The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-10

Revenue Collectors; Hon. T. W. Turner. Re-
publican; Hons Edgar West 7. w. Harris
c. NJ. Porter, A. I. wimberIy, Grccpbackers.
Among the many ,lorcd Republicans who
were engaged in canvass az for you. for
C IN sideration, and who we're paid the sums of
SO and over, the folio wing will DO sufficient to
show what was the
Tower
That gave you your colored support in lSS2:
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Supported by the dstric: patronage OF
President Arthur's administration, the Re
publican and Greenback leaders of the dis
trict, the power of the United States Marshal,
District Attorney, as a bulldozing agency,
and largo sums of money from the Hubbel
election fund, you were enabled to poll 2. 80
votes out of your census claim of 1881 col
ored, with $50 Grcenbackers added. Thus
you obtained your great victory of 1872, whose
vote you wish to have stereotyed, by which TO
test the honesty and fairness of all elections
hel since or to be held hereafter If your
vote of a,129 Is decreased, or Col. Manning's
vote of S,749 is increased, 1t is to be adjudged
declared elected. Col. Manning was defeated
because great numbers OF Democrats did not
turn out and vote for him.
In 1884 you tried TO repeat the
"Independcnt Democratic Trick"
But the Democrats, profiting by their expo.
rience in lss2, turned out and voted to the
number of li,S12 and you were badly beaten.
In lSS6 you again declared yourself
AN Independent Democratic -
Candidate for Congress. But by this time the
Republican leaders had found, by past ex-
perience, that you were worthless to them, and
that the great mass of the colorcd people
despised you, and could not be induced to turn
out when your name was even on the ticket.
They now declined to hold any communica-
ton with you, or in any manner whatever to
express preference for you, or to intimate
to any of the members of the party that you
had any claim on II for support
You were left severely alone, rs being the
candidate of no party. and representing moth
ing but yourself. There was not a single Re-
publican leader In the district, white or col.
ored, who ever made a speech for you, Or
solicited vote for you during the whole
canvass. Your supporters were confined en-
tirely to white disconsolate
''Office-seekers,"
men who spurned the very name of Repub.
lican and negro white man haters."
In this election you received 479l votes, leav-
ing 1913 of your census friends whose votes
had been Suppressed" or who had been dis
franchiscd," or "intimidated" by my friends.
The Independent Democrat trick had proven
a dead failure. Tho Democrats had caught
on to it, and the Republicans did not relish
it. Your case was now desperate. Something
had to be done. If you could but get into the
RI no
Republican,
You fondly hoped, would sponge from the
colored mind the recollection of all the mis-
deeds they boarded against you, and possibly
he could be induced to vote for you. Your
genius was equal TO tho emergency. The
Chicago convention came in June last. You
were neither delegate nor an alternate. But
colored brother was easily
Indnced
To let you have his seat for q little while.
Then Immediately we read in the press dis
patches: "Gen. James X. Chalmers of Mis-
sissippi,
In seconding
The nomination of Hon. Levi p. Morton, made
one of the best speeches of the night" And
scarcely had the echoes of this died away
until the following special to the Memphis
Avalanche. (which / here introduce by way OF
parenthesis as shedding not brilliant light,
but soft, mellow light, on the true inward
ness of this transaction fell upon our cars
jackson, Miss, Nov. 2l-The Republican
State Executive Committee met here today
with the largest attendance since 1915. ltwas
decided that Chalmers should contest the seat
of Morgan; Hill should contest Catchngs and
kerRaa han should contest Rockers One
remarkable fact developed in the meeting
to-day is that Gen. James X. Chalmers is q
candidate for seat in President Harrison 6
cabinet"
You had got there. 1t is true you slipped In
at back door unseen, but you were there
all the same. This splendid achievement
accomplished you returned to your
Mississippi home, in the city of Memphis,
Tennessee, AMI thence procured the assembly
of a select Republican Convention In the city
of Holly Springs, which nominated you as the
Republican
Candidate for a seat in the Fifty FIRST Con-
gress from the Second District of Mississippi.
But the mask was too transparent. The
colored man could not believe that there was
any reality in your regeneration and CONVEX
sion. And charge that i'm this election there
was not a single Republican leader in the dis
trict, white OF cOlored, who ever made a pub
| lie speech for you, or that there was any or
ganization OF the Republican voters of the
district to develop and bring out their
strength And charge that the Republican
electors. who made FEW speeches in the dis
trict never even mentioned your name. And
charge, that plainly seeing the hand writing
on the wall. in your public speech in the city
of Oxford on the Sth day of October last, you
stated to your audience that you did not ex
pect to be elected to Congress: nor was there
any chance for Mr.. Harrison in this State.
This was the only speech made by you in
Lafayette county. No one else made one fol
you. These are the causes OF the difference
between the vote OF 1882. TO which you refel
with so much qualification, and the vote you
received in 1851 In 1855 and in the election Jus
closed, and for which you eau account in nc
other way than that the negro was disfran
chised by my friends" or that his vote WA
suppressed by intimidation" or that ballot
boxes were carried TO dinner"
ichargc IL 10 be a fact that in the election
Just closed. that 10 the county of Desoto with
your conceded 1903 white voters. but
Two
White men can lie found who admit the,
voted for you! AMI that In the county Of