The Washington bee., 1888-09-15
LOUISIANA ELECTION AND
SOUTHERN ELECTION OUTRAGES.
HON. VIM. E. CHANDLER, OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE, RELATES THE STORY

In the United States Senate |
Aug. % and "a, Hon. Wm. E |
Chand Ter, of New Hampshire, de-
livered a speech on the Louisiana
election and Southern outrages
which pointed out the great injus-
tiee done the colored people in
that state Among other things,
Mr.. Chandler said In a forcible
manner: Mr.. President, it is my
purpose to state the facts and
principles which require and JUS
tity the investig Ition proposed by
the resolution which has been
read of the Safe election in Louis
lana, said to have taken place on
the 17th of April last, which has
already resulted in the choice of
two United States Senators who
will claim to sit IL this assembly.
The first fact is the suspicious
character of the face of the re-
turns, which show 136,745 votes
84,653 majority for Francis T.
Nichols for governor, when the
vote for veland and Hendricks
in 1884 was only 62, $40, and their
majority 1913
at must be admittedin the out
set that there has been some diff
Guilty In ascertajning what has
been the official count of the vote
of the State. No official promul-
CATION of it has ever yet appeared
t in any Democratic newspaper that
| am aware of. False counting
f and the killing of voters, although
the principle Democratic methods
of carrying elections in Louisiana
D yet are not often found recorded
t in the Democratic newspapers, and
never in the local newspapers.
Frightful as are the constantly re-
# curing political and other butch.
|. cries OF the negroes of the South
o yet that section Is not so lost to al
shame that there does not exist a
;, desire TO keep such brutal deed:
/. out Of tie newspapers of the vicln
ity. Hence they usually come tc
, public view Ill newspapers tina
!, are distant from the occurrences
Z. , to which paper some letter or tele
gram has t. und its way, and which
: venture to publish facts which tn
st. local papers dare not mention
k For instance, | find in the Wash
fe ington Critic OF Aug. 20, 1888, tn
e following telegram:
NEGROES KILLED BY A MOB.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 20
L. News is received of the KILN,
of two negroes by a mob at Sylvs
MIA Jail. In Smith County, Miss
lssippi, last Friday night. Fou
negroes were under arrest for xii
ing a white man named Lee. Th
W mob broke into the Jail, but wer
as unable to get into the cage wher
,r the accused negroes we've confined
is 80 they thrust their guns throug
of the bars and shot two of the prls
n oners to death.
"a I undertake to say that the1
will be no account OF that tran
saction in the Democratic pape
of Smith County or of Sylvani'
and yet it happened there last Fr
ne day night. That murder of tbes
aS aS negroes took place under precise
~ ly the same circumstances as thos
'h under which were slaughtere
&C. Judge William Wallace Chsolr
as and his son and daughter. The
H. u were imprisoned iu Jail; and
~ m b broke into the Jail, thrni
al tn, ir guns through the bars of Ii
re cell, aud shot this inrocent tathe
this son, aud this daughter t
bloody death, and the local pape
of Mississippi said nothing upo
the subject, but the informatiO
t. came by telegraph to some metr
n polilan journal.
T. | find IN the Sunday Heral'
,rt published in this city Aug. 49,
he last Sunday-the two folIowin
be telegrams. There seems to be q
nj epidemic of negro killing going z
NO at the South about this time, an
ne it prevails there to much grea
RI er extent than does cholera or ye
low fever:
all SHOT HIM TO DEATH.
,as APALACHIcoLA,, FLA, Aug. l
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