Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-10-25
Intel States Senator.

name as a candidate for the chief Magstracy of this
State. He hestated not for moment to comply I
with what open and manly dealing dictated He did
attempt TO seek for miserable pretexs to retain
his hold upon office of honor, confded to his
by generous people, until they had clothed him
with the power and honor of another. He threw
back into the hands of the people the Office they had
entrusted him with HI did not like whining dem
agogue submit to body of irresponsible men the de-
cison of question involving his honor and his person.
al independence He met that he meets all issues,
boldly and frankly.
Judge Sharkey was, it was currently reported,
candidate but the President has appointed him
sui to Havana-so the telegraph says. At any he
has abandoned that he vigorously prose-
cutting through the State, and returned Jackson
There is something amusing in this. The Union is in
danger we tod-the lawyer leaves his office, the
merchant his desk the mechanic his shop, and even
the ermined Judge his bench to mingle in the strife
its all the Union and each one labors though
the salvation of the country absolutely depended upon
their individual exertion Let the grovernor or the
President but intimate that Office with easy duties
and fat salary is at their service and they glide from
the quietly and suddenly, as Foote did
from the foot of old Chepultepec at Sedgevle. So
it is with Chief Justice Sharkey he lets the Union
take care Of itself while he takes Of fat Office
But this is natural that comment is useless But in
the name of wonder, who will the Union party next
pat forward There is such a number of hungry
eXpectants that there must be difficulty in select
ing All cannot be officers there must be some pr-
Yates in this great Union army. BY the way, our ex-
cellent friend and townsman, G. r. Clayton has been
named by the organ Of federal unonism here, as its
choice ! The old Democracy viii surely admire that
suggestion-but there is in the suggestion so much of
sublime herosm that the old rank and file may stand
it. The Union party being party developed upon
scale of universal phanthrophy, it is particular in
small matters long it control the Offices In
truth, e. R. Clayton is a most admirable and amiable
gentleman; but is he a candidate Believing he is
not, and that he will not be- think that inius-
tce is done, though perhaps nointenonaly to Others
whose names passing around s:seepies.' Now
it whispered that as North Mississippi is entitled to
one Senator, that small struggle, in quiet wav is
going on between two champions of Unionism in our
section of the State to which shall be the candi-
date. Col. J. B. Cobb of this county, and Dr. w D.
Lyles of Noxubee are spoken of as the sleepies 1t
is not intended to epply the term seepies to them in
any offensive sense-not at all. They are both wide
awake gentleman, as we know.
! There are other gentlemen undoubtedly in the field
who quite willing to serve the State for eight dol
lars per day.
But really, this is no time for Joking The interests
Of the South, the preservation not only of her insu-
tons but the Union ITSELF depends upon the exercise
of sound discretion and matured Judgment. The peo-
pie of the North are rapidly concentrating their ener
gies parties using, and before the end of the in
coming Congress, there will be but really two parties
in most of the free States. Those parties dare not
base their success on the old issues which hitherto d.
vided them-whggery and democracy. There is now
a new element, and since the spring 1916, it may
be said tuthluy to have controlled almost entirely
the balot-box Within the past two years it has been
erected into principle, and it now not only controls
the ballot-box, but the pulpit and the press. This
principle is host7ityto socey-not only its extern
sion, but to its veyy eriStencs.
1t is said that the late Compromise has definitely adj
usted this question, and that the South has nothing
further to fear from in the halls of legislation This
if true, would carry JOY to the hearts of thousands in
the South. 1t is untrue. The North now knows her
strength, and is there a foolish as to suppose
she will fail to exercise it. She knows where and how
and when to it. She will hold over the South the
rod and if her demands upon the Treasury are not re-
sponded to, she will push the trucking statesmen of
the Southern section into another compromise. She
WANTS THE TARIFF LAW of 1916, modified and she
WILL SUCCEED !! She wants twenty or thirty
: MILLIONS OF DOLLARS for purposes of internal
f improvement, and she will GET TIL! About nine
ty million Of the public lands were voted
way during the two last sessions of Congress Land
Reform is open issue at the North, and there
exists little diversity Of opinion between parties
in regard to this matter What is this land Reform
Let the reader learn. 1t proposed to give without
compensation an $50 acres to the head of a family,
who swears he owns no land and is unable to buy it.
The foreigner, just landed upon Shores thus be-
comes possessed ola competency equal to that which
many poor citizens has labored life obtained-
This is not ALL The land sales heretofore have con-
tributed from one and half to four millions of dollars
towards defrayingt the expenses of the Government In
a recent report from the Treasury Department. it is
said that the land already gtuen array By Congress- will
almost entirely dry up the from that source
: Some well informed men say that land enough now
cannot be Sold to pay the expenses the land officers
the different States and that the people CH be taxed to sap
port them At any rate, the three four millions OF
money that have been flowing into the Treasury from
the sale of the public lands has ceased and this
is to be made good from other quarter. The ex-
penses of the government must be paid. The money
arising from the sale of the public lands has been de-
voted to that purpose The deficit thus made in the
: revenue will be made good BY TAXATION. Do
you like this, tax payers of Lowndes! Woudyoulike
: to pay from three 20 five cents than you do
for your sugar two three cents per pound more for