The Grenada sentinel., 1889-01-12


you, These are the causes of the differepoa
between the vote of 1882, to which you refer
with SO much qualification, and the vote yOu
| received in 1884, In 1886 and in the election inst
closed, and for which you can account in no
other way than that the NEGRO was disfran,
chised by my friends" or that his vote was
suppressed by intimidation, or that ballot.
boxes were carried to dinner
/ charge it to be q fact that in the election
just closed, that in the county of DeSoto with
your conceded 1903 white voters, but
Two ~---.-
White men can be found who admit they
voted for you'll And that in the county Of
Tallahatchie. with your admitted 1902 white
| voters, but
Two
Can be found And in the city of Holly
Springs, on the ed day of October last, in a
joint discussion with you, in the presence OF
not less than go voters, held up my hand
and counted on
Three
OF my fingers the white men who would vote
for you in that city land the country for sew
eral miles around vote there) and defied you
and the entire audience to name another
You remained silent, with your head hung
down, but the audience cried in loud voice:
| Those are all
And Charge and verify it to be true, that in
neither of the counties of Benton, Lafayette,
Marshall, Panola or Tate, can as many as ten
| be found. These seven counties have 1880
white voters, as shown by your census table.
| In the election just closed, ], as the nominee
Of the Democratic party, by Il unamious vote
of its convention, had the cordial and active
support of all its leaders. The great Green
back leader of the south,
Gen. A. NJ. West,
Who resides in the city of Holly Springs, and
who was justly honored by his parry when in
the zenith of its power with the
Second place
On its national ticket, took that honored BAN
ner in his hand waived it over his head, and
asked every one of the 2,jC0 Greenbackers in
the District, who were such from principle, to
follow him in support of the Democratic
ticket, against you, and every man, without
| exception,
Fell into line
And did so.
| 1t had an able executive committee COM
posed of MAE representative men. one from
each county, each county had county ex-
ecutive committee, making in all over 100
intelligent, active, working men, distributed
| in every justices beat in he district, and the
party was thoroughly organized. Fifteen
| newspapers, distributed in the several
! counties, exposed your crookedness and
gave Inc an active support; you were sup
ported by one only, and that started after the
| canvass opened on 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 WitherspOOifs about on q
| par, to turn out and vote.
| The result was | received less votes and
you received ',Sl7. and | aver that every
| qualified voter in the District who desired to
| vote for you, came to the polls anl voted for
| you, and his vote was honestly counted for
you.
| PERSONAL INTIMIDATION.
| You charge that John Cochran SAID OF the
| streets of Holy Springs: "Cham@rs ought to
| be hung, and would be one to put the rope
around his neck and pull him up II may or
| may not be true. | do NOT know John CoCh-
| ran, and never heard OF him before. II he
| ever uttered those words, which is not ad-
| mitted, it was mere cStravagant expression
| of uncontrollablc contempt for you personally
| 1t is true you were not permilted to speak
| in the schoo! house at Eudora, as charged by
you. Nor am able to deny that it was done
| by my supporters, because there are two
public school houses there, one white ana the
other colorcd, and you spoke in neither
| 1t is not true that my supporters, in 1885 at
| Pleasant Hill, attempted to break IN your
meeting. as charged by you. There is Il pub
| lie school house there in which you spoke in
| 1884 In 1856 you gave notice that you would
| speak there. You attended ri the time ap-
| pointed, but nc one else did. In the after
1 T,,, fnr anna twin
| blacksmith shop to have some work done.
| Don Oulxote like, you imagined that this was
your meeting, and went down there to take
| charge of it. II IS said they fired you out.
| suppose it to be true, as you say it is, that
| YOU reported this to the Circuit Judge and
| 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 brick bat 'shicd" at yOu at Arka-
butla, in IS ~. If, in truth, you were ASSAULT
\ ed (as at that box Il few days afterwards L
received l52 votes aud YOU received III, the
l chances are nearly Ii TO that Va" "'Ste r'"ha
| that II r,.e donu by one Of my supporters,
| being such from personal hostility To you.
| Ii is true that the Sheriff and wcro both in
| Arkabula that night, and it Is true tGat the
| Licutcnaut-GovcrnOr and the District Attor-
| ncy both lived in the county, AMI that no one
| was arrested. But at the same time YOU
| penned this charge. intending to associate
| myself and the SheriH with il, by mentioning
| the fact that we were in Arkabutia that night,
| and
| Suppressing
| The fact that you and had Jointly discussed
| there that night, you knew OF yOur own pcr-
sonal knowledge that You had at first liked
| the time of the occurrence alter th2 Shcrd
and | had retired to the residence OF lrienG
| for the night, and as you and John >. Jones
| were leaving the town III II buggy; ana YOU
| also know that Sheriff Wait, having hrurd OF
your and Jones report OF the Ada!r, went tc
you and Jones the next day in senate ia ana
| offered to bring before the courts al once,
any person either OF You would prefer R
chargrngalnst--wel knowing that ,!OlcS had
| lived in That nolEhborhOod Tor thiry years.
| and personally krcw every maH Ill II.
| Neither YOU nor jones gave ANY names, pllt
| preferred, pet-bagEcrllkc, 10 nave II ZOE
| political! purposes. on wer" ,eMociht
| then and claimed, in discussion wltn me, 10
| be better one than !. ANY ind @hllee
| offered you were personal, ana haa uptAnf (
| to do with politics.
| ! INTIMIDATION.
| 1t is not true that Gov Lowry and ott rs
and T. in any speeches made by any OF
| either of us, in the canvass Just closed, or in
| speeches made by any, or either OF US, in the
| year 1884, or at any other time or place, ad-
| vised any other thun lawful methods 10 be
! pursued in carrying elections. as charged ny
| you nor is 1t true that | uttered the words.
| or expressed the sentiments, on the stump.
| or elsewhere, in Lafayette county, IN NY
| canvass against Col. Manning III the res.
| ence of Hon. G.. Is, HOWry and Othe'S, at