New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-01
BULLDOZING IN ARKA NSAS.
BLOODSHED EXPECTED AT TO-DAY'S ELEC
TION
DEMOCRATS ADOPTING THEIR OLD TACTICS OF
VIOLENCE AND INTIMiDATION-FIZER
TO BE COUNTED OUT.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO HE TRIBUNE.


TO BE- COUNTED OFT.
(Br TELEGRAPH TO HE rRIBrNEl
Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 3l.-To-morrow the
election occurs in Arkansas for county, LeSlS-
laiurc. and State officers. Mr.. fiAer, lhlon
Labor and Republican candidate for Governor
would unqu,stonably carry the State on a fair
ballot and an honest count. The better een'ent
in the Democratic party is divided. and III thc
white counties the Democratic party vote VIII
fall below the vote Of two years ago. Many OF
the white counties that gave Eagle, the Dcmocrhuc
nomin"e for rec ecction, n majority two years
ago will give Fizcr a majority Tomorrow Not
vi,lisandin. the q fcciiOn in the Democratic
party there is little room TO hope that tZer would
b, inauguratc,l. though his majority should reach
90, 900. Prominent Democrats have openly as
serted in Little Rock that no matter wiat
majority Fzcr gets they will count him out.
Several thousand ballots were sent this morn
ing to Morrillton in lieu OF those destroyed yes
tcrday by the Democratic mob. but the ShcriH
of Conway County having issued pronuhcEi-
mcnto to the effect that no Republican tickets
shall be used, it is altogether probable that Tie
Republicans Of that county will he dlsiranchs'd.
Tie armed and mounted men that robbed the
, train yesterday sill in the saddle. Reports
are coming in from various portions oi the H'''e
of D,nocrotic outrares on the eve of the election
but il is the poilcy of the Republicans TO tclc-
cronh nothing 10 the metropolitan press that
cannot br verified before il is sent ont. In Lee
County the Republicans have large majority
on a fair co,!nt Yesterday when the Repnhllran
tickets reached Mlrianna. the county-soat, the
Democrats threatened the man intrustcd with them
with assassination unless he turned them over
Tic daughter of the tickct-hcarcr sccretcd the
tickets and the bnlllozcrS schcmc failed. Joe
Kennedy. chairman of the Rcpublican Committee
of Lee County and a mplncr OF the H'a'e 'oIi-
! mitirc, has been warned 10 leave the county on
! main of death. Kennedy is an educated and in
flu. ntill colored Republican.
In Louokc County, the home of q 'vrrnor
/ r,,lc = Democratic mob a,,aultcb Jal,c Hanna
Yesterday while he was delivering Republican
4: i,,rc,s and a nan who cndcavorrd t. save TIE
ia .sp WAS also pounced upon and sham 't''!'
/ hc,t,n b, the Ik..n rrat>. Jui-c Hanna AMI h's
frcud were ihcn arrested, taken before n DciI"-
! cratic Justice of the peace and fined without
! trial some decent Democrats were 81 inrehsed
! AT the outrage that they made up purse aid
| tcndcrcd the two men the amount OF the hnr ana
costs, which they pcicmptorily refused 20 r.
| cclye.
| PULASKI County, in which the State capital is
| loo ,tHd, is in the hands OF the Democracy, al
though the county Contains 1000 Republican
uraio,i'y Tn Sheriff h $ couni stoned some five
hund.ci deputies, and II is feared tat blood
| will hr she'd. as the better class OF citizens are
IL ,,r,niucl 10 have an honest election, and that
means tie defeat Of the Democrats by decided
majority, which they will Do' peaceaby submit
| TO.
T,. clctinn m ARKANSAS 10 d,y VII hc for '"' error