The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-11


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u,,, law y,hi,, ,hov oon,d he rocoonized
all, Inv, tI,o c,", (Which ,ioI,tes tho
I,,n hut L, M. l,.l hon foldnd
nit. WINS so ,nn,rant rrom i,snection
, ,,nt I, oonld rot ha ao,iod
:, mia, ,oa,o ,,,uo,h, Ioo,,o ood d;s-
,,.,i.IIJ t1.,,l,, ot tho olootion Tbey
worc tbcrohv selected Inv men who could
not read rallies were thereby kent dur-
inc election d,v Inv the Republican officers
and managers.
They meye iateadcd TO be knomn anu distiA-
gaisAed. The Republicans had them print
ed-Mr. Lynch, as l am informed. stated
to the Secretary of State that he c0Iyocted
tie py0of. They differ not only from the
Democratic but from the gularRepublican
tickets. They cost, as am told, four times
asmuch as the regular ticket The negroes
were told to sote Mat ticket, and to recog-
niZe it by these marks. The managers
were .o'u D! hepup'lc'n pciorc 'i,e 'ie'-
I'oi una. '"'S '''Hr' was i"os"' "''' "i.'n
was '"'or'''eo Vi '"e u'''''"'' y" .'''''o"
uay went W 'he Ci"'rhi'h Vi 'he i'eP""-
mean ENeeu'''e committee anu ""rheu
MN that 'hey were iiieSal' anu went 10 inc
po'Is anu cal'eu 'he a'leh'ioh Vi 'he i''spee-
Tors 10 inc law'
~ IL c''oen' 'n"' 'ne! i'"u pun o'' !"
Young 'noSe '''N''S' """' ~ was - ,"''""-
'cr''l' icin'ps '"o! ''So''ou " inns W.
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perhaps t"e9 iii'"Sinco 'i''' 'ho Dei''o'i"'e
miShI a'teihpI 10 SUN INC p"iioI poAes' anu
tearing 10 rel! OH 'he hepuoilcah ihspec-
tors anu clerks, selected by themselves, TO
prevent it, they resorted to this trick to
enable them to detect it by proving that so
many ballots of this particular kind went
into the box.
AS | have already said one of the
very objects sought to be attained by this
law was to prevent election bosses from
knowing how the free people vote.
If it was so plain that those ballots We're
legal as the howl of certain newspapers
would indicate. why did not the limited
States Dis rirt 4 tt1rp,-9- tx tu, r,.-iiu ri=
Tense of tbc tiftbtcenth amendment TO
fine Constitution of the United States
constituted himself Il one-horse Grand
Jury, and on an illegal information
had his fellow citizens arrested and
tried for this affair choroo thc commits
s;orors with rof,.inn 20 oo,,t loo.l votos2
Ia ohor,od +bo,, WITH or,i+ti,,. 70 rotur,
~ +ho Soorot.r,, ~ c,,,o ,,;t,i, 20, dovs
nf+ou +ho oloo.;o, +ha ,,,,o1o n,,,,hor 81
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'o'es Snou'o oe 'es"' anu 'aNe" '"'o
account at alD.
Second, That the inspectors ana not He
CommfSsl0"e"s We're charged win the uu.y
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1 ~. no' W count 1iiosui o''io.s' JuuSe ili'i
oiu ho' "''1"p' W u,ScuSs i'' nc siinpi!
III en- cathed"@ style "lald down the law
as IN has OpiRiOn it should be construed,
decided that the Commissioners had com-
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hli'teu no ohehce anu Iheh gave us MS
view of the power of the Commissioners
2gAieh qgas outsi5e the case. In fact If Looks |
III. t,,o main oio.t 80 .ho.o ,,,,o,oo,,tio,,.
INC ''io mann "Jcc' vi Ihese prosecutions
was to give the Federal Court chance to
express its opinion on the State law. Judge
Ion tyvico On stotod 70 tho Court Wa -
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INTENDED 10 lhJuflously ahect the contest
for the seat in Congress? TO s'give it
black eve " so to sneaLy
'l,.I,,'
u'slNe 'le lue" thaI 50 honorable
Court could be prOstituted TO such base
purposes. In these prosecutions they
o,odod tho rooI ;s.,,o nh ,,,,oatio, a.,
''' -''' 1".''ion ''''
puDllc Is most interested III, Is not the
merely technical one aoAich of these officers
shouId b,vo raieotad tbosa voto, lint sbouId
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