National Republican., 1882-07-15
ALABAMA POLITICS.
The Infamous Election Lnw-The Caudl-
dates Before the PeopIe.

The Infamous Election Lnw-The Caudl-
dates Before the People.
The Bourbon press of Alabama Is tauntng the
Re publicans Of that State with having made their
party tail TO small kite, to wit that Of the
"Greenbock- Labor party" This because the Re-
publicans failed to place a Stale ticket In the
field, but resolved TO support the candidates of the
Gieenback party. The Bourbons are also very
demonstrative in showing the Inconsistency
and "absurdity" of an alliance between hard
money aud greenback party But any one who
comprehends the condition of affairs in Alabama
must clearly see that there is and can in the ma
ture of things be but one issue between the Bour-
bons and the other citizens Of Alabama, whatever
may be their political views. The issue is whether
or rot the lawfully qualified voter is to be per-
mitted to vote at elections, aud whether or not
his vote is to be honestly counted and returned.
UNTIL THIS ISSUE is SETTLED
in favor OF an honest ballot, nothing else can be
made an issue III politics. Why should men sue
port or advocate any measule for the public good
when they know that they would be powerless in
any practical effort to alter or amend the laws,
simply because neither their votes the votes OF
those M who agree with them would le e. counted. m led:
are disfranchised; their votes are never counted,
but are stolen from item. Montgomery, the
capital county of Alabama, has a Republican ma
jority of at lcnst five thousand. The Republicans
have nominated their members of the legislature
from that county, and yet, though the solid Re-
though they will actually receive more than five
thousand votes in excess of
THEIR DEMOCRATIC COMPETITORS,
there is no more probability of their being de-
clared elected than if there were not single Re.
publican vote in the county. The election will
occur in August, and the persons to Conduct the
election at the different precincts in this county
have been selected by the Bourbon officials
They are nll Democrats or colorcd men who can.
not read or write. Not one person recommended
by the Republicans was selected The result of
the election is already ascertained; all the ball
ance of the procedure is mere firce Every
man, woman, and child In the county knows that
the machinery for theft is now perfected, and that
no number of ballots against The Duurbons
though the ballot boxes mig gt be stuffed full TO
the brim with them, would affect the practical
result. The Bourbon candidates
WILL BE DECLARED ELECTED,
and n succt ssor of Senator Morgan will take his
seat in the Senate of the United States by the same
Kind OF title that Morgan now holds his scat-tlAt
is, provided the Republicans, with the assistance
of the Greenbuckers, are not abb to compel fair
election. This they can only do by thoroughly
canvassing the State and bringing the people TO
realize the enormity of the crime that the liour-
bons are committing and the baneful effect that
must surely How. We notice that in few of
the white counties even the Bourbon conventions
have pronounced against the
INFAMOUS ELECTION LAW OF ALABAMA
not, We regret to say, because of its nfamy, but
for the reason that 1t gives to the Bourbons in the
black counties u Political power they would not
! have If the Republican votes were not counted
as Democratic. The action of the Republican
State onvemtion in committing the Republican
party to the support of the Greenback ticket has
met the hearty approval OF Republicans and anti
Bourbons throughout the State. These united will
ut least 10000 votes in excess of the Blurbons
and if the latter are not defeated, 1t viii be be-
cause of the outrageous stem of Bourbon fraud,
which has been fully exposed by the testimony
| taken in the contested election cases from Ala
bama during the present Congress.