Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-09
MEMPHIS APPEAL
SATURDAY, :: /: DECEMBER ., 1852
pULLDOzINGIN INDIANA.

70 the South. IL Is q singular TACT That the
Republicans of the South, who are 30 loud il
condemuing any obstruction TO a free ballot
and fair count, are always obllVious tot h.
bulldcziDg of other sections Of the Union
The mississippi plan" is denounced, but NC
word of condemnation is uttered against ths
"Indiana plan" The Democratic paper o.
Indiana are exposing the methods which.khe
Republicans have adopted 4. prevent ga free
ballot" and 10 BULLDOGS Democrats into the
support Of their ticket, but startling al
are these disclosures they do not attract
The attention Of those who are 30 much
exercised about Southern frauds. The In.
dianapolis Sentinel shows that in the late
ayers of the Oliver and Studebaker shops
at South Bend, Ind, deliberately and
nsbfe indignities upon their employees in
the interest OF the Republican party. They
pursued a policy of terrorism by making
employment in their shops dependent upon
the employees vote. A Democratic vote
meant no more work, while Republican
vote signifed continued employment. There
proprietors and managers drew the line,
made it luminous as lightning, and the en-
ployes were made TO understand that il they
exercised the high prerogatives OF freemen
and voted the Democratic ticket, the penalty
would be discharge, with all its attendant
ills of idleness, want and suffering; and 10
reduce their workingmen to the lowest level
OF servile degradation, they were disrobed Of
their sovereignty, of the GROWING glory oil
citizenship, formed into squads and marched
10 the polls and voted as if they had been so
many cattle, and this detestible proceeding
was practiced in the interest of the Republi-
can party. The testimony is overwhelming,
crushing, and clearly sets forth the infamy
Studebaker shops. One man, 3 Democrat,
employed in Sludebaker shops swears that
he voted the Republican ticket for "fear be
would be discharged" that a Republican
ticket had been given to him, and though he
had Democratic ticket in his pocket he
was watched SO closely that he dared not
make the change, and as a consequence, un-
der the terrorism prscticed, voted contrary
TO his convictions. One Democrat sweaIs
that he wanted TO clay off" on election day
TO "altend the polls" but was told if be lay
off on election day he would clay off all the
time" Another Democrat, who exercised
his rights as an American citizen, an en-
Democratic ticket, though confessedly one of
the best workmen in the shop, was on tie
day following the election discharged. Ohe
man swears that on the day of election the
gates of the Oliver shops were closed and no
one was permitted TO enter. The gates aud
the doors are 60 constructed that what was
going on could be seen, and inside
the gates Workmen were arranged ia
squads and marched out of the shops
through the yard TO the gatekeeper's Office
with foreman at the head of the gang. In
the gatekeeper's Office Ii men were handed
each 4 ticket, and then two foremen took
charge OF the men and marched them off to
the polls. This proceeding was kept up
until ten or twelve squads OF men, number
ing from twelve 10 twenty-five each: were
marched of and voted. 1t appears that
this Infamous business has been going on for
years pact. One man swears that James
Oliver, Of the Oliver Works, was actually
engaged in the bulldozing business in 1889,
telling an employee that the Republicans
gave him work and good wages" and asked:
"What do Democrats do for your" and after
he had declared that he was a Democrat
and would vote the Democratic ticket, he
was told if he insisted upon remaining
Democrat he should go and get work from
Democrats" 1t is in evidence that men who
had worked in the Oliver shops for years,
having told that they voted the Democratic
ticket were promptly discharged. 1t is in eyi-
dence that men from theOliver shops were sub
jected to the most slavish surveillance by their
oveTseers, to the extent that their names
were taken down as they voted and every
ballot watched. In one case il is in evidence |
that squad from the Oliver Works were |
told: "You will only take tickets and vote |
those given you by -; no one must vote |
a Democratic ticket; you must vote cnly
If men exhibited any hesi-
ancy in obeying the .autocratic orders OF The
POSSES, the order was, Come on, come or"
lud in this way obedience was extorted. AT.
er exposing ali tn e methods to which the
Republicans of Indiana resorted for the pur-
pose of bulldozing Iaboring Democrats, and
hus preventing ga free ballot" with the
Tiew OF electing the Republican candidates,
be Sentinel saya:
Can Indianians contemplate such partisan
an Mr.. Cslkins. the recipient of votes obtained
y such fagitious proceedings hope to disgrace
congress by his presence? viii not honest men
4 all parties cry out shame2 We have never read |
I an election anywhere which for atrocious bull
aw was disregarded; workingmen were reduced
; the most degraded yassalsge; sovereignty was
citizenship was debased elections
.d0ced to a crime, and the ballot box shame
lily debauched; and ali these infamous proceed
fight triumph in the Thirteenth Congressional
istrict OF Indiana But for the outrages we have
ave b>en awarded TO the Hon. ]. H Winter
1tham; and we do not believe the Forty-eighth
Ingress will fndorse the triumph of such rss- |
lily. The transactions at south Bend, Of which !
e have written, are foul stains upon the good
DE, legal method should be resorted to calcu-
ted in any degree 10 wipe out the stigma. Such
eansed. Public opinion should not tolerate
graded not to the level OF eonyicts in the peni
hilary, perhaps but they are Illuminated to the
nix of slaves, and every pillow sent forth by the ,
e Studebaker shops symbolizes the bondage of
semen and the degradation TO which the ballot
: that cannot be contempiated without intense
horrence. This Infamous piece of business
oqld be taken up by the press OF the State aud ,
It'll there is a reform inaugurated in the save
ms of South Bend,
When the Republicans had a majority 10
ongress every Democrat charged with Sc
ring his election by intimidatiou-the J
ny method which Calkins adopted in
ldiana-was deprived of his seat. What
Dulldozing in the South ought TO be bull
zing in the North; but the Republicans .
i've no condemnation of the shameful man
.r in which the laboring classes of Indiana
ere inundated 10 secure the election of a |
epublican TO Congress. In the South the
'lored voters are in the employ of white
emocrats, and if they should be driven to
e polls BY their employers, as were the
in Indiana, there would have
ZEN a renewed howl about "a free ballot
I'D fair count" No man elected TO Con-
-ess by Hubbelis corruption fund, or the
lameful intimidation prsctieed in Indiana,
entitled to his seat. But we hope the
smocratic majority in the next Congress
i'll not resort 10 the despicable methods
the Republicans by ousting every q
spublican whose seat is claimed by Dem |
rat. The country demands "a free ballo;
nd fair count" North as well as South. :
he chronic haters Of the Democratic party
the South have much to saw about The
plan" and the intimidation Of
lie colored vote; but they have nothing ia ;
~ about the Indiana plan" The APPEAL i. {