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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
UneOvering the Presidential Fraud.

he further the Potter investigation
goes into the mysteries OF the Presidential
count, the more astounding the reve-
lations of perjury and corruption become.
In another column we have published an
installnent which is perfectly horrifying
in its details of the villiaDy by which the
people were robbed of their rights by the
Vaccinations of corrupt and designing
men Mr. f. L. Webber, the first wit
ness, is an old citizen of Louisiana. He
was a Republican State Senator and was
nominee Of his party for that office in
1876. He was also member of the Re
publican State Executive Committee.
His brother, the murdered Webber, was
one of the East Feliciana Supervisors to
whom the Sherman letter was addressed,
promising that if they would sign a false
protest for the use Of the Returning
Board in changing the result of the cleo
ton, they would be taken care of by the
Hayes Administration Webber relates
how the Republican managers first con-
ceived the plan of preventing any election
from being held in the Feliciana parishes,
seeing that the colored people were
going with the Democrats. This scheme
failed; and the next device was for
the Board to throw out the returns ard
this the visiting statesmen whose presence
Grant, Hayes q Co, had sent to New
Orleans, succeeded in having done By
this sort of manipulation, majority of
seven or eight thousand for Tilden actu-
ally cast at the polls was metamorphosed
into Hayes majority of several hun
dred. Weber who was fully into the
confidence of the corruptionists, and
cognizant of their scheme, relates how
the visiting statesmen, Sherman, Mat
thews and Co., who went down ''to see
a fair count" were in constant secret con-
ference with the Louisiana conspirators
who undertook the huge task of furnish
ing pretext by which the irresponsible
and unconstitutional tribunal known as
lhC A4lCCCOldl COlIiAloolOu ulSHG SCI
aside the verdict of the nation, which
they proceeded to do by authority
of the entire Republican party in Con
gress supplemented by "38" Democrats
who persisted in ''going on with the
count" though they had eyes to see and
ears to hear and senses to comprehend
that it was a fraud and cheat.
Another witness, VIM. Simpson, a
New Orleans Magazine street Merchant,
and ex Republican official, reveals how
the machinery of the State Returning
Board was creased by bride of $40, 900,
one half in hand paid OF this fact,
President Hayes himself was duly mott
fed, but the information being simply a
reminder of the Infamous methods by
which he was lifted into office in violation
of the constitution and laws of the coun-
ty, was treated slightingly.
In the face of such testimony how
amazingly out of time was the Burchard
resolution for which all but twenty-one
of the House of Representa-.
ives, (the others having d6dged) vo-
ed practically endorsing the soundness
IF the title of the Presidential incum
oent derived from these corrupt and lille
gal sources.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
The California Election and aus
H.essOma

The revulsion in popular feeling IN
California, the complete overthrow
OF existing political organizations, and
triumph of the reformers in the re-
cent elections, are more than nine
DAYS wonder. The election was not on
ordinary political event 1t was one In
which the sovereignty of the people was
called into exercise 1t was for members
of constitutional convention to change
the organic law of the State. The move
ment did not seem to have been dellber-
ated. The forces which eliminated IN
it, like the elements of nature preparing
for storm, had been working silent
ly and unseen. When least expected,
the deep muttering of the thunder was
heard--the vivid flashes of the lighting
we're seen--and, then, the sweep OF the
tempest and wreck of matter. The
wrongs which the people had borne IN
silence from monopolies and classes ia
vored at the expense of toiling industry,
whose earnings had been coined into cash
for the benefit of those who, like the
lilies of the valley, toiled not-had
wrought their tremendous effect on the
minds of the people and produced the de-
termination which has been so terribly ex-
ecuted at the polls.
1t is stated that not half dozen coun-
ties have csc lped the reformers. They
have swept the board, and will have full
control of the Convention, to make such
constitution as they may deem necessary
to protect them in future from the abuses
which they have suffered. In another
column, will be found the platform upon
which this new party with its inexperl-
enced leaders and crude elements, won
their victory. 1t is remarkable code of
political ethics, mosaic of good and of
bad, thrown together without order.
Some of its features are Objectionable,
others are commendable. But the lesson
of the whole device and of the victory,
is the doom oflegalized wrong doing and
exactions for the benefit of corporations
claiming ''vested right to escape their
share of the burdens of government
while enjoying its protection. The
agents of the people who make laws for
them in other States, if they are wise,
will profit by the example and stand from
under. Twelve months ago, Kearney
who led the reformers in California, was
the name or a poor unknown mechanic.
Now It is the synonym of victory, echo
ed from California to Maine, and is the
watchword of triumphant cause.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

A CORRESPONDENT of the Magnolia
Herald thinks that the appropriation of
$4,000 for State printing for the two
years 1878 and 10, or an average of
81, 800, is extravagant, and asks how
it is? We would remind the writer that
the average cost for that service for the
ten years before the war, which is held
up as the standard of economy, was
$4,000 for two years, or $4,000 year,
showing an annual reduction under
the existing laws of 1880 below
the economy standard The reduc-
tion below the average annual Re.
publican expenditure is about $50, 900 a
year. Though economy has beer carried
into all the departments of the State gov
ernment, there i no branch of the service
which shows anything approximating
such areduction. It mas the CLARIoN's.
'sfacts and figures which opened the
eyesof the people md pointed ont The
way 20 reform ID this, u ia other branches
pf the public service; but this especially.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
THE Concord (New Hampsbire) Stat,

The Concord New Hampshire) State
mans in discussing the probabilities of
the nomination of Gen. Grant for a
third term notifies its contemporary.
the Manchester Union, that "the vote
of the colored man in the South
must be made to count just as much as
the white mans vote, and be just as
freely cast" The Statesman is harping
on an old song. The colored man does
vote early and often as the law allows,
and his vote does count as much as the
white mans. Here in Mississippi it has
given Us six ''solid" Representatives
while we would have but three, if the
eolored man was not a voter. In the
South entire, it has given forty addition
al members of the lower house of Con
gress, and this has settled the question of
Democratic escendency in that body. 1t
has added the same number of addition
al Southern votes to the electoral col
leges, which ought to settle the Presiden-
tial succession against the third term
and it will if the Northern
of bayonet rule and irresponsi-
BILE government do their duty.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
and govern themselves accordingly.


The following is from a Pike county,
Mississippi, correspondent of the New
Orleans Picayune: "Our farmers have
learned to make living at home. The
acreage of oats this year is far in excess
of any former year, and the yield is good.
Great attention is given to corn, pork,
rice, cane and other food crops, and some
interest is manifested in sheep raising
Poor as we are, we have reason to be-
lieve that there is "a good time coming,
even for us. God speed it. If all our
agriculturists would produce the neces-
saries of life for themselves, as those in
Pike county are doing, they would know
little or nothing of the misery hard times
brings upon the other portions of society,
and where the farming class do we'll the
other Glasses are benefited by their pros
perity,p
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

Ex-MARsHAL PITKINs, of Louisiana.
IN his testimony before the Potter com.
mittee stated that eight hundred and
forty deputy United States Marshals
were appointed for the one hundred and
twenty precincts in New Orleans, to
carry the election for Hayes in 1875. 1t
was not revealed how many were en-
ployed in the county parishes. The
mention of this Odious partisan machin.
cry excites wonder that no step has been
taken by Congress to repeal the law au.
thorizing it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
NORTHERN STATES.

The appropriations for Mississippi were
as follows: Vicksburg harbor sS4, 900;
Yazoo river s25, 900; Pascagoula s1O,-
O00-the latter a mere pittance COM
pared to the appropriations for the
harbors of other States having seacoasts-
but better than nothing. The Virginiss,
Carolinas, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee
and Alabama, were quite fortunate in
getting full share in the s'grand d.
vide"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
FoR Tue CLARIoNl
Holmes COumty s.
Convention

On Wednesday, July "a leo.
10 previous call, q mecfing we q.
sunday School workars W losr
Methodist church Duran, PEI
purpose of organizing d A. A.,,. .
school Convention to arfi, 0V.'l
the State SUNDAY school o. ''l.
After devotional ty-r.,.. ''fI'
was permanently orgguil.I AaO
OF James II Douglas, Pre.ia..l5. Doe
Hayes. Secretary. Nra
The Committee ON rr.r...
delegates from nine ~uuJ.r.I.a-
The Committee OIL tYr.it.
substantially the zamp h.
the State Convention. wl....
The members pre.Dut
heartily into the work M I.
and Interesting verbal rrrn-.. .a..
by the various delegate. "a. t.,. 'H.
OF their Sunday schools A
Col. j l.. Power, ChrIrI,...
Sunday school Executive az
present, aud addict much f..
IL Getting BY his remark. op Y. f ..
jects discussed. The Hr.f..l. 't...
was, 'Thr wants OF fUr Su.4.
how TO meet them. "an.I r..,.
bic interest from THE drleg.r..,s
The Convention then tul.,
gage in Bible Reading, cong.....
j. l.. Power. ''1-1.r.
At s P. NJ. the ConveBr,r
meeting, and listened toau rr..
dress from Col. Power. "'dl.H
On the second lav. fhs
nomination reported, 4s f0.Ioo p
Caleb, Vice President l.t U.... p
Brown, Vice President PM
Cousert, Vice Presidential I..
Thomas. Nire Prcsid,utlb KY.
ID ggs, Vice President aib be.
West Durant COrre.poulr,..
NJ. l.. Hartman, lrea -urpr ..rl 81.
the ratification OF fho eIuuf..a
ent Proe,dout and ~cpr,ttry ''
Col. Jno. q Lucas, % mrmbaro...
Sunday School, cN. r0mmi,fe. a.,
also Rev. j. IL. Alexander fran, ~
Rev n A. Jones from NUla9
Harmon, from Valdez. HIIoiV .
earnestly with the CouymI.or II. p.
sideratiou of the v3uuu. tomb.
An iutere. ting programme NJ.
meeting was presented grd aIon,.I
ing ola wideraugg of SUNDAY s.t.
This Convention hus, tfs rrra..
ginning, but We trust. proni.l..
Our Durant people were yerg my.
es'ed in all Us proceedings. ar5
much good was done M 8w.t..
people 10 asense OF their ob.iy,,.. 3
UaUp In flp @urIYv l.I
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
Eliza aSiuI&StOu. the Former Re.
publican Witness.

This woman who figured conspicu
ously in the Louisiana investigation as
useful witness for the Republicans
pending the proceedings which finally
eliminated in the fraudulent installa-
ton of the defeated candidate by the
theft of the vote of that State now re-
sides in the vacinity of Canton Mississip-
pi. She has recently made an aft
davit that she received five hundred dol
lars for her appearance and testimony be
fore the Louisiana returning-board; that
she was carefully instructed what to say
before the visiting statesmen; that though
entirely able to walk she was laid on a
sofa when she was about to enter the
chamber of the returning board that her
testimony was false; that her husband
was murdered and she was assaulted, not
by Democrats, as she testified then, but,
as she has always believed, by coIored
man who had threatened to kill her hus-
band, and that the quarrel had nothing
to do with politics, Her present husband,
Pritchard, testifes that this statement
is strictly true es he has heard it from
her in confidential intercourse between
them since their marriage. Thus truth
follows unerringly, though sometimes
slow, or the track offalsehood, and retri-
bution sooner or later, overtakes the
guilty. What measure OF iGfamy should
be melted out to the knayes who to ira
duce political opponents and achieve per
sonal and political ends, brought the
damnation of perjury upon the soul of
this ignorant creature.
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senator Thurman.

The stalwart Roman Senator from
Ohio, Allen G. Thurman, judging f. y
all accounts, is in splendid, Trim for lead
ing the Democrat cohorts in the next
PresidAp, II election; and whether the
choice falls upon him, or Indiana's ia
vorite statesman, Thomas A. Hendricks,
they will have candidate worthyto bear
their standard. To show how fully the
Ohio Senator is in sympathy with the
country upon the great financial, and
other issues, let us quote from his recent
utterances !:
'IspOke and voted against the resumption
act when it passed the Senate. l have re-
pe&tedly spoken against it since, upon the
stump and in the Senate; and only about
one month ago | voted in the Senate to re-
peal it,"
Then as to the silver question:"
AS to the silver question, every one
knows that have been the advocate of un-
limited silver coinage, and no one worked
harder TO bring about the RECOMMENDATION of
silver than L did. AS to contraction OF the
currency, have steadily opposed it during
my entire service in the Senate, now over
nine years. As to the gradual substitution
of greenbacks for national bank notes. be-
lleve that l wrote the first resolution that
ever passed Democratic State convention
in Ohio favoring that substitution"
On the bill to compel the Pacific Rail
road corporations to provide a sinking
fund to pay their Indebtedness to the
he said:
6 1 did my best and had a very laborious
task, but the result was so gratifying that
feel well repaid for my labor. Those bills
will, in my opinion, save the government
more than one hundred millions dollars, and
what is of more consequence than even that
great sum, they preserve the control of the
government over those powerful corpora
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
The Back Track.

In June of last year, Mr.. Hayes issued
a circular to Office holders, containing the
following.
"No officer should be required or permit
ted to take part in the management of DO
liticAl organizations, caucuses, conventions
or election cam paigns. Their right to vote
and to express their views on public ques-
tons, either orally or through the press, is
not denied provided it does not Interfere
with the discharge OF their official duties
No assessment for political purposes on
officers or subordinates should be allowed
He has quite recovered from the fit
of ''civil service reform" which prompt
ed the foregoing, and now says that
g There is not the slightest objection to
" the participation in committee or at
" tendance upon conventions as dele
gates by persons in Federal offices.
g Such participation in no sense violates
d" the civil service order" Federal
offceholders hereabouts can make note
and govern themselves accordingly.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

SENATOR Ben HILL claims that he
was instrumental in holding the 8" i'm
mortal 49, Democrats to pledge to
go on with the count" and seat the
fraudulent President He is now dis
gusted with his vile work, judging from
what he recently said, as follows, to an
interviewer:
(Senator Hill 80 have, therefore, deter
mined TO make no more suggestions. and to
hold no further communication with him
upon the subject of appointments. All this
rumor about my having such an influence
with the President is false. | do not feel
that have any; and l shall certainly not
try TO have any. Every man, it appears,
connected with the frauds. has been reward
cd some wav. But the President does not
seem to want to know the opinions of the
real representatives of the South. So YOU
needn't talk to me about seeing him or w rit-
ing him letter. | don't care what sort Of
an appointment it is. If it was simply to
haliOO 'hurrah' when Gabriel blew his horn,
j wouldn't ask him to make the appoint
ment."
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

The old, reliable Copiahan reminds
the members of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee for this the Fifth Con
gressional District, that they are called
to meet in Brookhaven on next Satur
day the 18th, to name a time and place
for holding a convention to nominate
candidate for Congress.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

APPEARANCES look threatening in
some of the Northern communities. Open
war is threatened in Ohio between the
farmers and tramps; and kilograms from
Iowa report that tramps are interfering
considerably with railroad property.
Three or four hundred of them took pos
session of a train on the Burlington and
Quincy Railroad recently, using it for
afree ride.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

THE WOMAN's MOvEMENT--A con-
temporary speaks of the steady advance
this movement is making in the recogni
ton of new fields of labor cid usefulnes
for women in this country. 1t is not only
in the humber kinds of employment
work in shops and at trades, which women
are aiming at to-day, but the highest
and most distinctive positions which have
been usually filled by men. 1t was only
the other day that a Medical Society
was forced to discuss the question
whether women should become regular
practitioners, and there seems to be a
natural fitness in their acting as medical
advisors, at least to their own sex. They
have so long been successful nurses that
they only need medical kno Wedge and
tact to enable them to meet the demands
made upon physicians. Nor can much
be said against women as lawyers. They
practice in England already, though
without full authority from the courts
They are recognized, not acknowledged,
as members of the bar. In journalism
which requires as much talent and
more incessant labor, there are instances
in wi ch their success has been marked
Long ago their aptitude and capacity as
teachers in schools and colleges, have
been recognized, and when this is admitted,
the whole question of woman's adapta-
bleness for the higher occupations of life
is conceded.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

As Col. A. j. KELLAR, of the Mem
phis Avalanche, has become a member
Of the Tennessee State Executive Com
mittee of party hostile to the Demo
cratic party, we suppose his paper will
discard the Democratic colors under
which it has been sailing evidently for
the purpose of doing the latter all the
harm ii could
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

TIE pre- occupation Of our editorial
space when the structures Of our able
friend and worthy neighbor of the Vicks-
burg Herald, upon our defence of the
Northern Democracy from unmorited and
untimely reproach, came under our OBJ
servation, has prevented a reply in the
present number.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

GREENE COUNTY. Kittrel, E'l,
Sheriff of Greene county, made bis ha-
settlement with the Auditor yesterd',
The insOlvencies do not exceed five dol.
lars, and no lands sold to the State .
good showing for the county, and i'
efficient Sheriff.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

TIE new criminal code of Virginia, es-
tablishing the whipping post has become
operative. In future stripes are to be in
aicted upon persons convicted for the
first time Of petty larceny except when,
10 the discretion Of the Court, the condi-
ton Of q female prisoner may make
whipping inadvisabIe.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
The Arkansas Democrats have .don4

IHE Arkansas Democrats have adopt-
ed the following resolution, which sets
forth the position of the party at large
We favor the equalization of the value OF
the greenback, silver and gold dollar nr ali
purposes. 80 that a national dollar shall he a
Gollar among all our people and In every
department OF our Government.
We would submit the foregoing to our
greenback friends who are setting up for
themselves in Pamela and respectfnllv
ask them, what more do you want.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

A New YORK telegram says that the
''price of cotton is not affected by rain
and grass kilograms from Alabama and
Mississippi" But it will be seen that
the crop has been materially affected
when it is gathered.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

From the Columbus Enqulrer-Sun,
1he encouragement OF home indust,J Z
s1emplified TO the FULLEST degree in ColuI,
ous. Here may be seen young men Of ~
dressed IN fashlOnably made suits, W.
cnIy cost "a 30, and which are enure9 N,
nome product. The cotton is grown b 4.
ghboring fields, u is spun By the -
ana Phoenix factories, the cloth is cu.
Nv q Georgia tailor and delivered % ha
@eoMGfreases, who make the clothes
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

IL a recent number of the Kinds
County Gazette; County Treasurer, Mr..
q. IL. Robertson, published statement
showing the county debt to be in round
numbers $4,000. Heretofore it has
been estimated at $4,000.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10
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The River and HarbOr BILL.

The following will show by States how
the $S,371, ECO appropriated for river
and harbor improvements, at the recent
ression of Congress, for the fiscal year
beginning July 1st, 1878, were distribu-
ted. We are indebted to the New York
Times for the statistics. The classifying
is done by ourselves:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

AN able letter written by the Hon.
r. j. Hudson Of Benton county, in ref
erence to the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College, will be found in another
column. He is a pioneer in the move
ment which has given birth to this grand
enterprise, and as he was bestowed
much reflection upon the subject, his OBJ
servati0ns are worthy of attention.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

THE Holly Springs South is publish
ing regular reports of the decisions o.
the Supreme Court oftbe State. Th9
are very valuable to the public, the Dl
especially, and add to the attractions 7
a journal otherwise useful and intere|
inO
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANI-
CAL CoLLEGE.-Th Governor, as Presi-
dent OF the Board of Trustees has called
a meeting fer Wednesday, oath July, at
Meridian All proposals as to the loca-
ton of the College should be handed in
by that date. 1t will not be necessary,
nor is it desirable, that committees should
be present at the meeting of the Board
The Board, on the oath, will simply de-
termine what location they shall visit,
and at subsequent meeting will locate
the College.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

SEvERAL numbers of the Corinth
Record, Mr.. ]. Fl MiIlers newspaper,
have reached US. The editor is an able
and trained journalist, thoroughly imbu-
ed with hespirit Of his profession. We
wish him success.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

THE purport Of the news from the
border between the United States and
Mexico is that Gen. Ord, commanding
officer, has full authority to pursue and
deal with Mexican raiders if they depre-
date on American soil