The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-02

u NN-A JihS MdTsha1 county Dy TAI
means, have now attempted desperat
expedient in view of their approachin,
J defeat In the coming election. The reg
: istration law provides that the Sheriff
Chancery Clerk and President of tn,
Board of Supervisors of each count,
shall appoint the Registrars. This wa
done in Marshall county as in the otheu
counties of the State; two Republican.
and one Conservative were selected
Inc appointing officers in Marshall coun
" now claim the right and are attempt
ing to exercise the power of removal OF
the Board of Registrars at their pleasure.
These appointing officers are Gill, Presi-
dent of the Board of Supervisors, and
now Radical candidate for the Legisla-
ture; Buchanan, Sheriff and Radical
candidate for the same office, and Ma
bors, Chancery Clerk and Radical candi-
date for the same office, if they are per-
mltted to control the actions OF the Board
OF Registrars, the election will of course
be mere farce, for we know that one of
them, Gill, would not hesitate to do any
act, however dishonorable, to accomplish
his ends.
The registration law expressly provides
that each registrar shall take an oath
that The is not and does not expect to be
"a candidate at any election to be held
in the county during the year." This
provision would be a perfect nullity if
candidates for Office who happened to
hold the power of appointment could re-
move at pleasure the registrars and fill
their places with persons who would be
mere tools in the hands of the aspirants
for office. If this is to be the interpre-
tation of the laws the Radical candidates
might as well have been authorized by
it to hold elections If they can remove
registrars before the election and place
their tools in the positions, they can do so
after the election, and have the vote
counted to suit themselves.
Fortunately for the Conservatives of
Marshall county and of the State, the
law confers no such power, and will ad-
nit of no such Interpretation. The
power of appointment is given and of
filling vacancies created by registrars be-
coming candidates, By resignation -
"death, rensOpal from the county, or refusal
ito accept or act on appointment, or to
discharge the duties under the same, but
1t gives no power of removal or to fill
vacancies caused by removal.
But this is not the extent of the at
tempt at fraud. Fearing they would
fail in this, they Immediately put upon
foot another scheme of rascality. And
the brains of the Radical leaders in this
State are known to be pregnant with
them, and they can be brought forth at a
moments notice. Notwithstanding the
law in relation to the registration of vO-
tiers expressly provides, Art. 4, sec. 1,
that ''the Board shall Immediately upon
q the completion of the registration of the
county, have prepared by the clerk, and
"some member of the Board when neces-
"sary, a correct copy, in alphabetical or
''der, of the registered voters of each Su-
perxisor's or Election district" the Board
of Supervisors of Marshall county by
a vote of three to two, Gill, the Presi-
dent. of course voting in the affirmative,
adopted at a recent meeting an order in
the following terms: ''That the sheriff be
ssauthorized to procure seventeen copies
"of all the registered voters in the
"county, arranged alphabetically, those
s'of each Supervisors district by them
s'selves." This was an arrogant assump-
ton of power and violation of the law
of the State, and it is duty that Gov.
Alcorn, who has sworn to execute the
law. owes to the law and to the people OF
Marshall county, to remove the perpe-
traitors. But we venture the prediction
that as the violation of law was commit
ted in the interest of the Radical party,
he will close his eyes and ears to the
fact, and the guilty will 60 unpublished.
And this did not satisfy them. The
cause of Radicalism in Marshall must be
in desperate strait, and its adherents
in their desperation seem to hesitate at
nothing. We cite another violation OF
the laws. The Election Law, Art. 2,
Sec. 2, provides that the Board of Su-
with the aid of the Sheriff and
one or more of the Registrars, at their
October session, shall designate the pro-
per Sheriff or other police officer, de-, to
protect the polls and place of voting
Instead of discharging this important
duty carefully and impartially as they
should have done, the Board of Super
visors of Marshall county at its October
meeting. ordered, 'sThat the President
of this Board be and is hereby authorlz-
led to act for this Board with the Sher-
eff in appointing Deputy Sheritfs and
.sPolice officers to keep the peace at cleo
s'tion precincts" Thus absolutely CIV
ING a candidate for the Legislature (Gill)
and the candidate for sheriff buchanan
the power to appoint all of the peace Of
6eers who are to assist at the polls upon
election day.
Tt will be seen from the above, that the
programme of the Radicals in Marshall
county is First, their candidates are TO
control the registrars who appoint the
INSPECTORS of election, which means the