National Republican., 1882-09-05
AlnbaIlln.

The recent election in Alabama being
for State purposes only, the national cleo
tion laws could not be applied to it. The
Bourbons in the counties under their
control were able, therefore, to render
returns without special reference to the
votes actually deposited in the ballot
boxes. In the northern counties, where
the negroes are few, the Bourbons lost
heavily by the union between the Lib
erals and Grcenbackcrs and the Repub-
LEANS There were but few scattering
votes against the Bourbons in the last
legislature. Now there are thirty from
twenty-five counties whose elections are
conceded. Thirty-six more were un-
doubtedly counted out in seventeen
countess in two of which dallas
and Perry the Bourbons did not
count solitary Republican vote as
having been cast. Other counties are
claimed by the Bourbons by trihing ma
jorties which are stoutly claimed rs Re-
publican. The Republicans and Inde-
pendcnts really carried the legislature,
but of course voting was not an element
in the election in any except the white
counties. In the latter the most wonder
full reaction is visible against the Bour-
bon party. Says resident of Alabama,
in letter to gentleman in this city:
The vote in The white COUNTESS where we have
had comparatively fair count, shows immense
gains over tie most favorable vote that we have
ever had-as for instance:
The counties of Morgan, Cullman, Chiffon,
Coosa, Cronshaw, Marshall, Pike, Washington,
De Kalb. Franklin, Marion, and E;owah, now
carried by Independents or Republicans, have in
vRnably given Democratic and Conservative ma
joritics Of from 800 to 900 votes; Crenshaw and
Pike by majOriies OF 200 and 1000 respectively
| The gross Democratic majority of these twelve
| counties has averaged upward of 5000, and ha'
| frequently been 0,000 or 1900.
III this district change of 5000 votes is indi
| Gated by the results in Crenshaw, where Judge
Thagaid former Republican probate judge, ha'
been elected by q few hundred majority; ii
Conecuh, where Democratic majority of onl,
| is claimed; in Escnmbia where the vote IL
close, and i'll Baldwin, where Professor Tatum is
elected.
We have never before carried Crenshaw or Es
| Gambia counties, and have generally been de.
feated in Baldwin and Conecuh, although We
have fair majority in Baldwin, Conecuh, and
Escambia counties.
The moral effect of this great detection
from the Bourbons alarms them. They
know that in November United State:
supervisors of election will be looking
at their work officially.
Choctaw County was at first claimed by
the Fusionists, and finally counted Bour
hon by twenty-seven majority. The ne
groes and whites are nearly equal il
numbers. The negro who had canvasseC
his race, and brought the Bourbons ST
near to defeat, was the chairman Of III
Republican County Commihee-JAcK TUR
NER. His political activity made him ;
Dangerous member Of society,"" and fo
it he was "quietly hung" at the town o
Butler by the unanimous vote" of {
Bourbon mass-meeting An account o
this atrocious political murder, writer
to the Montgomery advertiser from thu
scene of its preparation, thus concludes
We contemplate no further trouble from the ne
groes, since their leader has been made an exampl
from which Hioy will no doubt profit
And yet the Democracy of the Nortl
have nothing to say. They will den.
that it ever occurred after the affair ha
blown over.
Turner has been brutally murdered il
the interest of the Bourbon party, an,
the crime was committed by order of
Bourbon mass-meeting Southern paper
are ridiculing the pretext on which thu
outrage was based, viz, a negro plot il
writing for numbering all the whites
Negroes were tortured to compel them t.
accuse Turner. 1t is|the Bourbon hop
now that Turner's fate will teach tn,
"niggersp to keep their place" during
the campaign. We shall see. Dawson, o
| Nirginia. may have some advice to give