The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

10 counted under our law, because an ipsnsc
tor has either ignorantly or willfully received
it. ,e.,
osived or counted, shows that the law makers
contemplated and gave power to refuse 10
Unit votes which had been received. Ii tAev
80 ;cnoTantly received, the inspectors migbt
AfstarSards refuse to count them. II thew al
-ace;ved and counted wilfully or ignOrautIv H.
vioIation of law by the inspectors shall the
commissioners to whom the ballots are sent
for canvass, violate the law and count illegal
ballots
We do not see how comm ssioners. uuda-
,he solemu saction of an oath, could cDuBf
ballots upon which were uguishIugm
or do otherwise than the commissioners M
W rrep county did. To call their action or
roneous, may be justifable by those who differ
Win them in opinion. But to charge them
with fraud or corruption, Is either the malic-
! ious vaporing of partisan press, OF the
corrupt imaginings Of corrupt minds always
ready 10 attribute TO olheis "H"' tAty would
The fact. therefore, that ticket has been
/ received by an inspector, is no reason WIN
! the election officers should not alterwaris
refuse TO count it, if not in conformity In
! law.
Mr. LYNCH is that the marks are such HuIe
ones thar they should not be called marks All
ali The Republican panty in the past were
| in the habit of marking their tickets with
Aaos and pictures of Lincoln and Grant and
other such devices, for well known purpose.
and it was therefore enacted by the Legisla-
| tire that no distinguishing marks should be-
| nIaced on tickets. The same purpose tina
| induced the more striking marks in the past.
| induced these more crafty marks in this
| election. We are prepared 10 show that these
| tickets in Warren county differed not ouI y
| from the Democratic, but from the Republican,
| tickets printed in Jackson, under the super
| vision Of the Executive Committee of the
Republican party; and that the tickets for
| ~ min tod 4 81.
| vision of Mr.. Lynch himself, and as the
gambler marks his cards so craflily that
none but the initiated would observe them
| az these tick cts were marked for well known
| purpose, but 50 slightly as to elude. if possi-
! ble the observation of all who were not
advised Of the trick.
! 1t Will be shown, when the proper time
comes that these tickets were not only dis
| tinpuishable, but actually distinguished on
| the dav of election by the marks, by persons
who could not read; and further, that the
| tickets were pronounced illegal by prominent
white Republican Of Nleksburg before the
! election 1t will be further shown that Mr..
| Lynch made directly contradictory statements
! to the Secretary of State about the printing
| of his tickets, but said that all his tickets
! used in the District were like those used in
Warren county. If this is true, Mr.. Lynch
did not receive single legal ticket in the
District and n Republican Congress cannot
seat him without Overthrowing the law Of
Mississippi, and saying that Mississippi has
| no right to have or to enforce election laws
that have been enforced for years in Northern
States and which Judge Cody says are only
declaratory of Constitutional principles
Cons graduating the Democracy of the Dis
| trict upon their success after the stunning
blow in the Indiana defeat / trust we win
neither be divided by the glitteriug bait of
loaves and fishes, 50 tempting to some who
have called themselves Democrats, nor dis
heartened by the failure to elect our President
If we have been Democrats from principle
let us remember these principles still exist.
and demand our more earnest support because
at present they are under the shadow Of
defeat MARTIN MARSHALL,
Ch'm'n Elk. Com. Sixth Cong. Dist.