The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-08-06
The shof-Gnn 'oiIcy.
HOW THE YAZoo COUNTY DEMOCRACY
SUPPRESSED AN INDEPENDENT CAN

now THE YAZo0 COUNTY DEMOCRACY
SUPPRESSED AN INDEPENDENT CAN
DIDATE.
VIcKsBURG, Mis-, July 2S.-Quite
an extensive riot occurred in Yazoo
City, Yazoo county, on Friday morn-
ing, the 25th inst, some particulars
of which were brought here by the
passengers, crew and others on the
Yazoo packet which arrived this
morning. Henry M. Dixon, q well
known citizen of YaZoo county, has
been for some months an independent
candidate for Sheriff Of that county,
supported by q portion of the whites
and a large majority of the negroes,
in opposition to Stubblefeld, the reg
ular Democratic nominee.
An armed mob from all portions of
the county assembled on the street,
near Barksdale's store, and sent q
committee Of six to the dwelling of
Mr.. Dixon with instructions to de-
mand on behalf of the mob that he
should immediately quit his canvass
and leave the county or die. He re-
piled without hesitation he would not
quit. The committee returned to the
mob and reported.
By this time, the young Mayor,
Joseph IL. Holt, appeared in front of
Dixon's house with q gun, and speak
ing to the mob, said 1.-The Sheriff of
this county is with you and will do
nothing, but /, as Mayor of this
town, will kill the first mar who at
tempts to cross over this thresh-
old"
The mob we're for a while appalled,
at the determined and unexpected ac-
ton. Meanwhile the greatest on
sternation spread throughout the
town. Mr.. Dixon's wife and six
small children were in the house at
the time.
A parley of six hours was INDUCED,
the mob continuing to increase, when
finally Mr.. Dixon sent out the card
which is included in the following
partisan report of the affair in an ex-
ira issued by the Yazoo City Herald.
The following is the extract in full:
T"Herald Extra"
YAzoo CITY, Miss, July %, 1879.
The best men of the county-the
merchants, the planters, the farmers,
and those engaged in other occupa-
tions-gathered together in town to-
day to the number Of several hun
dred, and considering. as they did,
that the longer continuance of the
Independent party in Yazoo was
detrimental in the highest degree to
the interests of the county, seeing a
race issue has arisen in consequence
of it, a committee was appointed to
wait upon Captain H. NJ. Dixon, the
head of the Independent movement
in this county, and requested him to
retire from the canvass. This he at
first refused to do, giving reasons for
the ground of his refusal which were
not deemed satisfactory to the great
assembly of earnest, determined men.
He finally, however, consented to
quit the canvass, and forever, as the
following card will show. So the
political canvass in this county may
be considered as at an end. The
Democratic flag now waves over this
glorious old county uncontaminated
and unchallenged, and long may it
wave.
ITO THE PUBLIC :"
"For the sake of the peace and
harmony of the county, and the aifec-
ton l bear for my family and friends,
| agree to withdraw from the polite
al canvas or race issue in the future,
provided. | will be protected in my
rights as any other citizen, and my
friend, X. A. Flanagan is to be I'M
molested in his rights. &c.
"H. NJ. Dixon.
"Yazoo City, July IS, 1879"
Result of Jealousy.