Nevada County picayune., 1889-08-28
No More Intimidation.

extract taken from the Dispatch ln- dicates that the editor of that paper misapprehends the force of Judge Martins decision, to-wit:
 "The decision of Judge Martin enabling the Pulaski county robbers to usurp the offices of that county is a death blow to liberty and will cast q deathly pail over the prosperity of Arkansas.
 Jones, the Republican candidate for treasurer of Pulaski county, brought suit for the office, and before he could recover, it was necessary for him to show that he was elected. This he attempted to do; but the testimony developed such a system of terrorism and bulldosing among the colored people, that the court held he was not fairly elected. The court does not decide that Glidewell, the Democratic candidate, was elected. but decides that Jones was not elected. The testimony devel- oped that in the large negro town ship the colored men were threatened with exclusion from the church, the Grand Army of the Republic, with social ostracism, with mob violence and with death, if they voted the Democratic ticket. Nor was this all ; the threats were in large measure carried into execution. The writer was in Little Rock last August when the colored Eagle Club was stoned on the street by colored men because they were marching in the Demo cratic parade. Preachers were silenced, members excluded from the church and dismissed from the G. A. k.
 Nor, is this species of terrorism confined to Pulaski county. In 1886 l was spectator in the Republican convention of this county. The question came up as to whether the convention (composed, with two or three exceptions, of colored mem would endorse the Greenback ticket. 1 knew that the Democrats had some friends ill the convention who would oppose such an endorsement, and would favor leaving the colored peo- pie or the Republicans untrammeled. A delegate from Redland township arose and objected to the endorse ment and began to state hls reasons, when one of the white Republican leaders arose and waved big hickory stick over his head and said ''no d--n nigger could make that kind of speech where he was, and ordered him, the speaker, to get out of the house. There was great confusion for few moments, and when the vote was finally put, the result was a unanimous endorsement for the Greenback ticket But this was not all, myself and the Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee placed the Democratic tickets in the hands of two Demo- cratic colored men and started them to Leake township to deliver the tickets and work for the Democrats. They were attacked on the way, driven from the road, their buggy wheels taken off, threatened with mob violence, and one of them slept in cotton field, This occurred more than once. At the last election there was colored preacher hero in Prescott who openly supported the Democratic ticket; he was waited upon by committee of colored men and told to dcsist upon penalty Of being driven out of town. He noti' fled the Democrats and they at oncC took steps to protect him.
 If the courts uphold such elections as this, free ballot is farce an( fair count a delusion. The day O l the intimidator in Nevada county i, over his race is run.
 Yours truly,
 W. V. TOMrKINS.