Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — COPIAH COUNTY AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

COPIAH COUNTY AGAIN.

A Mob of Reckless Democrats Break Up a Republican Meeting. 1 The Republican Nominee for Congress forced to Flee for His Life. J. J. Williams, of the Republican Committee, telegraphs from Jackson, Miss., to the Chicago Inter mean as follows: Democrats in portions of the Sixth Mississippi District, where the Hon. John R. Lynch, and in the Seventh District, where the Hon. J. B. Ycllowby are the Republican nominees for Congress, have begun a systematic intimidation of Republicans. In Wilkinson County, strongly Republican (in Lynch’s district), Winchester rifles furnished by the Democratic State Government have been distributed to every Democrat who would receive them, and a reign of terror has been inaugurated. Mr. Lynch’s friends met him on his way to speak in that county, and implored him not to come into tint county, knowing violence and bloodshed would betlie inevitable result. Mr. Lynch thereupon canceled all his appointments in that conntv. __ Last night in Crystal Springs, Copit h C’nnty, the same county in which Print Batthews was murdered last year, a Republican mec Ing w s to be addressed by the Hon J. B. \<ilow- , by, tjie nominee for Congress, ju ge McMillan, Republican candidate for election, and James Hill, Collector of Internal Revenue. Mr. Yellowby attempted to sneak, when a mob of Democrats threw bottles and brick-bats, mingled with the most opprobrious epithets. He was forced to leave the stand, making his escape to an hotel.accompanied: by a few friends ?-^tfe-wßs-pnrsuett"by the mob, who continued to throw missiles of every description. All of the party were more or less bruised, and one man’s skull was fractured, from which he will die. Yeliowly took refuge in the barber-shop connected with the hotel, and while doing so was fired at several times, fortunately without fatal result. He remained concealed until the midnight train arrived, when he succeeded in eluding the mob and got away. It is not probable the Republicans will poll many Blaine and Logan votes in Copiah and Wilkinson Counties. In the Third, or hhoe-string district, where the Hon. A. G. Pierce is the Republican nominee, the Republicans have about 18,090 majority. The same reign of terror lias been inaugurated by Democrats who have distributed " inchester rifles in that district. Also leading Democratic speakers in that district openly advocate violent methods to carry the election. The more intelligent Democrats have given up all hope ot the election of Cleveland and Hendricks, and arte directing all their energies to send up a solid Democratic Congressional delagation in order to control the next House of Representatives.