Huntsville gazette., 1882-01-28

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Whose Seat he Has Stolen.
Some strange documents bearing upon
election methods in the South, indirectly,
throwing much light upon the contest pen
ding in the House between Lowe vs. Whee-
ler It seems that Wheeler at the last
November election was the regular DEM
ocratic nominee in the Eighth district of
Alabama, and that Lowe was the Indspen-
dent Liberal and Greenbacker that ran
against him and, by the way. received a
large majority of the votes. Wheeler or
Qanized and carried on the canvass in the
usual Bourbon style-only more SO. His
campaign documents, specimens OF which
are now before us, are too utterly and in
tensely utter for anything in the world.
He charges Lowe with everything in the
decalogue, with being Radical and seal
lawag. and, the worst of all the Stal wart
Republicans in the House. He says in a
printed public letter to Lowe:
.You chose seat in Congress on the
Republican side of the House, where your
forty (40) nearest associates were thirty
eight 1881 Radicals, mostly hard-money.
national bank. high tariff Radicals, and
two (2) Southern scallawags, men despised
by the Southern people who live In their
districts"
Again, he says (all of these documents
are sigDed Joseph Wheeler):
Colonel Lowe voted and worked with
the solid Radical party and against the
solid Democratic party to keep soldiers at
the polls to outrage and Cypress Southern
people and destroy free elections"
Again he says:
"Colonel loves joining Republicans in
opposition to his own people, OF course,
| ELECTED commendation and compliment
| from the worst members of the Radical
party, and, as fitting to the occasion, Frank
Hiscock. from Syracuse. ", the very hot
test of all hot-beds of Radicalism, was one
of the first to respond. This imperial
Radical hater ana oppressor OF our South
ern people thus replies to Colonel Lowe,
our Southern Greenbacker:" Il do not de-
sire to say more. Nothing need be said, or
can be said, to strengthen the argument
made upon the amendment offered by my
friend (Mr. Lowe) on this side Of the
| House."
Again he says:
II show from the Congressional Record
that Colonel loves Radical associate
Frye. of Maine, made an effort to radical
ize the House by preventing the seating Of
Noble Hull, fairly elected Democrat from
Florida, etc. 1t has been a rule always
acted upon by the Republican party to seat
any and all Republicans who appeared
with certificates, although notoriously
| fraudulent, and to keep them in their seats,
voting upon all measures, until ousted by
the rightfully elected Democrats after
long and expensive contests. Under
such circumstances. to seat the Radical
Bisbee, who had been defeated. in place of
Governor Hull. who had been fairly elected,
would have been Waterloo defeat to the
| k,4 - A.
stood eighteen U8) States were controlled
by Democrats in Congress and eighteen U8)
| by Republicans, while the casting vote was
held by De La Matyr, a Greenbacker from
Indiana If the notorious Orth, of Indiana,
was unseated, which seemed quite probable,
the Democrats would have control of nine
teen (l9) States" etc.
| Again Wheeler saws:
Garfield Conger, Frve, Hiscock and
Hawley, aud all other radical haters of the
Southern people, seemed for time to have
a satiation of their hate and willingness
to cease for a moment their oppression
but Colonel Lowe seems to have had no
snch scruples.
These elegant extract land we wish we
had room for more) indicate clearly that
according to Gen. Wheeler, Col. Lowe has
the record in the last House of Stalwart
wart Independent, or Stalwart anti -Bour.
bon of some sort. And that when Scar
field, Conger, Frye, Hiscock. and Hawley,
and all other radical haters'' of Bourbon
ism, wanted to ''let up" as it were, Col.
Lowe wanted to let down on the said Bour-
honism worse than ever |! Good for Col
Lowe We are glad to learn it; and al
though it is rather roughly put, We freely
forgive Col. Lowe for such Bourbon ev-
idence of his good sense and patriotism.
But it seems that right here the Alabama
| straddler wants to come in and make him
self solid? Since the last November cleo
ton. at which Lowe was counted out and
Wheeler was counted in, Wheeler him.
self has changed his tune. He no longer
talks about radicals and scallawags'' He
has nothing but good things to say of
yankees and niggers." He has not only
caused to abuse and deride conservative
and loyal men, but he has made immense
efforts to become conservative and loyal
himself. He has busily employed the
time between the ''count out" and the
meeting of Congress, in writing patriotic
letters. And not that only. but lest good
be done III secret and this new convert get
no credit for it, he has been industriouly
printing these loyal letters and speeches
and sending them broadcast to each and
every Republican Member of Congress
Not content with showing Lowe, III the
canvass. as quasi Republican, he now
undertakes to show himself as something
Of the same sort In long letter printed
last August in the memphis Appeal, he
oulogizes the National Government and
praises the Northern soldiers for their
courage and patti tism in overthrowinc
the rebellion and restoring the glorious
Union. Indeed forgetting every vile and
abusive thing he lately said and printed
in the canvass, he now says:
From the moment of peace l have felt
| it to be the duty of Southern soldiers to
| avoid actions. or expressions even, which
tended in any way to continue the feelings
which war naturally engendered."
And again:
"The maintenance of distrust, disco,
and estrangement is inconsistent with civ
ilization and Christianity, and will retard
progress and prosperity"
And again. with perhaps unconscious. re-
ferance to his own canvass, he says:
I'VE must expect that the more unscru-
pulous politicians will continued to say