The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
The Manning Chalmers hm
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The Nfanning-Chaimers
broglIo.
Since the. election IN November
last she Appeal has opposed the seat
Ing Of MaRniDg by taking advantage
of an obvious clerical e.ror. The
general sentiment OF Democrats o.
all sections favored the seating OF
Chalmers, as it was evident he had
received an unmistakable majority
of the votes cast in the Second Ma
sissippi Congressional District. In
every part Of the country Democrats
earnestly protested against the seat
ing of Manning by adopting the
methods of the Republican majority
In the House of Representatives
which made it a rule to give every
contested seat to the Republican con
testant without regard to law or JUS
tice. immediately alter the Novem-
Der election, the sympathy of the
country was with Chalmers. But
the exposure Of the inscriptions
methods by which he secured
his election, and his malignant
prosecutions of good citizens who
had dared TO inter Rre with his as
pirations have produced wonder
ful reaction in public sentiment, and
the probabilities are that Manning
will be seated. The Washington
Critic has care ully examined all the
evidence taken in this case, and says
at will not be many days after
the Forty-righth Congress convenes,
until that district will have repre-
sentative, and no will no doubt be
Gen. Manning. The court will de-
velop a great deal Of corruption on
the part Of the Federal government
in par ticular, when the evidence Of
some of the citizens of the district is
taken. The part the Department oil
Justice has taken in the case is
Infamous, and no good Republican
or honest man will fail to denounce
it when it is made public. just now
that congressional district Is without
a representative, Gen. Manning re
fusing to file his certificate of cleo
ton until the fraud practiced by the
Republicans has been investigated"
The cnrruptions to which the
Critic refers are no doubt as shame
full as represented. But still the
Democrats majority cannot rid itself
of the glaring fact constantly staring
it in the face, that large majority
of the votes were cast for Chalmers.
To refuse him his scat under these
circumstances, would be a feeble
imitation of the INSCRIPTIONS policy
long practiced by the Republican
majority in Congress, and which
Democrats and the country have
uniformerly condemned. Chalmers,
is anxious for martyrdom; some OK
cuse for resorting to the stale device
of tabooed demagogues-persecution
Give linn the seat to which he was
probably elected, and to which he is
entitled, and his power for further
mischief to the party whict he has
betrayed will be destroyed. Every
new revelation only serves to sink
Chalmers still lower in the estima-
ton of the public. When he stood
at the feet of Hubbell, with hat in
hand, begging like a hungry tramp
for his share of the corruption fund,
he presented the most humiliating
spectacle ever enacted in American
politics. After much higgling Hub
bell reluctantly gave the political
mcndicant at his door the pitiful sum
of $3.50 to supply immediate person
al wants. In ordinary alms-giving
we are told by high authority that
there is a double blessing-that the
giver and receiver are blessed. But
in this case both the benefactor and
beneficiary hung their heads in
shame, cursed themselves and were
loathed by the public. Claiming an
election to Congress, Chalmers next
applies to the government for office.
He was made assistant District At
torney and paid to investigate his
own election. He commenced ar
resting and prosecuting his enemies.
The best citizens of the country were
dragged about as culprits merely to
appease the malice of the new con-
vert, who had to be very noisy to in
spire the party to whom he had sold
himself with confidence. There had
been so much vague lying about
fraud and conspiracy in the election
of 1882, that arrest and the convic-
tion of somebody was political nc
cessity. Brewster undertook the job
and he selected the defeated aspir-
ants to do the dirty work.-Memphis
Appeal.