Year: 1878

Good Place to Begin Prosecutions.


From the Chronicle and Consiitutionalist.


The Now York Tribune is owned
by Jay Gould, according to COM
mon report. Mr.. Gould is not gen.
orally regarded as the highest type
OF man, in any sense of the term. He
is reputed to be dangerous to the
human race in many particulars.
He cares for the Golden Calf and
all that surrounds it but very
little indeed does the freedom of the
Republic concern him. He is said
to compass his ends by exerting in
fuences which reside in abundant
gold. He has made an immense
fortune by gambling, and chaos is
his opportunity to plumber. We
can very we'll understand why the
organ Of such man should hate
solid South, because nothing prom
ises to stand SO persistently in the
way OF the schemes of such a wreck
or. We can comprehend too why
that paper should howl about bull
doing in the South, because that
is war cry not yet useless in the
North, and indeed is the only slogan
left Radicalism of the baser sort. But
there never was more gigantic hy-
pocrisy than the attempt to make
it appear that "bulldozing is con.
fined to the South. Threatened
with the most infamous spoliation
and cebauchery by Radical recon-
struction, usin 6 as it's instruments
ignorant, venal and semi-barbarious
tools, alien in race and interest, the
South resorted to every method,
we'll known at the North, to beat
back this menaced destruction of
her social, industrial and political
systems. How is it at the North :?
Let General Butler, who reports his
case through this very Tribune,
speak. He says :


81 should have been elected if it
had not been for the most outruge-
GUS and persistent bulldozing of the
laboring men of Massachusetts by
their employers, which changed
thousands Of votes. In one case
man had q factory with worry con
siderable number of voters employed
in it. He took them down three at
q time in his carriage. He voted
the three and then went back for
three more and voted them, and so
on until he had gone through with
his men. In other cases, when mon
asked leave their employers to go
and vote, they were told they could
go, but they need not come back if
they did-that they did not want
their services any more. In anoth-
er case, in my own city, where man
found one of his workmen on the
streets, he literally took him by the
shoulder and marched him up to the
polls and made him vote tho Repub-
lican ticket-although he WAS known
to be exactly the other way and
had so declared himself--amid cries
of shame shume ! shame don't
vote against your principle ! from
the people in the ward-room. The
Mississippi plan of bulldozing is
much more honorable and far more
brave. That is done with
shotgun, and two men can play at
that. The Massachusetts plan is to
work upon the laboring mans fears
that his wife and children will starve
during the hard Winter that is COM
ing, which is simply knavish, cow
ardly and dishonorable and yet it
is done by men who claim to be
honorable men, openly advocated in
the newspapers, and circular was
printed in this city which would
have been distributed if I had not
found it out and exposed it before
hand, calling upon tho employers to
exercise the "vast authority they
had over their employees" to make
them vote against me. ."Y f-


General Butler went beyond this.
He said +: "The Chairman Of the
tho Republican State Committee
sent for leading manufacturers and
had them at the Parker House at his
room, to advice with them for that
purpose. If he denies it, I can
proYeit. I hope shan't hear any
moro talk from the Republicans in
Congress VII Eel am--about bull
doing the negroes" f,ua4p ...


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