Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-23
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| HOW THE -SOUT is SOLID.
Election Frauds Shown Up.
-. In The Senate.
INTIMIDATION AND MURDER
Of Negro Voters Does The
Work.
ANOTHER TERRIBLE COLLISION.
Thirty-Three Lives Lost In
San Francisco Bay.
MOTHER TERRIBLE COLLISION.
THE SOLID SOUTH.

ME SOLID SVG1Hs
Senator Chandler Explains HOW the
Last Election WAS Carried by the
Democrats of Louisiana Negroes
Murdered and Resurnes DOctOred.
SENArE.-Mr. Reagan introduced bill to
define trusts and to provide for the punish
ments of persons connected with them (being
a substitute for his former bill on the same
subject), and it was referred to the Judiciary
committee.
Mr.. Beck offered BIS an amendment to the
House tariff bill an additional section sus-
pending until further order of Congress all
laws relating to the sinking fund and had it
referred to the committee on finance. Mr..
Beck also introduced a bill TO repeal all laws
relating to the sinking fund and asked that
it lie on the table until he could see what
would become of his amendment to the
tariff bill. After some discussion the bill
was read the first and second time and laid
on the table.
The following House bill was reported and
placed on the calendar: Granting a pension
to the widow of General Sheridan. 1t is the
bill introduced by Senator Farwell, but has
been amended by the Senate SO as to fix the
rate of pension at So, 500.
The joint resolution appropriating $780,
600 to suppress infection in the Interstate
commerce of the United States was adopted.
LOUISIANA ELECTION FRAUDS.
Mr.. Chandler called up his resolution
heretofore offered in relation to fraud and
violence in the last Louisiana election and
proceeded to address the Senate thereof. He
said he would state the facts and principles
which required and justified the proposed in
quiry into the Louisiana election of April
last under which two senators would have
seats in the United States Senate. The first
fact was the suspicious character on the face
of the returns which showed 1876, 746 votes
cast, with majority for Nicol1, while the
presidential vote in 1884 was only 62,540
with majority of only 16, 1913 for Cleveland.
The returns also showed the overwhelming
ly Republican parish OF Madison as having
cast for Nicoll z, $50 votes and for Yarmouth
none, while the registered voters of Madison
parish were 279 white and 1901 colord. So
as to give other parishes which he named,
the whole of the six parishes have given 49,
452 votes for Nicol and 139 for Yarmouth;
while there were in those six parishes 4, 700
white registered voters and II, 7SO colored
registered voters.
There was some difficulty in ascertaining
the official count of the vote of the State.
No official PRONUNCIATION of it had yet appear
ed in any Democratic Newspaper that he was
aware of, but he found in the New Orleans
Weekly Pelican table giving the returns by
parishes footing up 1876, TAT votes for Nicoll
and 81 ,993 for Yarmouth and majority fol-
Nicoll of "a, 753. He doubted whether any
Senator would hazard the statement that he
honestly believed that 10000 votes were
honestly cast and counted for Nicoh.
AN Epidemic OF NEGRO KILLING.
He denounced that pretended vote as false
fraudulent and fictitious beyond all known
records of manufactured majorities. He de
nounced it as the result OF o deliberate con
spiracy of wrong and crime on the part of thu
then goYernor-McEnery-a of the presen
Observation-Disclosures stupendous criminal
against free suffrage, two instigators O.
nounced it as crime againts Republican
government which it tended to destroy, as {
subyersion of the Senate of the United States
which was to be invaded as one OF lts re
suits, as an outrage on humanity which wa
being disordered by frauds and forgeEies, ant
by the whipping and killing OF innocent eitl
zens of country of boosted freedom ant
liberty, in order that Grover Cleveland should
be again president of the United States
It seemed, he said, that there was au epidem
10 of negros killing going on III the South
and which prevailed there to much create
extent than either cholera or yellow fever.
One OF the lynching DISORDERS re called t
his mind the murder of Judge Chisholm an
his son and daughter. They were, he said
imprisoned. A mob broke into the jail, the
thrust their guus through the bars and she
! that innocent father, son and daughter to
| bloody death. And the local Newspaper c
Mississippi said nothing on the subject, bu
the information came by telegraph to som
metropolitan newspapers. In the course {
| his speech, Mr.. Chandler alluded to Mr.. Mel
| chanl, who had abandoned his home an
| business in New Orleans and had removed
/ FL Paso, Texas, where he might be safe If b
l was not too active in politics, because
| Texas they preferred to hang negroes rattle
| than white men. Mr.. Reagan resented tn
| imputation against the people of Texas.
Mr.. Chandler said that he supposed th
Senator from Texas did not refer to Washing
ton county, Texas. If he did ne was sntirel
4 mistaken. In q Democratic county in Text
Republicans wese tolerably safe from bein
murdered. But whenever a Republican cour
ty remained Republican in q southern Stat
/ enough killing and numbering was done
change it from Republican TO Democratic
That was exactly the case in Washingto
county, Texas. Chisholm has been put
| Jail and murdered, and just in accord wit
the southern method of getting rid of Amer
| cans-that was, first to get up false charG
against them, putting them in jail and bres
into the jail and murder them. Mr.. Reags
said he knew that there had been disturban'
in Washington county, but he was not advi
ed of the facts.
Mr.. Eyarts declared that the three eolore
men who were murdered in Trenholm, Wasl
ington county, were murdered not becau
they had killed white man, but to prevel
| their giving evidence as to the eircumstanc
of that killing.
| Mr.. Blair expressed the hope that the di
cussion would impress the Senators fro
Texas with the necessity for the passage
the educational bill.