The Osceola times., 1882-09-09

pie of the county that the Liquor
Dealers Association of the State
would furnish the means and whisky
to capture the county in their inter
est, and they came very near sue
cceding. Laying back and relying
on fancied security wont do in an
election when the enemy are active
and yigilant and unlimited as to
means and trickery.
DURING times of election, such as
characterizes Mississippi county,
where duplicity and ignorance is
prcycd upon by the machine politi-
clans, where money and whisky are
all potent in swaying votes, it is not
at all strange that the actions and
motives OF even the noblest and
truest should at times be looked upon
with doubt and suspicion. The best
Laid plans, when the time comes to
put them in execution, are eagerly
seized by the opposition, distorted
and exaggerated. When all is eager
ness and excitement, little or no al
lowanecs are made. Under such a
state of affairs, the race for Repre-
sentative was carried on. with Me-
Weigh as the champion of the tenn
peranee cause. opposed by McGavock
and Williams, backed by those who
favored license, and the whisky or
CARNATIONS of the State. in this at
titude, every means in their power
was rcsorted to in order to defeat the
temperance party. Without being
specific as to time and dates, and in
order that the people of Mississippi
county, outside Of Monroe township,
may have an idea of how matters
stood here when McVeigh was ruled
out of the race, and the motives
which impelled his referees as to
their course of action, without regard
to the tenor or construction of the
language of the agreement, we would
make the simple statement, that a
few days, perhaps a week, before the
agreement was entered into, infor-
nation was received that II. S. Will
liams bad agreed to retire from the
race, and that in order to pacify his
supporters in the lower end of the
county, and retire with some show Of
fairness, vote was being taken in
Scott township, where it was thought
McGavock's strongest support lay;
but in proceeding with the vote it
was found that Williams was getting
two votes to McGavock's one, and
that part of the programme was
stopped. Coming to Osceola after
filling their speaking appointment, a
caucus was held by the supporters of
McGavock, Williams WAS sent for,
and soon it was noised about that he
had been bought off for two hundred
dollars and the promise of a clerk
ship in the State Senate. During
the course of the evening, Williams
himself button-holcd the editor of
this paper and informed him that as
the race stood, the nigger was bound
to be elected, and that he was out of
the race. The next morning, how
ever, he went up to Mill Bayou, and
engaged In the speaking which re-
suited in that much discussed arbi-
tration. With this knowledge in
possession of the people of Monroe
township, is it any wonder that they
should charge him with going along
to Mill Bayou in order to fulfill the
rest Of his contract, 1. c. to so help
shape affairs as to lead to an arbitra.
ton when six would beat three?
While we do not charge that the
above statement is literally true, yet
the reports came In such shape that
everybody believed them true, and
their truth was afterwards supported
by the fact that at the very time the
arbitration was being had, circular
letters, printed in Memphis, We're be-
ing distributed in the lower end of
the county announcing Williams
withdrawal from the race; and again,
under promise of secrecy until after
the election, the whole history of the
transaction was related to us by one
who had been privy to all their plans
and secrets and working in their in
terest. and now that the election is
over, we feel no longer bound to
withhold his name--Mr. Levi Cissell.
We make this statement not with
the view of furnishing food for gossip
or engendering bitterness, but in or