Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-09-21

Fuller information, just received, says
the New York Mail and Express. confirms
all that had been suspected about the way
Arkansas was carried for Gov. Eagle by
the Democrats. Crittenden county went
Democratic for the first time since the war,
showing a Change of 1900 votes-a
change produced by banishing all the prom
incnt negroes, including the county judge,
the county clerk and other important Off
cals; by whipping two dozen negroes and
serving notice on the rest that they would
attempt to vote on peril of their lives, and
by intimidation and violence at the polls
Pulaski county was carried" after Re
publican majority Of 1900 had been polled,
by breaking into the county clerks office
at Little Rock and stealing the returns from
nine Republican precincts. This theft has
been loudly denounced 10y Gov, Hughes and
other Democratic officials. but no efforts
have been made to find ont the perpetra-
tors.
Union county, on the southern border of
the state, region in which there is not a
single railway, was carried by the most
open violence. The Union Labor newspa-
per office at the county seat, FL Dorado,
was wrecked the week before election
Negroes were stripped and whipped \
colored church was entered and one negro
was killed. another mortally wounded, and
still others severely injured. a correspond
rut of the Globe Democrat, who has been
in Little Rock for some time, and who de
rived his information from responsible
white citizens of Union county, thus de
| Il, ~.
places: ''In Champagnolle precinct, state
militia, which had been organized after the
campaign opened, went armed to the polls
and formed two lines Every voter had
to march up to the polls between the ranks
of armed men. This was one Of the pre-
cincts which would have given Norwood a
large majority. About noon the Norwood
ticket had, according to the tally, 102
ahead Of the Democratic ticket. At this
time three men with their heads covered
with handanna masks marched up to the
polls between the two lines of armed men,
| seized the balot-boX, marched back be
| tween the militia ranks and proceeded to
| destroy the box and its contents, no one
mulesting them. When the bandanna Ku
| kluX first laid hold Of the box at the poll
/ ing place, one Of the judges of election re
sisted. The Kukmx drew pistol, put it
to the judges head and soon quoted him
! When the masked men got beyond the mil
itia line they fired their guns and proceed
ed TO destroy the box. After this episode
the Democrats opened another poll, at
| which only Democrats voted. That night
Mr.. Cook, merchant, an old Confederate
and one Of the leading citizens of Cham
pagnolle, who had been an avowed sup
| porter of Norwood, had his store and all
his goods burned. A majority of about
800 was given Eagle, where there would
have been "A majority of at least 200 for
| Norwood with a free ballot and a fair
count.
Further testimony is furnished by the
Democratic organ Mt the state capital, the
Little Rock Gazette, which prints DIES
patch from Arkansas county, saying
Last night we had the disgraceful scene
of eighty heavily armed men escorting the
ballot box in from Prairie Township. They
swure they would have the stolen box of
| Old River counted or have blood, but when
they saw the determined stand of the Dem
ocrats they failed TO put their threat into
execution The official count today gives
Eagle a majority Of 232 over Norwood.
The whole state and county Democratic
ticket are elected by a small ma ority, this
by leaving out Old River Township, which
is strongly Wheeler, The Wheelers will
contest. Brickell, Democrat, received a
majority of 43 over Langston, Republican,
in this county for state senator. Every
thing quiet.
This Old River box was taken in charge
by one MIR. 7, l.. Krider, who started for
the county seat with it, He was stopped
ON the way by three masked men who took
the ballot box from him. and it has never
beard from since. There was about BIG
majority for the Republican Wheeler can
didates in the box. Without the votes of
this township, the returns show Demo.
cratic majority in the county of from ID
To 100,
These are samples Of the methods by
which Arkansas was carried for the Dem
ocratic candidates What do Northern
Democrats think of these things 1t is