Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-23
THE WAY IT rs TO BIB ACCOM-
PLTgHFD.

A. great many good citizens are VIII
ing Go do all they a to defeat Beck
and company and secure reform in
county affairs, but stilli they are anx-
ious about the matter. They know as
well as Beck, the power Of money
with a large number Of voters, and
they anxiously inquire show can we
beat SO unscrupulous a man, who has
so much moneys"
1t is necessary for the good citizens to
understand how Beck can be easily
defeated, if they will do their duty.
1t is plain to all that if Beck is per-
mitted to buy his way into Office, be
can do 1t and win do it; it is equally as
plain, that If he is not allowed to CON-
nit this great crime, he has no sort OF
chance. 1t is simply a question of the
will Of the people to prevent Beck
committing this ~penitentiary offense
of bribery of the electors.
That all the good citizens may
understand their rights in the matter
and all scoundrels like Beck may
know the danger they run, we quote
from the Code the law or The subject:
Section 2730. If any e%lector, inspec-
tor, clerk or canvasser, at any cleo
ton, or any executive officer attend
ing the same, shall receive any gift,
reward or promise thereof, OF if any
person shall offer or make any such
gift, reward or promise thereof, to
influence any elector, clerk or can
vasser, or any executive officer attend
ing any election, in bis vote, opinion,
action or judgment, in relation to such
election, the person SO offending shall,
on conviction, be imprisoned in the
p~enitentiary, not more than two years,
or In a county Jail, not more than one
year, or be fined one thousand dollars,
or both, at the discretion of the court.
Section 1881. If any person shall
offer or give a reward to another, for
the purpose Of inducing him to per-
Suade, or by any other means, not
amounting to bribery, to procure any
person to vote at any election for or
against any person, the person SO
giving or offering such reward, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned
in the county Jail, for not more than
one year, or fined not more than five
hundred dollars, or both, at the discre-
ton Of the court.
The people have simply to require
that Beck and his followers live up
to this law. OF course he will say he
don't "give a DIFF for the law, and
will violate it in a wholesale manner
in the future as in the past if the good
citizens will quietly submit. He has
violated enough laws already and now
1t is time for him to be stopped. The
law is so plain and SO full, that it takes
in the principal, the strikers, and the
voters corrupt enough to sell their
votes
Let the honest 0oters prepare at once
to preoent its 0iolation By any ofthem.
Any citizen, who quietly permits a
scoundrel to commit this crime, cow
ardly %Surrenders his own citizenship.
If Beck can buy up votes at s. a dozen
or at $12 a dozen we believe the latter
figures is the price demanded this year
of what value:is the votes. of the very
best citizens in the county? Of no
value whatever.
All know that this reasoning is un-
answerable, for all know that
if Beck was a poor man
like Capt. Worrell, he would not get
500 votes in the whole county.
Then the crime of bribery, which
Beck relies on, should, by all means, be
prevented, and that is just what the
Democratic party proposes to do. That
the effort may be successful, all Dem
ocrats should earnestly work under the
direction Of those in charge Of the
campaign. 1t would be an outrage tc
Capt. Worrell and a burning disgrace tC
the county if we permit his defeat by
the fearful crime which Beck proposes
The party resolved unanimously in
convention, that our candidates should
not be beaten by the money of cor
rupt, rich Radicals, and we trust and
believe the good citizens of the county
will support the party in its righteous
determination and restore the majesty
of the law.
SPOT THEM.
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