The Progress., 1894-11-24
T MEANS THE FORCE BILL, Ul''
MATElY.

As others seq us on election days -
owen in a brief way by Mr, Z. L.
Kennedy, of Indianapolis, Ind, VINO
wa, employed ly our Fair AsSoc'a-
ton as starter of races at our recent
fair He was here on our last elec-
ton day and consequently KNOWS
whereof he speaks. This was sa'o Il"
an interview with the Indianapolis !
Daily J, urAal and on this point Is As
follows:
MIR Kennedy spent election DAY
at Shreveport, and says there WAS
little interest in the event. hun
dreIs Of business men did not vote
aud appeared to be pretty we'll Sa'iS.
fed with the result Of the election all
over the country. He gathered the
impression that the prominent men
Of the State feared TO encourages Tue
Denprratic administration by rastihE
thair ballots for their State urN'''
and rather than vote with the w.
pnb,;cans remained away from the
polls, A decrease in the value OF
cotton has caused general business
danression in the South. lie learned
from conversation with leading
Southern men that the Gully hope OF
the South is Northern capitalists.
Planters owning thousands of acres
Of land look forward to the day
when Northern men will invest Their
money in manufacturing industries
and make rich the land owner. The
Northern visitor on election day had
desire to know how many votes
would be polled in a certain precinct
How many votes will be cast IL
this precint to-dayN he asked OF
gaunt-lookiug Democratic sheriff
who stood near the polls.
just as many votes as we need,
was the reply of the sheriff"
OF course Mr. Kennedy will be EN-
pioyed here no more, on account o
this declaration, though we have NJ
doubt that he spoke the unvarnlshe
truth. Nor did we have az an eS
q case for this wauton stuf1iug Of baI
lot boxes that we feared negro su
premacy, because Mr.. Bailey, tn
Populist candidate, was the nom'ne
Il of white mans party, and we b'
heve would have easily been electe
z, If left to the vote of white men.
, fact. we believe he was fairly electt
q anyway, as all know that negroes al
not anxious to vote any ticket b'
the Republican. and if left alol
. will in the vast majority of instance
II not vote at all unless there is a Il
. publican ticket in the field.
But of course we Go not expe
ar that even this report of our disgra
W going abroad will stop the ballot be
III robberies which are carried on
wantonly in Louisiana. This
silently Endorsed by the best men
re our State, even to the governor hi
I'll self. Not only as before stated
ne against the negro party, but agai1
sny that Is not Democratic In ii
ay such piracies will continue till the /
it publicans get in power when they "
TO enact the Force Bill, giving to
more force sto crush and hum
ate the South than it ever proved
fore. And in the next fight on t
~ bill we will not have the assistance
'es the West, because the South
shamefulDy, soullessly and mercile
ly refused to lend the West a helpl
"a hand in the great silver denoneti
m ton of 1893, when to please Gle
land, many Southern CoDgressn
turned their backs on the West.
do God forbid that the Force
1t should ever be thrust Oh the Sor
5 but if it is, all honest men will b
wer to say I'VE brought 1t on ourselv'
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