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The sheriffs and chancery clerk’s offices are the only ones in the counties that pay; yet out of twenty-seven Republican counties we have only six sheriffs and only one chancery clerk. Still we are “negroizing” the State. There is Lowndes county, with 4,500 colored and 1,500 white voters, who have but one colored officer, a constable in the county, exclusive of the representatives. However, they have aroused from their lethargic stupor, and are endeavoring to shake off their political incubus of ambitious adventurers, by electing as sheriff that firm old veteran the Hon. Robert Gleed, who has been appropriately called the “Toussaint” of eastern Mississippi. We watch with interest the culmination of the attempt.