Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-23

Our Maine contemporary is hereby re-
minded that Mr.. Cleveland was MT "de-
feated By the people Of this country.
The people of this country gave him a
plurality Of ~ 900 votes over Harrison "a
much larger plurality, by the way, than
he received over Blaine Ia 1891 - Boston
Gfobc
our contemporary knows very well that
the figures 1t quotes mean very little. be-
cause they come from summary which
included a number of States where there
were practically no elections by the peo-
Pile, and who4e returns show nothing but
the decisions Of u bourbon oligarchy
which has u.urpcd the rights Of the people
and taken upon Itself the task Of nam
ing the siSc of the Democrat
ic niaioriiies. 1t includes the returns
from the State or Arkansas where over a
hundred negroes were brutally murdered
ablcst white men Ia the south. was shot
down IN cold blood, while collecting evil
dencc at election frauds palpabfe
and outrageous, that the perpetrators
rather than face an investigation
where Americas Nccley. one of
the brightest eolored editors in
the count ry. and delegate to the last Re
publican national convention, WAS dragged
from his office into the street In broad
daylight by an armed mob, and riddled
with bullets, and no attempt wac ever
made to bring his murderers to Justice
where Mr.. Charles II Taylor, II reporter
OF the II. Louis Globe Democrat, who
was sent To investigate the matter, was
brutality logged aud ordered to leave the
State on penalty OF his life and where all
the colored office holders in Crittenden
County were driven from the State by an
armed mob, and their official positions
usurpcd by men appointed by the moi
who were subsequently recognized by the
State government
The summary which the Globe uses al
so contains the returns from the state of
louisiana where nited States Marshal
was shot down at the polls; where the
Republican United States commissioners
were not even allowed to attend the polls
and where colored people We're logged and
murdered in every locality where II
was thought they would dare to assert
their right OF suffrage. The Globes sum
mary also includes the returns from the
State of Mississippi where election brutal
.,t. ,t.,l. Ia
Is the State where twenty-five negroes
were slaughtered In Ic Flore county on
the very day that an appeal was
made. for National protection to col
ored citizens, by the African Methodist
Episcopal church which was then In sea-
sion, aud where an attempt to form u
Colored Farmers Alliance, was drowned
out In blood with the murder OF over a
hundred colored citizens.
That summary includes, too. the re-
turns from Georgia, where fourteen ne
groes who resided at East Point. in Full
ton county, were logged the same night
for daring to entertain political opinions
differing from those of the Democratic
party. But it is useless to multiply In
stances of this kind. They are innumer-
able. No one denies them. They stand
as deep, dark stain upon the escuteheon
OF every southern State.
In the face of such facts what Grant
nonsense for the Boston Globe, or any
other paper, which pretends to address an
intelligent constituency, to talk about a
Democratic plurality of 1.-THE people,"
Throw out the fourteen Southern States
where this suppressios of the suffrage ex-
lists; coniine the inquiry to those States
where citizens are permitted to express
their political preferences aud Mr.. Cleve-
land was defeated by more than Az .024
plurality.
1t is a suggestive fact that these four
teen southern States that participated in
the Rebellion. aud where these crimes
against the suffrage are carried on, gave
Grover Cleveland 564,1l9 plurality and.
II it would have awaited anything more,
could doubtless have doubled these fig-
ures without any additional trouble. Some
of the returns from these Southern States
are in themselves a startling revelation Of
fraud. Take for instance the following
States:
Dem