The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-27
SOLD AND SWINDLED.
CHALMERS PLEADS IN VAIN FOR THE
PRICE OF HIS SOUL.

= FRiCE VI FlS SOUL.
!. Bitter Taunts for the Republicans and
State SANDERS Against the South-His
Conduct at Fort Pillow-Denied the Seat
by a Strong Vote.
, WASuISGToN. D. G., Aug. 22.-In
. the House, DalZelt, Of Pennsylvania,
called up the Mississippi contested
election case Of Chalmers VS.. Morgan.
The majority report finds in favor of
Morgan, Nesting member. Chalmers
was then granted permission to address
the House for an hour and a half in his
own behalf. After criticising the ma
jority report. he asserted that there was
now, and had for years been, conspi-
racy existing in the South for the
carrying of elections for the Demo-
cratic party. That party was deter
mined to carry elections honestly if it
could, forcibly if it must. The State
of Mississippi was a leader in that con-
splracy. Men who dared to run on
Republican ticket or to make Republi-
can speeches carried their lives in their
own hands. That the black vote was
suppressed could not be successfully
denied. It was the suppression of this
vote that had justified the Republicans
Of the House in the passage of the
Lodge bill. If the Republicans after
passing that bill should turn around
and accept the majority report in this
| case they would set themselves in q
suspicious attitude before the country.
Before the meeting of Congress it had
been charged that the Republicans in
tended to turn out enough Democrats
to give them good working majority.
If after getting that majority they
decline to give him his seat they would
give color to that charge. It would be
said that when they were undertaking
to pass law to give them chance for
a majority in the next House they said
that certain testimony was true which
in this case they said was not sufficient
to establish a conspiracy in Mississippi.
lie did not believe that the Republican
party could afford to place itself in
that attitude. and he did not think it
could do it. He then proceeded to eX-
anime in detail the evidence Of fraud
and intimidation in the various coun-
ties of the district to Substantiate his.
charge that huge conspiracy existed :.
to defeat him for Congress. For the
House to sustain the report was to say
that the stealing of congressional seat
was nothing but political purchase.
He said that in order to prejudice his
case the old story relating to Fort
Pillow had been revived. In the For
ty-slxth Congress charges had been :
made against him in connection with
Fort Pillow. He had asked for an in
vestigation and it had been denied him.
When the truth of history came to be
written calmly it would be seen that
not single man had been hurt who
had surrendered in the fort. Every
man killed had been outside the fort.
But even if every one of the charges
against him were true he had not been
the commanding officer If the charges
we're true, they brought disgrace upon
The gallant Forest who stood by tis
side. The fact that until the emo Ss-. ss
The war he had served with that officer
as second in command was proof that
ne was guilty of no conduct unbecom-
ng an officer and a gentleman. No
gentleman on the Democratic SHE
would believe a story which would
disgrace the brave Forest, and the men
Who had served under Grant and Sher
nan were tco manly to bring disgrace
lpon an American soldier. Continu-
ng, Chalmers said that he felt that
his republican form of government
vas in danger of being over ridden and
rodden under foot by a Southern
For fifteen years the Re-
publican party had been fighting the
Northern Democrats in the open field
While exposed to a flank fire from
Southern Democrats intrenched behind
walls erected by fraud and violence.
They should see to it that the national
was not controlled by
raud and violence a Southern gov
rnor who had without protest seen
'utrageS like the killing of negroes at
lazoo and Carrollton grew frantic
With rage over fair fight between two
,ugulists. It was fair question
whether the Democratic party was not
,oing to the devil as fast as it could
nd taking Mississippi with it.
Kelley. Of Kansas, offered resolu-
ion reciting the following paragraph :.
rom the majority report:
with respect to the other seven
ounties there is number of boxes as
o which no testimony was taken, but
t may safely be affirmed in not one of
hese counties. taken as a whole, was
he election an honest one. Fraud in
'arious forms, including intimidation
# voters, corrupt manipulation of
egistration, stufing and stealing Of
'allot boxes and Illegal voting finds
mple illustration in al. Of them;'' and
committing the case with instruc-
ions to the Committee on Elections to
xclude from its count the uneXamined
oxes. Lost, 81 to 1856. The minority
ubstitute was rejected and the majori-
y resolution, declaring Morgan en-
tiled to the seat, was agreed to with
ut division.
A Storm in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, August 2l.-During
heavy storm which prevailed in this