Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-09-23
DEM0CRATICOUTRAGE
A CLEVELAND BuLLDozER.
Judge simrall, Of Mississippi, Republican
Candidate for Congress, Warned to
Withdraw from the Ticket.

Candidate for Congress, Warned to
Withdraw from the Ticket.
WASHINGTON. September 1.-THE first
open threat that the election of a Con-
gresham is to be declared in defiance of
the wishes Of a majority Of the voters
comes from the old 'Shoestring'' Dis
trlct, Mississippi. Secretary Mcpherson,
Of the Republican Congressional Com
mittee, today received a copy of the
Commercial Herald, of yicksburg, which
contains an editorial calling on Judge
Simrall. the Republican candidate for
Congress in the Third District, to with.
draw from the contest, which 1t warns
him win be a hopeless one.
The editor who thus warns him was
appointed Postmaster at vicksburg. but
rejected by the Senate because of his
support of the Copiah County massacre.
He was promptly rcappointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland upon the adjournment Of
the Senate as one of the illustrations Of
how soon he had forgotten his message
10 the Senate of March last, declaring
that upon a refusal to confirm / shall
not assume the right TO ask the reasons
for the action Of the Senate nor question
its determination"
Judge Simrall is informed by this edi.
- .,l .xl.t<asar tlnt h. askn. rn@,~.l
himself I be placed in a false position"
and that 1.-THE assumption that he is the
candidate of the Republican party is false
and mischievous," because there Is no
organized Republican party in the dis
irict"
Ii appears that in most Of the coun.
ties there is an arrangement of the local
affairs which works admirably, and
which the colored voters have no desire
TO modest. and that 10 the extent that
Judge Sinrallis candidacy threatens
these arrangements il is mischievous and
Irritating. and therefore the Judge is
clearly in q false position"
Again il IS argued that Judge Simrall
AMI General C1fehings, the Democratic
candidate, occupy precisely the same
ground on the one question for which the
district selects a Congressman. that is the
improvement and control Of the Missis-
Sippi River, and that "as General Catch.
ings is the choice of those who ought to
select the Congressman, Judge Simrall
does himself an injustice and outrages
the best sentiment of the valley in lead
ing the opposition"
Having thus frankly stated his propo-
sitions, the editor plainly informed Judge
Simrall that ne can never have q seat in
Congress, and that if he persists in his
candidacy he will rue it.
The following extract from the editor
ial is commended to the thoughtful con.
sideration of all men who believe in a
free ballot and an honest count: Under
the present circumstances the party can
not permit its nominee to be defeated,
and Judge Simrall is making a serious
blunder in declaring his purpose 10 try
and demoralize the Democratic forces in
every county. He has declared his pur-
pose to canvass every county in the dis.
trict. He has the unquestioned right to
do that, but the people who have the
good of that district at heart and the
welfare and progress of both races, have
the unquestioned right not to counter.
ance such a canvass and not to encourage
q mischievous Decentralization,
4 1--WE feel sure that will be their decis.
lon, and 1t would be probably well fol
Judge Simrall to ask himself IL 1t would
not be the wise course on his part not to
attempt to force himself on the intelli-
gent people to the manifest contempt of
their wishes. They have enthusiastically
and almost unanimously decided upon
General Catching. They don't care to
hear any discussion of the one great In
terest that General Catchings has so ably
battled for, and there can be ne earthly
reason for any attempt to arouse the
labOring classes in the busiest season of
the year."
Now, who il Judge Simrall, who Is
thus warned by the leading Democratic
newspaper in his district that he with
draw from a candidacy to which he was
called by the unanimous voice of a repre-
sentative convention of his partyf He is a
native Of Mississippi; he is q man of pro-
perty, of high reputation and irreproach.
able character, who enjoys the respect
and confidence of all respectable and
law abiding citizens; he is q lawyer of
great ability, who for years adorned the
bench of the highest judicial tribunal in
his native State.
But he is Republican, and he lives in
a district which, with a fair and free
election. would give a Republican ma
jority of at least fifteen thousand votes.
According to the classification adopted
by the Mississippi editor, the district con-
tanned In 1880 about 49, 900 people" and
104 900 members of the 'laboring class.
es."
The number of Democrats who are
voters is about six thousand, and the
number of voters who are Republicans is
about twenty-one thousand, but a large
majority of the latter are not people,"
they belong to the "laboring classes"
whom it would be utterly unreasonable
to attempt to arouse in the busiest sea.
son of the year" 1t should not be for.
gotten that the Democratic Legislature OF
Mississippi arranged the Third District
so as to throw into 1t as large a proper
/ ton as possible of the colored vote in or
der to make the other districts Demo
cratic or nearly enough Democratic sc
that they might be stolen without much
difficulty.
, The State is divided into seven dis
tricts. The Third District contains one
sixth of the entire colored population o.
the State, and only one-nineteenth Of thu
, white population. r3