The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-26
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To the Editor of The Spy:
The fact that elections are not nom
estly conducted in the South is now
being acknowledged by most OF our
Democratic newspapers. Why they
should just have discovered this fact
it is hard to say. That there has not
been even a partially honest election
in the South since the war is true in
most of the states, but those same pa
pers never would acknowledge 1t until
now. Why this confession? These
who have lived in the South and are
familiar with Southern Democratic
methods cannot believe that these
journals have just learned the truth.
/ wonder If the Boston Herald did
not know that Kalb, the candidate in
Alabama for governor against the regu-
lar Democrat, carried the state and
was robbed out of his victory, and that
Morgan, the United States senator,
hard to seat all herepresentatives from
the black belt in the Legislature, or
else he would not be in the United
States Senate. Did they not know that
John M. Pharr of Louisiana, the Re-
publican candidate for governor, was
elected and robbed and that Samuel
Douglas McEnery would not be in the
United States Senate but for this
theft? Tennessee is uniformly stolen,
so is Kentuck and few others. What
is worse still, that so many papers,
both Democratic and Republican, are,
or pretend to be, ignorant of the fact
that the Democratic party and the
negro faction OF the Republican party
have worked hard in glove for the past
30 years.
The most disreputable negroes have
been appointed by the President
through Democratic tricksry and en-
dorsement. The Democratic managers
of Louisiana were more particular
about having the negro faction OF the
Pepublican party in order than OF
their own organization, for there was
no need of worry about their own
party-all they had to do was to make
n great cry about negro domination
and white civilization in state politics
and a respectable endorsement of all
negro candidates for Federal appoint
nents. The crowd of Federal appoint
lnents now holding office by appoint
ment of the President are certainly the
most disreputable in the country. me
first appointee was Demas, the most
obnoxious in the gang, appointed to the
naval Office, Notwithstanding the pro-
fest OF all decent people. The Senate
knocked him out He was allowed to
retain his seat in the State Legislature
for 20 years as a Republican, because
of the service he rendered the Demo-
Gratis in carrying the second congress
The Democracy was aware that II
the white Republican faction was ac-
knowledge by the President, a strong
party would at cnce be built up ana
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oblivion, but the chairman of the Ma
tional Republican Committee took good
care TO see that none but the delegates
of the negro factions from the South
entered the national Republican nomi-
mating conventions They were there
for use by the chairman of the national
committee The elections in Louisiana
are a farce and will be until the good
people overthrow the gang OF ONCE
holders who are expert ballot-oox
wreckers. There are parishes in that
state that have not more than 800 white
voters that always send in a vote OF
from 1000 to $500 Democratic majority
OF course, the negroes did not vote.
There are many ludicrous incidents
that 1 might cite. The returns come
in very slowly the leaders getting TO
New Orleans days before the returns.
In one parish the leaders week after