The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14
NUMBER 10.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The EIotBed OF Secession Hotter tha..
Ever lust Now.


The HOtbed of Secession Hotter thaa.
Ever lust Now.
Washington Telegranl.l
1t may be remembered that some
time ago Dibble, of South Carolina,
made motion to quash the testimony
taken by Mackey in the contested case
of Mackey against O'Connor, in the
Charleston district, on the ground that
the contestant had, after the testimony
left the hands of the notary public be-
fore whom it was taken, altered, mutt
lated, interlined and otherwise tempered
with it, SO that, as printed by
the Elections Committee, it showed
different state of facts from that
sworn to by the witnesses II the case.
Dibble Gied certain affilavits in support
of this motion, and in few days after
ward Mackey fled affidavits from all ex-
cept six or seven of the witnesses who
had testified in his behalf to the
effect that their testimony, as printed
by the Elections Committee, was ex-
actly the same as that given by them
before henotary public when they we're
examined. The aft lavits also reaffirmed
the truth of the statc,aents made in the
testimony as printed. Having exhausted
every pretext for delay that could be
devised before the committee, Dibble,
on last Tuesday, procured a leave of alb
sence for ten days, and Immediately left
for South Carolina His counsel, who
lives in Washington, has indis-
creetly let out the fact that
Dibble has gone to South Carolina
intent upon new scheme to
prevent the immediate prosecution of the
Mackey- O'Connor case. He expects to
take advantage of the heated condition
of affairs down there incident to the
forthcoming election trials, which have
SO aroused the Democracy of the State,
and to procure indictments against
Mackey for subornation of perjury and
other ofenses in connection with what
he calls this mutilation and suppress
sion of testimony" and to support the
charge with the same testimony that
proved Intellectual to influence the ac-
ton of the House Committee on Elec-
tions. Having procured indictments
against Mackey, Dibble expects to have
warrant issued for his arrest, and be-
lieves that he can prevail on Gov. Ha-
good to issue a requisition for the arrest
of Mackey, who is now in Washington,
and his surrender to the authorities of
the State of South Carolina.
}a From the Chicago Tribune.l
= A l. Is A
eral Brewster addressed a letter to Mr..
Sanders, the Assistant District Attorney
of the United States at Charleston. 8.
G.. urging the latter and his superior,
Col. Melton, to prosecute rigidly the
most prominent persons concerned In
the election frauds which were developed
by the Smalls and Tillman contest for a
seat in the House of Representative
1t is important to state that Mr.. Sanders
is a Democrat, and had been sent into
| South Carollna shy Attorney General
Brewster 3eease < own 15zrty &ttssci1s
ments w6Si6ssrOuse no personal antag-
oniSm, but possibly obtain popular APP
proyal for any convictions that might be
secured under Democratic prosecution.
Mr. Brewster's letter was an earnest APP
volved in these election frauds should be
brought to justice in order that future
abuse of the right of suffrage should be
made perilous in South Carolina, and in
order that every man thereafter, wheth-
er white or black, Republican or Demo
crat, rich or poor, might be inspired
with sense of security In voting ac-
cOrding to his convictions.
Such letter written under such con-
ditions ought to have called out the
support OF all good citizens for the pro-
| gramme it outlined, and certainly should
not have excited any sectional, party or
race opposition. Instead of being re-
ceived in this spirit, it has been taken
up by the Democratic party of South
Carolina as a menace tothe bulldozers
of that State, and the Democratic Com
mittee have issued a pronunciamento
| calling upon the whites to resist this
new encroachment of the "radicals,"
and ttto stand together as one man to
maintain Democratic rule. @ IS
| The meaning of this Democratic proc
lamation in South Carolina is unnis-
taxable. It is an appeal to the white
minority Of the State to use its local in
| fuence to defeat the prosecution of the
men who manipulated the last Congress
sional and local elections by fraud or
carried them by intimidation, and to
encourage the same practices in the
| future. There is no injustice or oppres-
sion in Attorney General Brewster's pol
icy. There was nothing in his letter TO
excite party resentment. The very
man Entrusted with the prosecution is
Democrat In politics. The only
| purpose is to punish men who shall be
proved to have used fraud and force in
| elections, and therby vindicate the free
dom and purity Of the ballot. But the
1 Democratic managers is South Carolina
know that from the moment free stuff
| rage is tolerated In that State their party
4 must 90 to the wall. They understand
/ that the Democratic party cannot main
/ tain universal local rule in S )uth Caro-
! linalan send an entire Democratic del
egation to Congress if the right of every
/ man to vote as he pleased and the right
! to have that vote counted as he cast it
| shall be established in the State. Hence
| the proposed resistance. If the Demo
1 cratic Committee had summoned the
bulldozers by regiments and platoons,
/ had organized brigade of baliotrbox
| suffers, had declared outright that Re-
| publican votes must not be counted or
/ that Republican voters must be driven
! from the polls, it could not have avowed
more distinctly the intention to employ
] fraud and in imidation as the means for
carrying elections in the future. 1t is
| againt this spirit of notification that the
United States authorities must proceed
/ in any effort to insure an honest ballot
/ In South Carolina. a
The Crystal Palace.