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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
Chief Justice Marshall on Military
Interference With Elections.

An interesting historical event has
been revived in the Senatorial debates
on federal military interference with
elections. In the year 1900 the Hon.
John Marshall, of Virginia, Subsequent
ly Chief Justice of the United States,
introduced in the House bill to pre-
vent such interference. On the 18th OF
February of that year as chairman OF
the special committee, he reported the
following measure
AN ACT to prevent the interference of any
military force in certain elections.
SECTION /. Be it enacted etc, That it shall
be unlawful for any military force of the
United States to appear around embodied
at the place and on the day of holding an
election for electors of the President and Vice
President of the United States or of any
member of Congress. or of the Governor or a
member of the Legislature of any State or in
any manner to interfere with such election.
SEC. ,. And be it further enacted, that if
any body OF troops shall be stationed in the
neighborhood OF the place where such election
may be held and notice thereof be given, in
writing, by any person or persons, holding the
his duty, in special manner, to superintend
their conduct on that day, to prevent any
violation OF this act, and for that purpose
to detain them in camp, unless it
shall be signifed to him in writing
by the officer or officers presiding over
or conducting such election, that the vicinity
of such troops will incommode, or overawe the
voters and that he is requested to remove
them to such convenient distance, not exceed
ing one mile in such notice may be pre-
scribed, in which case it shall be the duty of
the officer to conform to the request contained
in such notice, provided, always, that it shall
be lawful for such officer to leave at the pres
ent station such gard as may be necessary for
the protection of the works, military stores
and other property which may have been en-
trusted TO his care.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted That any
officer who shall refuse or fail to observe the
regulations OF this act, shall be adjudged guilty
of disobediepce Of odeFs and shall be cash iered.
Nothing in this act contained shall be con-
strued to deprive officers or soldiers of their
right to vote as citizens, for which purpose
ed to attend such elections unarmed other
persons.
The bill went through the regular
routine and passed the House. The
point. is in the proof which it furnishes
of the opposition of the great American
jurist to the presence of soldiers at the
polls.
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KINDS COUNTY.
The Political Situation.

Kinds County Gazette.l
If there is any political excitement in Kinds
at this time-any conflict at all exciting-we
have failed to discover it. Ii there is a ma
terial contest inside Of the Democratic party
in Kinds, we are not aware of it, as good as
our opportunities are for making such discov-
cries. If there is anything grave or solemn in
the situation in Kinds, it has vet to come to
our observation or within our information. Ii
there is any political bitterness in Kinds, in
side or outside OF the Democratic party, it has
yet to manifest itself And if there are any
gentlemen in Kinds, within the Democratic
Conservative organization, who are wild OF
dangerous in the pursuit OF office, do not
know who they are, do we believe any
gentlemen of our acquaintance can name them.
There are fewer candidates for office in Kinds,
in proportion to the population, than in any
other county in the State-and while we have
a few, a very few candidates, there Is certainly
no excitement or contention or bad feeling
among them or among their friends, and no
particular anxiety 50 far as we have been
able to discover, has been shown by any can
ddate or the friends of any candidate and
certainly nothing akin to bitterness. The
Democrats and Conservatives, so far as we can
see, look forward steadily and with abid-
ing faith, to the county Convention 10 settle
upon a ticket, and when that ticket is named,
representing, as it will, every part of this
great county, the boom viii be grand and uni
versal all along the line.
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NOMINATIONS FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
The DemOcratic-COnSeryatiye Platform.

LOCAL SELF-GONERNMENT
HONEST JURIES.
HONEST COUNT.
NO ARMY AT THE POLLS.
UNLIMITED COINAGE OF SILVER.
GREENBACKS FOR NATIONAL BANK
PAPER
BULLION CERTIFICATES.
A SOUND CURRENCY AND PLENTY
OF TT.
NO INCREASE OF THE BONDED
DEBT.
LOW TARIFF AND CHEAP GOODS.
No RESTRICTIONS UPON THE CAR
RYING TRADE on THE OCEAN
FAIR DISTRIBUTION FOR PUBLIC
IMPROVEMENTS.
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LENEE.
A RAILROAD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER TO THE PACIFIC ON THE 32D
PARALLEL.
CORPORATIONS SUPERVISABLE BY
LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.
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Gen. a. M. West.

Several contemporaries have of late
been discussing Gen Vests political
position, but we have been silent, think
ing proper to await his own declaration
of it. In reply to an inquiry from sew
eral Of his constituents, he has written
long letter on the subject, which differs
from his Hull letter published a year
ago, in this essential particular: In the
former he advised the plishment
of the measures of the Greenback creed
through the Democratic party. In his
present letter he renounces the Demo-
cratic party, pronounces 1t untrust-
worthy, declares his adhesion to the
National party, and suggests plan for
the organization Of the latter in the
State. With these material exceptions,
the present letter is substantially the
same as the HUH letter. Our readers
need not be told that we regret to part
company with one whose political asso-
citation during the last two canvasses
was so very agreeable that we wish it
could have continued. Nevertheless,
in the vicissitudes Of parties we have
long since become accustomed to the
lines:
Farewell! a word that must be-and hath
A sound which makes us linger,-yet-fare-
well ~
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Fifty Spoken.

Yazoo Herald.
A certain contemporary would make better
fight think tor its candidate for United
States Senator if it would simply confine itself
to the discussion of that candidates claims
and let other peoples favorites alone. Because
1t may think highly of Mr.. A.-regarding him
as the very man to make United Senator Of
that is no reason why he should cry havoc,
and let slip the dogs of war upon Mr.. B. who
it imagipes is formidable rival Of the said
Mr.. A. and, therefore, to be put down by fair
means or foul. This kind of thing won't do ;
it is unfair, deserving of Reproduction, and the
people will none OF it. If any candidate Ter
the Office named has such an advocate as we
have described he may well exclaim, in view
of the harm his friends is doing him, ''Lord,
deliver me from my friends This is caIeu-
lated for all degrees of latitude and longitude
and is made for the benefit of all concerned.
(And, by the way, THE CLARION must
be excused for adding, that it would be
far better for Democrats to beat the
common enemy, before they commence
wrangling among themselves over the
officers to be elected by the Legislature. J
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
Port Gibson Reveille. I
GENERAL NEWS.

SCHOOL CHILDREN FATALLY POISONED.
NEWARK VT, May 29.-No less than TWEEN
ty-seven children have been poisoned at this
place by drinking water out of brook near
the school-house in which a dead horse and
several sheep had been drowned Ten chill
dren already dead, and it is feared that the
other seventeen viii not recover. 1t is report
ed that the farmer who lives near by and who
allowed the carcasses tobe thrown into the
brook is to be arrested. Great excitement pre-
walls. The bodies OF the dead children soon
became decomposed and had to be buried FORTH
wi
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
Nominations for District Attorney.

Upon representation that in several
Districts, owing to numerous Democratic
competitors, there is danger of the cleo
ton of Republican candidates for Dis
trict Attorney, the State Executive
Committee passed a resolution at its re
cent meeting, urging the holding Of Dis
trict Conventions and suggested the
method set forth in the resolution adopt
ed, for fixing times and places of holding
them, in Districts where these prelim
inaries have not already been agreed
upon.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

The President has not thrown down the
gage of battle in a knightly way he has
thrust it in the faces of the peoples repre-
sentatives, and Tor one accept it. | will
inacribe upon the Democratic banner in letters
OF living light-A Free People Free Flee
tions, and a Free Ballot! And not one man
or one dollar Will | ever vote when the Cap
tain-General of the army tells me he will use
the army at the polls. | will tell the Presi-
dent he can have no army by my vote to use
against the liberties of the people.-Senator
Eaton
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
The Income Taxa Word to the
Nationals"
One of the pretended objects {

One of the pretended objects OF the
Greenback party is to secure tax on
incomes. If they are in earnest and
are Democrats, why do they not adhere
to the Democratic party to effect that
object? 1t is as national as they
could wish, as it is ready made party,
with majority in both houses OF Con
gress. and Is making strides for the
Executive Department Its position on
the income tax proposition has been
defined at the present extra session OF
Congress. The matter came up on a
motion to suspend the rules and pass a
bill imposing a tax of two per cent. on
excess of incomes over 81, zoos and three
per cent on excess of incomes over
So, 900 The affirmative votes fell short
of the requisite two-thirds, but they
included all, save ten, of the Democrats
Only seven Republicans voted for it.
Even on this favorite Greenback propo-
sition, the Greenback squad in the House
were nearly equally divided. 1t con-
sists Of twelve or fourteen members,
and only seven of them are recorded in
the affirmative The South, with three
exceptions, voted in the affirmative.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois were unit in the
affirmative. A majority of at least one
of the Ways and Means Committee are
said to be in favor of the measure.
Now, can any income tax advocate
give a sensible reason for organizing a
new party with reference to that ques-
ton? What better party is wanted,
than the ready-made, powerful Demo
cratic organization
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
Tallahatchie County.

We learn from private sources that
Tallahatchie will go unanimously fol
the Conservative ticket this
fall. A well informed correspondent
writes; owe hope to have the thing all
our own way this fall. Hon. J. S.
" Bailey, who made such a faithful and
g efficient member of the Legislature of
{" 1876, II, and rs, will again be a can
" didate for the House, and there is no
" doubt of his election
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
Exchanges will please notice. ~ =
Post Office Facilities, New Routes
Somner County.

Winona Advance.
From Walthall, via HohenIinden to Allan
ia.
From Waithall, via Hohenlinden, to Spar
from Walthall to Spring Valley
We are glad to see our communication with
the country comprehended in the above lines.
VIII soon be opened up. 1t is a necessity that
has long been felt, and for the supplying of
winch, we feel under many obligations to our
Representative in Congress, Hon. HI. d. Mon
av - --N'@.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
The Senatorial Nominations in Kinds
and Rankin.

EDITORS CLARION: The County Executive
Committee in the call for the Convention
states ore OF the objects of the Convention to
be g for the appointment of delegates to the
District Convention for the nomination of
candidates for the Senate, &c. " | think this
advises departure from the precedent set in
1875, and a departure that would certainly
give great dissatisfaction In 1875 the Ran
kin county Convention met and nominated
Col. McCaskill, of Rankin, for Senator, re-
questing Kinds to ratify his nomination. and
also to nominate a Senator for Kinds. When
the Kinds county Convention met it endorsed
Col. McCaskill, and nominated Judge Johnston
for Kinds requesting Rankin to endorse HIM
The Executive Committee of Rankin did So
and then the two candidates, everybody being
satisfied elected Johnston and McCaskill by
overwhelming majorities.
| think Rankin entirely capable OF choos-
ing Rankn's Senator without dictation
interference on the part OF Kinds, and ]
think Kinds no less capable OF selecting
Senator for Kinds without interference by
Rankin all that is necessary Is an endorse
ment as was the case in 1875. The precedent
OF that year is fair just, sensible, and without
objection, and departure from it in 1879 will
bring about a dissatisfaction, that our party
might have reason to deplore. Let our Con-
vention the 18th of July nominate a Senator
for Kinds by proper vote and request Ran
kin to concur and by means send off a little
committee to do that work for the people and
some trouble and dissatisfaction may be
avoided. HINDs COUNTY
The Brandon Republican and the Ray
mond Gazette will please publish the above
and oblige some OF their readers)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

THE vote in the House of Represen-
tatives upon the passage of the Legisla-
tive Appropriation Bill over the Presi-
dents veto stood 112 in the affirmative
to 81 in the negative. Two of the
Greenbackers voted with the Demo-
Gratis and two on the other side. The
Democrats were solid and so were the
Republicans. 1t seems hard to unite
the GreenbackeFs upon what they pre-
tend to be their favorite measures.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
Hon. David Davis.

The following letter leaves no room
for doubt where Senator Davis, of IL
linois, the only Independent in the Sen
ate, stands in the Presidential election
when the great struggle will be made
over the right of free elections ard local
selfgovernment. A few years ago the
defunct National Union Labor party,
which Gen. West in his late letter says
the present National party is a lineal
descendant of, proposed Mr.. Davis as
their candidate for the Presidency. Can
the leadei of the new party be persuad-
ed to see that the issue presented in his
letter will be prominent in the pending
canvass, and follow his patriotic lead
into the Democratic ranks
UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, d. c., May l., 1879.
GENTLEMEN: | have had the honor to re-
ceive your letter OF the Sd inst, covering resp
buttons of g Joint caucus OF the Democratic
members OF the General Assembly of the State
OF Illinois. 1t Is hardly necessary for me to
say that | am in favor of perfect freedom of
elections from the interference or the presence
OF any part OF the Army at the polls, because
that opinion was emphaticaIly expressed on
the floor OF the Senate This Is Government
OF legal authority, founded on the Constitution
and the laws made in pursuance thereof One
of the grievances of which our forefathers com
planned was that the King had quartered
troops them, and sought by military pow
er to coerce them into submission 1t is little
less than a public scandal after a century of
national existence that any party could ven
ture to ask the peoples approval of a species
of tyranny that is forbidden in England, and
wherever else the parliamentary principle is
respected Very truly,
DAVID DAVIS
The Hon. William A. Day and the Hon.
Charles Robinson, House of Representatives.
Springfield, III.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
an honest man :
Respectfully,
THos. n. NORRELL.

! NEW YORK has followed the example
of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Connecticut and New Jersey in passing
law to abolish vagabondage. The bill
subjects tramps to punishment of not
more than one years confinement in a
county jail or penitentiary. According
to it all transient persons who rove
around from place to place, and all va
grants living without labor or visible
means of support, who stroll over the
country without lawful occasion, shall
be held as tramps within the meaning
of this act"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
A BILL for counting the President

A BILL for counting the Presidential
votes, has been agreed upon by the
House Committee on that subject. A
bill passed the Senate near the close of
the last session, but was not acceptable
to the House. 1t is 3 noteworthy fact
that there is not a single Senator or
Representative in Congress of either
party who is willing to commit himself
to the Electoral Commission scheme.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

ITO KEEP the peace at the polls" that was
the pretext under which free peoples have
been overcome before. Suwarrow, when he
telegraphed, Order reigns in Warsaw" was
keeping the peace at the polls, and 1000 men
women and children we're bptchered. All
Napoleon wanted was TO keep the peace at the
polls, and he kept it in such way that all
the votes were counted for himself.-Senator
Eaton.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

Resolred, That when it Is deemed expedieni
by the Democratic Conservative party through
it, regularly constituted channels, in the vari-
Gus counties, 10 make nominations Tor county
officers, the State Executive Committee de
clares il to be the bounden duty Of every mem
Der Of the party to vote for, and in good faith
support, such nominations, and this course
is earnestly advised by the Committee.
SOMISATGONs FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Resoieed, That, in the opinion Of this Com
mittee, the harmony and success Of the Demo
cratic-Conservative party would be promoted
by the nomination OF candidates for District
Attorney in the various districts of the State,
and inasnuch the question has been here
tofore RENTED to the county organizations Tor
determination il is respectfully suggested that
a satisfactory understanding a. to the course to
De pursued may be reached through conference
committees, TO be composed OF one member Tor
each county, said committee 10 be charged
with the duty Of fixing the time and place for
holding nominating Conventian.
Adjourned, subject to call Of the Chairman
+. BARKsDALE, Chairman.
MARION SMITH, Secretary.
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Health Report From the State Univer-
SifY.
Oxford Falcon.l

OAIOIu IdItOU.I
Reports calculated to excite unnecessary
alarm among the patrons of the University OF
Mississippi having been circulated widely and
rapidly, We desire to furnish you with sim
pie statement OF facts and hope you will make
It public through your paper. Seven cases of
typhoid fever have occurred among the stu
dents of the University, one of which died, the
others are all convalescent excepting one, and
ne was conference.-the to sit up, but
through imprudence brought on a relapse and
is now quite sick. There has been no new case
tor twenty days. I. d. IsoN, NJ. D.
J. 7. CHANDLER, NJ. D.
Exchanges will please notice
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

IT would seem that Is the real pur-
pose of the Republicans is to secure the
enforcement of the laws and the up
holding Of tle constitutional authority
of the United States, the oil introduced
by Senator Mcdonald, of Indiana, would
meet thsir approval.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04
Good for speaEsr Randall.

The New York Herald's Washington
special says che Warner silver men,
With Speaker Randall At their head,
have determined that the appropriation
bills shall not be touched until the
Warner bill is reported TO the Senate
and put on its passage.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

IT is significant that John B. Haskin,
the pretended g Democrat to whom
Secretary Sherman wrote his Presiden-
tial deliverance, is none other than John
B. Haskin, an old political tramp in
New York, who has been notorious for
trying all parties, and foraging upon
all, and who belonged to the infamous
Tweed gang of plunderers who hourished
some years ago.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

AMONG the articles adopted by the
is one declaring that every appropria-
ton bill shall be passed and signed five
days before the adjournment of the Leg
islative session that the General APP
preparation bill shall embrace nothing
but appropriations for ordinary expenses
of the Government, interest on the
public debt, public schools and public
charities, and shall be itemized
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

Nor THE RIGHT WAY TO PUT Tin sup
port of his National Quarantine Bill, Senator
Harris said the other day that it was neees-
sary, because local legislation is insufficient.
That is hardly the way to put it. Local legis-
lation is generally quite sufficient; it is local
ineficiency in carrying out sanitary measures
that causes most of the trouble in the yellow
fever region, which fever is the principal rea-
son for passing a general act Of Congress on
the subject Philadelphia Ledger.
But our able contemporaries remark
is entirely too sweeping. Local legis-
lation" is not quite sufficient. 1t is
wholly insufficient in this State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

Mr.. III. s. BoNNEY, of the Summit
Sentinel, celebrates the 18th anniversa.
ry of his editorial career with recital
of some interesting "reminiscences con
nected with it. He established the
Holmesville Wing in 1910; and except
during the war, has been in the har-
ness ever since, and almost among the
same people. We hope he may never
grow old.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

Hon. Fl. D. MONEY, accompanied by
Mrs. Money, left Washington on the
18th ult. for the Sandwich Islands,
where he goes torestore his health. He
is paired for the remainder of the session,
and therefore no vote viii be lost TO his
party.
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yellow Fever at Port-au-Prince.

PARIS, May 29.-An official dispatch from
Port-au-P Prince, Hayti, says NJ Roche Mozart
French minister, died OF yellow-fever in two
hours after he attacked His private sec
rotary OF legation also died OF the disease, and
the second secretary.of legation is sick with
II
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We find that we We're entirely mista

We find that we were entirely mista-
ken in supposing that Hon. D. Mccall
lum is the only Democratic candidate
for the Legislature in Simpson county
Messrs. Alvin Myers, r. E. Rhodes, and
d. W. McInnis are all announced in the
News as candidates, subject to the de-
cision of the party in whatever form its
authorities may decide upon.
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= - -.
Hon. c.. 3. Hooker

lion. Chas. E. Hooker's speech on the clause
repeating the odious supervisors law has the
true ring about it. He doesn't mince matters
az all but handled Garfield and others without
4 0se Ike every thing emanating from the
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

Dr.. CHOPIN, President of the New
Orleans Board of Health, says. the
health of that city Exceptionally good,
and that no case of yellow fever is
there.
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The A. A. M. College.
Macon Sum.

Macon sun.
lion Ihos. ). Gathright seems to be the
the a. q IA. College. There "a no man better
qaaiihed Tor organizing it than he, and thou
sands OF his old students In the state like our.
the headlight.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-04

The Yalobusha Standard is the title
of . new and sprightly Greenback paper
at Water Valley, With MT: g, w.
Townsend IS editor.