The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-01

could noat nnd have the people on it love
| and cherish IL. [Applause.l
THE SOUTHERN ELECTIONS.
come now to the question OF southern
elections, and / will be brief, although there
| are some very interesting nlaneuvers that
want to talk to you about ON that subject.
| We turned out OF the present congress five
| men from southern states simply and solely
| ON the ground that they were not elected
nothing elte except that the people who
voted elected somebody else. That is the
| only ground. We supposed it was sufficient
THE CHALMERS FRAUD.
first call your attention to the Lynch VS..
Chalmers case in Mississippi. The inspec-
| tors of election in that district returned for
| Mr. Lynch 10,9l5 votes: for Mr.. Chalmers
| 10, 257 votes, giving Mr.. Lynch a majority of
65S! Mark you, that was the return made
by Democrats who had control of the voting
precincts in the state of Mississippi
When the state commissioners came to
| make their return they returned for
Mr.. Lynch only 5 ,522 and 8, l22 for Chalmers
electing Chalmers by 4, 437 majority, whereas
Mr.. Lynch was actually elected by 65S ma
| jority. How did they do it, 1t will take
but a moment to show you. l show you
here samples of the two tickets. One has a
little dash with an 80" i'm the center Of it,
Now these state officers threw out all those
| votes because they said that dash is distin-
| gushing mark. The state laws of Mississippi
declare that there has not be any figure,
mark or device on ticket for the purpose of
| distinguishing it. That was intended to stop
putting an eagle or such like device Oh a
ticket. The law in good many states is the
So ne way. The canvassers declared that
| that printers dash constituted distinguish
ing mark and they threw out
| over 1000 votes on that accous'
Then they got together u supreme court
in Mississippi who were idiotic enough to
hpl fhatt hat iS stir oIrioh ,arY
Republican members of congress were sim
ply smart enough to hold that it is not
That is all there was of that case, yet with
such a frau6 as that staring them in the
face, almost every Democrat in congress
voted to retain Mr.. Chalmers III his seat
THE ALBANIA swINDLS
But it is worse and worse as we go along
In Alabama there was Greenbacker NAM ID
Lowe who was elected. But before the cleo
ton took place they issued a peculiar circu-
lar to the citizens of that district lie cir
cular was this:
Make at once q complete list of the qualified
negro voters in your precinct, in which 81 all be
set down: ]. The name and address of each
voter. With whom he works, and whether as
hired hand or tenant 3. What merchant or
other person advances for him AT.
1t is deemed preferable that this census be
made by regularly appointed census takers or
committees and that the negro voter should know
that he is thus enrolled by the club.
AS soon as these lists are completed each
club will promptly forward copy to the county
chairman to the end that all may be collated and
printed.
There are number of negroes who will not
vote for us, but who will promise to stay away
from TIE polls.
To look ter these and see that they adhere
to their promise enroll the young men of the pre-
cinct upder the voting age before the day of cleo
ton and assign each one to his negro.
This was the rule You know you cannot
get the poor negro to vote the Democratic
ticket. You can hang him, you can drive
him into the swamp, you can torture him,
you can do almost anything, still he won't
vote the Democratic ticket. But you
may persuade him with fear hanging
over him to stay away from the
polls. Then by putting a little scion of
chivalry under q in charge of each negro
you have the system complete. They went
into that election. Mr.. Lowe of Alabama
got 10, 456 ballots Mr.. Wheeler got 12,GO9,
leaving square majority for Lowe of S4S.
But a few days before election they sent out
a little joker which will read to you:
DEAR SR-As soon as the polls are closed in
form the inspectors of the election that the Lowe
tickets with Hancock electors on them are il
legal. They contain the figures 1st I'd. etc, de-
signaling the district. These marks or figures
acts of 1859 page r. and all such tickets should
be rejected when the votes are counted, after the
polls are closed.
They Endorsed this on the back: "To be
shown only to very discreet friends"
[Laughterl Then they went to work on
this basis. Their tickets read instead of
first, LIST; instead of second, they put the
figure I'd. That is all there is on the. tickets
right down to the eighth, different from the
Democratic ticket. The Democratic ticket
had the figures AZ and several other
numerals on it but they did not
hurt the Democratic ticket, only the Green
back ticket. That is the fact about this
figure business. This is the first time ever
knew a Greenbacker to be disturbed by
figures [Laughterl They put Lowe
out on that ground The Republi-
can portion of that congress declared
although, as stated on the floor of the
house, he added to the sins Of a democrat the
folly of Greenbacker still everyone of us
voted TO give him his seat simply because
he was elected. [Applause.] The Democratic
party filibustered for eight days and then
did not one of them VOTE in order to sustain
that kind of iniquity.
THE MACKEY-DIBBLE CASE.
now come to the Mackey-Dibble contest
in the state OF South Carolina. Now there
were in the precinct at Hope engine house
1918 votes cast. When they came to count
the ballots they found in the box $3.50 votes
They also found that 1858 of them were
Democratic votes; that is, there were
465 more Democratic votes found in the bal
lot box than all the votes cast at that cleo
ton. Laughter and applausel They kept
tally; the Republican ticket could
be easily distinguished, and when
ever darkey came up to vote, or
when a white man came they kept a
tally and they found that there were cast
that day 597 Republican votes and GIT Dem
ocratic votes. Yet when they opened the
ballot-box there were 2,2S9 votes in it. You
will notice that this Democratic ballot which
| show you IS a little tissue-paper affair."
There are two Democratic tickets. In print
they are precisely the same, but one
of them is wider than the other.
The way they got those in there was
that they folded the wider ballot and put the
smaller ticket right in the last fold of the
wider ticket. Then when the ticket was
dropped in, instead of one there would he
two and sometimes as high as seven that
dropped out of the fold in the box. Now, by
the law of South Carolina in cases of this
kind where there is an excess in the number
OF ballots, they blindfold man who draws
out tickets until they get the number down
SO it will correspond with the poll list. Then
they count the votes, and everything is fair
and square, don't on see. How was il in
this case They put Democrat under oath