Daily Republican., 1879-08-20
A NOTE.
Tho Gazette ana YazoO.


#' The Gazette ana YazoO.
The " Gazette" says we are trying 10
make political capital for the hspno-
lican party by continually paradins the
Yazoo affair before the people, but 1t
warns US that the people will not be
gulled by such reports, and then IL
comes to the conclusion that the repor's
.f the Yazoo affair and all other reports
Of violence in Mississippi or elsewhere
in the South are all q pack OF lies ana
misre presentations manufactured Tor
ths occasion. We do net say that these
are its exact words, but it is about its
meaning after its views are well siftsd'
and although we were we'll aware that
the "Gazette" would do almost any
thing to defend its party from charges
AGAINST it however bad, We hardly
thought it would so discolor and warp
the truth as to make 1t appear ike
salsehood. This is exactly what 1t has
done in the Yazoe affair. Nobody ever
doubted the truth of the reports ofthat
dispraceful riot as they first came to us
through Democratic channels ofintelli-
ssnce. All the reports that have been
made of it came from Democratic papers
in Mississippi, some Of them taking the
part Of the mob and others denounclng
it, but all agreed that three hundred peo
pls which were..called the hest class, did
wait upon Captain H. M. Dixon an In
dependent Democratic candidate Tor
Sheriff, and that he was given the choice
of either Withdrawing from the can
v.ss or he must put up with the con-
sequences.
Of course every intelligent person
knows what putting up with the conse-
ouences meant with a Mississippi mob,
made up even Of the best citizens. Ihe
"Gazette" says there was no attempt
or threat made of assassination, nor
was such thing ever thought Of, as il
the people of Mississippi were very
considerate, forbsaring and mefciful
people as if they wouldn't be caught
doing such thing. We thought from
the first that the "Gazette" rather than
give truthful report Of the afair'
when pushed to the wall, would deny
the whole affair and it has done 80
thinking no doubt that by doing so ii
eau best serve its party. Although we
twitted it about not referring to ths
matter at all even as an important new
item for its readers, We frankly confess
that We never expected it to do any NOR
than It has done, that is to deny tn
truth Of the report. This has been it
subterfuge always when closely pressed
The "Gazette" in taking the position
that it does, disagrees with the Vicks'
burg"Herald, an ultra Southern Demo
cratic Journal. The latter in referring
to the Yazoo and other bulldozing affair
in Mississippi asks the following very
pertinent question: "How can the
great Democratic party Of the Unior
20 before the country arguing in favo
Of frss elections, while the Democrats o
Mississippi are enforcing mob law an'
deciding political contests before vot
is cast! What argument can be use
against troops at the polls Will
Mississippi mob warns can
didate not to submit his claim
A the suffrages of the people 7!
How much better it would be for tn
"Gazetts" to speak the truth like tn
Democratic pap-r from which we have
just quoted than to insult its intelli'
gent readers with such garbled non
sense and utterly deceive those not 8
Intelligent. As we'll might it say tha
Judge Chisholm, his daughter and lit
tie son, and his friends were not mur
dersl in Kemper county, Mississippi, ii
1876, and that the ringleader Of thos
murdersrs was not afterwards elscte'
Sheriff Of the county, as for it to sa!
that there is no truth in the reports o
Democratic bulldozing in Mississippi
that have reached the North through
Democratic papers alone. We're tn
victims of those outrages Republicans
and did the reports reach US onl.
through Republican organs, We Cal
easily see Why the "Gazette' woul
deny the reports, but when the victim
are Democrats, and the reports com
through leading Democratic papers, t
deny the truth of them as it has done
is to say the least quitting it a littl
steep"
TuB PANAMA CANAL.-1t is state
that on account of the many obstacle