The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-12
SOUTH cARoEISA ELECTIONS.
Debate IA the House on the SmAsls-
Eisipft Contest.

WASHINGTON, Feb, li--In the house. al
fev some sparriug sls 70 procedure ia the
matter 81 consideration ON behalf of serer-
al eslls. Crisp Of Georgia as = quesrson OF
the htghest prfsiztfEe, called sp the Sm2iis-
Elliott contested slect5on cas<s, sud the
house, by yose III I'LL 70 -. decided 70
consider IL Txersty-fcgr pezaoc-sts. iu-
ciading Thonps1a III CT siiforEia. vsfea with
the Republicans InitAe affirmative.
Crisp then took tiss lioor for presentation
OF the case The eVnrnistee bad consider
ed II in the light oi established iaw He
proceeded 10 reFlesg Sze evidence in the
case, and entered ussou an argument tend
Ing 20 di<pfoye several material claims OF
the contestant lie then referred 10 the
eonyicison OF Snialss Ter accepting brihe
while state senatsr, and eoasendeSi a At thar
convection had iniE-ed hiEn with the eoior-
ed people.
DsgzeEI Inquired what rsievance that h2d
10 the question of kow many Votes sfnasls
received al the late election
Crisp replied thar the gentlemen en- the
Republican side assumed that because
there was coiore1 majority in the district
the majority would vote for cosoFed man
he proposed 10 show tia. aaong the cob
ored people Of the districs there were some
gcod men who rebelIcd against being die
tated 90 and re4aircd 10 vote for & man
who had been convicted of high crime.
He quoted evidence 90 show fhzt many
coaoged Republicans were opposed 70
Sgnalls on account Of the manner Ia which
had been nominated and on account of his
character He admitted that the negro
politicians were Republicans. huf declared
the great mass of the negroes were not
politicians In Sonth Carolina q good
many wrongful and violent acts had been
committed by the Republicans when they
had the ascendeney, and this had resulted
in division OF the negro ranks and the
formation of q colans1 Democratic club.
1 Ham haA
infimidated and oyerawed by cclored Re
pablicaus. and tae contestant Smalls had
taken leading part la this action. The
day was past when the colored people
would 60 ap In & bodY like senseiess ma.
chimes 70 record their votes rs they were
fold 10 do by people who lived away from
them and had not their interests al heart.
The day had curie when they were satisfied
with the people among whom they lived,
the people who were their friends. the peo-
pie To whom they always appealed in dis
fress-
Rowen of Illinois said the gentleman
from Georgia syasnf mnch time in proving
snalls guilty oI bribery while member cf
the state legislature, proposition which
had no more bearing on the case than the
question OK whether the moon wAs inhab-
tied. ft had been brought IN, ike the
bulldoxing question, for the purpose of
justifying vote to keep a man out OF q
seat 10 which he was elected. Tne Laws OF
south Carolina were framed for the ex.
press purpo-e OF disfrsnchisiug the Re
publican voters OF that state. Under those
laws there had been systematic effort to
deny 10 colored voters fhe right 80 register
and 10 change their registration certificates
The gentleman from Georgia spoke about
| intimidation OF colored Democrats by Ke-
publicsns of the same race. The governor
of South Carolina bad recently announced
the paramount question In south Carolina
TO be the maintenance of Anglo-saxon con-
| troll The paramount question Was
not that tae majority should
rule, or that every legal voter
might have his vote cast aud
counted. but % maintain and preserve
Anglo-Saxon control. That was one patent
| fact in response 20 the talk Of intsmida-
| ton. Elliott held his seat on this door not
I by reason of an election By the people, ba,
| by reason of an election held by the re-
/ turning boards Of SoEth Carolsna. A ma
I jority of the committee had gone further
/ than the returning boards. and had thrown
out two precincts which had run the
gauntlet Of both district and state return
ing boards K0sell fdieuled the charge
OF intimidation 1pon which q majority Of
the committee relied 20 throw out certain
returns. and cited several instances 10
prove the existence 81 what he termed the
lswless spirit which prevailed IL certain
districts.
Pending further debate, the matter went
over until Monday. Adjourned.