The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-05-18

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the white vote predominates of their
right to be represented in the next Legis-
lature We will continue the exposition.
The Ninth Senatorial District Casper,
Newton and Scott, has. 4, 1922 voters.
1t will be represented by Senator Watts,
! holding over.
| The counties of Rankin and Kinds
constitute the Eleventh District, and is
entitled to two Senators, with voting
population of 1852. Here again we see
white county overshadowed by negro
county. Kinds, with 4, sos votes, is as
much entitled to be a separate Senatorial
District as Adams county. with 4,12l
votes. And Rankin and Simpson, with
3,347 voters (more than the senatorial
ratio of representation of Warren, as
proposed, } would have made a fair dis
trict, and the people of Simpson, whose
Senators go cut would not have been
deprived of their right to vote.
Madison county forms the Twelfth
District ard has 1857 voters.
Yazoo is the Thirteenth District and
has 1857 voters.
Holmes makes the Fourteenth District
with 4, 149 voters.
Thus we see that the counties of Mad
ison, Yazoo, and Holmes are made
separate districts with but few more
voters than Kinds, according to Lynch's
table, which we are using as basis OF
our estimates, Though Kinds has really
1891 voters simply because there are
no white counties near them to be over
powered.
The Fifteenth District is composed OF
Leake and Attala and has 3, 151 voters.
1t elects this fall. Properly Neshoba
belongs to this district, but is taken from
it not because it would be too large. with
| the vote of Neshoba, fer with her vote
the district would have only 1898 voters.
294 less than the Yazoo district, and SO
less than the tenth district, but because
the trainers of the bill knew that with
Neshoba the district would be Democrat
ic, while they hope that without Neshoba
Attala will 90 Republican and control
Leake.
The Sixteenth District is composed of
Winston and Choctaw, as now, and will
be represented by Senator Castles hold
ing over.
The Seventeenth District, Kemper,
Neshoba and Noxubee, has 7,779 voters
and two Senators. Again Radical ras-
cality is seen in all its hidiousness. The
two small white counties of Kemper and
Neshoba are tackled on to the heavy
negro county of Noxubee. The first
two have 3,142 votes-within few votes
of the ratio which gives Warren two
Senators. Noxubee has 1869 votes,
which is, with the exception of Yazoo,
more votes than any of the single county
districts have, therefore Noxubee is en-
titled to Senator and Kemper and Ne
shOba to one. This would have been
honest, but it is not in accordance with
the scheme of the Wreckers.
The Eighteenth District is composed
of Calhoun and Yalobusha and will be
represented by Senator Duncan; it has
3,1S5 voters.
Lafayette and Pontotoc, with 1908
Il. III
will be represented by Senator Lyles.
The twentieth is formed of the coun-
ties of Lee and Itawamba and has 3, 915
voters.
Alcorn, TishomingO and Prentiss
counties compose the twenty-frst District
and will be represented by Senator Stone.
1t has 1924 voters.
The Twenty-Second District is formed
of the counties of Union, Tippah and
Benton, and has 4,795 voters.
The Twenty-Third Districts composed
of the counties of Monroe and Chickasaw
and is to have two Senators, one of whom
holds over 1t has 1916 voters.
Chickasaw is white county by small
majority, therefore it is attached to Mon
roe, with a large negro majority, not
outstanding it has 1851 votes, which is
Just 500 more votes than the fifteenth
district, and but 128 votes less than the
fifth district, and is clearly entitled to
one Senator, leaving one to Monroe,
which has 1897 votes.
Marshall county is the Twenty-F Fourth
District and has 5, 405 voters. 1t is a
Democratic district, but Paine holds
over.
Pamela county is the Twenty-Fifth
District and has 4,344 voters. Being a
heavy negro county it, of course, is a
separate district.
The Twenty-Sixth District is formed
of DeSoto and Tuni,a. The peculiar
rascality which attaches to its formation,
was spoken of in our former article.
The counties of Bolivar and Coahoma
form the Twenty-Seventh District 1t
has 1915 voters.
The Eighth District is made of
Washington and Issaquena and has 5 ,291 |
voters. Gray holds over.
The Twenty-Ninth District is composd |
of Tallahatchie, Sunhower and Grenada
and has 4, AIS voters.
The counties of Carroll and Lehore /
compose the Thirtieth District. 1t will
be represented by Senator johnson hold
ing over. We have no record of the