The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
APPEAL TO THE NATION
MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICANS CLAIM
THE COUNTRY,s ATTENTION.

AIIEAL III LIE NAHUM
MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICANS CLAIM
THE COUNTRY,S ATTENTION..
Their State Ticket Withdrawn Owing to
Fear of Violence References to Savage
and Bloody Deeds Of the Bourbons- :.
Fraud Holds Sway.
jackson MISSY special]
The Republican State Executive Com
mittee met at Jackson, Miss, to con-
slider the withdrawal of General James
Il. Chalmers from the head of the State
ticket. Chalmers was not there, but it
is understood that he wrote q letter to
the committee declining to make the can
vass for Governor. The committee issued
the following:
AS Republicans of Mississippi we are
compelled to withdraw our State ticket.
We knew that our votes would be stolen
and our voters driven from the polls,
but we hoped that in the larger towns and
cities, ct least, the semblance of free
speech might still remain to us, but our
candidates are not safely allowed to dis
go before the whole people of the State,
~AN A4S ~ " u SOA4.
parison Of principles and records.
"Our course has always been conserv-
alive. When the armed revolution of
1875 wrested the State from us Mississippi
was the only Southern State unburdened
with a State debt. Ahe has O Demo-
cratic one to-day. The Constitution of
the United States guarantees to each
State q republican form of government.
Mississippi is governed by o minority, o
despotism, and we appeal to our country
for redress. The Constitution that we
adopted i the only one in the South so
satisfactory that it has not been changed.
Our laws stand substantially unchanged
and unrepealed, but We are Republicans
and this is offense
That we are not actuated by cowardice
in withdrawing from the contest is shown
by our past. For fourteen years, ever
since the infamous Mississippi plan was
adopted, our path has been marked by
well-known leaders who bravely died at
the head of the column, but the faithful
followers known only in the cabins of the
iowly. We refer not only TO such we'll
known slaughters as Kemper and Copiah,
Clinton and Carrollton, Wahalak and
V~icksburg, Yazoo City and lie Flore, but
to the nameless killing by creek and
bayou, on highway and byway. These
are the Democratic arguments which
crush us. We can do no more. We dare
no longer carry our tattered and blood.
stained Republican flag. We appeal tc
the nation.
"Is national law and honor but a delu.
sion and a snare? When we rely upor
the guarantees of the National Constitu.
ton do we. but lean upon a broken reed:
If so, announce the policy boldly, anG
acluit us of further effort"
Why General j. X. Chalmers Retired from
the Canvass.
10 the Public:
My idea in advocating the organization
OF the Republican party and a canvass Of
Mississippi this year, and in accepting
the nomination for Governor, was tc
prepare~for the future and not this cleo.
ton. I knew the Democrats had all the
counting machinery of the State, and
that there was no earthly chance for oul
State ticket to be declared elected. But
in view of the certainty of the result, ]
believed the Democrats would give us s
fair chance of being heard in discussion
before the people. 1 wanted to ad,
dress the white people, and to show tc
them what Democrats and Democratic
papers had said about the worthless
ness of the present Democratic admins
tration in Mississippi. I wanted to read tc
then some editorials from the Appen
about the penitentiary ring and the con.
victs, and especially to read an editorial
from the AUntdnche of June 30, 1887,
headed In a Volcanic State" and com.
mencing: Affairs in Mississippi are il
a bad way. The control of government is
M a1nI in Tho hn~lo ~ or,,,- - &C.,.
who are growing more desperate daily
in their efforts to cling to the high places
from which honor has fed and profit, or tho
love!of it, alone remains. y X x Those
who can not be bought are kept silent by
threats, and threats too which are nov
and then carried into effect. So desper,
ate IS the case that perjury and open rob
berry is followed by murder" I hoped
that this, with the defalc atoms of Demo.
cratic treasurers all around US, would
convince our white people there was
necessity for two parties.
I wanted also to read and comment on
the speech of the Hon. j. p. Walker a
Meridian, just after Lowry vetoed the con
%vention bill, in which he said: DO yor
know that you are living under a Consti.
stitution that concentrates the power Of
the State in the hands of an oligarchyi
These things are SO, and being so, I, fo1
my part, think that though his Excellency
may deem it better to endure the evil4
we have than fly to others we know no
Of it would be preferable over and owe,
again to fly to any amount of unknown
evils than to live under the present auto.
cratic, aristocratic, and damnable oil.
garchy." I have my scrap-book fllet
with manysuch extracts from Democratic
authority to show the utter worthlessness
and corruption of the present Democratic
administration in Mississippi.
Democrats who have heard me in the
Second Congressional District know ]
am thoroughly posted on these matters
and they do not wish me to have an op.
portunity to express them before the
white voters, and to break the force O.
what l might say they vilitied me person
ally.
The recent killing of negroes had ere.
ated great excitement, and white mer
were forming military companies ant
arming themselves all over the State. Tt
increase this feeling false reports wert
put out that I had made %incendiary mp
peals to the negroes in my speech q
jackson, and they went SO far as basel,
to say that I related an anecdote to ex.
| cite the lewd passions of the negroes
toward white m What I related
said at the time was a story which, wher
I was q boy, I heard told by Gov. A. G.
Brown in his race for Governor against
George R. Clayton, when they we're dis.
cussiDg the payment of the Union Banl
bonds, and the Hon. j.. j. Meek, Mayor
of Sardis, recollects to have heard the
Governor tell the same story in that can.
vass. 1t was ar unsavory story, but al
Gov. Brown told it in the days of slavery
I supposed I could tell it now. He ap
piled it to the Wings, who assumed more
virtue than Democrats in sustaining the
honor of the State. I applied it to Dem.
ocrats who in 1869 and 1878 all over the
State, and in 1883 in many counties
united with the Republicans to Obtain
Office, and We're now assailing white Re
publicans for the same thing. For this
/ have been shamefully slandered all ovel
the State to excite the mob against me
and few cowardly editors, like Banks Of
the Columbus index, have attempted tt
bring about my assassination.
I went to West Point to speak, and there
the Court House, Opera House, and every
suitable place to speak was refused to me