The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-10-20
HE COAHOMA TROUBLE.
OF A COLORED
CITIZEN OF THE COUNTY.
hterview with Lewis Thomas,
COIOred.
ernpbis Appeal

Memphis Appear J
An Appeal reporter met with Levi
Ebomas, colored planter, who live
bout thirty miles back of Friar's Point
no came up on the Quickstep yesterda,
korning to purchase supplies and nipple
kents for his farm. Lewis Thomas i
ia intelligent colored man, who, by hare
kbor and close attention ''to his oaOn 6u
hess, has acquired quite a competency,
wing splendid farm Of over foul
Kindred acres in Coahoma county.
La has one hundred and twenty-five
eres under cultivation this year, Of
hitch about eighty acres are in cotton.
he is not at all in sympathy with the
eadical clement
THE DISTURBANCES OF THE PEACE
III good order Of the county, he says
ID Is very positive in the opinion that il
IL colored people would let politics alone,
Ia 20 along and attend to the cultiva-
|on or their farms, or take advantage of
IL great demand for laborers now pre-
hiing, the whole country would be
htter off. He states that the prime
Muse Of the trouble in Coahoma county
\ that the present sheriff, John Brown,
blored, is charged with
d ALL MANNER OF CORRUPTION,
hd has at his beck and call host of bad
Aen, who are ever ready to do his bidding.
ast Saturday, during the day, Brown
Alled his crowd together in what he
rms convention of the Republican
hrty, at which he Brown was nomi-
hted for reelection 10 the office of sheriff.
mother bad man, named Smith, also
bored, was nominated for circuit and
|nneery clerks. Now, this man Smith,
iginally from Ohio, but recently from
oliver county has already three offices.
La emigrated from Bolivar county during
st winter, into Coahoma county, where
was elected to the State Senate to fill
Il unexpired term, after which he was
ammed into the position of Superin-
Indent of Education Nit Alcorn, son
the governor, and
THE ONLY WHITE MAN
N the ticket, was also nominated at this
-called convention, for county treasurer
Ell the balance of the favored of this
bminatiug machine were colored follow
! of Sheriff Brown. The announcement
the action of the Brownies, and the
amer of its accomplishment created the
eatest dissatisfaction and confusion, to
e extent that at night convention was
died and held in the courthouse, at
hich the taxpayers and solid citizens of
county were in attendance. This was
Alled and considered
THE REGULAR CONVENTION
y the Conservative voters of the county
|bdge Rucks, prominent citizen whose
hnding for integrity, honesty and intelli-
ence is second to none in Coahoma
unty, was called to the chair, and
hlius Flagg, an intelligent colored man,
ppointed secretary. The convention
fOceeded to the nomination of ticket,
tn the following result For sheriff,
'hdge Harrison p. Reid for circuit
|erk, Julius Flagg, colored for chance
4 clerk, George Acorn. The latter two
|fces were consolidated into one by the
rowites, to which Mr.. Smith, as above
entiOned was nominated. After the
Dove nominations the convention was
bdressed by Judge Harrison p. Reid,
Q nominee for Sheriff, and Ex-Governor
leorn, during which the latter denounc-
the action of the Brownies in the
hverest terms, and proclaimed it as a
pct that Brown, the present sheriff and
pmlnee of the Radicals for reelection,
Rd already defrauded the county out of
FoRTY-sEvEN HUNDRED DOLLARS,
nd IN many other respects had proven
hmselt unworthy the trust of the peo-
|e; that there was not one hundred
pillars worth of tax receipts held by the
pure representation in the convention
bat nominated him for reelection. These
eyere remarks of Ex-Governor Alcorn
feated considerable confusion, during
Phlch Chairman Rucks abruptly adjourn
r the convention, whereupon Sheriff
Brown, who was present and leader in
ne confusion, mounted a prominent po-
PtlOn and called a meeting, to be held
Eionday night, when he would take occa-
pom to prove that
Ex-Gov. ALCoRN HAD LIED.
As far as our informant knew, no dis
nrbance had occurred Saturday night,
put feeling ran high, and as the matter
PAS discussed the chasm between the
lOntesting elements grew wider, and it
Fas thought that serious trouble might
Prise before the meeting of Monday
Pight tranSpired. Lewis Thomas placed
20 confidence in the wild rumors afoat
yesterday morning, but could not say
positively what TRANSFERRED, as he left
rar $ Point on the Quickstep before the
meeting came off. Our informant related
me distressing fact that the cotton-pick-
rs are actually fleeing the country on
account of
THE THREATS
Phaoe by the leaders in these dissensions,
rhd II Is almost impossible to get men to
r there to pick out the cotton. He says
nat by this time last year he had real
E-eu three bales to the hand from his
Cott0n fields, when, up to now, when the
eIeid has been two-fold greater, he can
4 fIafcely count on as much as one bale to
tne hand. The minds of the pickers are
kept in such
STATE OF TURMOIL
py The political distur Dances, that it Is
Elexf to impossible to get them to work.
cur informant states that if the Missis-
E.Ppi river had deluged the entire coun'
~ and swept from the face of the earth
y entire crops of the Mississippi valley,
l.ne confusion, disorder and damage tC
sne material interests of the country could
Iot have been much greater than is being
brought about by these political dissen
IONS, tie states that there is large
NUMBER Of industrious,
HARD WORKING CoLoRED MEN
.mn0' like himself, have accumulated {
:,'ue farm and home, and who are try
lhg 70 make of themselves and families
eseiui citizens; that they appreciate thu