The Grenada sentinel., 1889-01-12

was In a hurry to get away. l replied, cal
hero this evening aud l will
Pay
Mark the word you the money He called In
the evening and did So"
Terms were secretly and finally arranged
whereby the Republicans we're to keep down
a candidate to be voted for by their party
and you in return, in the 'mask' of Demo
crat, were to lead an
Assault
Against your own party organization. with
view to Its overthrow. The arrangements
perfected, you
Moved into
The district and declared yourself an
Independent Democratic
Candidate for Congress!
In pursuance of the arrangement the he
publican party gave you the
Endorsement
Agreed on; the canvass then opened. Youl
whole effort was as q
Democrat
To divide the white vote with Col Manning,
the regular nominee Of your own party
Meanwhile the leaders of the Republican
party exerted their utmost efforts to bring
the solid strength of the colored vote to your
support, to be added to such strength as your
own Democratic record and the popularity OF
your family name could draw from the white
ranks. Every loading Republican in the dis
tJict, and many of the Greenback leaders,
wore actively supporting you by public
speeches, and by personal solicitation.
Fhe local patronage of the administration
WAS given to your support. The member OF
thu National Republican Executive Com
mtatee, Hon. George NJ buchanan, not only
carvassed the district in your interest, but
drew money heavily from the Hubbell eIec-
ton fund, and used the same in paying your
personal expenses and in developing the Re
publican and Greenback vote of the District.
He spent SO Of his own money in assisting
you. John S. Burton spent SlJO of his own
money in the same way. Among the scores OF
Republican and Grccnbaok leaders who took
the field for you, the following may be named:
Hon George NJ. Buchanan. member Ma
tlonal Republican, Executive Committee;
Hon. G. c. Chandler United States District
Attorney; Hon. J. L. Morphis, United States
Marshal; Hon. John S. Burton, Deputy
revenue Collector; Hon. T. W. Turner. Re
publican; Hons. Edgar West, L. W. Harris,
c. NJ. Porter, A. r. Wimberly, Greenbackers.
Among the many Gllorcd Republicans who
were engaged in canvasSag for yoI, for a
consideration, and who were paid the sums OF
so and over, the following will be efficient to
show what was the
That gave you your colored support in 1892:
Robert Cunning ham. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $40
Ben Phillips, .......................... 20
Ar, f1eld ................'.,.... ~
Scott Martin. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3U
John T. Little ...... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5U
Dan Matthews. .,............. .....,,......... W
II. w. NeisOn .,........ ..,.,.,.''.... ~
Supported by the district patronage OF
President Arthur's administration, the Re.
publican and Greanback leaders of the dis
tYict the power of the United states Marshal,
District Attorney, as a bulldo2ng agency,
and large sums of money from the hubheil
election fund, yol were enabled to poll 1923
votes out of your census claim of 1851 col
ored, with 2,5lO GrccnDlckers added. Thus
YOU Obtained your great victory Of 1882, whose
vote you wish to have stereotycd, by which to
test tho honesty aud fairness of all elections
held since or to b. held hereafter. If your
vote Of 9,1?1 is decreased or Col. Manning s
vote of $40 is increased, it is to be adiudgcd
a fraud" on the face of the record and you
because great numbers of Democrats did not
turn out and vote for him,
IN 1884 you tried to repeat the
"Indcpcndcnt Democratic Trick
But the Democrats, protting by their expe.
renee in 1852, turned out and voted to the
number of 1i,S72, and you were badly beaten.
In 1856 you again declared yourself
An Independent Democratic
,I,sy, IA,
Republican leaders had found, by past ex.
perience, that you were lCJrthlcSS 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 IL preference for you, or to intimate
to any of the members OF the party that you
had any claim on it for support
You were left severely alone. as being the
candidate of no party, and representing moth.
ing but yourself. There was not single Re
publican leader in the district white or col.
ored, who ever made a speech for you, OF
solicited vote for you during the whole
canvass. Your supporters were confined en-
tirely to white disconsoia!c
'OliiCe-seckcrS,
men who spurncd the very name Of Repub-
lican and negro "whitc man haters.'
In this election you received 419l votes, lcav-
inT l2fl9 Ell your census friends whose votes
had been Suppressed" or who had been dis
franChiscd.' or "intiIuidutcu'' Wy my ticuus.
The Independent Democrat trick had proven
dead failure. he 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
Republican party, the very name
Republican,
You fondly hoped, would sponge from the
colorcd mind the recollection of all the mis-
deeds they hoardcd against you, and possibly
he could be induced to vote for you. Your
genius was equal to the emergency. The
Chicago convention came in June last. You
we're neither a delegate nor an alternate. But
a colored brother was easily
Indnced
To let you have his seat for little while.
Then Immediately we read in the press dis.
sissppi,
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 tue Memphis
Avalanche, (Which here introduce by way of
parenthosis us shedding not u brilliant light
but soft, mellow light, on the true inward
ness of this transaction fell upon our ears:
jackson, Miss. Nov. M.-The Republican
State Executive Committee met here today
with the largest attendance since 1870 1t was