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The Way It Is Done

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
August
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Die editor ot the Evansville, Indiana. Courier was in Hendenon, Kentucky, on the day of the eteotfon in that State, and he tells his reader how the voting was done by the new recruits to the suffrage army thrro. H(!S(iys: " In the city there wcïo two voting-places. At eaoii of them a temporary partition was erooted, the white and black roters, and we observcd that the nogroos, without a single exception, w:ilked up to the offieers of the - election with a printed ticket, published on a reddish or wine-colored paper, and by its peculiar color only did tlny know tliat it contained the names of the Radical candidatos. In long lincs thpy pressed up to the pxll.s, and, drawing forth their badges of HwtinaKgn, callod out : " Boss, I votes dat 'Publican ticket." About one o'clock ono of the candidates produced the law which we havo quofred', and insisted that it should bu observed. Tlio officers concludcd to try it, and of tho next five negrous who came to the polls only ono of them knew morethan a single óandidate whom they propoeed supporting. They aeuraod ven eenerally to onderstand bat (liirnil Jliirlun was running tbr Govoraor, but boyond that the great mass of thora knew not a singlo candidato on the ticket; and the namosot'thc Candidatos intght just :is well havebortu published n Eabiew ae in Roman oharacters, bo far as the printi-d tiokete serred to enlighten the dusky sovoroigns. Not ono in twonty could reád a wow, itnd, beyond tho faot that thoy had been instructi-'l to support the candidatos whose nnmes wore on the red ticket, they werc as ignorant of what they wc re doing as if they had been a ptir.k of mules." These men were all votingtho Bsdioal ticket, not becauBO they knew unythiug about ñu: iíues involved between the two partios, but beoaiue they had been tulii in Ihi! teague rooms tö vote only the red or wine-eolorcd tickets. They were, too Tucmïers of that party which claims 1 tho intollig. n ;e ii th'j land. and which ridicuks, wit'i ii silting cartoons, a id in cvi-ry other way, the ignorajico of adopted citizcns who cxci-cisu tbo eleotive franelns acoording to thcir own oonvictions of dut y, and not in acoonlanoe with the

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Michigan Argus