The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-09-20
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he United Ssaffss After 4 brief address tfg
I. L Bratt, and most humorous cafn
saign song. Little TOnmy's Rag B@by,
Hon c. W Wells, member Of COagTcS> /
rom Mississippi, was introduced. OF ihe /
Am paign in the South he said We have IA /
N ississipp 5000 majority. and IL s!-orgum> 1
Ia not drive AmeTicsuS !rrm tis- pills tts /.
state will be carried by the Republicans /
In INV state there are lao less than 4l.0e0 /.
Who dare not 20 10 the pulls /
They have al organization called th=
= Black Liae- which declares that ana
black man who goes 10 the polls ss'sil not
be employed. New speak what l know
when l say that 500 men have been shot
down Ia NV State because they dAresl Ia
vote. When we took the Government OF
Mississippi We found the State bankrupt.
The state House was dilapidafel not
dollar in the treasury. and We repaired the
Capitol, provided food Tor the lunstics, pur-
chased home Tor the blind aud dumb.
When We taxed the people - pay for this,
they sent il over the country that we we're
r5bhing the State. We built Scha l.
houses. snd the Democrats burned them
down. We rebuilt them aud they burned
them down again, and We rebuilt them
again and taxed them till rhey were sick OF
il, and then they cried louder, thieves. The
fires buru TODAY in the ) ,uth a. brightly
as they did in lS6l, in regard TO the LOST
cause. Aud If we are defeated, the colur-j
people viii be in a worse condition than
ever before, and ii Tilden is elected. l. with
every other white Republican in the south.
will have 10 move out. | say it seriously.
for no white loyal man IN Mississippi ever
goes t. bed without closing his house and
guarding against rebel bullets and rebel as
sassin>.
If e. Wiley Wells is correctly report
ed in the foregoing article, then no one
knows better than G. Wiley Wells him
self that every sentence in it contains a
wilful, wicked falsehood. There is nc
foundation in fact for single state
ment. The article is a tissue of Sian
ders anu falsehoo1s from beginning tt
end, and G. Wiley Wells knows it.
Wells henchman, B. D. Nabers
waved the "blOody shirt in Indians
some weeks ago, but, upon his return t
Mississippi, awaited himself of the eal
Hest opportunity to declare that tn
newspaper reporters had not correctl,
reported his speeches. As with Naber.
we expect to hear of this willy ma
Wells protesting, upon his return to Mi
sissippi, that he was shamefully misreI
resented in the report OF his Cali form
speech.
In 1875, both Wells and Nabers wei
bitter opponents of the Republican a,
ministration in Mississippi. Bot
worked, wrote, spoke and voted agair.
it. Wells was an independent candida
for Congress in the I'd District again
the administration nominee, and fu
nished the money to keep alive durir
the canvass the paper edited by Nabe
in his interest. Both denounced, in
unmeasured terms, the infamy and CO
ruption of the Ames administration, al
TO Wells were the people indebted f
the exposure of the diabolical sentime
of Ames, when striving to provoke a ri
between the races, that "the blood
twenty-five or thirty negroes would be
EFT the Republican party.
Wells has been citizen of Hol
Springs, in this State, for six or eig
years, and has received only kindn,
and courtesy at the hands of the d.
i, lrle; Especially Of the Democrats.
cannot say the same of the Republican
for they regard him as very unscruE
lous man, and now his California spec
has served to create an unanimity
|, oRinion.l He was elected to Congr,
in by Democratic UOtes in November, 181
IT and his influence, and the influence a
> support of his few Republican ALI
le were freely given to the nominees of t
g Democratic party in every county of
District at the election held at the sal
O. time for members Of the Legislature a
IN county officers. On the morning of t
= election, Wells himself was absent FRI
home, and it is SAID he chartered
90 special train for the purpose Of reachi
3 his county before the polls closed,
- % elaring that he wished to enjoy the plei
ure and honor of voting the straig
Democratic ticket.
1t is pitiful and contemplate work
which he is now engaged. In villifyi
and slandering his recent supporters,
is but doing has share of the dirty VIC
90 made necessary by the present p
% gramme of his party. He must apps
= fright on the record" in the event of
W election of Hayes and Wheeler; and
do that, it is necessary he should wa
the bloody shirt, SANDER the men W
elected him to Congress, and utter fall
hoods which do not even possess
m merit of being believed by himself.
If the shotgun" carried Mississi
for the Democrats in 1875, then to
"shotgun" is Wells indebted for his pl
40 ent seat in Congress the sa
e. means that carried the District for
y one carried it for the other. The De,
ly cratic nominees and g. Wiley Wells 4,
en- uOted for upon the same ticket.
II, 4 white Republican is as safe in
70 South as in the North, and we d
Z. Wells to name an instance, within
xt knowledge, during his residence in
X State, of an insult or injury to a WI
ed Republican, offered or done on acco
!, N of his politics. It is well to speak
: general terms, thousands of miles Fl
b. his residence, to an audience who m
ed be educated up to the "bloody S
ar programme"
T. T. If the election of Tilden will result
lbs the stealing away" to other climes
in such men as Wells, and the other "
Republicans in the South" the only
son viii be that they viii cease to be
H. eral ofice-holders, and must go to pl'
= where they can earn an honest liv1
Wells has been a Federal Office holde
EN- M;..;.s;,n; evs, --iuce he put foot in
on II