National Republican., 1881-11-23
BOURBON RASCALS.
HOW THEY CARRIED MISSISSIPPI.
Wholesale Cheating in All Parts Of the State
Scraps OF Information from Reliable Sources
Relative to Some OF the Queer
Methods ResOrted To.


Some time prior to the day appointed for
an election In Mississippi THE REPUBLICAN, exposed
the yilainous plans adopted by the Democrats for
the purpose of delraudlng the people Of that State
ofthe rfghtto select their own officials, The work
has been accomplished and Lowry, the Democratic
candidate for Governor will be declared
elected by about 1900 majority.
few years ago the Democratic majority
was swclled to Ge,0OO by the same methods, but
the manipulators of the returns have the check
now to claim only about one quarter of that num-
Der, The size Of the majority claimed Is however,
aquestion governed wholly by cxpediency, as 1t has
no connection whatever with the number of bal
lots cast. The following will show how the result
was accomplished: ARMED bands Of men visited
voting places, striking terror to the voters In-
spectors conniyed at and co.operated with these.
Scizing ballot-boxes in the darkness Of night
under the pretense of going to another place to
count the votes, the box uusealed, so that with
perfect impunity II might be stuffed or exchanged
to suit the emergency Finally, the result
of counting the vote of such boxes
showed unmistakably that the vote as
counted was not the vote cast. Again, inspect
ors, all appointed from the same political party,
| openly and notoriousy hostile to the 1ndepend-
ent party the result Of this violation Of law and
common honesty being that the boxes were
| counted as the Bourbon Democracy had intrigued
| that they should be counted Again, hundreds
Of names were purposely omitted from
the poll-b books, and when the voter
walked UP and asked the privilege of voting he
was complacenty Informed that, as his name
could not be foundhe could not be allowed to vote.
although the inspectors knew that he was legal
and qualified voter. Again, men were selected as
| commissioners and inspeotorS-not such rs would
be trusted in the ordinary business oflife, but men
tod a0aA ~
manipulating returns and stufling ballot boxes"
The following scraps Of information, which
| served to illustrate tho
| INFAMOUS METHODS BEsoRTED
TO by the Mississippi Democrats, come 10 US from
trustworthy sources When the voting was over
at Brandon, Rankin County Lowrys home, Nc
| Laurin, his law partner one of the Democratic
judges announced that they would go TO supper,
and against the protest OF the Republican in.
spector, n colored man, the box was taken 10
| Lowry & McLaurin's Office, and there LEFT two
hours OF course the result was anticipated.
AT HoLBRooKs FORTY INDEPENDENTS
| found their names erased from the poll books.
Captain Holbrook, amember OF the board of super
vlsors, upon whose land the election was held was
| himself among the number. And this is the way
Lowry carried Rankin. At Halls Hill, a country
precinct in Copiah Countywhere heavy majority
was polled for King, party of roughs entered the
house, when the lights were blown out and in the
darkness the box was kicked out into the road.
If his box is counted Kings majority will exceed
200. Without this box he has still small majority
| IS KEMPER COUNTY
the Bourbons refused to count box because II
was known to have large King majority In
Madison County one of the Democratic inspectors,
finding that his box had gone largely for the Peo-
pies ticket, and being unable to stuff 1t, as his
confederates had done In other Counties threw 1t
/ yiOlCntlv n ground mud m
crushing in the top. Bolton and Edwards. two
large voting precincts In Kinds County, both of
which gave heavy maJorlties for the Peoples
ticket were thrown out, thus giving the county to
the Botirbons. w. b. Hemphill, a respectable
citizen of Byram in the same county. writes TO the
chairman of the Grccnback committee that
THE BALLoT-Box THERE WAS srUPFEp
during the intermission for dinner. In Oktibbehn
County the evidence of fraud Is overwhelming,
and there scarcely an effort made to conceal
1t. In Grenada County the commissioners of
elections shut themselves up in the court house
and "doctorcd " the returns to suit their own pur-
poses On Saturday prior election the most violent
inccndiary and threatening harrangues were made
by Democratic speakers In Grenada, which deterr ed
many colorcd people from voting but, notwith-
standing this the Peoples ticket received at least
500 majority Of the votes actually cast. Captain
NJ. X Mister. an old and highly esteemed citizen
an ex-conlederate, noted for his gallant military
service, candidate for sheriff, was
COUNTED OUT"
by 200 majority. This in n strong Republican
county, and Notwithstanding the fnct that Cap
tain Mister had the active support of at least go
white men who have heretofore affiliated with the
Democratic party. The day preceding the cleo
tion circular, of which tho following is an exact
copy, was distributed IN the vicinity Of Jackson
Confidential
| ATTENTION. uREENDArKFRs uEptruT ,ai
Your executive committees, feeling the necessity OF
carrying the present election, and wrestling the gov
! ernm mt frOn the thieves who now disgrace the
ofi.es, from Governor down. do now adv YOU both
cOlored and white to go TO the polls election day
armed prepared and determined to carry tho election
at the point Of the shotgun
Burn this at once
BY order OF Greenback and Republican committees
1t was quite unnecessary for them TO do so, but
the chairman of each committee referred to has
, denounced the publication rs an Infamous and
atrocious political forgery and libel, gotten up by
Democrats for the purpose OF intimidating peaca :
: able .and lnw-abiding citizens, aud preventing
, them from ycnturlug TO the polls.
WE WILL CLOSE THIS CHATTER
4 Of Democratic yilliany by quoting the following
comments on the late farce enacted In Mississippi
from the Republican, OF which Hon. J. S. Morris
formerly attorney-general of the State, was cam
paign editor:
1t Is new instance OF the vile machinery OF party
being manipulated by IN INSCRIPTIONS minority,
throwing vast majority Of the patriotic people of
great State. And II furnishes Illustration OF the
base and degraded standard of morals and OF mine
which the Democratic party has erected forsthI
highest official positions King POSSESSES In The
estimation ofhs opponents. at least some of the quail
iicdtons Of character and capacity which go to 1T !
man for the Office of chief maglsl ate. Lowry nos
sess es absolutely none.
| "Fendluster-Iu the Coot"
joint. Harris, eX-Congressman ofthe
Seventh Virginia District Is the author of the we'll