Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-12-08
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1883.



suppose, says he Charlottesville Chroni'
Gle, tbs, DUDLEY and kindred politicians
bsd msss o. voters hketh negro votes to OPP
crate upon: Wouldn't they make Rome
how'll" This allusion To The man who pro.
posed 10 buy voters "in locks Of FIVE" or
.blocks Of Eve" as somebody caused It TO
reOd, suggests many thoughts 10 q rejecting
msu.
Here aud there in Virginia negro
voter NAV have been Tor some reason
unable 10 get his ballot into the
ballot box; but we Think hat il may be safely
affirmed that os SAUL slew his thousands but
DAVID his tens Of thousands so though the
Democrats may have suppressed a thousand
negro votes MHoNV's sable followers sup
pressed ten thousand. Nobody that has
not witnessed MS operation can form 40 ade-
quaie conception OF The bcsstls tyranny that
keeps the negro vote solid I'm his city.
Right here m the capital there six or eight
thousand negro voters, ard vet not one
dozen ~ them baye ever been known 10 vote
the Democratic ticket. Why not? Because
the negroes are banded together in secret So
cieties and H. churches and pledged 70 use
oil available method, % irsuring the election
of the Republican candidates. The colored
preachers 90 not by any means offend their
hearers u on the sunday last before election
day they preach sermons the burihon OF
which is that IL is the duty OF every negro to
support The Republican ticket.
In word, the negroes arc as thoroughly
the slaves OF negro oreauizAuonsa ne they ever
were ~ their owners They are absolutely
afraid 10 vote the Democratic ticket.
But even where there is a better condition
of things existing among the negroes, the
most that can reasonably he expected OF
those Of them WHO ere not under orders 10
vote the Republican ticket is that they snail
refrain from voting. This last is, we sus-
pect. the popular mode oi "suppreSsing"
negro votes in the South whenever the e
are suppressed
But, returning 10 orr text, suppose DUD'
Ky had % mass ~ voters Ike the negroes to
ope, ste upon. what m4jorite. would he not
roll UP in Indiana and an over tie NORTH?
lie carried Indiana Tor HARRISON by some
two thousand majority. Although we do not
know bov many voter, Dr. brbe1, we can in
fer that the number wss twice as large as the
number OF TINT majority, far wc are told that
The United states District Attorney was ex-
pecied 10 send g. the grand iurv the names
Of more than thousand Republican corrup-
iionists and liih.rs, some OF them promi-
nent leaders.
II DUDLEY q q secure MS majority Of two
thousand for u tgBIsoN by bribery and cor.
rupliou. 10 NAV wei cause the friends OF
popular COVER meut deep concern to ponder
that feet Ia connection wi.h the other fact
that hut FOR the negro vote llAeGs0N would.
discriminating tae two thousand bribed
voters, have been neaien IN his own state.
In word even " HARRISON was not elected
by fraud and corruption and intimidation,
he was elected by negro votes, there
being more than ten thousand OF
these in lodlana and more than
twenty thousand OF them 10 New York State.
But why specify States? IN the United
States there are more than million and 3 half
OF negro voters. Notwithstanding that this
immense negro vote WAS east for HARRISON
a majority OF the voters veted for CLEvE-
LAND. The inference Is logical and unavoid.
able that the white men voted by q popular
majority Of more than a million and bali
for CLEVELAND.
What sort OF government is this anyhow