The Springdale news., 1888-06-29
THE ALABAMA WAY.
How Democratic Negroes Are Fright.
 ened Away from the Polls.
Herald.

Special to The Republic.
 CHICAGO, June 23.-s'I can't stand thls kind of thing any longer I'm going homo on the next train,' an- nonnced q delegate from Birmig- ham, Ala, last night, after Bob In gersoll's great fiasco and the adjourn ment of the convention.
 "Vhat's the mattcr?p inquired a Republic reporter
 "Well, it's all fixed for Blaine, anyhow, and the fun IS about over, I rccko on; and l can't stand 1t to sit another day In that convention in the same seat with a blanked nig ger. No, sir, I can't stand it, and Pm going home. We let those nig- gers come up here because we couldn't elect white man in their districts, and because it has a big effect on the Northern colored vote, and by gad, the minute they set foot in Chicago, they thought they were just as good as white man, ana began putting Oh airs. One of them asked me to drink with him to-day! What do you thlnk of that? But l reckon he won't do it again. You've no idea what trouble these blanked niggers are to us. 1 hate 'em worse than cold polson, but We have top ut up with them more or less at time like this. Why, sir, ii we'd let 'cm vote dosn there, q white man couldn't live in the State. We've got things pretty we'll fixed in Birmingham now, and the city gives a Republican majority every time, bat it takes lots of fine work"
 Glow do you work it?" lnquir- ed the reporter, now deeply inter- ested in this account of the way the party of "free ballot and fair count conducts it's campaign Tn the South.
 "Oh there are various ways of do- Ing it. Some times we scare 'em away from tbe''polls, sometimes we don't let 'em register, and when we can't workit any other way we just simply stuff the box. We worked a great scheme on them this spring It's the funniest thing you ever heard, and 1t works like Il charm. I'll tell you how it is: We had our polling place at the end of a blind alley. Then, on tho morning of the election, we hauled out q can non and set her up in the alley Tn front of the polls and fired about a dozen rounds, and had some fellows standing around with shot-guns. A nigger would come along with q Democratic ticket in his hand, look into the alley and see the cannon and the shotguns and walk right by. He'd go and tell all his friends, and we wouldn't be bothered with any niggers that day. Oh, that schemes a honey. But they don't get along so easy Tn Tuscumbia- that's the next district flor the triggers are a good deal nor" nu- merous, and they're harder to deal with. Sometimes one of them gets killed, but not very often l was out thore to an election year ago and the niggers had threatened te come up and vote the Democratic 1 ticket solld. Bob. a well known Republican, went down te the polls that morning and swort that not nigger should vote thai day. The niggers heard ot 1t ane stayed away. But pretty soon ar old nigger that worked for Bot came along and said he was going to vote. Bob told him he had bet. ter not, but the old coon thought he was all right, and stuck his vote in. Bob pulled hls gun and said; You'd better begin to jump, Jeh., The old man ran as hard as he could, but BobJust laughed and let him get about 40 yards away. and then he killed him too dead to skln. He felt pretty bad over It next day, because the old nigger used to be in his family before the war, and he probably wouldn't have done 1t if he had been sober. Bob s a dandy, though, and he carries his district most every time. What l