Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-11-01

says "they wouldn't let me live in my
native Mississippi village if it were
known that I say So" am told that
half has not been told, and never will
be, about this Chalmers campaign, so
suddenly brought to close, but there
isn't the slightest doubt in the world
that if Gen. Chalmers hadn't given
up the canvass at the time he did he
would have been murdered, and scores
of his warmest followers would have
shared the same fate.
Looking at statistics, I find that
four representatives were elected to
the Fiftieth Congress from that state
by only 14,112 votes. There we're
1872 scattering votes in the four dis
tricts! Virtually no opposition!
And why? The answer may be found
in the causes leading to the abandon
,nent of the Governorship candidacy
by Gen. Chalmers. Just think of it,
Minnesotans. There isn't a congress
sional district in your state that did
not cast nearly three times rs many
votes as those four Southern districts
combined, and the total vote in the
seven congressional districts was but
44,853 against $4,000 in round
numbers in the five Minnesota districts.
In other words, 44,853 votes in Missis-
sippi elected seven representatives,
while it took $4,000 in minnesota to
send FIVE! Don't you think, under
all the circumstances, that there
should be a determination on the part
of Northern men that this fearful in
justice must be corrected The
gentleman to whom refer, thorough
going Southerner iu every thing but
politics, says that if the Republican
party, having control ofboth branches
Of congress as it will in the coming
congress, does not pass a national cleo
ton law, or do something to make
the South behave herself and allow
free and fair vote and count, it will
prove recreant to the great trust i'm
dosed in it and unworthy of future
support.
Here is another item in this connec-
iiou that should cause Republican
:p2mhnrs Of tho Fifty first Congress tu
act fearlessly and regardless of South
ern threats that if they don't do
about as they shall dictate there will
be trouble. Thirteen members of the
last congress obtained their seats with
out opposition at the polls, and there
were but two scattering votes against
Samuel Dibble, member of the First
South Carolina district; % against
George D.. Fillman, of the Second
district; seven against James s.
Corthran, of the Third district; five
against John J. Hemphill, of the
Fifth, an6 So against George W
Dargan, Of the Sixth, In another
form % members from the states Of
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Ken.
lucky, Louisiana, South Carolina
Mississippi and Texas, or. three from
the first, two from the second, five
from the third, one from the fourth
one from the fifth, six from the sixth,
four from the seventh, and one from
the eighth state. These eight repres.
entative states Of the South, whose
members in congress have always,
before as we'll as since the war, in.
dulged in extrayagant talk about the
superior intelligence Of their constitu.
:encies, and made bold talk Of what
they would do under certain emerg-
encies, as if they were backed BY q
million voters, and hada right to put
on airs, cast, in round numerous, but
=. tF.+ I. ~
124,O Geo votes for these % members Of
congress- Herbert, Of Alabama, who
vas elected without opposition, VA
chairman of the committee on naval
affairs in the last House, and a mem.
Der Of the committee ON expenditure.
Of the navy department: Oates, d
Alabama, who has been to Europe
the past summer, and who sid in d
interview on his return that the Demo!
Gratis III the next House would resisl
my attempt on the part of the Re
|publicans to PISS obnox ioua election
Law, etc, etc, aud who, IN his Con
|gressiional Directory biography, q.
rades the fact that he lost This RICH!
arm IN front Of Richmond Aug is,
1864, si,n the 9th battle he was en-.
gagged in, Ind mo opposition ID
his district, and the Demo- cratic man
ayers il the last House made hin
chairman Of the revision u. the NV,
and 8 member ofs The jndicia.y com
commit e Turner of tseofz llad