The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-09
The Radical Method Of Electfns
u. =. Senatcrs from the Recon.
sdrueIcd States

ton was procured Dy the DaSeSt agencies
of fraud and intimidation, operating un-
der pretense of executing the Enforce.
ment acts. SpenceFs letters show that
he had Federal troops sent where they
could be used for this purpose, and he
wrote to ore of his agents, Robert Barber,
in October, 1872. g l wish Randolph,
q Deputy United States Marshal, would
i" use the company at Opelika in making
q arrests in Tallapoosa, Randolph, and
q Cleburne, as - suggests ;" which
Barber explains as follows; +" Ireceived
g letter from Randolph county, before
g the date of these letters, suggesting
I" that if troops be sent into the counties
&c named, that enough voters would be run
:" out of them, through fear of arrest, to
g secure the election of Republican rep
resentatives from those counties, and
/" the letter of Oct. % was ia. reply to a
e letter written TO Spencer, conveying to
'' him this information. The project
was carried out, the troops being placed,
in one instance, under the lead of a
special assistant revenue officer named
Perrin Zone of Spencer's men, of course,
whose testimony is doubtless truth
full picture of all the transactions. The
object of calling upon the troops
was to protect revenue officers in their
duty; /" but the real object" says Perrin.
g was to parade the troops through the
=" country, with United States Marshals
F" having pretended warrants, and exhiE-
g iting them for the purpose of intimida-
g ting the people and driving persons
g from the country. The warrants
g were simply papers folded, with no
" writing on the inside, but names were
=" on the outside on the folds" Mr.. Per-
rim further testifes that there was no me-
cessity for the presence of the troops, but
he fooled them by shooting hole through
his own hat, and pretending that the Ku-
Klux had done it. The sole object of the
according to the same author
ity, was /" to secure at all hazards, Leg
4" islature that would elect George Z.
Z" Spencer to the United States Senate =
and it appears~that every Federal office
holder in the State was made to feel that
his bread absolutely depended upon his
working like slave for the same object.
So much for Spencer.
Now let us see the agencies by which
West, of Louisiana, secured his election /:
N Y Tribune.l
L. A Wilt, a prominent member of the Lou
isiana Legislature has in his possession some
very important evidence, tending to show
that United States Senator West procured his
election to his present seqt by Aeans VI b4l-
berry, and by corrupting the members Of the
Legislature by which he was chosen. One of
the documents included in this evidence is a
list showing the sums of money alleged to have
been paid to members of the Legislature as
for their votes. That list is as
follows:
H. L. Pond, 500
A. C.. Bickham, Dem ...............,.... 400
T. 6. Dundson, Dem I0gO
W D. Floyd, white Rep. -. ........... 500
A. Beloit white 500
J. McCarty, white ep........................ 500
Edgar Davis, white Rep ................... 500
s. NJ Morris white Rep.........-.... ........ 800
L. j Souer, white Rep, for hi3 Ring ...... s,O0n
George Washipg ton, cQored Rep..........- 500
David Young, colored Rep, Of Gancor-
dia....., l,OOO
white Rep, for his Ring -, 5000
Of Jefferson parish. 500
J. Gallup, white Rep, cash. he was
promised $500 800
Tim Nolan. white sep, this man grr}nT-
bled because he did not receive Is
much as Souer..........,.........-... ,50O
Dewitt Brown, ce'ored Rep. 500
white Kep..,..,..;.... ouO
Oplatek, white Rep .,.-...,.. 50U
VI. H. Twichell, now Senator from Red
River parish he promised $1,000
more 1UOO
Chas Abel, white Rep........................ 500
George Washington, ID colored Rep. 900
Marvin coored Rep ........ 500
Thomas l-ene, appraiser q lnerchy ndise IN
in the document to haye b9rroWed Si,CQ0 from
Mr. West, to use for election purposes, but is
said to have made no such use Of it,
1t is said that Mississippi Bruce bought
his election at lower figure, viz: by
cashing State warrants for impecunious
members of the Legislature. The fact
would probably he repealed by the Leg
islature, but the mines of corruption re-
quiring work are so numerous, it is
probable this one will be passed over for
others of more direct consequence to the
State. It is not likely the Senate, as at
present composed, would heed memo
rial from Democratic Legislature and
the country at large is surfeited with
proof of the cerruptions Of Southern
Radicalism.
OUR news columns bear daily record
of failures in all the great financial aud
commercial centres of the couRtrY-Ae5y
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
Chicago, St. Louis, ETC., etc. The de-
preston is universal and it has prepared
the public mind for change of Federal