Short work was made of the Lieutenant-Governor's case; and State Senator John M.
Stone, the Democratic President pro tem.

of the State Senate, was duly sworn in and installed as the acting Governor of the State.

Thus terminated a long series of questionable acts, the inauguration of which had no other purpose than to secure the ascendency of one political party over another in the administration of the government of the State.
The sanguinary revolution in the State of Mississippi in 1875 was claimed to be in the interest of good administration and honest government; it was an attempt to wrest the State from the control of dishonest men,--negroes, carpet baggers, and scalawags,--and place it in control of intelligent, pure, and honest white men.

With that end in view, Geo.

M.Buchanan, a brave and gallant ex-Confederate soldier, was, through questionable and indefensible methods, defeated for the office of State Treasurer, and Wm.