The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-04-27
MISSISSIPPI.
House Minority Report of Con-
tested Election Cases.
Organization of the Board Of Control o.
the Democratic Congressional
Committee.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-COngressman
AthertOu, of Ohio, made the minority re-
port from the House Committee on Elec-
tiOns in the contested election case of
Lynch versus Chalmers, thus dispOses of
the Radical pretensiOns and falsehOOds
concerning the "bulldOzed districts of
Mississippi:"
There is one satisfactory result flow
ing from this contest. The public have
Republican majority in the Sixth dis
tTict of Mississippi, Familiarity called
| the "ShOestTing district" being five
hundred miles long and only forty miles
wide, and yet the majority of this COM
mittee, after thorough investigation,
only claim a majority for contestant of
three hundred and eighty-fve votes.
The counties of Claiborne, Quitman,
ShaTkey, Tunica and Wilkinson are
shown by the census to have 5,795 ma
jOrity of cOlOred over white voters, and
yet there is no complaint made by the
contestant, and no contest over the votes
in these counties, although they gave
1,761 majority for the sitting member.
Again, the public have been led to be-
lieve that great frauds have been prac-
ticed in this district, and yet the only
fraud now claimed by the majority re-
port is change of one hundred and
county.
There is abundance of fact and aTgu-
ment in Mr.. AthertOn'S report to COM
mend itself to unpTejudiced minds to
show that General Chalmers was elected
and that it is simply theft to throw him
out of his seat, but in the above extract
he has simply met the Republicans on
their own ground and shown the falsity
of the claims that have been set forth
year after year in the Republican press.
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN WORK.
The Board of Control of the DemOcra-
tic Congressional Committee. has at last
been fully constituted. Roswell p.
Flower, of New York, is the Chairman,
and will be chiefly responsible for the
conduct of the campaign. Mr.. Flower
has no superior as an organizer. His
| talent in this direction has long been
recognized In New York, but the cOun-
try only knows his abilities in this line
by the result of his splendid campaign
| for Congress against young AstOr and
| his money bags in the Eleventh district,
| New York. Levi P. Morton, the present
Minister to France, was elected from
| this district to the last Congress over B.
| A. Willis, Democrat, by majority Of
over seven thousand. Flower not only
OYercame this, but defeated the scion of
| the House of AstOr with all his lavish
expenditure of money by 1924 votes.
This is change of 10000 votes, and the
brilliant achievement of MIR. Flower
challenged the admiration of the cOun-
try and gained for him the respect SOf
the opposition press. Since Mr.. Flower
has been in Congress, he has been atten-
tive to his duties and has made two or
three neat, terSe speeches, which have
been highly commented for their good
sense and practical business style. He
is the right man in the right place to
make the election of Democratic Con-
gress dOubly sure. The other members
Davis, of West Va, and GOrham, of Md,
Representatives Cobb, ROsecraIS and
Randall, and Messrs. j. r. Mclean, of
the Cincinnati Enquirer; G. G. Baldwin,
of New York, and ex-senator Stockton,
of New Jersey. This is a strong COM
mittee. and without being invidiOus it
may be said that there are few men in
the country the peers of Messrs. GOrham,
Randall and Stockton in political saga
city and skill in party management. As
a whole the Board is satisfactory to
Democrats here, and the party will go
into the contest with at least implicit
confidence in its standard bearers.
Everybody is confident of success. Great
gains are expected in Ohio. 1t is be-
lieVed that with the adjournment of the
Virginia Legislature Malone can be kept
at bay. The Missouri districts lost in
1880 will surely be redeemed. In Ken
lucky, White has been relegated to pri-
Vate life by the new appOrtionment.
Jones, of Texas, will be left at home.
Confidence is felt in the ability of the
FusiOnists to carry Maine.