Daily Republican., 1880-07-23
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
YazoO Heard From.


YazOO Heard From.
From Mississippi comes the Demo
cratic keynote Of how the political can
yass in the South is to be carried on
and how the South is to be kept solid,
and where can Southern Democracy be
found in q more unadultsrated state
than in Yazoo, where the Barksdales,
the very pink Of Southern chivalry and
Southern Democracy, reside? In the
days of reconstruction, when the rebels
Of Mississippi were sufficiently humbled
to allow all the voters to vote for whom
they pleased without molestatiop, the
Republicans carried Yazoo County by
some 1900 majority, but after the rebels
found that the crime Of rebellion was
looked upon by the Northern dough,
face Democracy as distinctive mark Of
honor, and that there could be 40 Dem
ocratic party without them, they took
the reins in their own hands, and at
the next election no Republican votes
at all were cast in that county. The
brutal murder Of Il. N. Dixon at Yazoo
by Barksdals, because Dixon being q
Democrat saw proper to run as an in
dependent Democrat for q county
Office, must yet be fresh in the minds Of
the readers Of the REPUBLICAN, and II
will not be forgotten that instead Of
Barksdale having been arrested, con-
vioted and hung for murder, as he
would have been in Pennsylvania
and other civilized States in
the North, he was triumphantly
elected to the Office to which he aspir.
ed, and the uncle of the murderer who
warmly approved the bloody course be-
came q prominent candidate for the
United States Senate. These are
things which we hardly think even the
Gazette and Every Evening, with all
their propensities for garbling the truth
and publishing lies, twill deny.
The murdered Dixon left widow
and a number Of orphaned children, bu'
the widow grew suddenly gray with
sorrow, the smile with which she for
merly created her idolized husband
disappeared, the heart sank, the chords
loosed and few days ago she died OF a
broken heart. Barksdale was as much
her murderer as II he had sent the
leaden bullet through her heart as he
did into her husband, EhO had his
back towards him. Mr.. =. P. Dixon, a
brother of the murdered mau, residing
at Washington, went down to Yszoo to
see his sister-in-law before she died,
but she was dead before he got there.
he was as brave a man as was his
brother, and went to Yazoo carrying
his life in his hands against the pro.
tests of his friends. He remained in
Yazoo city for some days, and declared
himself supporter Of Garfield and
Arthur, when he was informed thai
such talk Would not he tolerated in
Mississippi, but that he might indulge
in such opinions in Washington, to
. which place he was advised to return,
1.ss 1l.s papers of Yazoo noticed his arriva
and curtly Informed him in eIitoria
paragraphs that he was not wanted
there. Even a friend who had beer
before considered conservative upoI
whom Dixon called, told him he Liked
him personally, but said 1--WE can
have men here who talk like you d.
and say that you hope and believe tina
Garfield will be elected. We don't in
tend that any votes shall be cast TO
Garfield here, and If you feel as yo'
talk you had better return to tn
North. Mr.. Dixon further say
that half q dozen colored men cannc
get together in the streets without in
terruption from white Democrats, VIII
declare that they shall not discuss pol
tics and forbid them to mention the RI
publican National ticket. 1t was tb
general expression that no votes shoul
be cast for Garfield in Yszoo, and ths
no discussion involving any suppo
of the Republican party should |
allowed.
This then is the plan by which IL
South is to be kept solid for HancoC
and the Democracy. In Mississippi (
a fair and untrammeled vote the R
publicans have at least 80, 900 majorit
but by force, fraud and intimidations
will be made to give Democratic m
jority of perhaps $4,000. By the san
means it is expected to force Louisian
Florida, Alabama, Georgi. and Sou
Carolina to vote for Hancock, and IL
is what Mr.. Bayard and the Democrs
party call a fair and free election.
Just such means as these the Democrs
expect to get one hundred and thirt
eight electoral votes from the South
their candidates, and then with t
vote of New York, where 1t has il
loan nrnuan hu a lamncratic Sanatnr