Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-20
3ailp 9fnuebst yOnsnal.
Augusta. Tuesday Morning. Nov. 20.
Malone and BourbOnism.

m address to his followers which is full
Of important matter. He reviews the re-
cent campaign in his State, shows how
victory was won by the bourbons. and de-
clares his unalterable determination to
wage war against them. In the manage
ment of the campaign the bourbons placed
themselves upon the same ground a. to
the debt question that the readjusters occu-
pied, although previously they had de-
nounced the readjusters as regulators.
The issue which they mainly depended
upon for success was the race question.
This they employed wherever it was lea
sible, stirring up the whites against the
blacks, and fomenting riot. murder aud
all forms Of violence that would ovcrawe
and prevent the negroes casting their votes
for the readjuster ticket. Upon this mat
ter we copy the following from Mahone r
address:
THE DAxvILLE MASSACRE.
Murder in cold blood began in Madison
county. Days before il vas repeated IN Dan
Vile YumOfs Oh tHS suspbFht ~ o'ih1 "''
the air. and during the fair week at Richmond
long before any outbreak occusrfd-thF
knowing ones were heard to whisper and
mvst~riously predict what might be expected
at the proper time. ;.
In due time il came. With what premedi
tation and design it came. Jet any lmpa'hai
man who Tread the bourbon press and heard
the preparations made for II JUDGE for him
self Who provoked it, Who perpetrated It :
Let the bourbon journals Themselves TESTIFY.
With what purpose il WAS perpetrated let TIE
thousands of false circulars turning II 10 p"-
litical account, spread broadcast by tue pour
bons almost before it occurred. and the ehect
they produced speak a. no argument can
The massacre in Danvillc Is dighihrd BY
bourboni.m with the name of riot The facts
n gathered from all sources, are that upon
Saturday evening proceeding the election just
after the Danville negroes had received tier
weekly nav and were bu,ing their Sunday
supplies in crowded market place. white
man appeared, had an alteration with ne
gro, and whipped him The hGht was
ended, and no other negroes came 10 the
rescue Of the punished man. But the pro-
Rramme was not interrupted by this circnm-
stance. An armed gathering OF the best
people" Of the best and trdvest' was con
veniently near, and 10 moment muriur-
Gus throng poured out Of the building where
they were assembled, opening deadly hre
upon the unarmed, dcfcnseiess, and nyins
negroes.
UxARMED NEGROES SHOT Is THE BACK HiLh
kUNNING AWAY.
How many were killed no one knows, AMI
no one will probably learn the
truth, for the condition IF things
still In Danviile il such that the truth
IL. Hla.f
the backs like dogs while running away; that
no pistol shot was fired by black msn; that
no white man was injured, save bv his own
friends; that for days the poor victims were
found dead in alleys, in warehouses, and I'M
der houses, like poisoned rats that had
crawled away to die , that the negroes fed I"
the woods, To IN. State of North Carolina, to
the four winds of heaven; these are "a te" 81
the facts Of this bloody, wholesale murder.
which was teegraphed tar ard near by hour
bons as an insolent uprising of the blacks
against the whites.
simultaneously with these occurrences the
crack of the bourbon weapon engaged IN 20
liticRl murder resounded ard the bourbon
knife sunk deep in the counties OF Charles
City, Halifax, Hanover, Floyd. Augusta, Lee,
and elsewhere mingling with sabbath day
sympathies. from the bourbon capital. an'I
the race cry was sHDuuu Win " ulutNi lflpt-
ity intense enough to make Virgins the rival
of any southern State in her record of blood
shed and law lessness
These, fellow citizens. were the means re
sorted to. The effects were all that the bull
dozers could have hoped for.
GATnERiSG THE FRUITS OF THE MCRpERs.
Murders deliberately planned and executed
with remorseless maiignity, were presented
IN tha RON TO anil Mlgtt.s ut val
ley and southwest as the unavoidable sell de-
Tense of these wolves against their lamb as
sailAnts. Without the means OF informing
themselves of the baseness OF these false
hoods, Thousands Of our party. drluded and
deceive ,yi,l ding TO an Impulse of generosity
% foully pisyed upon, and IN the region
where these telonies were permitted the muir
derers Themselves parsded the STREETS, armed
to the teeth, under the pretense Of preserving
order, until. in the city of Dsnvilie, where
Cameron received in 1881 votes numbering
7s9, and Wise in 1882 received Stl votes.and
where 1879 readjuster votes were eurolied.
but &c votes were east for the coalition
candidate, whose life was threatened. and
whose coffin il i. said had been actually made
and paid for by the party of honor aud intel
ligence.
In the COUNTIES of Halifax and Charlotte.
adjacent to Piusy lvania, the policy of pnr-
chase, as well as rioting prevailed, and while
the methods were litile less violent, they
were none the less corrupt. Thus II was that
Halifax, with colored voting popuiation Of
3,Sl& against 3,o5+ whites after giving John
s. Wise 54S majority in 1882, gave t1t
bourbons $50 majority in 1883. And Char
lotts, with a black voting population of 600.
and white population OF l.39s. after giving
John ). Wise 162 majority in 1882. gave =
bourbon majority of 800 IN 1883. That these
majorities were honest no sane man will im
agine. How they were brought about vii,
In due time be made apparent.
The above are only samples of the methods
resorted to by the bourbons. Bribery anu
corruption appear To have been the order OF
proceedings generally throughout the STATE
In the history Of politics IN this State tia
recent campaign is. thank God, without pre-
cedent, and to the forbearanee ami long sui
fering Of the readjus;ers. to this aione. is du,
the fact that this State is not nov bathed II
blood.
The recital of these terrible outrages IL
but repetition OF scenes which have oe
CURED in other Southern States. under III,
lead of the kuklux and other organizations
for the benefit of the democratic party
The facts are not presented by northern
radicals but bv n former STAKEHOLDER aut