Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-05

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extreme diligence caused IL to lie
ser, ed on them enc hour before they
cas-. their votes.
Neither the public nor the citizens
have any power TO defeat the machina-
tions Of fraud, perjury and forgery il
the measures adopted for that
purpose in this case are TO be
held Intellectual and insufficient. y
Without moments delay Chalmers
sued out writ of maQdanus aglinss
Myers. and Ivy extreme diligence
caused IL to.be served about one hour
before he couuted the votes. Neither
/ the public nor the citizens have any
! power TO defeat the IN ordinations Of
fraud, perjury and forgery in NlssiS-
I sippi, IL the measures adopted for that
! purpose In this case are 10 lie held in
1 eflectual and insufficient aud no Mis-
sissippian should again deuounce the
F, decision OF the electoral commission.
That the declaration of the secretary
| Of state was ialsA. rs Judge BLACK saws
both is law and moral, but few doubt
| There are some, however, who b.
lieve, or pretend to believe, that he did
not intend to do any wrong, aud who
congra' ulated him on his successful
1 rape of the certificate when the su.
| preme court declined TO order him TO
annul his declaration. On this sub
! iect | propose TO show that he knew
| what the true result was aud that he
advised and melted others to induce
! the election commissioners TO change
/ the result if possible. This had
been already demonstrated by the tes-
| timony taken in the contested election
ease now pending from the second dis
trict of Mississippi. quote rs fol-
lows:
1 Colonel Hurts, who is counsel for
/ General Chalmers in his contest, exam
! ined Fletcher Brown, n prominent cit
/ izen an Democratic member of the
| legislature from Marshall ciunty,
| which throws more and very strong
light on this conspiracy.
To understand this testimony fully
| it should be remembered that Mr.. Ny
ers, secretary of state, would not per
! NIT the public to see the returns from
/ the second district until they Were
4 counted, but in an interview with the
! Appeal he denied that the returns
were concealed to prevent the friend )
! OF Gen. Tn ilmers from seeing the re
| turns from Tate county, aud having
them amended Within ten days, and
| gave as a convincing reason why it
was no concealment that the returns
! could not be amended under the
! Oglesby VS.. Sgnlan case after once
1 transmitted TO the secretary by the
commissioner. Now Mr.. Brown, in
| his testimony aimits that he wrote the
following letter:
Holly Springs, Miss, NOV. II, 1882.
A. S. Buchanan, Esq, fernando,
! Miss.
| Dear Sir:-In the absence of the
chairman of the democratic executive
committee, | have been requested TO
| inform you that letter from an Off
cial source ut jackson, was received
here this morning urging that in all
| eases where the commi ssiOntrS of elec-
! ton have forwlrde their reports and
/ Irregularities have since been dis cover
ed, that supplemental reports be for
warded in time to reach the secretary
to state within the prescribed ten
days.
In view of the corrupt means and in
! timidation used by The opposition, ur-
gent demand for II rigid Inspection Of
the returns are hurryng in from every
quarter. The commissioners in the
county meet tomorrow to canvass the
returns. Yours respectfully,
A. i. BROWN.
When asked by Col. Harris from
what high oihcial source the letter all
hided 10 came, Mr. Brown answered,
from III. {. Myers, secretary OF state.
This places Mr.. Myers in an unpleas.
ant predicament, to ray the least of it,
And when asked by whom he was re-
quested 10 write the ;letter TO A. $.
buchanan, VINO was secretary of the
Democratic executive committee, of
DeSoto county, lie answered, by
COL, MANNING.
Here let ne say that have been
charged with prosecuting Innocent
men in the United States court TO
crafty private malice. They are
charged with conspiracy to change
the result of the electien in the second
congressional district, and | am prose
cutting them because / believe them
guilty. They may never be convicted.
Like the star route thieves they may
kbe acquitted by ajurs, but they will
We convicted BEFORE the bar of public
thG&esult in DeSoto county Is shown
aud still further by thgse two tele-
grams of Watson to the semehnan:
Holly Springs, November 8, 1889.
To a. S. Buchanan. fernando. Miss. ::
No Official count reported from any
county except Marshall. Chalmers
alleged majority here reduced by can
vass to 40. ED. Nj. WATSON
And on the same day, although
Manning's majority in DeSoto had
been counted ut 1873, the following tele-
gram was sent:
Holly Springs, November 8. 1882.
TO a. ;. Buchanan, Hernando, Miss:
If Manning's majority i'll DeSoto
reaches 2)J prospect good.
ED. NJ. WATSON.
But their scheme in DeSoto was de-
feated by the honesty of Judge Morgan,
a leading democrat of that county.
That they went as visiting states
men to Benton and Tippah
counties to supervise the count is not
denied that they asked 1.-THE commits
soners in Benton county could not be
called together again that they might
overlook the count Is not denied. But
when told by Col. Kimbrough, lead
| ing Democrat, that he was in favor Of
n fair count, and that no new count
could be made with his consent, they
at once cried out that they did not
wish TO do anything wrong. oh, no,
| They had been blocked in their little
| game. An honest man stood in their
| pathway. They wilted, and butter