| Show bulldozing IN THE SOUTH THE large vote int louisiana at the last election startled the republicans and they refused tu to believe that so many negroes as claimed cast their ballots tor for the Detrio cratic candidates they C ried cried if raud fraud and charged openly that it was corruption and not adt colored votes that glave gave the great majorities but allowing for the opportunities of democratic election off officers leers and returning boards and the bulldozing said to be common in the south it il ap pears that there has bas been beba quite a chanse chaise jn in the colored vote of et late tae blacks claim they have found out that the republicans have no use tor for a ini I ni ger except on election day tais is a publicly expressed sentiment in florida louisiana tennessee and alabama ane nashville star which is republican in politics gives the facts in these words every time the negro sticks his head up for office jae he is slaughtered by those with whom he be affiliates and for whom he always works and votes beginning 1 innia with knox county we see a n agro running bunning for assessor on th the e republican ticket defeated while every white man is elected by good majorities the same is true in hamilton county inthis city all the colored men on the republican ticket for magistrate were defeated although five or six white republicans were successful since the election a white republican bli 1 e an club his hae been organized whit white e republicans here say they want to get rid of halt the negro vote it is an open secret that certain republicans do not want tennessee carried for the republican party but that they want to keep keel up the organization so they can control the campaign f funds to their individual advantage A part ot of the program is to cut off a portion of the blacks especially those who clamor for pie for ham although the negroes do the republican voting in tennessee the whites want to control the patron age and campaign f funds out of the negroes 1 sight W whatever h alever may be the real cause it is clear that a great many colored voters have gone over to the democratic party and it is also established on good evidence that in a great many instances the bulldozing reported to prevail on the part par of the whites against the blacks to prevent their botin voting for republicans is actually resorted to by the colored republicans to prevent the stampede among their own people towards tho the democratic ranks A northern man who has hap lived in the south for eight years thus describes I 1 ia the new york 11 herald erald the manner in which this is done I 1 A colored voter desires to vote tor for a democrat and as soon as his bis intention is known he is set upon by a number of his own race who taunt him with voting against his own color and set his wife and children against him in some cases even threatening his life the minister of his church will wil publicly abuse him and tell him that he will have no hope of heaven all because he desires to exercise his constitutional right of selecting his own candidate if he be had bad sufficient moral courage to withstand these attacks he must procure the assis assistance taice of som some ewhite lwhite man in whom he has confidence to see that he gets the right ticket and to protect him until he can deposit it otherwise it would be taken from him A republican leader always stands at the poll and examines the ticket of all colored voters inal slinK that they vote for his candidate whether they exercise their own lodgment judgment ar y not but it he be bas courage enough enouen to succeed in getting the ticket of nis his choice deposited in the ballot box he be is then ostracised ostracized completely by the peaceful colored people while th the e roughs boughs throw stones through his windows and in short make his als life as miserable as possible I 1 nave bave known a number of colored men to vote a democratic ticket but it is very rare that que one is found with wath sufficient courage to todo do it a second time this is IB a kind of terrorism in tha south that republican politicians will not care to dwell upon either to in or out of congress but in spite of it the detection from the carpetbag carpet bag bat influence is of considerable proportions proportion and the colored voter is lesTa tux the true inwardness of that interest in his bis welfare which prompted the movement roo granting him the suffrage ilia ballot is wanted for the party parly that conceived the scheme and it if he use it in t that ha t di direction the rep republicans have no further use for hita him T there h e are two hides sides to the stories of pol political I 1 tr bulldozing in the south |
