American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-01
The Situation on the Eve Of the
Election.
From the Clarion.l

From the Clarion.
The evidence accumulates that the Re-
publicans throughout tho State are reor-
ganizing for the purpose of making the
best fight they can In this canvass, and
being fnlly prepared for the contest III
1850. There is a full Radical ticket in
Kinds n full ticket for county officers in
Adams; a pronounced Republican candl-
date for the Legislature in Coahoma.
There is Republican opposition in NOxu-
bee " arren has seven Republican can
di,,ates for the Legislature. Capt, j. w.
Lee. who was the Republican candidate
for Congress against the gallant Mul.lrow
ia 1876. and the presiding officer of the
last Republican State Convention, is a
candidate for Sheriff in Monroe he tells
the negroes in his speeches that he islands
where he always stOod.'' In Marshall the
Radicals have captured the independent
Greenback concern and nominated the
larger part of the ticket, with Geo, NJ
Buchanan, the black line candidate for
state Treas rer, who was wiped up in 575,
for Sheriff, and Ben Phillips, the most ultra
black line negro in North Mississippi for
the Legislature. The Sum,nit Sentinel
says the Republicans are attempting to re-
organize in Pike.
| DO the people of Mississippi desire any
further evidence that Radical music is IT.
! the air, and that they will have the same
fight to make in 1eHO that they made in
1857 Now is the time to put their feet
upon the movement, and crush the viper as
| he is just warming into life. The Green
hackers, Independents and sore-heads are
responsible TO- this state of affairs. They
| have sought the viper ia his lair. They
have warmed him in their Blossoms. They
have pcttcd and caioled him. They have
held midnight meetings with him, against
the protest of those who desire to see the
State continue to prosper under the eco
nomical government established. by the
Democratic Conservative party, in 1876.
Now he turns upon them, and stings them.
| lie has already stung the Greenback party
in Kinds to death, but mores the pity, he
does not stop there, but is striking with
his deadly fangs at the whole peOr lie, those
| who had no part, Or lot, in warming him
into life. He proposes to return Mississippi
to the rule OF Radical infamy, from which
she was redeemed by the great uprising in
1875. Will the people submit TO it Have
they 40 soon forgotten the Black line Leg
i>latures that held high carnival in the
Capitrlf Have they forgotte" Ames and
his gangf DO they remember the infa-
nous Gatling gun militia law and Cald-
wells black cohOrt that tramped with
glittering muskets to overawe the people :
| Have all the Outragcs, and insults that
were put upon them from 1867, to 1875,
passed from their memOriesf We know
these things have not been forgotten. We
feel confident the reOpte will not submit
to the re-estabfishment of Radical rnle in
this State; They must not be luiled into
Il false sense OF security. The danger is
imminent, the remedy is at hand. tits the
Democratic Conservative party which re-
deemed the State in 1873. Is must not b.
defeated. Victory must perch upon its
burners in every county i'll the State.