New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-28
HOW FLORIDA WAS CARRIED
REPUBLICANS DIsFRANCHIsED BY WHOLE
SALE.
prMocRAr1c DEVICES TO ROB THE coLoRED
PEOPLE IN TWO CONGRESS DISTRICTS OF
THEIR vorEs-EvIDENCE IN CHAIR
NAN orTAy,S HANDS.

an old Attorney General of Ncw-York, now gathered
in and gone 10 better land, used 70 say " ms
law students: Boys, there never was la" y" '
statute book strong enough TO mako "a'' "o
II hc doesn't want TO be honest.
Tho nlection laws in Florida are good enough, ou'
they arc interpreted By the dominant party oy INC
prriudices existing for 200 years against inc oa'A
man The election law in Florida requires as
qualification for every voter thar ne shah 70 a
resdcu, of the state of the county IN which
he ,,,es for six months and he must register thirty
aavS bcforc ecction-and the black man is very apt
TO register The supervisors of registration are ap'
pontcd bv Governor Perry. Northern man with
southern principles, who rebel Brgadler General
The United states Supervisors are named by the
United states District Judges Some OF these super
visors are -toughs who take the Office for the
salary and because they known to have audacity
and reckless Democratic psrtsanship enough TO carry
their respective counties for the Democratic ticket
In some the salary of supervisor Is s2ooo
or 50 900 year. 1t is the supervisors duty to give
each man who registers certificate of registration
And hero Is where the Heather Chinee7 games of
Che Democratic supervisor most frequently prac-
tised on the oolocd voters many OF whom can neither
read or write. The negro. who perhaps lives IN
Precinct l. goes after his certificate, which ne
must show before he can vote. The voter doesn't
know whether he lives in No. l precinct or Governor
Reads precinct, No. 16. twenty-eight miles down
the river at Mayport The dark-skinned son Of the
Republic describes where he lives when he comes up
TO register and the ns pector knows the precinct as
we'll lie knows his barnyard, but he gives
the voter certificate eniitngathc ignorant man to
vote In No. 16 Reads precinct, and when,
on Election Day. the jubilant voter, proud Of his
ballot up smiling to the polling place. he is
asked for his certificate shows No. 10 certificate
Instead OF No. !. He is at driven away from
the polls being told he has no residence at that
voting place. This is common practice and loses
the Republican party by means of this intentional
suindc, 5000 votes ut every annual election.
Florida is $50 miles long and end of the
peninsula is $50 miles wide and of the counties
Is forty miles square. There are about ffy-four
white voters to every forty-six colored voters and
abcu, sixteen per cent of the white vote is Rcpub-
lcan. ard It would gather strengh-the white con-
fingcnt-if tE1rs any assurance given, now that
General Harrison Is elected, that It 10 have fair
play hereafter and even any scmbancc of protection
at the baot-box. 1t readily be that Florida
is n Republican State. Not 500 out of the 46 per
cent Of the colored be bullied, coaxed
;brbcd voting the Democratic ticket and nobody
knows this better than Governor Perry and his
supervisors.
TIE FRAUDS IN MADISON COUNTY.
Madison County has long been known for its law
lessness elections In the of Bisbee against
Finley, when a Republican Congress gave Bisbec
Hewbican) his seat, 100 men armed with shot guns
killed two colorcd men at a railroad station Bisbee.
still lawyer in Florida, al" Tvs made contest for
his sea, IN Congress and In al least one instance a
Democratic House him his seat after hot con
test. so clear the frauds perperated THIS is
in he district. the I'D. in which Goodrich elected
last fall. and though Goodrich counted out, his
district is known and admitted to be Republican by
majority OF $500. Madison County is still as lawless
and dis0rderly II In 1875, 1850 and 1884.
On November 6 forty fifty armed rode up to
the polling place and stole the ballot-box, which
fancd 400 majority for Goodrich. This was
Ann In davlfCh hefor
finished
Ten days before the late election prominent
coOrd man was found dead In a pond his
home. with his throat cut and he had committed no
other offence that he determined and an
active Republican On last Election Day at ITALIA
hasscc no Republicans counted out. promi-
men; negro protested against the outrage on the
ballO box and he shot with revolver in the
streets OF Tallahassee and died few days thereafter
and so far as / know public mention has
been made OF this murder outside of the State OF
Florida A prominent United States official says Of
this incident: a. The Coroner's inquest farce
and The Coroners jury Brought in verdict that the
,coiorcd man was killed BY parties unknown when
In fact tie man who fr'd the fatal shot of
the best known men in Tallahassee
In Precinct No. IL the supervisor Of election, ap
pointed by United States Judge Locke reported in
writing, in the following words: a further report
that no voting did not go in No. IL precinct,
The officers who appointed by the County Com
missiorcrs did not their appointments please
take this under consideration and let know can
we vote al ALL This the report of Supervisor
H. ". starlc. In Jefferson County when Davidson
lRcpl and when Davidson returned elected
snned s'aics supervisor A. D. Geados reported in
barred from entering The polling place. Geadois
counine-in of Davidson. which he could from the
out SIDE GcldCiSs report IS confirmed by afldavlis
Eoi thoSe who were present Geados further says
he
pointed ~ the United States Court (Geadois himself
because he had no time"
In 81: Johns County Goodrich ought to have had
3oo ms!ofl,y--therc was that majority in The box
vote because The Ic'usns were not signed and gave
Go o"si1 opponent Bullock, SO majority OPP
OF the board 10 sign the returns In Nassau County
there 3uehi to have been $50 Republican majority.
alcgins that the board forgot TO sign the returns.
CONGRESS WILL SEE JUSTICE DONE
Mr. Goodrich IS banker and farmer in D9land
Nolusia Comfy. and has already taken steps TO con
test Eullccks right to scat Governor Perry having
given tho latter the certificate. OF Nassau County
Mr. Goodrich writes such systematic swindling
cannot stand tho scrutiny OF Congressional investiga
fon' In Dnval County, Jacksonville being its county
town. 500 Republicans. chiefly negroes had their
vO Is riscd because by frauds of the supervisor of
registration. Governor Pcrry's appointee these men
located in precincts where they had no residence
in Marion County sos Republicans were disfranchised
a. IN DIval County. though each voter of the SOB
he'd cc:thca cs. by advice of counsel each Of these
Cos voted in private ballotbox after the Demo
cratic board had refused their votes and each voter
made separate affidavit OF how he voted. In Gaines
WIZ. county scat OF Alachua County, 500 votes of
Republicans were thrown out by the same trick
THOSE who arc thoroughly posted Florida politics
ana ne Democratic crOOhedness assert that there was
"a. outside Of Madison Comfy where the red shirts
on horseback. with shot guns had their lawlcss
way. clean stcal of 1900 votes from Goodrich and
th , men ere ready 10 go before Congressional Com
mitcc OF ihc LIS Congress. Goodrfchs majority
2,ooc Chairman Quay has the I'm his pos
session. and many of those who know the inside of
the rascaity lawlcssness and violence the lid Dis
u1c ftVe already reported 10 Mr. Quay In person.
in orange County he Democratic and Republican
1ocS ar nearly evenly divided. Here the Bullock
iorccs ei The necessity of shutting out a majority