New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-11
MOB RULE AT CANTON.

A Republican Meeting BFokeD Up-Gen-
eral Mckee knocked Senseloss with q
CIuh-The PoseoAlce Fired lnto By the
N1eb.
According to announcement General G..
C. Mckee, candidate ON the Republican
ticket for presidential elector from the State
at large, visited Canton on Saturday last
for the purpose of addressing q Republican
meeting. At about half.past TIVE O'Clock
General Mckee arose to address the
audience, when q division of time was de.
manded by come of the Democrats present.
General Mckee replied that he would only
be permitted to speak there from the court
house stepe) during the recess of the court,
which had just adjourned for dinner, and
that there as scarcely time for joint dis
cussop, which he declined to engage in,
but he had of course no objection to any
one speaking after he had concluded his
remarks. s.
The General began by saying that he was
there to make Republican speech, and had
not proceeded more than two or three mo-
the crowd demanded that he should tell
them about Radical stealings."
The speaker said he would first tell them
about some Democratic stealings, and was
proceeding to explain to lis hearers how,
prior to the war, the Democratic admins
tration of the State misappropristed and
squandered the echool funds, which were
donated by the general government. when,
in answer to one of his statements. Mr..
Samuel Devine advanced few PAGES and
denounced the speaker as q liar.
General Mckee, seeing that 1t was the in
tention of the crowd to precipitate diff
GUILTY Of some kind, and preferring to have
one antagonist rather than Q score of them,
denounced Devine IN return and dared him
to come out of his crowd and repeat what
he had said to him (McKee) face to face.
Devine thereupon put his hand behind him
as il attempting to draw q weapon, when
Mckee was violently showed from behind
toward the place where Devine was stand
feet high. At this moment, without the
slightest warning, and without seeing his
antagonist, he was knocked senseless with
q club by Q man by the name Of Weatherby,
whom he had never seen or spoken to.
General Mckee was carried into the
courthouse perfectly insensible from the
effects of the blow. After partially regain.
ing consciousness he was carried by the
sheriff, assisted by friends, to the postofiice,
tention. General Mckee had had no per-
sonal difficulty with any of his assailants,
indeed he had never before seen them.
Afterward some one of the crowd cut the
heads Of the Republican drum (eye wit
nesses say that Weatherby is the man who
did this as we'll as assault Ackeel, and
hauled their Democratic cannon about
town firing it, and held Tilden and reform
meeting on the very ground from which
they had just driven the Republicans.
General Mckee remained in bed in the
postofice under the charge of q physician
until Sunday morning.
At about nine o'clock Saturday night
stones and brickbsts were hurled at tho
postofice and during the next hour an oc.
casional one struck the building.
Between eleven and twelve fire was
opened in earnest. A rifle ball which pene-
trsted the wall of the building struck Mr..
Mark Joseph on his temple, inflicting .
slight wound, but one which caused the
blood to flow quite freely. Other shots
came through the building, but no other
occupant was hurt.
The folio wing are the gentlemen who
were besiegcd and fred upon as described,
and by whom the truth of the foregoing
statement can be verified: George C. Nc.
Kee, presidential elector; Henry Smith,
postmaster at Canton; X. Fl. Walker, dep
uty collector of internal revenue; State
Senator Pratt; Mark Joseph, justice of
the peace for Madison county.-Jackson
(Mississippi) Times.