The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-10-18
lPOLITICAL.
Te THE CITIZENS
OF THE
ST ATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

FB.LOW CITIZENS Having become q
! candidate for the Office of Governor, it is
# propF should give you some account Of
$ nv Principles and views in relation to ouI
= fPolit,cal affairs. would do this in person,
! if in my power. I shall not be able to visit
/ all the counties, before the election, having
: been engaged in the discharge of my duty
r as Chancellor, until the adjournment of the
Oxford Court, on the 18th August, 1889.
I was born in the State of Virginia, in the
time of the Revolutionary War, and educat.
} ed in Kentucky, among the compatriots Of
Washington. received my first lessons in
law and politics, under the tuition of Col.
George Nichols, in the year 1899, at the time
that distinguished statesman and lawyer was
warmly engaged in bringing about that rev.
olutiOn which resulted in the election OF
Thomas Jefferson to the presidency Of the
United States, over the elderAdams. / emf
grated to Mississippi in 1902, and have
resided here ever since. The great princi-
pies Of Liberty which induced our Ameri-
can ancestors to take up arms against our
mother country, and those avowed by Wash
ington and Jefferson respectively, on COM
ing to the presidential chair, are my princi-
pies
They were my first and only political prin-
ciples. They cover the whole ground of
good government, for free people.
have ever been considered, among those
who know me best, and especially, in this
State, by governors Claiborne, Holmes Leake,
Poindexter, Brandon, and Lynch, as Dem
ocratic Republican, and not as Federalist.
But the Chief Magistrate should not be the
Governor of party, but of the whole peo-
pie.
The various Offices and stations have
filed from 1902 to the present time, under
appointments from governors, legislatures,
and people, afford sufficient evidence of the
estimation in which have been held, not
only as to my moral and political principles,
but as to the manner in which have dis
charged the duties of the various Offices
conferred upon me.
Having, from 1911, till 1922, been fire.
quently elected TO the House of Represen-
tatiyes; having been the Speaker of the |
House at two several sessions having diges- |
ted the Laws of Mississippi Territory, by
Legislative appointment; having filled the
Office of Attorney General; having been a |
member Of the Convention, which formed |
our State Constitution in 1917; having been
one Of the Judges of the Supreme and Su |
perior Courts of the State, from 1924, till
1888, and part of the time, the Presiding |
Judge of the Supreme Court; and having
been elected by large majority Of the PEG.
pie Of the State in 1884, to the Office of
Chancellor of the State.-my friends and
have called on me to become
candidate for the Office of Governor. This
call has been made from time to time, for
the last twelve years, and have at length
to place my name before the
people.
The condition of our statute law, our
finances, and our banking concerns, call
oudly for reform. am in favor of plain,
simple, economical government, favoring
and internal Improvements to a
and reasonable extent, and of al
ways keeping our expenditures within our
means; am in favor of preserving the pub
ic faith and pledges, inviolate.
On the subject of our banking system, ii
S now admitted on all hands, that we have :
nd sustainable bounds All see and adj !
nit this. All the wisdom, moderation and
rudence of our Legislature must be bro't
0 the restoration of a sound currency.
low is this to be done9 $
Those banking institutions which cannot 6
omply with their charters, should surren- 0
er them. Those remaining, should be 5
to pay specie, or wind up their s
usiness. Some of those states where the r
anking bubble has burst, have repealed all d
harters, and established new banks, and re- o
.ored sound circulating medium BY that b
lcans. \
Our courts are open and are competent b
, the task of reyoting bank charters, or off e
spending their operation, and placing them i
a condition to wind np. We have Board e,
Bank Commissioners, employed for this It
lutary purpose. 81
We have an Attorney General, and Dis at
ict Attornies, competent, and possessed be
legitimate power to act in the premises. ca
ct justice be done to the people, either by sP
luntary action on the part Of the Banks, w
by the constitutional enforcement Of the az
VS. of the State upon those requiring their 70
forcemenf. re
Some people are of opinion that the cTea- a
N of a United States Bank will correct he
d restore the currency. VI
am ofopinion that the question Of the Of
nstitutionality Of a United States Bank iic
5 been settled, in favor Of such an insti- mt
lion. The Congress of 1871, enacted the RE
It United States Bank, and George Wash Of
,ton approved II. Mr.. Jefferson though sDa
unconstitutional; but he approved an act wh
Congress establishing Branch Of that bel
pk q New Orleans. ths
The Congress Of 1916, created the SCI tru
I'D Bank. Of the United States, and Mr.. Wh
ldison appfovedit. The question Of its eCt
was raised in the Supreme SCI
'uFt Of the United States. and vas deci- he
q by that court, court Of the last Fesort, ST;
az questions involving the construction ioE
g eonstlt lonality Of the acts of Congress, sci
IaYoE q the Bank, The Congress oil Il |