The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-11-21

tor of real power and lawyer Of
talent and requirements. Thc Wnite
men cooperating with them were th2
crazed theorists and GrcaaerS who
believed q mass CT :gnoreat farga
hands could be transformed into cap
able and rig,i:ecus rules il ye2r
ard he scum and ofF1co1rinc5 Of nor
therH cities intent Oh making hc2Ty
and quick hsuls and getaways.
Robbery was open ard shameless.
State taxes on country properly weEe
from three to six dollars on the hun
dred vita county taxes Unlimited
and both constantly increasing. Corn
field laborers seI: 10 the Legislature
spa: into white china hsnd-rainted
cy:s9i&lorS for which the taxpayers
were charged $500 eacn. Zach Of
fee was used for plumber, from high
est to lowest. The coroner Of one
county made his JOB pay $4,000 a
yoaY. STATE bonds we're issued rcck-
less:y and hawled ii gambling nous
cs and crooked svockb-o1e" cftics5 a
the north at any price. The gi:mpscs
We set sugges: Ike conditions in
Russia today.
There was in South Carolina 4
clear negro majority Of $4,000. The
election laws had :3ean framed care
fully By the Republccaac:s 70 make
fraud easy. The majority Of the
Judges g. every polling place were
Rcl,u Leans, usually the sI:1a-Scss,
b;ste~est and most determined of The
nc;ghcorhcod. With The election ma
chinery ard al the forces Of the n"
ard OF the state and @ejecal govern
nent5 against them, the waite people
had set themselves to win CO die
literally. Il they had los: tia. Gee
ten in 1876 thousands Of them "ou'G
have gone 20 TIE oeg:itertia,5. man
of them probably to the galiovs IN
less they could hare fed to safc..y.
Hampton, Hagood,. .Butiar, C@iy, ger
erals Of tAe Coafeae7acI practically
I'll the leading men CT the state would
have been sa5jec; to criminal prose
cuticn for direct or indirect pcrt in
" hat hostile ccurt5 would have :nc&c
crime. Deadly md @ccrc: thin.s -:c:'e
done. Somebody at Washington,
somehow, got from the war depart
ment stores 1000 Remington r;Rc5,
with hc-yonets and ammunition end
shipped them {. sea to Charleston Tor
the negro militia. Whites were for-
s:dden by law to have arms and By
proclamation Of President Grant 10
assemble Or organize. The rifles and
ammunition were taken Gly= !ariously
from the steamship wharf at dead O.
night and ultimately found Their waE
10 the Democratic white rife clubs.
Nobody dared protest, probably be-
cause the arms had been taken unlav-
fully at Washington. TIE Incident
was one Of many. Perhaps 10 news
paper in all these forty-s!X years has
mentioned it until now. Republicans
stole the guns from The government,
undoubtedly with the conn:vance o.
',:sller officials. and {, band CT EoanG
white men stole them from the Re-
cubl;cans.
Considering the facts, we can re-
alize WAY November Z, 1875, was
:ookcd TO a!no@. as day Of final
judgment and comprehend something
ci re Gactv ts:oo::>.== ts::oo:>= C ho@c ard dread.
with wn;ca i was greeted. The ne
grocs .3,c,:eved they would be &c
turned to slavery if the whites won,
The whites knew that defeas for them
meant confscz::on o. their property,
ruin, destruction, exile.
No record tells how many votes
were cast. Both sides took full aa-
vantage Of the opportunity for Iraaa
the law gave. The Hampton Red
Shirt had succeeded tie ku AluX,
Boys whose voices were yet piping
tre5les ard old men whose voices had
become treble again donGed the red
shirts the women toi!ed day ard night
to make, mounted and rode from poll
to poll, voting everywhere with
six shooters forcing the judges to ac-
cept their votes. Over the Catawba
river, from North Carolina, and the
Savannah from Georgia, white men
rode in Dlatoons to vote for Hampton
in South Carolina. IN the rice iield
districts, where the negroes were cne
hundred and two hundred to one
white, they voted their women and
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