New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-19
County.
-. IA, 3s4I a, 262 1865 l8,625I 1887

Vote certified Tor SmaLs.- lo,<oI
1t viii be deserved that every county In the dis
trlct had "a colOred majority, the aggregate OeIig
i, s6S, and tnat according 10 the returns every
county except one gave "a DEMOCRATIC majority
Illnan's vote as returned eXceeds by S03l the en-
tire white maze population OF the district OF voting
aye. WINE SmalIs's vote, as returned, Is less by
III 975 than the coOred male p pulatIon OF the
voIlng age Illlman claims OF course, that he was
exceeulng,y popular among the coIOred peope, and
LII at ne recelv tine woes Ot thousands o1 colOred
men, The same claim Is made III Ills belalf by tne
Democratic minority Oh the Elections Committee,
VINO seem ready 10 swallow tue story, and actually
to enlarge IT. IL Is worth while u look into this
STATEMENT q little, because the data In hand are
sufficient to test It's rntn. Take EdgeiIeid County
winch he majority of the ElecLous Committee de-
termlncd ~ reJec. because OF the pro'en violence
winch yItiaLed the Result at every precinct. Inns
county cOutalns d YO,lng pOpuldtlOn vi 5000 white
ana D 64S coiOred the woe, Returned, was g. 467
1or uilnan auu /, U4o ,Or SIndiis-shOwlng thai If
every wulte Al the county voted Tor Il,man
he must also nave Received nearly 5000 VOTES of
colorcd men, In otner words more tnan one half of
The coiored voters were for Iilnan. 30 far all is
piaIn SAILING; out turning 10 Tie views" OIL the
minority OF me Elections Committee, signed by
Ne,srs AtherJon MOultOn anu Davis, one tuds that
nae, are uevoteI 10 All atIemps to pIoye that Tine
~ nIe peopie were compelled 10 themselves and
Gail ont a company OF millua 10 prevent an army of
co,ore Repub leans from taking iorciDle possessou
of the polls in TINS saline county. TINS army and its
operatons are thus described Oy the minority of the
EecIIous CommiJ.ee: " That the village was on the
nI9nt previous To the election beeaguered by tuese
hostile bands canped on ali the approaches to II,
and urnQ upon peaceful Citizens III the pubiIc high
wav sent out for the purpose of Inaulrlng their
object and intentions; tlat these banus, aggregaO-
iny from 1000 10 900 men, marched up TO the
boiling place IRON all directions the morning of
the election, swinging their clubs with
wells and demonstrations OF violence, and
attempted to take possession of the polls /:
tbaT they were prevented from carrying out
their unlawful purpose III a most temperate and
neacefuI manner with the least possible snow of
frrre and Immediately upon desisting were invited
IN vote and offered every facility for doing So
which their unusual numbers rendered possible;
thai under the pratlon oil their leaders with
ont reasonable they Voluntarily lett the pre-
cInct m organized Dands as they came, and went
elsewhere"
There is nothing in this about colored Democrats
the only place they figure Is IN the returns of the
Bourbon election managers. The army thus dc
scribed was at single precinct but according TO
the minority report tuere were similar armed bands
of coored Republicans elsewhere filing with
terror Tue white and coored Democrats, who, ac-
cordng TO the election returns, outnumbered them
more T. an SIX TO one. The minority of the Elections
Committee have thus aided in exposing the utter
falsity of the pretence that any considerable num-
Der OF colored Democrats can be found Ill the Vth
District of South Carolina