Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-05
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against them. They had determined
TO push II up from 1873 10 2)J for them
in De Soto; but what was to be done
In Lafayette was undetermined. ID l.
lard gets restless aud sends the follow.
ing telegram;
OxtoRp, Miss, Nov. IL, 1852
To Il. NJ. Watson, Holly Springs:
What Is the latest? We are holding
the count.
l.. s. DfLLARp.
Holding the count, was he? And
holding II to hear from Mr.. Watson
the latest returns that he might better
understand how TO count his own.
His business was To count the returns
and forward his statement to The see
rotary of state. That he hcl them Is
evidence that he was waiting for ,nle-
thing 10 turn up, That he asked Wat
son for the latest news Is evidence that
they We've acting In concert, aud that
upon his report would depend how
long and for what purpose the cunt
was held up. Such bare .faccl out
RACES as these show the necessity for
the adoption of stringent laws
election certificates in Alissis-
for our officers. and an abolition as FIR
as practicable OF the fee system. we
have officers in the state house who
came there poor, and while their fixed
salaries are small they have grown rich
on the unknown pcrquisites of office
They have purchased magnificent Mis-.
sissippi river plantations, work convict
labor drive fine horses ana breed
Jersey cattle. They grew IN. as we
did, on the milk of cows worth from
sl5 to S2j per head, and now they can
not exist except on Jersey cream and
Jersey butter from cows that cost from
hundreds to thousands of dollars per
head. A resolution was introduced
into the last Legislature to Investigate
their accounts, but rs In the Polk case
in the state of Tennessee, Ii was voted
down. Democrats have believed and
charged that if the Unit.d States
treasury could have been overhauled
by II Tilden administration in 1877,
great frauds would have been un.
earthed which are now covered up by
slxillfid book. keeping, and there are
many who believe the same to be true
of the state officers in Mississippi
What we need and what some day
| must come, Is thorough cleaning out
OF the whole
sTATEHousE RING.
Aud what arguments do Democrats
make why this should not be done.
They say first, that they should be re.
tanned in power because they redeem.
ed the state from misrule in 1873. And
second, that it is necessary to elect
Democrats to preserve the civilization
OF the white man. So far rs the revo-
luton of 1915 was concerned, that was
not accomplished by Democrats alone.
| Every white mn now in the Green.
back or Independent ranks aided in
that.
The Greeley movement drove the
first wedge into the Republican lrty
in Mississippi. The bolt of Gov. All.
corn still further severed party ties,
and made the Democratic victory in
/ 1915 possible And in the great stru ;.
gle OF 1875 we had the sympathy, and,
IN 5 some instances, the aid of CIV Al
corn, Gov. Powers, oS-United States
Senator paase, eX-Attorney General
George l.. Harris, eXAuditor Mus.
grove, and many other Republicans o;
lesser note, while G. Wiley Wells ran
against the Republican nominee, and
was supported by Democrats for con
gress. They believed that the admin
istration OF Ames was corrupt and ruin
Gus t, Mississippi, and like honest men
they helped To break it down. And Just
here, let me say that the chief
ground on which Ames was
impeached, was that he refu sed to
obey the law, which required him to
remove detaulting tax collector when
reported to him, and yet, If | am cor
rectly informed, there have been many
defaultiug collectors under Democratic
rule who were known TO be such, and
have not even been reported to the
governor. But if it were true that Dem
ocrats alone, overthrew the Ames adj
administrations, no party should be con-
tinued in power on the strength Of one
good act, and more especially when
that act had been covered with subse-
quent crimes. The Democracy should
no more be kept in power in Missis-
sippi for this than the Republicans
should in the United States for having
saved the union. We must look TO the
future and not to the past il we would
preserve honest aud pure government
Now, IA word about the preservation
of white civilization, which has been
are not even permitted to choose be-
tween southern white men and confed-
crate soldiers without the cry OF negro
rule being raised. Que of the heaviest
LloYs spuck at the Greepbackers and
Independents of Mississippi, has becpl
the false Charge that try Mere a.
tempting To organize and array the
colored race against the white. Bat
the strength OF this blow was almost
paralysed when Democrats hired Ham
Garter us an assistant candidate for
congress in the second district, when
they circulated the documents repeat
ing vile ISLANDERS about Fort Pillow,
and when they attended his meetings
and appauded or listened in silent
satisfaction to his abusive harangues
viifying white Republicans, white
Grcenbackers and white Independents
equally and Unfortunately
And now they have brought new
Carter into the field, and arc chuck
ling with intense delight, because rs
they have telegraphed all over the
union, chalmers has been snubbe1
by Lynch" | heard last winter in
Washington that there was to be "A
FUSION BETWEEN LYNCH AND LAMAR
a division of offices in Mississippi, and
congressional district made for
Lynch, while Chalmers was to be
slaughtered. 1t was published In the
New Orleans 71Uses- Democrat and
Mississippi democrats then discredited
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