Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-27

The s'old man. of the Memphis
Avalanche evidently regards the
"Yazoo plan as great improve
men upon the s'Mississippi plan"
He says:
"The" Yazoo plan" is so simple con-
trivanee for the perpetuation of the
republican government that it seems
almost INCREDIBLE it was never thought
or in the early days of the Republic.
When ihe giant minds of the Fathers
were graphing with the problem of a
constitutional republic, what anxious
days and .sleepless nights would have
been avoided had the "Yazoo plan"
once dawned on their benighted intel
lects.. When McCauley said the. life
of this republic would be but brief
span, he did not dream Of the idea of
killing the candidates of the other
party, or would never have made so
publican Institutions will never
die SO long as that birth
right of Mississippi freeman
exists of marching down the street,
armed with o trusty double-barreI
| shotgun, and so soon as the candidate
] turns the corner to give him a plump
er. The click of the trigger settles the
business In moment. 1t is not at all
| probable that any substitute will be
found to fill the defunct candidates
place, and the genial citizen with the
shotgun has walk over. This plan
has many other advantages. The les
| oluticns of 1913 can he laid away. That
| VeXed question that has bothered the
brains of all our great statesmen for
eighty years past can now be buried.
Ii q part is greater than the whole, or
if q State has any rights the Federal
Government is bound to respect, is
with the dead past buried. The
tYazoo Plan illustrates the begin
ming of new epoch in the politi-
cal world as marked as that of the
period of either the French or Ameri-
can revolutions. Henceforth, it can
not be said that all the inventive
genius of the nation is confined to our
, N orthern neighbors. While the citi-
zen OF Connecticut is adding his
brains over the production of q new
kind of wooden nutmeg. Or wooden
ham, that will more ehectually de-
ceive his Southern customer, with all
| the boldnecs of true genius, scars to
immortal fame by one grand stroke.
: It fs true there was some preliminary
cropping up toward the temple, in the
shape of midnight riders with masks
/ on their faces and the killing Of poor
voters. But that was but the initial
skirmish to the great battle. Now,
Yazoo leads the van, and there are
none to dispute its supremacy. Soon
: other counties will follow the Illus
, trious example of YaZoo. There is,
also, good reason to believe that the
! inventor of the YaZoo plan was gov
a erned mainly by humanitarian mo-
tives In proclaiming to the world the
/ product of bis genius. There will be
great saving of human life under the
new plan. The number killed on the
I"YaZoo Plan" will bear no proportion
to the number killed under the old
plan of putting the voter out of the
: way. The candidates are few, while
the voters are many, and the eandi,
; dates will be fewer still as the cam
r paign proceeds. The most of them
will Withdraw when once they under.
!, stand that the Democrats propose t.
o stand no foolishness in the business.
E The "Yazoo plan" is "humanita-
rian" and the Avalanche deserves
9 great credit for discovering tn
fact. It saves life, in that candi
dates are to be murdered instead o
voters. Let the people of Missis-
sippi, with independent proclivities
: return thanks to the philanthropi
Barksdale' and his brother bull
dozars