Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-21
FlFTY-FlRsT CONGRESS.
WAsHINGroN, January 90, 1890.
Senate.

After the routine business Of the morn
f. SIR. pnscOo addressed tho Senate on
fIe paracraph IN the Prosidcnts message
-f.t.ye To- tho control Of elections. He
t..trhnd the political condition OF things
I'd. tac close OF the war and the adoption
'r tine Republican party OF tie recon
.rretlOn measures OF that period, ny
which tho work was turned over 70 the
iUnv officers. agents of the ircedmeu's
bureau. oaiup followers. and straggiers
II. effort, he said, was 20 hulid up
southern annex 10 the Republican marty.
... thus 10 prOlong its lease Of power.
y '. southern movement was supply an
..a.l and lu no sense party, but IL had
uru,l ont 10 be "a rope OF sand, ana the
n.uullican party, with all the election
.... Is and frauds that dCpTuvlty could de-
tI.e. lost its power in the South. For TINS
-,.uit b. might blame It's own conduct ana
r rrr. Aud now tine attempt was TO be-
l.Ir to seize tho electoral machinery o.
tI. States. Tho power Of the General
lvernncnt over State elections had been
flurgiy exercised IN the past. No po-
.cai party would have dared before the
War 60 enter on a political campaign
ulth plank in its platform claiming the
Trht % exercise control over elections IN
she States. IL was only being lnimgurated
RON. II had been "A fact that since the
war tho Republican leaders had treated the
foutLeru Sistos ~ interior to the northern
States. The message of tho President, ne
.a.d. had contain ned no syllable IN favor OF
t. tfeo and honest election except q. 20 the
oppression of the votes OF the c1lorei
..lule in the South. There Was no evil
r.1co before the country OF any such sup
lI,.sIou. None had been communicate 20
Congress. IL was simply matter oil III
.si.lcc. lie presented, some election sti-
N.tes from the eastern. western, anu
southern States 20 prove that the silent
voter ls increasing IN every section OF 'ho
rDlltry." In conclusion no stated that
li- voice and vote would loo gwen IN iaEor
Vt Standing 10y the methods OF election
woh had come down from the days OF
Washington and Jefferson. m
Ar. Chandler followed Mr.. Pascoe. mat
Sa,or, he said, bad complained 81 the
character of some OF the citizens or the
togth who had CONS North a. witnesses
cHlcarmng tho political outrages or tnat
iect on, and had also something 20 say
shout the silent voter. There was one en-,
g,n OF FLORIDA. said Dir. Chandler, who VIII
tol come North TO TESTIFY concerning po,,
Llcai Ouiragcs. and who might be termed
silent voter" That man was John
Burr, o cOlOred citizen Of Madison county,
4.8. who. IN October last, having been 10
Jacksonville as witness concerning po-
ltcal outrages, was killed on his return 70
Madison county by the Democrats OF tnat
county on account Of the testimony which
Il had gwen.
II. Chandler sent 10 the Clerks desk ana
had read Statements published in the New
York Tribune and in the Jacksonville Re
P.5ioqa. showing the bad state OF affairs IN
Fonda. The variations given IN these ex-
Gacis, he said, were confirmed by docu-
nenIs and reports on file in the Depart
hent Of Justice which showed that IL was
Substantially true that throughout nearly
ssslf Of the State Of Florida the United
BATES laws were defed. aud that IN Medi;
q the United States 20 secure possession
q Tie United States courts, Mr.. Chandler
ssso referred 10 tho driving by MASKED
Dsnoerats from his home In Jefferson
county, Fla. Of j. q. Cole because hs was
iaproninent Republican. and no read ex-
uaets On tho subject Of that outrage nom