The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08
DUDLEY's FRUITFUL TRIP.
He Discovers That Tennessee's Vote
Was Stolen by the Democrats

He Discovers That Tennessee's Vote
Was Stolen by the Democrats.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, April 5.-The
results of Col. Dudley's non-political" trip
south will be exceedingly sensational, ac-
cording to leading republican politician
and officeholder.
While the colonel came on private bust
ness, he also kept his eyes open to catch
every point of political interest, and he has
returned to Washington, it is claimed, with
documentary evidence that Tennessee is a
republican state.
1t is said that the republican national
committee sent out coupon ballots which
were distributed to trusted workers and
numbers were placed on the ballots CORE
spending with numbers on the coupons. At
one poll it is claimed $40 Of these coupon
ballots were cast and only 200 counted.
1t Is further claimed that enough of these
ballots alone were cast and not counted to
have carried the state by good majority
on fair count.
These alleged facts were placed in the
hands Of Co. Dudley in documentary shape
and they will be transferred to the national
committee for use in obtaining congress
ional action. A bill was pending in the
Tennessee legislature re-districting a por-
ton of the state, the result Of which, if
passed, will be t. make the third congress
lonal district, now represented by a republi-
can ID. Clay Evans reliably Democratic
The matter having been brought to the
attention OF the national committee, Col.
Dudley was commissioned to obtain infor-
nation on the subject while here.
The outcome Of the investigation is that
Col. Dudley and other lawyers are already
ct work on the draft of a bill to be intro
duced at the next term of congress for the
purpose of largely increasing the repub lie III
representation In the south The bill will
provide that congress shall divide the diffe =
emit states into ngressional districts
Where state districtiug is satisfactory, con-
gress will adopt it without change; where
not satiSfactory-that is, not republican,
congress will redistrict the state. The i'll
will further provide that all elections for
federal officers shall be under the control of
the federal courts and shall be in the charge
of the United States Z, arShal in whose dis
trict the election shall be held.
1t is believed by Dudley that the republi-
can representation ca be increased by two
IN Tennessee, one in Kentucky, two in West
Virginia. three in Virginia, three in North
Carolina, two in South Carolina, two in
Georgia. two in Alabama, three in Missis-
sipi, one in Florida, one in Arkansas, one in
Louisiana and one in Texas. The figures
are those of local politicians, but it is be.
lleved TINT they differ little, if any, from
the figures of the national committee. The
originators of the scleme also believe that
Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee will
be added t. the republican column in 1892
by this means.
1t is UNDERSTOOD that Senator Sherman
will introduce the bill in the Senate and
that the republican members of congress
have all SIGHTED their intention to support
1t, making its passage certainty.
The scheme, when knowA, will create q
revolution ii the southern states. 1t has
been kept very quiet, hut its salient fea-
lures are known to and sanctioned by the
southern republicans generally, many Of
whom have been active in their efforts to
secure the pass ige of such a law.