The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-15
NO FEDERAL ACTION NEEDED
REPUBLICANS BESIEGE THE FED
ERAL AUTHORITIES IN VAIN.

SIarshaI Melton Makes Verbal Re
mort to Department of Justice as
to Conditions in Greenwood COun-
ty-Mnny Contested Election Cases
Likely to Result From the Race
TrOubIes-R. r.. ToIbert to Remain
in Washington Until Congress
Meets.
washington, Nov. 1l.-An abundant crop
of contested election cases are %futured'
in North and South Carolina as the result
Of the recent race troubles in these two
states.
The White House, the department of
Justice. and the postofiice departments
have been besieged by white and co.ored
Republicans from those two common
wealths during the past few days pleading
for the intervention of the national govern
ment in behalf of the prosecuted represen-
tatives of the Grand Old Party.
Having failed 10 induce the President TO
send federal troops into those states, the
Republican politicians are now urging the
government to send special agents and
postoffice inspectors to assist in gathering
material to aid in the contested election
cases which are to be brought in almost
every district in North and South Caro-
lima. The fact that the data to be obtain
ed by the government officials who make
these Investigations is 10 be used in the
proposed contested election cases, as pro-
found secret, and very little is being done
and said on the subject except in whis-
pers.
United States Marshal Lawson Melton
arrived here to-day and made verbal re-
port to the department of justice on the
race troubles in South Carolina, AS he
is one of the few native-born white Re
publcans in South Carolina, his state
ments received more than usual weight
at the hands of the administration. His
report could not have been very severe,
for after ne left the Attorney Generals
office it was announced that no federal ac-
ton was necessary at present, either in
North or South Carolina, as the condi-
tions there are quieting down, and peace
is restored in the vicinity of the recent
troubles.
The Republican leaders from South Car
olina are greatly disappointed at the chill
ing reception their appeal for aid received
at the White House and the Attorney Gen
erals office. But they are still here, hop
ing to get some .encourag cement from POST
master General Smith to-day r. r. Toll
bert, James Tolbert, j. Ii. Collins and r.
L. Henderson called upon the President
and afterward upon Postmaster General
Smith to ask that postoffice inspectors be
sent to South Carolina to investigate the
cause Of the recent troubles in Greenwood
county. James Tolbert and ]. H. Collins
are postmasters at Mccormick and Nine
ty-six, respectively, and 1t is Gained that
the postmasters were driven from their
offices by the mob and not permitted to
discharge the business of their postoffices Z
r. R. Tolhert, who was the Republican
candidate for Congress in the Greenwood
district, has concluded to remain here un-
ill Congress assemblies, when, it is un-
derstood a resolution will be introduced
calling for an investigation by Congress
of the race troubles in South Carolina and
also in North Carolina
In the Fifty-sixth Congress there will
doubtless be a wholesale turning out of
the Democrats from the Carolinas, and the
Old bloody shirt will be waved as assdu-
ously as In the old days, when it was the
chief issue of the Republican party. The
republicans will leave no stone unturned
20 get a substantial majority in the House
10 sustain the policies of the present ad-
ministration