National Republican., 1881-02-01
Wholesale Election Frauds in Mis-
sissippi.

Wholesale Election Frauds in Mis-
sissippi.
The following is from the Yalobusha
Standard, a Greenback paper published
at Coffcyyille, Miss. The Standard is
making valiant fight for a free ballot
and fair count 1t is through the en-
lightcned labor of such journals that we
hope for the growth of right sentiments
and d party which shall have the main
tenance of law and political rights for its
main object:
While we have no opinion to express as to the
merit of the subject, we are confronted with the
appalling fact that the United States grand jury
for this district Just adjourned, have found, dur
ing their investigation, about one hundred inGict
ments against offenders for offenSes committed in
violation of the election laws at the late preSiden
tial election. These indictments, as we are in
formed include every species of officer and every
grade of crime known to the election laws of the
United States. The parties indicted include the
county election commissioners of Marshall. Pamela
and De Soto Counties, besides numberless judges
and clerks of electioTin those counties and also
many Others in the several other counties COM
posing the Second Congressional District
The commissioners for Marshall County were put
UPON trial last week, as were also several other
cases and, to the modification Of all good citizens
ofour State, they were convicted at the hands of
jury composed from all political parties, and made
up from our best and representative citizens) the
fact being developed that these men had been
guilty OF wholesale robbery Of the rights of the
voters lying chiefly in the particular fact that they
fraudulently, and without cause, indiscriminately
mutilutcd the registration books, causing the
-of to l,o
erased therefrom. thereby dcpriving these voters
of the right to a vote upon their presenting them
selves at the polls.
1t is out of this state of affairs that has grown
the bitter contest now going on between Captain
George NJ. Buchanan, the Republican candidate,
and Colonel Van II. Manning, the Democratic
candidate in this district, for a seat in the next
Congress. 1t is not our purpose in this article to
discuss this matter; but ii is TO direct the attention
-four GTeenback friends throughout the district,
and il view of the approaching election, to have
them urge upon Governor Stone and the other Off
GERS OFhe State board ofregistration the immediate
removal of these election officers in the counties
in which these indictments have been found, and
10 insist upon the appointment of men who are
honest and have the confidence of the people
As strong partisan and as stalwart Democrat
as Governor Stone is known to be, he will hardly
fail TO listen to the appeal of honest yeomanry
who have so long suffered from the rascality of
these men, who by the verdict of jury, have be-
come infamous.
1t is matter of notorious fact that in the very
counties where these men have been indicted the
GUeenbackers and Independents were by the same
means deprived Of their hard-earned victory in the
State elections offs and 1879 Therefore, we say,
let our Greenback friends act promptly and ur-
gently ia this matter by petition, setting out the
facts froIa every county in the district.