The Grenada gazette., 1889-01-17

O'''"''' - - - - - 49, 49, ,'lo li,D0f
And agree with SoN that there was at the
time said consus was taken white majority
OF 5si voters ~ the District; and | further
agree with you, that there WIS, and is no cX,
ense for fraud and the Suppression Of th.
negro vote to maintain white supremacy and
ctV;iization in this District Hut deny that
SAID figures exhibit the true voting popu alton
OF said counties as it Existed on the 9TH day
or November, ieSS Or That they furnish any
uata from which any Trustworthy estimate
can he made to determine fraud in elections
Uhsrgo that since said census was taken
thfre has been regular and continuous fow
OF the coorcd population frvfH the hill conn.
ties (and those comprising this District arc
such', increasing in volume as succeeding
years oil cottoa cHiturc impoverished the up
lands, the sicaNwhiic the white population in.
crcasfsS, until there is to-day, and was on the
9Th day OF November last, clear white ma.
lCrity In this Congressional District of no,
less than :00J voters,
In the year l5,2 the territory Of which this
District Is comprised may have given Grant
26i9 ma IOrity over Greeley, and in the year
1875 1t may have given majority of lS12 votes
IN favor OF hmcs over Acorn for Governor
As charged by you, but | deny that this siynl.
lies anything. because neither Greeley nor
Alcorn were Democrats, nor were they. polit.
ically. held in any his her esteem BY thousands
of Democrats IN MisglssIpNi than iTtrU Grant
and Amcs.
So Tar from being true that this District was
Republican and made Democratic IN 1873 and
1876 by tho "shotgun policy. as charled by
you, assert the truth to be that it was Demo.
cratic then-has been Democratic ever since,
and is more dcCisIvcly Democratic to-day than
ever before. 1t is not true, as charged by
you, that Amackcr, n Greenbacker, carried
the vote of the District in 1873, but was
counted out for Col. Manning; nor is it true
that Manning was counted in again in 1870:
nor that mcn were convicted, or pleaded
guilty, in the United States Court for c, unt-
ing min in; nor is it true that Judge Hill de-
livered charge to the grand jury wherein he
threatened Democrats, or that Democrats
were alarmed at any charge he ever gave
The oasis in the desert of your political
life seems to be the election of 1882 To this
your mind continually recurs, and fingers
upon its minutest details, with ever.ncreas.
ing pleasure. When Tate county, through i'll
advertence, certified that he I41. votes in
that county. which were in truth cast for you,
had been cast for j. r. Chamb iss instead of
J. X, Chalmers, and the Secretary of State in
the count gave them to Chamblis., leaving
the plurality for Manning. Governor Acorn,
il is said, in expressing his pity tor you. re-
marSed. that he did not blame you for your
tears! that you presented the pitiable aspect of
having thrice been counted in to seats in Con.
gress. 10 which you had not been elected, and
had been counted ont the Uuly time you had
hnnn nInpfnl n bpl In Fa
the circumstances VIC will, of course, Permit
you all the com fort you can derive from the
statement that your majority was 1:50 (Which
was $50, and that 1t was the fairest election
that had been held in the District since 1873, -
anu "was fair in every county except DeSoto."
1t is true that was nominated by the Dem
ocrats in 1854, rs stated by you, and that |
have, as the nominee of the Democratic
pa.ty. defeated you in three successive cleo
tions; but 1t is not true that have been three
tmcs counted in, us charged by you.
And aver that these charges are not only
not true, but that you do not even believe
them yourself, and never did believe them
for yon had the amplest opportunity afforded
you for the fullest investigation, at the cx-
peuse of the national government and you
declined to avail yourself of it,, Having
served your notices on me that you would
contest my right to seats in the Forty.nlnth
and Fittieth Congresses, and made flourish of
them in the newspapers. you never took the
TESTIMONY of u
SINGLE WITNESS
in either case. Having failed in these two
contests 10 find single pitncss TO sustain your
charges, we now find that you have fallen back
on the "old cdrpetbdyger pam of searching
the census for color from which to supply
the wanting testimony. On this line you now
proceed thus: THE grossness of the fraud by
which you have been counted In this time Is
clearly seen by a comparison OF the vote Of
Col. Manning in 1882, when, with the exception
OF DeSotO, the vote was fair to-wit:
Manning sel5 Morgan ~ 1888
Carter. III Wiaherspoon... 10; 10;
Total. ........ 1913 Total ....... .l9,oG
This vote, as shown by the official certificate
of Gccretary Myers, used by you in the
Chalmers Va Manning contest, to be found on
page ., and which is correct, is as follows. to-
wit;
MannlnR,' R,'.............'... ......-........ S,14g
haimcrs.,r .... '..,... ....,-........... Hl29
Carter .......... ...................... l29
ccatterlnB-.. ....... ................ i
Total .......... -..............lS,GOS
"From this 1t will be seen that while tho
total vote increased only 759 votes your prs-
tended majority Is slsi, or nearly as much as
total vote. Col Manning WIS an
ablor man that you, and that he was more
popular than you Is shown by the fact that
his majority in 1852 over me in 1ippah and
Union, the two Democratic counties of the
District was 1901, while yours in 1896 was only
b72, and in 1885, with presidential election to
telp you. was only l6f.." And Witherspoon
to help you, will add!
To one familiar with the facts the above
c,rlx, sha1Ss the dire q aYfraunifv In which moi