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Po1itioe~ Trouble about 1888

	“The darkies and the white .tolka in Union County had an inaurrection over the poila about the yar 1888. tn them days, when you wanted to j*tt a Republican man in, you didn‘ t have to do ich campaigning. They just went to the polls and put • him in. Xverybody that could vote waa Republican. In the fall of 1888 they had a ~xeat trouble down there, and acme of them got killed. They went around and c~nnar‘ded the Negroes not to go to the poila the next day. Sane of the Negroes would tell them, ‘Well, I am going to the polls tc~norrow it I have to crawl.‘ And then acme of them would say, t t d like to know how you goin‘ to . ‚ The nigger would ask right back, ‘How you goin‘ to vote?‘ The white man would say, ‘I‘m goin‘ to vote ae I damn pleaee. ‚ Then the nigger would say, ‚ I‘m going to do the same thing.‘ That started the trouble.

	“On Sunday before the elect ion on Monday, they went around through that county in gange. They ahot acinefew otthe~Regroea. As the Negroes didzL‘ t have no weapons to pro tact theirselvea ‚ they du‘ t have no chance.

In that way, quite a few of the Negroes disbanded their homes and went into different eountiea and different portiona of the state and different states. Henry Goodman, my grandfather, came into Hot Spring County in this way.


Opinions

	“Roosevelt has got himself in a predicament. They are dru.nk and don‘t

know what to do. The whole world ta stirred up over why one—fourth of the world should itile the other tIir.e—rourth.. Onstourth of the world is white. The Bible says a house divided can‘t stand. The people don‘t know what to do. Look how they tight the Wa~a Hour Bill. Look at the excite..

ment they raieed when it was first suggested that the Union and Confederate Vete~~~ meet together.