The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-10

collected from Federal officials and en-
ployees, under fear of dismissal, with
the knowledge and approval of the Ex-
ecutive Department of the Government,
was sent to said district and used by
YOU and those who co-operated with you,
To induce voters by corrupt considera-
lions to use their influence, by public
speaking and otherwise, 70 vote for you
at said election.
In said district there are over $4,000
colored voters, and large proportion of
them were raised as slaves, and are so
ignorant as to be easily misled or cheated.
Very many of them are instructed and
believe that they are the wards of the
Federal Government, and suppose that
they are in duty bound to vote as de-
sired by the Administration or its Off
cials, and many were induced to vote for
you because of the instructions given by
revenue and postal agents, deputy mar
shalls, supervisors and others.
Many colored voters, unable to read,
were induced by protestations Of special
regard and care for them, by a few OF
more intelligence of their race, to give
their suffrages into the keeping of the
latter, surprising that they would re-
ceive disinterested advice, but / charge
that with the money eorruptly used in
said district by you and Others in your
behalf, these advisers or ''bosses" were
bribed and debauched into using their
influence and securing many of said
voters to vote for you.
These Illegal methods were rcsorted to
in all the counties in said district, ex'
cepting Union, perhaps, and notably the
case as | am advised and believe, and SC
charge the fact to be, in the counties OF
| Benton, Marshall and Pamela.
BY this corrupt means you secured al
least one-third of all the votes cast foI
you.
As said briberies and bargains with
"bosses" were effected secretly, | am UNI
able to specify names at present, but
aver all the facts aforesaid, which are all
known to you.
BY these corrupt means you securec
at least one-third of all the votes cast
for you.
| charge that the United States Mar
shall for the Northern District Of Mis-
sissippi, IN gross violation Of law a
your solicitation, and in opposition t.
the opinion of the Federal Judge of tina
district, as expressed to the Governor O
Mississippi when in conference with hin
upon that subject a short time before
election day, appointed numerous spec
ial deputies with the knowledge of tn,
Department Of Justice, ostensibly Il
maintain the peace, but in reality 70
the purpose of intimidating those VIII,
favored me and prevent their going Il
the polls by fear Of arrest and prosecu
ton in the Federal Courts.
| charge that such special deputies, a
! your instance, were instructed to ODE,
the United States Supervisors of Elec
tions who, under instructions from thei
chief, one Orlando Davis, usurped tn
functions OF overseeing the election
: and OF determining how they should b
: held, and Of compelling obedience t
t their unlawful orders; and they, thu
armed with apparent Federal authority
| assumed the right to arrest all VIII
7 might choose TO disobcy both State o
! iicials aud voters, rendering an electio
: impossible at Bynolid, in Marsha
: county, by the arrest Of State oiiicia
; thus interfering with and prcventin
c the due and lawful exercise Of State III
: thority.
Y charge that you wrote and had OF
; Orlando Davis, Chief Federal Supervise
r of Elections for the Northern District
l. Mississippi to publish and distribu
= throughout ssid district to Federal Pr
If cinct Supervisors, instructions whic
B. were in violation Of law, and intend,
4, BY you to sid in intimidating my su
le portors.
If A copy of said instructions togeth
with copy Of the instructions Of I
at Governor Of Mississippi to State oiiicii
e, in answer thereto, is hereto attaehC
S, marked exhibits Nos. and 2 and ma
a part Of this answer. And l furtL
d, charge that by these corrupt and frat
~ ulent proceedings that you succeeded
your purpose and deferred from conf
#, to the polls, az many as 2000 voters W
e would otherwise have voted for me.
Ill i charge that during the campai
in YOU frequently in public speeches m
of aced voters with the infection of yC
be vengence as volunteer prosecutor, a
with severe punishment by the Fede
to Court whose purpose in this regard J
tic protested to know should acts at
% then ensuing election be commit
ne against your interest by officials
m others, deemed by you to be illegal
Of fraudulent, and that with view OF {
m ing additional weight to your profes
re. ability to enforce your threats, you Of
IN. appropriated your own familiarity "
to and participation in criminal acts
nv previous elections, and your own mer
in ing speech to the Marshall County +
~ ton Board, and that of the District
aid torney, made at your instance, were
or compel obedience to your wish with
on regard to law.
az also charge that YOU have recer
hat obtained for yourself the appointm
raj of Assistant United States District
ion torney for the Northern District Of
sippi, for the purpose Of having indie
l.. and prosecuting such persons, residin
i ~. the Second Congressional District, as
i lais think proper, for acts committed at
ivy latn Congressional election. in O