Southern Ways

The Cbicago Tribune of Lust Saturday eaysthatCol. Jessc Ilarp.i, ,!É DanviÏÏe, III., two years aeo a greenback candidato for congress in the fourtcenth district and now one of the wostenthusiu.stieapostlea of the fiat lunacy, arrivod in the city ycstcrday and duripg tho aftcrnoon was the re cipient of quite an ovafion in the dinpy back-room in the Palmer whioh the Batista desígnate as lieadijuarters. Añcr the bulk of the party had huzzed niin to death, a Tribune reporter dropped in with the hopo of obtaining some fresh oruinbs of information. The colonel stated that he Uft Decatur, Ala., Augugtfi ; went north to Nashville, Tenn., subsciiuontly transferred himself to Missouri, where he made a fewgreenback speeches to the "tiecutters " in the southwostern part of the state, and later took a tramp through Iowa, spreading the greenbaok gospel aocording to Weavcr. Ho was now ready to opcu the camrmign in Illinois and hoped to whoop it up " in Kndall county next week. " What kind of a lima did you hav in Alabama? ' queriod the Bcribe. "I have nothing to complain of on the score of personal treatment. In fact, it was all I could have expeeted. Therc was no attempt to break up any of uiy meet lnSf-". , "Did you make much of a canvass of i the state." "Itraveled through the northern and central part of the state, and made " WKK 'tVflitautafiaof1bCaiUCúu - found it?" "Innortbern Alabatua the whites are largely n tho ascendant. Tlio grecnbackors and republicans outnuiuber tho deniocrats, and in many distriets they will clcct members of thc legislatura." " How ia it with thc othcr nart of' the state?" "In the central belt, in which cotton ia the staple, tho negroos as conipared with the whites are 8 to 1, and in the southern or malarial belt, the sugar zone, the blacks number 9 to 1." " IIow do tho negroes get alongtbere?" 'They havo no show whatevor. The land is owned by largo proprietors. The negroes are tenants, but as for having any liberty or anything clsc, they are simply in a state of vassalage. Politically 90 per cent. of the negroos are opposed to the democratie party, and the poor whites if they had a chance would gladly withdraw froni tlio tyraniod rule of the land-owners." " What do you know about BALLOT-BOX STÜFF1N( ?" "In the black countics the negro knows uothing about his ballot. Few of the blacks can read or writc, and whenover they deposit an anti-deiiiocratic ballot the judges simply substitute a democratie ticket for it. When the count is made no republican except an uneducated negro is allowed to witness it." " How do the ropublicans foei ?" " They are not satisfied with the action of their brethren at the north. They feol that great wrong bas been dono to the negro. The republican party at the north should send into thc south 100 of its best and ablest speakers, men of national reputation, to present to the negroes and poor whites the issues now before tho country. Thf nifrrnpa Toni tVt flift,, in... U 1 -- .. .rt. w.. il-w nii, Lntj jiuvu uuuu iltjalldoned liko a flock of s!ieei (o a pack of wol ves. " " How do tho nativo white republicans andgreenbackersget along?" "They are all men oí sublime courage, whom no bulldozing will scare. They all go armed, and do not hesitate to say thatif any shootin? is to be indulgcd in they are willing to take a part." "Whatdoyüu t hink of tho state generally ?" "l'hysically it isa bcautiful land- that is, the northern belt, butthe country is not ciyilized. It needs free churches, free schools, tree ballots and a free country." "If a fair vote werc polled, what do you tlunk would be the result?" "Thorepuolioansandgreenbackcrswould have a majority of 50,000." " How many of you greenbacker.-i stuinpcd the state?" "Weaver, De La Matyr, Uandall and myselt. Wc did not travel together." " llandall was rather unoiviily treated 2" "Yes, he was given thirty-five minutes to leave town. " "Didhego?" ''I understand ho did." "Why is it the negrocs eannot help themselves? " They are not allowed to have any anus, not evenagoodsizcdjack-knife. The present state laws were made for tho political enslavenient of the colored man. He in robbed on every sidc, and is perfectly powerless to help himself. The penal laws are outragcous. I met a negro in the peniteotiary who had been sent there for onc year for.taking eight roasting-ears of'corn. And this corn he had raised himself. Whun a negro reata a pieee of land he eannot use or remove any of the growing erop without a pcroiit froru the landowner, whose rent is secured by a mortgase on the erop. Wheneyer the growing corn erop reaches b condition that it can be used for food a certain number of row.s are staked off for tlio negro tenant's use. The colored man whom I saw iu thu penitentiary had takoo eight cara to give a traveling preacher. Ho was seen by one of the land owner's honchmen ; was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced."