Show Red Shirt Rackets Hancoclc Gloomy ana Regretful Chicago 27The InterOceana Washington contains extracts from a letter from Senator Taft of South Carolina in which is detailed the manner in which the red shirts broke up a republican meeting at Hinnt boro He wall met at the train by a large party of these drunken wretches who insisted on escortine him to the grove where the meeting was to beheld be-held and where be was to speak Declining De-clining their proffered aid he started with a few republicans to walk there but was immeditely set upon hustled cursed and threatened so that his life was barely saved by the intervention of a few less violent and more conservative con-servative democrats The latter made the excuse that tbe men were drunk Taft says this sort of thing is continually happening in South Carolina Caro-lina and even the democratic News and Courier of Charleston is compelled com-pelled to denounce it of latedeclaring the action red shirts indefensible although at the same time excusing it A dispatch from New York says a visitor from Governors Iland reports that Hancock is quiet and gloomy He has abandoned all hope of election elec-tion and is sorry that he over entered the fight He is especially distressed by the cartoons and newspaper attacks at-tacks |