The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-15
APPEAL TO THE NATION
MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICANS CLAIM
THE COuNTRY's ATTENTION.

MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICANS CLAIM
THE COuNTRY's ATTENTION.
Their State Ticket Withdrawn Owing to
Fear of Violence Reteremccx to savage
and EiOO,iy Deeds of tho Bourbons -
Fraud Holds sway.
jackson lMiss.) specially
The Republican State Executive Com
Mittee mot Mt jackson, Miss, to con-
slider the withdraw of General James
X. Chalmers from the head of the State
ticket. Chalmers was not there, but it
is understood that he wrote a letter to
the committee declining to make the cam
vnss For Governor. The committee issued
the following:
"As lie. .uLiicans 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. ut lenst, the semblance of free
speech might still lema u to us, but our
candidates are not safely allowed to dis
cuss OF protest. We desired especially to
I before the whole people OF the State,
and challenge the Democrats 10 . COM
pnrison oil principles and records.
"Our course has always been conserv-
ative. When the armed revolution of
1873 wrested tho Suite from us Mississippi
was the only Southern state unburdened
cratic n to-day. The Constitution of
the United States guarantees to each
State u republican form Of government.
mississippi is governed by n minority, o
despo,ism. and We appeal to IL country
for redress. The Constitution That We
adopted is the only one in the South so
satisfactory that it has not been changed.
Our laws stand substantially unchanged
and u~nrepealed, but We are Republicans
and this is our offense.
b We are not actuated by cowardice
in Withdrawing from the contest is shown
by u past. For fourteen years, ever
adopted, our path has been marked by
the blood of our slain. Not only the
weli-known leaders who bravely died at
the head of the column, but the faithful
followers known only in the cabins of the
lowly. We refer not only to such WE'LL
known slaughters as kemper and Copiah,
Clinton and Carrollton, wahalak and
Ncksburg, Ynzoo City and Lie Flore, but
10 the nameless killing by creek md
bayou, on highway and byway. These
are the Democratic arguments which
crush us. We can do no moro. We dare
no longer carry our battered and blood
stained Republican flag. We appeal to
the nation.
is national law and honor but II delu-
sion and n snare? When we rely upon
the guarantees of the National Constitu-
ton do we but lem upon q broken reed?
Ii SO, the policy boldly, and
acqnit us of further effort"
Why General j. IL. Chalmers Retired from
the Canvass.
10 the Public:
My idea in advocating the organization
of the Republican party and u canyass of
Mississippi this year, and in accepting
tho nomination for Governor, was to
prepare for the future and not this cleo
ton. 1 knew the Democrats had I'LL the
counting machinery of the State, and
that there was no earthly chance for our
state ticket TO be declared elected. But,
III view of the certainty of the result. l
believed tho Democrats would give us u
fair chance of being heard i'll discussion
before the people. l wanted to adj
dress the white people, and to show to
them what Democrats and Democratic
papers had said about the worthless
ness of the present Democratic admins.
tration in Mississippi. I wanted to readto
then some editorials from the Appeal
about tho %penitentiary ring and the con-
victs, II especially to read an editorial
from the .Avulanchc of June 10, 1887.
headed I'm a Volcanic State" and COM
mencing: affairs i'll Mississippi nre in
a bad way. The control of government is
manly in the hands of corrupt officers,
who are growing moro desperate daily
in their efforts to cling to the high places
from which honor has lied and profit. or the
love!of it, alone remains. Those
who can not be bought are kept silent by
threats, and threats too which are now
and then carried into effect. So desper-
ate Is the case that perjury and o; Ell rob-
berry is followed by mnrder" hopel
that this, with the dcfalcations of Demo-
cratic treasurers all around us, would
convince our white people there was a
necessity for two parties.
L wanted also to read and comment OH
the speech of the Hon. j. 4. Walker ut
Meridian, just after Lowry vetoed the con-
know that you nre living un.lcr n Consti-
stitution that concentrates the power of
the State in the hands of an oligarchy?
These things are so, and being SO, 1. for
my part, think that though his Excellency
may deem it better to endure the evils
We have than fly TO others We know not
of. it would be preferable over and over
again to fly to any amount of unknown
evils Ii to live under the present auto-
cratic. .aristocratic, and damnablc oil
garchy." l have my scrap-bool filled
with many such extracts from Democratic
authority to show the utter worthlessness
and corruption of tho present Democratic
admin cation in Mississippi.
Democf..s who have heard me in the
Second Congressional District know 1
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 brenk the force of
what | might say they vilitied me person.
ally.
The recent killing of negroes had ere
ated great excitement. and white men
were forming military companies and
arnling themselves all over tho State. TO
increase this feeling false reports were
put out that 1 had made incendiary MP
peals to the negroes III my speech Mt
Jackson, and they vent so far as basely
to say that l related an anecdote to eX-
cite the lewd passions of the negroes
toward white women. What 1 related I
said Mt the time was a story which, when
| was q boy, 1 heard told by Gov. A. G.
Brown in his race for Governor against
George r. Clayton. when they were dis
cnssing the payment of the Union Bank
bonds, and tho Hon. j.. j. Meek, Mayor
of Sardis, recol!ects to have heard the
Governor tell the same story in that can
vass. 1t was an unsavory story, but as
Gov. Brown told it in the days of slavery,
supposed | conld tell it now. He ap-
piled it to the Wings, who assumed more
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