The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-24
ELECTION COMMISSIONS.

party in Mississippi, whom we recos
nize as gentlemen and patriots, ca
have any sympathy in common wit
the wild, inflammatory and incen
diary utterances of some of the SC
called Greenback organs, Il specimen
OF which is given in THE COMET To
day. 1t must be apparent to thes
gentlemen that there is no occasion
for such a flourish of bloody dagger
in time of profound peace, and no
body's rights are threatened or il
jeopardy when both the great ma
tlonal parties, or-if they prefer t.
have the Greenback organization in
cluded - when all three of the grea
national parties, have, in their plat
forms, and by the speeches of theil
representative men, planted them
selves on the doctrine of free ballot,
and fair counts.
The Radical party introduced into
the South vast amount of dishonesty
irregularity and bulldozery into oul
elections, aud it is, perhaps, partially
true that the Democrats, in the men,
orable political revolution of 1875, to
counteract these surreptitious and dis
honest appliances, and being goaded
to desperation, took the Radical Bull
by the horns, and boldly knocked his
trotters up. But, whatever may have
been the excesses of the past by the
Radical party from an Unborn instinct
to rascality, and from Democrats from
quasi questionable notion of fighting
the devil with fire-it cannot be de-
MED, or even doubted by thinking
men, that the tendency of the times
now is, and the desire of all patriots
now is, to see these irregular appliances
entirely abandoned by all. There is
not to-day the slightest ground for
distrust except, possibly, in one or two
isolated cases, in all Mississippi; and
it will be the studious aim of true
Democrats to prevent the occurrence
of them anywhere. What then can
be the object of this rash Dugald Dal-
getty, mad bull search for row in
Mississippi? Why should the effort
be made to inflame the people simply
to create an imaginary flock of sheep
to be routed by few of our valiant
modern Don Quixotes Will it purify
the ballot box TO fire the State with
Dennis Kearneyism, when the people
of all parties want quiet, and peace
and justice. That wicked Kearney
experiment failed ignobly in Califor-
mia, and it has not one-tenth of the
nutriment to feed on here that it had
there.
Let us try and get along without
wading up to our knees i'm blood.
So far as we are concerned, we are
in favor of according to the Green
hackers exact justice. We have not
n speck of faith in the common sense
of the party, or its ability ever to do
but for all that, we wish to
take no unfair advantage of its mem
bers. Let them have a fair showing
everywhere and under all circum-
stances. The idea that seems to have
grown and swelled in the heads Of
Few of them, that the Democratic
party is afraid To give them chance
10 hang themselves, or to eat up the
balance Of the community, is a dis
,Orted vagary. The Democrats are
lot afraid to give them full swing, and
Democrats do not tremble in their
DOots at their threats to override the
aw and evoke revolution. Even dead
y threats will not enforce unjust ode ,
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The law authorizing the appoint
nent of three Commissioners of Elec-
ion, all of whom shall not be of the .
anne political party, is Radical child. G
t gives and was intended TO give
he party in power majority of s
he Commission. This is not OBJ q
acted 10 by our Greenback brethren. =
But they contend that their party and a
ot the Republican party is entitled
D the third man They claim that
here is no Republican party in the
tate. If this is true that party GER b
ainly must be absorbed in the Green r.
aek party, and accordingly they get 7
ne third man i'm all indirect way. il
tut if it be true that certain jealous is
have made a mistake y
bout this, and that there is Repub- n
can party-and we suppose Mr.. Gar a
cid, collector Hill, Judge Freeze, Il
no r. Lynch, and, perhaps a sleeper v
this district, think there is-then - !,
,e State Board is right i'm giving that OF
arty a representative on this commits Il
ON under the law. The Greenback 81
leory is that the Republican party is hi
sad in this State. In the convention M
hich met i'm the Representative Hall is
elect Presidential delegates and a, a.
ectors, in which the Hall was full of ta
representing every county
the State, IL looked to US and to the NJ
ate Board like a far more formidable W W
rpse than the alleged State COnven- I'll
m of the so-called Greenback party TO
here only a few counties were repre-
nted. We think the Board have
undant reason for considering the
spublicans, under the letter and Of
irit of the law, entitled 10 one Elee- tn
m Commissioner in each county. Ie
IT whether they are or not, there Is IN
IegaI way to test the matter without w
esenting to the world the spectacle 30
,...rty not yet out Of its swad- ~ ~
ing clothes rushing 10 the front and do
sing an army and drenehing the tt
ate in blood We feel assured that gi'