The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-12-24
The HillsBOrO Gazette's Denial Of the
Election Frauds in the South.

Election Frauds in the South.
The hired man of the Highland News
devotes a column to us under a pretense of
an argument to sustain his assumption that
the negro is defrauded Of his rights in the
Southern States by means of tissue ballots
l-buldOzing being, according to this per-
son, played out and the latter being
adopted in preference by the Rebel De-
mocracy.n Our answer is that we don't be-
| lieve it, and the aforesaid hired man has
stated no facts that in any way reflects on
| the question. Proof is what is needed not
assumption. The matter can easily be
proven if it is true Gazette.
We have here the singular spectacle that
whilst Democrats in the South admit that
Republican negro votes in the South are
either suppressed or not counted, Northern
| Democratic sheets, such as the Gazette, de-
ny the fact and profess to believe nothing
of the kind is done. These opologists for
the Solid South serve their masters well.
We don't expect the Gazette to make admis-
sious of the trthfullness of the charge that
for ten years thousands of Republicans,
black and white, have been prevented by
murder, fraud aud intimidation from exer-
cising their right of suffrage. To confess
it is to admit that they have elected their
President through murder and fraud To
confess Il Is to further admit that the Dem
ocratio party could not by any possibility
carry enough Electoral votes to elect a Pres
ident withoat the South being made solid
for that party. The Gazette has little re-
gard for its reputation for intelligence and
information when it asserts it don't believe
the negro is defrauded of his rights in the
South by measn of tissue ballots, and we
suppose it would say by any other means.
It may talk to the marines that way butold
sailors viii not be fooled, even among its
own readers. It is not doing the Gazette
any injustice to say it bl010s better. Wewill
however give it proof enough before we get
through. We do not expect to convince it
Of the error Of its ways, for it is clearly de-
termined to defend the Solid South, even
at the sacrifice Of truth. Now we say to
the Gazette in all sincerely when it talks
about fighting its own party" under any
circumstances it don't know what it is talk
ing about. AS long as you can't see any
frauds committed in Southern elections,
State and National, by which tens of thous-
3 ands of Republican votes are suppressed OF
not counted when they are voted, you can
stomach any thing a Solid South under the
lead of its politioiane may do. You are not
old enough to remember, but you ought to
have learned from the political history Of
the country, that the Northern Democrats
did kick against the Solid South in 1860,
but many of those who did long since re,
pented in sack cloth an ashes.
Oh, no, you will not kick, one lesson like
. 1860 is enough to last two or three genera
ations, if the Democratic party lasts thai
long, 1t may be very smart to say that the
negro is not deprived Of any rights in tn,
Southern states, for if they were the Re
publican party would not have permitted +
I" and that that party should have found
means to correct the wrongs long ago, ant
by failing to do so dishonored its profes
" sions aud disgracad the nation No on
j. knows better than the Gazette that all owe
the late rebellious states semi military or
70 CARNATIONS were formed, in South Caroliu
as Red Shirts aud Ku Klux in other states
Who armed with shot guns and other mul
- derous weapons, not only broke up Reput
ID Hcau meetings all over the state but cause
If reign Of terror and murder, todeuy whic
nt ought to bring the blush to the cheek of
n Comauche Indian, that Republicans, whit
and black, were unable to cope against an
ifU. s. troops were to be sent in to thef
states to protect the citizen in the exercii
of his just rights, the Gazette would /
among the first to cry out this is not nj
ton with a big N, but a confederation
s0Uerign states. We do not expect to col
vince the Gasette but call attention Of q
readers Of the NEWS to some important fac
bearing on this Southern question.
We have space only this time for the fc
owing extract from the New York Tri6uH
''The Northeru States have cast in the z
cent election z, ,O33, 573 votes, and have p
., Electors. But 44 of those Electors represe
the Senatorial vote, two for each State. III
remaining 2OI are allotted to each State d
cording to population The South has,
like manner, 80 Electors for the siXte
- States. and the remainder, l2l in numb,
are allotted according to population. T
/, allotment, based upon the census of TO