Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-08-10

The Lowrey committee would have you believe that Anderson himself
made a "housetohouse' campaign looking for lei to sign affdavts nat
they had voted for him. The fact is the men who had been denied the
sacred right of having their votes counted started the investigation had
the afGdaMts prepared and signed them before an officer and Anderson did
lot 81 much as see the affdavis until aher they had been signed by more
than a hundred men. Then Mr.. Anderson took these affdavits before the
district committee at Holly Springs and that committee "a sufficiently i'm
pressed to order an investigation by the Union county committee. Lowreys
amni+ao us +ho oonnit+oe IN Jnon comfy vas made I'M of men from
both factions, but our information is that every member of the committee
who voted to give Lowrey a clearance had voted for Lowey in the election
Every motion by Lowreys two attorneys was accepted by the committee.
The affdavits which had been made we're refused by the committee o no.
ton of DR.. Lowreys two attorneys. Then the men who voted for Andersen
came before the committee voluntarily, took a solemn oath, and swore be
fore God and man that they had voted for A. c. Anderson in the second
primary. These men who came in there and swore they voted f~ Ander-
sn were just as good average men as will be found in Union county,
and 10 county in Mississippi has better men than live in Union county.
Lowreys friends have said ugly things about some of these men Have
said they were not properly qualified to vote but the election commissioners
found nothing wrong with them and the judges of the election permitted
them to vote. It has been said too that some Of these witnesses had been
convicted in the courts of some crime, etc. Only three out of the III have
any shadows of this kind on them and they amount to very little. The most
prominent of these cases-the one they have said most about-wast the case
of a man, who is today N OF the best, most honorable N up11ght men
in Union county, who 80 years. ago, when a boy a out oon hunting with
son ode~ heads and they wen thrugh a waterm melon patch and ok some
melons. The wne of the patch did not like it and to aviod further
trouble these men went before a justice of the peace, submitted to trespass-
ing and paid a nominal fine.
1t is ridiculous to say that these men would have come into that court
of inquiry, voluntarily, and swore a deliberate, gratutous fasehoods when
there vas n reason or motive for it. 1t could not avail them any advan
tage in n possible way to perure themselves and get . the losing side
and NJ honest, intelligent mn believes that these men swo-e falsely.
Lowreys committee undertakes to skirt aroun this serious natter anu
treat it lightly but in this is involved of the most fundamental princl
pies of the American government. If there were n % other issues in this
campaign this on alone would be sufficient upon which to appeal to every
man and woman in the district for support for our candidate.
They say it is difficult to believe that all IL of the men who held the
election in New Albany were banded together to steal the election. No
body has ever made o. thought of making such a silly statement. It does
not take all twelve to perpetrate fraud. But against the ballot boxes there
stands thu won statenent O.. about 125 men and it is even nor difficult
to believe tina these men wore falsely. On the n side is the twelve, o
the other side is the fifty.
Lowreys committee would have you believe that the Executive Com
niHee is the whole thing in a prmary-the law of the land and the court