Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-15
and Vote With the Repub-
Ilcan Party.
BY HON. w. L. CHANDLER.
III. S. Senator from New Hampshire

The republican party favors a free
ballot, fairly and honestly counted il
all sections of our common country
The democratic party by violence an6
fraud suppresses the republican vote
at the South, and thus and only thus
controls the presidency and the ma
tional house of representatives.
From whatever cause, the South is
| sOlidly democratic. It's sixteen states
will send to the 51st congress in
March, 1889, thirty-two senators
the democrats will also have one
senator from Ohio, two from Indiana,
one from California, and, if no change
is made, two from New Jersey, which
will make one-half the senate; and
the coming vice-president will give
the casting vote and control the po-
| litical power of the senate. In the
| present house of representatives the
| democrats have majority IL, and of
| their 168 members 103 are from the
South and only 65 from the North.
If all this results from fair eX-
preston of all the voters of the ma
| ton who are constitutionally entitled
to vote, the North can not complain.
But such is not the fact. Before the
war the South was entitled to extra
representatives in congress and extra
electors of president and vice-presi-
dent, based upon three-fifths of the
slave population while only the free
whites voted. BY these extra votes
the South absolutely controlled the
nation from 1900 to 1860 either by a
southern president or northern pres
ident who was the willing tool of the
South. After the war closed, as the
final condition of settlement, the col
ored people, by the 10th Amendment
to the Constitution, were given the
right to vote. Then the South be-
came entitled over the North to extra
representative and presidential cleo
tors based upon the whole five-ffths
of the colored population. Three
fifths would give them about twenty
four; the five-ffths gives them forty.
Ten of these forty would have made
the house of representatives repub-
lican and would have defeated the
Mills bill nineteen of these forty
would have made Blaine president in
stead of Cleveland
The colored voters are, with sub
stantial unanimity, republicans. Why
should they be democrats That party
opposed their freedom, opposed man
hood suffrage, and has suppressed
their votes by whippings. maimings,
murders and atrocities which equal
those ever practiced by savage ma
tons.
In Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louis
lana, in April last, William Adams,
a republican vote distributor for War
moth, was killed, his throat cut, and
he was thrown into a creek. The
parish, which has 2,133 colored vot-
ers and only 919 white voters. was
returned 1884 for Nichols and 5 for
Warmoth. Governor McEnery, who
appoints all of the election officers,
made speeches declaring that to pre-
vent Warmoth's election the law must
be silent, and issued circulars to all
election officers to return large demo-
cratic majorities. Under this sys
tenn of blood and fraud the election
of April II resulted in returns from
Nichols of 1876, TAG votes, giving him
majority of "a, 1853, when Cleveland
in 1884 had received only 81, $40
votes. The legislature declared elect
ed by this monumental fraud has al
ready chosen two democratic free
trade U. S. senators-Messrs Glib
son and White.
The conditions are the same in
South Carolina and Mississippi; and
nowhere in the South are the colored
men allowed to vote where their votes
will affect the result. In most of the
southern states republicans who are
white fare no better. Suffrage is q
mockery elections are farce. The
fundamental and vital principle of
the Republic is defiantly disregarded
by the whole section SO recently in re-
bellion. A million and half of vot-
ers are DISTINGUISHED, and thus the
South unfairly rules the country. The
condition is degrading to the North
and threatens its most important in
terests. The only remedy is to re-
store the republican party to national
power.
The republican candidates should
be voted for because the party favors
the cause of temperance. Called
into existence to be the party of free
territory, free speech and free men,
and to fight the inevitable and deadly
battle against the accused system of
human slavery, the magnitude and
desperation of the struggle before it
might well have led it to ignore all
other issues and to refuse to take
sides on any other question:; but the
party early became and now remains