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

Tallahatchie. with your admitted IoOs whit
voters, but
Two
Can be found. And in the city Of Holl
springs on the sd day Of October last in
Joint discussion with you, In the presence o
not less than go voters, held up my ham
and counted on
| Tires
OF my fingers the white men who would vot
for you in that city land the country for sew
eral miles around vote thcrel and dened yoI
and the entire audience TO name another
You remained silent with your head hum
down, but the audience cried in a loud voice
Those are all
| And charge, and verify Il to be true that II
neither of the counties of Benton, Lafayette
| Marshall, Pano,a or Tate, eau as many rs tel
| be found. These sevcn counties have l3,SS
white voters, as shown by your census table
| In the election Just closed, l, as the nominee
OF the Democratic party, by a UNANIMOUS vot'
OF Its convention. had the cordial and active
support OF all Its leaders The great Green
/ back lea Icr OF the south,
Gen. A. NJ. West.
Who resides in the city OF Holly Springs, and
who was justly honored by his party when in
the zenith of its power with the
Second place
| ON ! = national ticket, took that honore ban
ner in his hand. waived 1t over his head, and
asked every ono OF the $50 Greenbackers in
| the District who were such from principle, "a
| follow him in support of the Democratic
ticket, against you. and every man, withou,
exception,
Fell into line
And did So.
Ii had an able executive committee com
posed Of nine representative men, one from
each county. each county had a county OK
ecutive committee, making in all over la
intelligent, active, working men, distr bu' ed
in every justices beat in the district, and the
party was thoroughly organized. Fifteen
newspapers, distributed IN the several
counties exposed your crookcdness and
gave me an active support; you were sup
ported by one only, and that started after the
canvass opened on a lease to close with the
year
Able Democratic speakers addressed voters
at almost every voting place in the District,
and urged Democrats. who seemed to regard
your candidacy and WiIhcrspoon's about on a
par to turn out aud vote.
The result was | received 1898 votes, and
you received SSH. AMI | aver that every
.aalified voter in the District who desired to
vote for you, came to the polls AMI voted for
you, aud his vote was honestly counted for
you.
PERSONAL INTIMIDATION.
You charge that John Cochran said Oh the
e.rects of Ho y Springs: chalmers ought to
be hung. and would be one to put the rope
around his neck and pull him up 1t may or
may not be true. / do not know John { och
ran, and never heard of him before Ii he
ever uttered those words, which is not ad.
mitted, 1t was mere extravagant expression
OF uncomfortable contempt for you personally
1t is true you were not permit, ed :, speak
in the school house at Eudora, as charged by
you. Nor am able to deny that 1t was done
by my supporters, because there arc two
public school houses there, one white ana the
other colorod, and you spoke in neither.
1t is not true that my supporters in 1851, at
Pleas mt Hill attempted to break up your
meeting. as charged by you. There is pub
lie school house there in which you spoke in
1884. In 1885 you gave notice that you would
speak there. You attended ut the time aD
pointed, but no one else did. In the after
noon few farmers came INFO the village
black smith shop to have some work done.
Don Quixote Lille, you imagined that this was
your meeting, and went down there to take
charge of it. 1t is said they fred you out.
l suppose it to be true, as you say it is, that
you reported this to the Circuit Judge AMI a
member of the Grand Jury, and no arrests
were made.
do not admit it to be true, as you charge
| it is that you were assaulted at night" by
| having a brick bat "shed" at you at Arka-
| butla, in 1874. IL, in truth, you were assault
| cd las at that box a few days afterwards |
received 10? votes aud you received IL, the
chances are nearly IA to | that YOU were right
that it was done by one of my supporters,
being III from personal hostility to you.
1t is true that the Sheriff and were both in
| Arkabui la that night, and 1t is true that the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and the District Attor-
ney both lived in the county, an that no one
was arrested. But at tie same time you
penned this charge, intending to associate
myself and the Sheriff with it, by mentioning
the fact that we were in Arkabutla that night.
and
Suppressng
The fact that you and hal Jointly discussed
there that nigh, you knew of your own per-
sonal knowledge that you had at first fixed
the time OF the occurrence alter the Sheriff
and had retired to the residence of friend
for the night, and us You and John S. Jones
were leaving the town in u buggy; and you
! also know that Sheriff Wait having heard Of
your and Jones report of the affair, went to
you and Jones the next day in Senatobia and
offered to bring before the courts at once,
any person either of you would prefer a
charge ag aInst-wef1 knowing that Jones had
lived in that neIghborhood for thirty years,
| and personally knew every man in it.
Neither you nor Jones gave any names, but
| preferred, carpet-bagger-like, 10 have it for
| political purposes. lou were Democrat
| then and elaine !, in discussion with me, to
| be better one than ]. Any ind!gnities
offered you were personal and had nothing
| TO do with politics.
| INTIMIDATION,
| 1t Is not true that Gov. Lowry and others
| and j, In any speeches male by any, OF
either OF us, in the canvass just closed, or in
| speeches made by any, or either of u.s. in the
year 1884, or at any other time or place. ad.
| vised any other than lawful methods to b2
| pursued in carrying elections. as charged 10y
| you; nor is it true that | uttered the words
| or expressed the sentiments, on the stump
or elsewhere, in Lafayette county, id any
canvass against Col. Manning. in the pres
ence of Hon. c. ID. HOwry and others, at
| tribu;ed oy you to me; nor is it true that in
the primary election in Lafayette county, be-
| tween MIR. Stephens and myself, when some
negroes were brought up to vote, ussd the
language attributed by you to me; nor any.
| thing of the kind, on the day o: the primary
| election. Mr.. Liddell was at Dallas working
| for his friend, Mr.. Stephens, as was his recog.
| nized right to do. In the afternoon noticed
some five or six colored men lying on the
| grass behind store. l knew that they had
not been brought in by my friends, and sent
| a friend to interview Them aud test them, as
| to their qua i6cation, under the orders OF
| our Executive Committee. He came back
and said that not one of them was qualified