democratic economy, j. ID. Atkins, OF
Texas, ex-chairman of the Appropriation
Committee of the Democratic House
They will not give you the reply
and explanation of Frank Hiscock, our pres
ent Chairman of Appropriations. but they
indorse J. ID. Atkins. Turn to the yeas and
nays on the river and harbor bill, aud the
name that heads the list is the name of J. D.
Atkins of Tennessee.
But were certain things in the bill wrong?
l say tonight as have said all the time, it
is my opinion that there are items there
questionable il not wrong, but they should
be treated in a candid manner, in cool iudg-
ment. by mature and practical thought, or
the thought of practical men. Well why
didn't you all master these items? What
LIS there anybody here who has ever visited
Washington? Do you know how business is
done in your Congress?
MASTER THESE ITEMS
There are in the present Congress from
9, 900 to 10, 600 bills. There are forty-seven
standing committees of the House to which
all this mass of legislation must be dis
tributed and divided. The river and harbor
bill was referred to the Commerce Commit
tee. For four mortal months they laDored
diligently, searching the three volumes of
the report OF the engineers, calling the engi-
neers before them, calling the members OF
boards of trade, State officials. Mississippi
River Commlssion-anybody that could
throw light upon it.
why were you not there?' these new
statesmen, Just from their political jericho,
inquire of the people of this district They
tell you how humble and inefficient am,
and feel it, but when they tell you that
have been inattentive, though it is matter
OF delicacy TO allude to it. deny it. The
committee of which mad the honor to be a
memDer formerly met once or twice week.