American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-04
Fraud and Corruption.

Mr.. j. L. Lake, jr., Chairman of
he AlcOrn Executive Committee.
nd editor of the VickSburg Times
has issued an address to the Gre
publicans of Mississippi contain
ing charges ana pecifications
against the party in power, of the
most damaging and damning char
ctrr. Mr.. Lake produces facts
and figures in support of the charg-
es preferred, and according to the
the exhibit, the Radical officials
must be the most corrupt
body of men ever called to admin
lister the affairs of Il State. The
counts made in the bill of indict-
ment 90 to show that those to whom
the people bad confi,led the prOtec-
tion of their interests, accepted pc.
sition with the design Of defrauding
the citizens of the commonwealth
of their substance.
If the revelations made in this
address are correct, then it is evil
dent that regular system of pub
lie plumber WAS successfully carried
out at the Capitol of the State
Bargain, intrigue, bribery and
fraud, at which men of ordinary
laxity of morals would shrink back
appalled,, were boldly and unblush-
ingly perpetrated by men who are
now asking the suffrages of the very
people who havej been made the
victims of their periidy and pecu-
| latiOn.
After showing up the villainics
of the Ames party, and the neces-
sity for reform in the management
of our State affairs, Mr.. Lake says:
Under these circumstances, two
Republican tickets are presented
to the people of this State. One is
known as the Ames ticket, and was
nominated on the 9th ult. This
ticket was put up, and the canvass
is conducted in support of it, by
those who have aided in promoting
the evils to which we have refer
red, aud who now propose to place
the State in the hands of the disci-
pies of Tweed, now Il fugitive, driv-
en- out by a people he and his assO-
ciates had plundered worse than
Mississippi Tweeds, Onl. in proper
ton as their field was larger and
more tempting. Against the fair
ness and conduct of the cOnven-
ton of August 9th; against the
Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee selected BY that conventions;
against several candidates for the
Legislature, known to be Games
men, the most appalling array of
charges OF the most damaging, and
even criminal character, have been
publicly repeated, without even a
denial. The fearful statements
have been made and asserted, not
by Democrats, but by Republicans,
and all these facts are well known
to Senator Ames, who does not
seem disposed to seek other advi-
SerS, CT 10 cnanSe his TICKET. III ine
whole history of the politics of the
United States, no such condition of
affairs has ever existed in any
State. The operations of Tweed
| were confined to the city of New
York, and when he sought to
throttle the State he was over
thrown. Tie very worst of the
Mississippi Tweeds have dictated a
ticket, surrounded the once pOpu
lar soldier, and seek, not merely
the control of the ordinary affairs
of the Government, but unquestiOn
ably to force the payment of the
Repudiated Bonds. ITO this com
plexiOn must it come at last" This
committee would fall short Of doing
its full duty to the people, were it
to fail to warn them that with his
surroundings, no confidence what
ever ought to be placed in Senator
Ames, or his administration, i'll this
or any other matter involving the
finances Of the State.