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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
DISTRICT TICKET.
For Senator,
JAMES o. AMOS.
Common Pleas Judge,
ROBERT f. CHAMBERS,
of Belmont County.
Democratic County Ticket

For Representative,
fi'ses WILLIAM MlLLIGAN.
~. Auditor,
s4aaa MICHAEL HOEFFLE3.
zzilgs Sheriff,
3''s GEORGE CALDWELL.
Treasurer,
WILLIAM READ.
Prosecuting Attorney,
ALBERT j. PEARSON.
Commissioner,
ga JAMES ARMSTRONG,
Recorder,
ARCHIBALD HOSKINSON.
Surveyor,
OLIVER S. SLOAN.
sGe Infrmary Director,
PHILIP SCHUMACHER, Full term.
STEPHEN D0UGHERTY, Vacancy
Coroner,
Il za JOHN MUHLEMAN.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
EThe Enterprise, of Oregon, thinks

Re- The Enterprise, of Oregon, thinks
the tariff is "worse than war;"
"No doubt the civil war greatly reduc-
ed American shipping, That was nat
ural consequence. The Republican pa
pers say that the Alabama caused re-
duction of $4,000 tons year. Since
the close of the war, the deprcdations Of
the tariff have been 100000 tons of ship
ping per annum, ct an annual loss OF
S12,500,000. Truly, the Morrill, tariff
might justly be styled the Congressional
Alabama"
Let the people remember the above
facts, and strike the Radical Protection.
lists, who have ruined the shipping in.
terests of this country, at the Polls.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11

ES- Since the 1st of June, President
GRANT has passed three days in Wash
ington, and drawn $2,0S3 33 for that
immense service to the nation, or nearly
$500 day, which is not bad. A keen
eye has ULYSSES to the main chance, as
he has probably doubled his months
pay at Long Branch in receipts from un-
fit appointm ents-of course, not direct
brides, but Incidental presents.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11

EEThe recent United States Grand
Jury at Little Rock, Arkansas, in
dicted twenty one persons for violation
of the enforcement act at the late elec-
tions in that State. Senator CLAYTON
was among the number. About thirty
more indictments were found, but the
Grand Jury was discharged so unexpect.
edly that they did not have time to re-
turn them to the Court. This was done
in pursuance of Radical tactics to save
their ballot-box suffers.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
Chorus of the Revenue DelauIters.

We've stole good Father ABRAHAM
Three thousand thousand more!-
We steal and trust, and prey and pray
That GRANT will wipe the score.
The powers at Washington give the
defauIters full receipts, for their influence
and votes.
The people must defeat these thieves
at the ballot-boX.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
SA nj U Ell t. H U N T,
Of Hamilton County.
90 Supreme, Judge.
g.. W. G L D D E S,
800 of Richland County.
Attorney General,
EDWARD S. WALLACE,
of Clarke County.
Auditor of State,
JOSEPH r. COCKERILL,
of Adams County.
Treasurer of State,
DR.. GUSTAV BRUEHL,
OF Hamilton County.
Member Board Of Public Works;
ARTHUR HUGHES,
Of Cuyahoga County.
School Commissioner,
WILLIAM W. ROSS,
.s of Sandu.ky County.
Clerk of Supreme Court,
{ = CHARLES PATTERSON,
of Franklin County.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05


The organization VI Ku Klux
bands by the Loyal Leaguers in DeSoto
county, shows the INSCRIPTIONS character
Of the party with which the deliverers of
the State from the curse of Radical mis-
rule are compelled to deal. We are
reminded that after the election in 1868,
which was held by military authority,
and in the management of which the
lawful authorities of the State had no
control whatever, the same unprincipled
spoilsmen who are now at the head of the
Mongrel clans attempted by false swearing
to fasten the black-and-tan constitution
on the State after it had been fairly de-
feated. They were even base enough to
appeal from the decision of the voters to
a partisan Congress. Failing in this at
tempt, they organized an agency of fraud
and corruption throughout the State in a
subsequent election and by the importa-
ton of ballot-stuffers, and employment of
force succeeded in obtaining control of
the State government, which they have
welded for the plumber and oppression
of the people.
In struggling to rescue themselves from
the yoke of a party so desperately wicked
and INSCRIPTIONS, the people must exer-
ercise the utmost vigilance and activity.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05
The Missing Turuitu
say%ho Leader

The CLARION, iu its article
chairs and % bcdsteud' .iNe M
furniture said 90 De Boo noe Ma
Governor A. took up his ruIaH
throws out an inquiry which a.
Involve not only Governor AIHur
eral Ames aud Governor Humfar
What TIE CLARION ad VOL
That Gov. Alcorn In his speech
tho $4,000 expenditure on
tive Mansion, stated chat 8ia
possession il contained u0 ar.a
niture but "thrce chuir audt0
Ia reply The CLARION al
Gov. Humphrey, the leea.
was expelled by military au.n
ed by Ames, he left the eh
amply supplied with uIl things
for comfortable oecupuney A
moved out, Ames moved boz r
wolves OH tho latter (nssumIas
corn's statement il correct % 81
for the missing furniture.
1t is not true that our Imr
wolves Gov. Humphrey Oa
trary, we assert that hc left % h
unlawful successor, the Nuns
supplied. Ames is now u thosf
let him answer why Il wa tHa.H
over the establishment 90 AlWrr
"three chairs and a beds.oad
according to the Eminent Fm
STATED an expenditure of sll,
furnishing it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05
Radicals High i'm Authority Vic.
Iaffng the En- fOrcement Act.


THE fact is unquestionable. Jonathan
Tarbell, prominent Radical-the same
who was cashiered in the U. s. army du-
ring the war for conduct "utbecoming an
officer and gentleman" who now
occupies place on the Supreme Court
Bench of the State by appointment of
Gov. Alcorn, has been guilty of violating
the Enforcement Act passed by Radical
Congress under pretence of protecting the
freedom of election in the Southern States
We speak on the authority of the afida-
Wits of such prominent Republicans as
James Coates, Richard G. Kerr and ST.
mon Jones. But this is not all. The
head of the present Radical Administra-
tom. l.. Alcorn-has been guilty of
the same offence. He has turned men
out of office of his own selection for no
other reason than that In the exercise of
their right of suffrage they have chosen a
course which does not meet his approba-
ton. The expulsion of these men from
OAuCC u q SeaAOAnS lAIOdt SS5e1iAlSb dAl Obn6T
incumbents In the State, and is a clear
violation of the Act of Congress His
official acts are conclusive. They furnish
testimony which is irrefutable. TheVicks-
burg Republican, leading organ of his
own party, is frank enough to admit the
charge. 1t says;
A short time since, we published the fact
that Judge Tarbell had been arrested for
violating the Endorsement Act" and Ii has
since occurred to US that, If Judge TarbelI As
guilty, it is quite likely that others may be
guilty or the same offense; and, IL reports
be true, even Gov. Alcorn himself mi ght not
be entirely free. at least, from suspicion
Judge TarbeIl is only charged with threat
ening to use his1nfuence with the G overnor
to have certain parties removed if they did
not support his man, Lake, for Sheriff. while
il is well known that Gov. AIcorn has stood
in threatening" attitude toward all his
appointees, intimating that their official
heads depended upon their pursuing a GER
tain course; and IL is also well known that
certain official heads have dropped into the
waste basket because. forsooth, they did not
tread the track OF RepubIicanism marked
out for them by His ExceIlency. A humber
of.instances Of threats, direct and indirect.
of removal from Office by the Governor, are
asserted And &c is also asserted and gem
orally believed that Gov. Aleorn permitted
Senators to hold county positions, in their
Districts, 80 that he might hold the galillo-
tine over their official heads, in case they did
not do his bidding in the Senate. It Is sug-
gested that, il these cases were inquired into.
indictments much stronger than are charged
against Judge Tarbell coold easily be OBJ
tanned. .Eos-a ~ 80
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05

The, champion" Radical pleads that
his DIongrel clans ought not to be ex-
PEELED from the power which they did not
lawfully obtain, because another party
in 1S56-ffteen years and more ago
''squandered the Chickasaw School.
Fund"
He voted for the law.
He arraigned the New Orleans, Jack
son d Great Northern Railway Company
as an cold defaulter" and stated that his
agent had developed the fact that it had
ample means to complete the road from
Canton to Aberdeen according to the
original charter
He signed bill to appropriate mil
Non two hundred thousand of stock to
subsidize it to perform what it was under
contract and able to do.
He charges that the Ku Klux Khan is
a "band of midnight assassins, cut
"throats and mHrderers.
He has selected a Chief of the Kan for
the Leadership ofhis party.
He complains that the enforcement
Act to preserve the freedom of elections
has been violated by the opposers of
Radical misrule
a Supreme Court Judge of his own
appointment has been arraigned for vio-
lating the law, and he stands condemned
as guilty of the same offense by his
expulsion of men from office for
their political opinions
In his official papers and public docu-
ments he has established the charge of
extravagant expenditure and misappro-
priation of the peoples money by the
Radicals; and yet he is seeking to pro-
long their rule.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05

The Old Union ank---IIIegnI
bond Claim Of e2O, 100000


Tax Payers be On Your Gunrd.
The following observations Of the
Kinds County Gazette,-a paper never
given to sensational matters-are oppor-
timely made and deserve especial CON
sideration. 1t is to be remembered that
the subject Of paying the twenty millions
of dollars of Union Bank Bonds which
are held by adventurous spectators as
claim against the State, was revived by
their carpet-bag leader at the last session
of the Legislature, that the fact is open
ly proclaimed that several hundred
thousand dollars have been appropriated
by the spectators in this pretended
claim notoriouSy to buy up votes in the
Legislature; and Gov. Alcorn himself.
who in 1856 introduced a resolution in
the Legislature blouse journal p. >
to pay it, has renewed the agitation in
the present canvass
From the Kinds County Gazette.
The Vicksburg Republican calls attention
TO the fact that the old illegal and repudia-
tep Bonds Of Mississippi, issued on account
of the Union and Planters Banks, are now
In the hands of spectators who had hired
representatives at Jackson last winter with
pockets full OF money for the purpose OF
buying up members of the Legislature, aud
adds ave understand that every possible
effort will be made TO secure favorable leg
slation on this IN after at the coming session
This announcement should put the voters
Of Mississippi on their guard, and induce
them to be very careful as 10 the character
of the men who are 10 represent them "a
the ensuing Legislature. The holders Of the
&20,000,000 Of Illegal and repudiated bonds
obtained by them ut a comparatively triainp
cost-pOssibly at not over a tenth or "A
twentieth of the amount TO which thev now
aggregate. They bought them at a venture
and with the expectation of buying up" a
Legislature and securing from IL a recOg-
milton of the Bonds, and = new issue Of some
sort in their place. It Is stated that a large
number Of the members of the last legisla-
ture were bought and sold for sundry pur-
poses like cattle In the market-and that
from ten 70 fifty dollars would obtain the
votes OF certain members for almost any
scheme OF plunder. The holders of the
$4,000 600 of Tepudiated Bonds, could well
afford TO advance 100000 in GOLD TO carry
their plans through the Legislature. and
that there are men now striving 20 get Re-
publican nominations for the Legislature III
the heavy negro voting counties for the ax-
press purpose OF obtaining a part OF this
Infamous bride, we have every reason 20
believe.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05

Men of Copiah, Carroll, Attala, KEN
per, and Chickasaw-Conservatives-
Democrats-opposers Of the tyranny,
extravaganza and high taxation of the
present Radical State Administration
the eyes of the whole State are upon you
Are you up and doing? Are your can
didates in the field and at work Are
the captains az the tens and hundreds
doing whatsts.s are able? Have you all
registered? Have you appointed your
meetings and selected your eanvassers !?
Are you industriously teaching the unin-
formed the way they should go; and ex-
posing the false pretences and wicked
practices of the party in power?
Are you remembering the lesson of
1868, when the same inscriptions adj
venturers and renegades who are now
seeking to prolong their ill-gotten rule,
were badly beaten in their attempt to
force upon . the State permanent dis
franchising Constitution Are goa or
qanizing to carry the electiOn9 Not by
'intimidation" by "threats" not
by violence" but by the irresistible
agency of desperate will and united
effort. Many of you, will be admitted
to the polls who wero disfranchised at
previous elections under military govern
ment And you have not only the ex-
ample of your own State in 1868, and in
the special elections of 1870 of what can
be done-but the lessons of Virginia, of
North Carolina, of Georgia and of Ala
bama, of what can be accomplished BY
organized effort. eve address ourselves
particularly to you, because you have
the numerical strength to carry the day, If
you have the icU to do it From unex-
pected quarters, we have assurances of
certain victory over the Mongrel cohorts.
A Waterloo defeat awaits them if there
is no faltering in consequence of want of
harmony-or absence of zeaI-or over
confidence in the counties we have
named.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05

our vie;lant contemporary, the Kinds
County Gazette publiAhes the following
detailed statement Of the tax levy lot
this county made by the Board OF super
y;sors at their recent meeting IN Gay
mond. lie will be seen that the levy .
but trihe under the tax paid the pres
ent summer for 1870, and is therefore
enormously high. The sum total tor the
county foots up the Onerous amount OF
SIP 600. exclusive of the poll tax.
Taking these figures as data, 1t i certain
that we have put the figures too low m
estimating the entire tax which the people
of the State have to pay under Mongrei
rule at sic millions of dollars. Corpora
tons and poll taxes included, eight 1ha-
lions would approximate nearer the real
figures. Only think that people whose
entire property valuation is but SlIo,-
OOO. 900, are taxed eight millions Of
dollarsl And that too 10 enrich a class
of desperate adventures who join to
their vocation of plumber a persistent
effort to foment strife between the races
and to cause lawlessness and bloodshed
in the communities which they have
cursed by their presence =
From the Kinds County Gazette.
The County Levy.
The levy for the taxes of 1871 was made
by the Board Of Supervisors 81 Kinds eoun-
~ nc its session last week The levy, We
are glad To say, Is somewhat under that
ma ie last spring for the year 1870. The
levy for 1871 is ms follows:
On State tax, 50 per cent. for bridges;
{" 90 " county;
10 Jail debt.
70 poor.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05

The Leader presents an array of figures
which it says were obtained from ''the
Report of the Auditor Of State" showing
the expenses of the State government
during the acar. The "Auditor of STATE"
as the Leader terms TIE officer referred
to, has communicated two regular reports
to the Legislature. and as neither OF them
contains the figures quoted by the Leader,
we must regard them as altogether fabu-
Ions. But are not the Wreckers driven to
a desperate strait when they strive to
cover up their extravaganza and whole
sale plumber Of the people in time Of
profound peace, with the cost of admin
istering the government during the war?
Does not their dodge amount to a confess
sion of guilt; and doesn't it resolve itself
into a pitiful plea that bad as their acts
are, somebody has done worse?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05
-Signeadl
COMMENT.

Now, Mr.. Roane, here you are in
black and white, as plain as you could
write yourself down; and though you
have denied that you have used the pre-
else language in reference to the Mongrel
Party reported in THE CLARION, what
have you testified concerning it? You
have said:
1st. That you "co1,demed the ways and
doings" of your party, Sin and out OF
the Legislature.
ID That you were "particatlarly dis
pleased with the course it pursued on the
Richardson Penitentiary Bill"
Sd. That you were "dissatisfed with
''the frequent exhibition of an illiberal
policy manifested towards the old citi-
''zens ofthe State" with whom you pro-
fess to sympathize in their "great mis-
fortunes and losses"
4th. That you disagreed with it in
its reckless expenditure of the peoples
money!" that you felt it obligatory on
you to warn its members against this
practice, and that if your admonition had
been ,Aeeded, they would not have had so
dificulta task in undertaking to persuade
the people to continue the Mongrels in
the possession of the power they have so
fagrantly abused.
Now, Mr.. Roane, you heing the Judge,
and not putting too fine point ON it,
what is the English of all this testimony
you have borne against the Radical par
ty? You have admitted that it has been
guilty of corrupt practices-violated its
trust-squandered the public money
prosecuted class of your fellow-citizens
for whom you have professed sympathy
and rendered itself worthy of con-
demnation in general and in detail. In
other words, that there is no soundness
in it-that it is mass of wounds, bruis-
es and purifying sores. If after having
testified this much against it, you persist
in continuing your association with it,
and lending yourself as an agent in pro-
longing its power, you are no better than
the worst of the gang.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05
WV. I'M. nonme % Pike, Denies NAV.
ing said aRraa MMe had Wmshea
Hfs Hands OF the mirttnesS
Offhe Radical Party. but
Proves that He OmGmt
nm Have said 40.

This Is precisely what w. III. Roane,
a Scallawag member of the Legislature
has done. In letter dated Sept. 26th,
10 THE CLARION, he denies having said
at the close of the late session of the Leg
islature that he had renowned the Radi-
cal party and washed his hands of its
dirtiness, and complains that the state
ment has placed him Sin a false light be-
fore the public.
Mr.. Roane is a long time making this
correction. His remark was reported in
this paper, at the time, and it is little
strange that he did not then respond.
If the game were worth the candle we
could adduce proof that he did use Ian
guage to the effect quoted, from his seat
in the Hall of Representatives. But
admit, for argument sake, that he did
not, his letter of denial establishes con-
clusively that if he has the honest inten-
tons which he processes, he ought
publicly to renounce his party of iniquity
and infamy and then adhere to his pledge
of opposition to it. With full knowl-
edge of its course as the controlling party
in the Legislature and in the present
State misunderstanding participa-
ted in its secret councils and been a
witness of its measures-behold the tes-
timony which this Mr.. w. III. Roane
bears against it. He writes /:
deny ever have made any such a state
ment as the one you attribute to me. No
one ever heard me say anything like it.
did, however, condemn the ways and doings
of certain members ofmy own party in and
out of the Legislature.
L was particularly displeased with the
course many of them pursued on the Rich
ardsOn PeniLentiary Bill.
was also dissatisfied with the frequent
exhibition of an illiberal spirit manifested
by many of them towards the old citizens
of the State. L am a Southerner myself
born of a Southern ancestry before me, and
L SympathiZe deeply with the Southern
people in their great mistorJunes ana losses.
pity them from the very bottom of my
heart and L do not like to hear anybody
denounce them. In short, l am no enemy
To any one, nor will lend my aid or intlu-
ence to any man or set of men who manifest
a disposition TO carry out a spirit of enmity
az ainst my own people.
1 disagreed with many of my own party
also in what seemed to me to be reckless
expenditure of the peoples money. From
first TO last L urged the most rigid economy
in the management of the finances of the
State. Reform and Retrenchment' was
the refrain of every speech made by me in
the House for two long years, and if the
mem bers of my own party had needed my
advice in this matter, the party would to-
day have less TO overcome before the people
in the present canvass.
ISirned1 w. H. Ro4SE
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05

Taxpayers will bear in mind that not
withstanding they have paid five times as
much taxes this year as ever before, un-
der the General Revenue Law passed by
the present Radical State government,
aud in the form of county levies, the Tax
Collectors will soon again be on their
rounds. And under this law, all taxes
remaining unpaid on the first day of De-
cember are required TO be collected by
sale of personal property with an addi-
tional tax of fifty per cent. thereon. The
law provides that lands shall be adver-
tised for sale for taxes on the first Monday
of March.
With the immense tax levies already
paid the present year, and the failure of
the cotton crop, how the people of the State
are TO meet this new requisition of the
ax-Collectors under the Revenue Law.
passed for their own enrichment by the
Radical spoilsmen, we are at loss to con-
lecture. The Supreme Court has deprived
the taxpayers of the remedy by injunc-
ton, which they have enjoyed from the
foundation Of civil government in the
State until the infiiction of the present
curse of Radical misrule. And the Legis-
lature will not meet again until January.
The best the people of the several
counties can do, will be to elect candidates
to the Legislature who are opposed to
continuance of this rule, and who, being
in sympathy with the taxpayers, will
devise some method, if possible, to afford
the absolutely requisite relief 1t will
never come through the Radical cormo-
rants. Their past course shows that,
intent on enriching themselves, they are
determined to persist in their grasping
policy. 1t has been charged, and not
denied, that Warner, whom the Loyal
Leagues in Madison county have renomi-
mated for the Senate, has openly avowed
that he is in favor of increasing taxation
to an extent that will necessitate the
wholesale disposal of property under the
Sherif''s hamm ar. Forewarned-fore-
armed