New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-15
Times as it diligently strives to be on one side
and the other.


THERE THEY STAND LOOK At THEM
Grant that the colOrcd vote always treated fairly
there is no sort evidence OF general purpose OF
conspiracy to do it Injustice Grant that Is not treated
fairly in South Carolina Is certainly great step ior
ward from shoguns to tissue ballots from tissue Dalo's
complicated ballot boxes; tho avOwed object OF hese
being precisely what is done by direct statute III
MassaChusetts-n introducing educational qualillca-
ton The Massachusetts, way is the more manly ana honor
able. doubt but suppose that an attempt were maze
import system into South Carolina IL would ~
be denounced in every Republican Convention IA an
outrage almost worthy of Mississippi. H. W. Higgln-
IN The Boston Advertiser.
This is the way in which political crimes and
rascalities are cOndOned by an old-time Adolf
ZIONIST in Massachusetts The transition from
shotgnns to tissue ballots and systematic cleo
ton frauds is heraded as a great step forward,
a sign of progress and tine South Carolina
Bourbons, who began with Ku-klux intimida-
ton and murder and have persisted in monstrous
crimes against suffrage are credited with the
most vrtuOus intentions. They are merely In
Producing in their own State what is Snown III
Massachusetts as an educational qualification
That will be the final outcome of this interest
ing process of political evolution from the
original shotgun method To the more complex
operations of ballot-box stuffng and tissue
votes. The Massachusetts way is perhaps the
more manly aud honorable, bat practically the
South Carolina murderers and election cheats
are accomplishing the same beneficent work!
We venture to say that in the old days, when
meanspirited and cowardly Northerners talked
of hanging AbOlitOnsts to the lamD-posts tor
pr otecting negroes and Christian ministers
quoted Bible texts in defence of slavery, there
nd n
crimes against civilization than this trucking
admiration of Southern outrages and election
methods. We are not surprised, however, to
find Colonel HigginsOns disgraceful perform
ance promptly initiated by The Erening Post in
this characteristic manner:
Massachusetts would permit OF ilerate
people sufficient to outyoe the minority who represent
intelligence aud property Of the State to rule the
commonwealth and South Carolina be expected
to permit It. Massachusetts fortunately, has law re-
qung every voter TO be able to read which would pro-
teot her II enough negroes to outnuTber tn" whites
should suddenly deposited in that State South Caro-
has IA bcnefcent law and she protects herself
by other means Massachusetts would do II she were In
the same box.
SO we are to understand that Massachusetts,
in South Cardinals place without the educa-
tional qualification would protect Itself at first
by the shotgun and later on by the tissue ballot
Under the same circumstances the Massachu-
sets which John Quincy Adams and Andrew
and Sumner revcred "a a liberty-loving COM
monweath would deliberately suppress a ma
lority vote by intimidation, night riding and
assassination. and finally by an organized sys-
TEN of election frauds And these abOmina-
tons would be strictly in line with educational
suffrage!
Massachusetts, and South Carolina, there they
stand look at them One with educational
suffrage and the other with the shotgun and the
tissue-ballot, and both working out the same
high destiny of political regeneration