New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-10
A DEFENCE OF GENERAL CHALMERS.
LETTER FROM THE UNITED STATES DIsrRicT-AI

LETTER fhDM THE UNITED STATES ptolhiCI-Af-
ToBSgY AT coRISTH.
To the Editor OF The TrtouHe.
SIR: The writer is United States Attorney
for his district has been several times member OF tho
Mississippi Legislature and for six years Circuit
Court Judge by appointment OF Governor Alcorn. he
has bean constant Republican since the reconstruction
of the State. aud no truly represents all the white Re-
publcans In the State. and very nearly all the colored
people, when he gives cordial greeting to General
CnaImers and expresses confidence In his movement.
o. all the Democratic politicians In Mississippi since
the war Chalmers has been the most liberal and
servatiye. While he generally regarded outside of
the State the worst OF the Bourbons at home ne Is
known TO have been the best OF that cass
The sboe-string District made for Republicans,
and conceded to a colorcd man by the men who made
IT, But when General Chalmers. the only Democrat In
II bold enough to lead hope utterly forlorn
candidate for Congress I'm 1876 he supported by
many coored men. and by the leading white Republic
OF the district To the surprise OF all he was re-
turned as elected; and while there Is 40 dou9t he
greatl aided ty the unlawful methods adopted 10
carry the stste for Tden. this aid much less thnn
tuat received in the same way by other Mississippi
Congressman whose titles never disputed.
His in Congress was so satisfactory TO the lard
his coorrd constituents that at his second election he
encountered little or no opposition When ne ran again
$50 the pierng of votes and systematic fraud that
cnaracterzed districts not witnessed IA his
ofthe Democratic contestants IN the xLVlltn
Congress, Chalmers was the only one who had title
sufficiently respectable be sustained by the supreme
Court OF his State; and while tnat decision does no
credit the Judiciary OF the state Chalmers had the
benefit OF IT, Another decent feature III the claim OF
Chalmers the tact that his district the election
tic Ees OF the box they went IN. There was
no baot-stulng and false counting 10 the extent wit
messed districts but Chalmers stood on the law OF
his case expounded by the Supreme Court. and the
supreme Court simply stood bg law that was mani
testify designed TO make false counting and fraud possible
aud easy; and the meanest thing Mississippi bonrbons
ever did was their endeavOr 70 make Chalmers the
goat the arocious partisan election laws
ever enforced b. a partisan court
Tne General contends and believes that he Ia true TO
the prnriples Of Ifetilns; that hIs support the
President perfectly consistent with these principles
and Bourbon narrow ness. Intolerance aud
fraud hoaorabe than continue 10 wink at them
and Iroht by them For he has been magned Tor
holding In Congress by crime an fraud and party
currency TO the charge until IL was
generally believed by those who did no, know that bis
purer than those o others who were above
r.proach Is lie denied the vndlcatIOn anor ted by
the brave fight he Is making for the right Very re-
specially, q. G. CHANDLER
CorinM Mas, Aug. l. 1888.