The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-10
The CLARION.
CHALNERS-MANNlNG.
chslmers Challenge -Manning's De-
fance.
A Roland for His Oliver.
A Roland for His Oliver.
CHALMERS NOTICE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec, 1882.

iii take notice that Will contest your
attended claim to a seat in the Forty
s;gbth Congress of the United States as
.be member-elect from the Second Dis
triet of Mississippi, to which l was
elected and you were not, and shall |
insist that you have not even priraa
facie right thereto.
charge 1st. That the pretended Gre
aeutials YOU hold are illegal and void
because not such credentials as are
authorized by the laws of Mississippi.
ID The certificates, which | have
elod with the Clerk of the House of
representatives, from the Secretary of
State of Mississippi, show that | have
The prima tacie right to said seat.
I'd. That the pretended credentials
which YOU hold are not only informal,
Int issued illegally and fraudently, in
pursuance of conspiracy originated by
You and your immediate partisans in
charge of your canvass
And in this connection l charge that
YOU and your friends gave instructions
70 the inspectors and clerk of elections
not to sign and certify the returns
where YOU supposed | would receive
maiorities, and that these instructions
we're carried out at five precincts in Mar
shall county, and various precincts in
other counties.
| charge that your friends attempted
to make fraudulent changes in the reg
stration books and that at various pre-
cincts, notably Holly Springs and
Byhalia, in Marshall county, and Olive
Branch, in DeSoto county, your parti-
sans in charge thereof refused to allow
the United States Supervisors to scru-
tinize the registration books.
That when the election was over, your
friends at Chulahoma, in Marshall coun-
ty, at night blew out the lights, tore up
the tally sheets, and were only pre-
vented from stealing the ballot-boX by
the courage and GOODNESS OF the United
States Supervisor.
That at the Lauderdale box, in De
Soto county, one of your partisan in
spectors was caught in the act OF chang
ing the ballots as they were put in the
box, and that at Eudora and Lake Cor
morant, in said county, the boxes were
secretly stuffed, thus changing the re
suit in DeSoto county from majority
of several hundred for me to majority
Of 1876 for you.
That at the three precincts in Talla
hatchie county, to-wit: Granball, Hyber
MIA. and Bufords, where / would hav'
obtained 500 or more majority, and a
Nesbetts precinct, i'll DeSoto county
where | would have received 100 major
ity or more, your partisan inspector
refused to hold any election, and dis
suaded others from SO doing, and
charge that this was done under inter
yentions from you and your politica
managers.
That when the election returns ha
been sent by the inspectors at each pre-
cinct to the commissioners for canvass
and when the results had been publish
ed showing majority Of over l,3O
votes for me, you and your friend
wrote letters and sent messengers an
kilograms to leading Democrats IN othC
counties stating that you could hay
FIVE boxes in Marshall county throw
out for irregularities, thus reducin
1860, and urging your party manage,
in the other counties, to so change u
returns in their counties as to give yo
majority.
That the Democratic leaders in 9TH
counties, and especially DeSoto count
refused to obey your instructions al
thus frustrated this conspiracy.
That the commissioners in Pano
county declined to certify the return
from Pleasant Grove and Pleasant Mou
precincts, which gave me 202 maJorlt
because in one, seventeen more vot
were found than voters and in the 9th
one, less votes than voters, and on II
fimsy pretext these boxes were throw
out Of the count by the Secretary.
State, thus depriving me Of 2O2 mas
ity.
That the commissioner of Marsh'
county threw out the jacksonville be
which gave me 67 majority, for want
a tally sheet accompanying the return
and counted the East Holly Sprir
box which gave 36 majority for "
although there was no tally sheet WI
the returns therefrom.
That the commissioner of election
Marshall county made out returns
election and certified the same, and
rected the clerk in my presence to 8
up these returns and forward the sa
to the Secretary of State on Mond
the 14th Of November and then.
journed, making no protest OF any k
with their returns.
That the Secretary Of State preten'
that the returns from Marshall cou
did not reach him until Friday,
18th Of November, though II sent
directed, they should have reached
on the 18th.
That when opened protest agai
their own returns was found in the
pers, and said to be in the hand q
M. Strickland, chairman Of the De
cratic executive committee OF Marsl
county, and signed by two Democr
commissioners which protest contai
false statements of pretended facts.
That the Secretary of State frau
lently concealed from the inspection
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