The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-07-28


manhood of its citizens had sunk
so low, the morals of the voter be-
come so depraved, as to counter
ance chicanery and fraud upon
each other, and to make the cast
ing of a ballot an unavailing act
and the declaring of the result u
travesty, to excite disgust and III
dignation among honest men.
This is the substance OF his
words. and some people in Mlssis-
sippi, if not indeed already be-
yond the point of contemplating
with equanimity the doing of an
honest act of public duty, might
reflect upon them with profit to
tho state at large, even though
with some slight hurt to private
consoiepces. We have seen some
things done o4 late. under the dem
aQogic veil of ''honest primaries"
which should make men who
still value the good name
OF their state determine to call
a halt on rotten politics, and
demand for themselves such con-
duct Of elections as will be f"'Ve
suspicion.
1t is all we'll enough to ask
elbow are you gong to prove
itl" Such bravado arguments
carry 10 conviction, what we
want is such Z sqqFge as will leave
no room for question.
How long has it been since the
charge was freely made, and never
successfully disproven, that at
primasy in Carroll county,-Gen-
eral Georges homa, ny the way
white men stopped SO low as to
inject the negro vote into the
election, and appealed to it to decide
issues between theMf How often
do you hear that this man or that
"a some county in his pocket
md makes +, ~o to suit himself, re-
CARELESS of the fiction - u" e'.o,
tion,-and know that he can =
good the boast of his debauching
ability? How long has it been
since the number of votes cast,
and the manner of their distribu-
lion, at primary election in War
rem county, to ether with all the
circumstances surrounding the
election, have caused the gravest
doubts to arise in the minds of
many honest men as to us aDso-
ute fairness! How long has it
been since in sweet Coahoma was
held (g an ''honest primary" in
which there were no boxes open
md no,votes cast, yet, through some
aermannic manipulation some
our hundred votes were count
I'd? One of the oldest and most
of Greenville's citizens
was in the leading town of Coaho-
ma on "electlon day. and was
odd by a distinguished gentle
nan there that they had decided
% hold no election.
Such things as these are too fire.
luent, and we have yet to hear OF
anyone being called to account for
heir preparation.
THE TINES has no proof, beyond
hat possessed by everyone, and
t might be difficult to establish
hese facts in court,-,but If all
Who doubted that the smoke
which has so beclouded the politi-
al atmosphere failed to Indicate
he presence of fire, were to hold
heir breaths until they changed
heir minds, the population of the
tate would be considerably re-
Iuced.
Of a piece with these proceed
ngs has been the conduct of the
State Executive Committee. That
can point to no prece-
lent to justify its course, yet they |
pursue the noiseless tenor of
heir way apparently satisfied,
o Iong|as they can crafty per-
opal ends at no greater expense
han the exhibition of an unseem-
Y disregard of public opinion.
In thinking over these matters
We unconsciously drifted into
linking of Senator George and
If the desire he always had to
,avn his wears so lenOthened as to |