The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-13
sTATn PRINTER.

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mad only b-en in thu State short time, |
and because l. occupied a more -centr:l |
position, and published The only paper In |
The Slate that had never suspended or |
left, tIsesStatadu-ing the Re beiliop. and |
because had always opposed the doc |
tripe Of secession Which has broug; / |
such wide FAD ruin aud desolation up
OH the country Ea-@@tsfn So
Col B4tterton the appointee of Gov |
Sharkev, was accidentally killed few
weeks since. and learn that Gov. Shar
kew has determined 10 let the Conve"-
ton elect the Printer. therefore an
nouuce myself candidate and soiicl,
your votes for the position, end 1T eject d
promise an honest and faithful dis
charge of the duties of the office.
TIE Republican is one of the oldest
. pers in the State have published il
n1yself FIR over thirteen, years. Being
an old Wing ard q MON man, never re-
| G. ived any patronage from either the
S ate or Federal Government up to the
Ireak king up Of the rebalii. IN, aud having
had the independence to denouEce such
ac.,ons of the Con 'ederate Government
as deemed unwise and arbitrary, | re-
ceived bot little patronage from it. Most
e nor all of those who will be opposing
candidates hava been ultra disnn lists,
lnd nave been fed out oi the public crit
until they are quite fat aasi sleek
think they ougnt tn TAX back seats fat
ye9r a. Two 81 least, aud give place to
| hose who nave alwaye stood M 20 iii
constitutional rack, fodder or no fodter
A. J. FRANTZ
We take the above from thsIast mum
! Der Of the Brandon Republican. We
have been solicited by some friends to
become. cand dates for public printing
at the approaching convention. Thu
| vas. however, before we saw the article
| ia the Republican and became aware Of
| its maSy and superior claims. Perhaps
| 1t may cauee US 10 decline. We will
| think Of it. TAe R~pub.car, it seems,
| Is a very old paper. 1t numbers thirteen
| years The Clarion hiss lived for neal.
| thirty years. at The commencement Of
tn9 VIZ it published and had been pub
fishing for years three times the reading
matter of the R ,pubIictn, and had at
| least five times as many subsc: ibers. Tins
W IS accom- plished without State or gov
ernment support. Has the Republican
done, or is it likely, even with State
| printing, to do so nuctrl 1
SO far at least As we are concerned we
are rot "fat from feeding at tae pubic
CRIB" During the time We had the s ate
! Printing il was cot prof able. Much OF
what we earnt Il is still due and OF that
which was paid we made less profit than
| IN ordinary work Notwithstanding We
| rad one Of the hest job Offices in the
| Safe and coed workrler, the demand
tor printing during the war. owing to he
d, sruc,ion of SO mary printing estab
is: m4usa WAS SO great 'dat the Stat
| work Eorcel-.t5 TO rrf:ise much thst won; d
have been moie lucrative.
| II we were secessionis;s va we're so from
! honest conviction and fought for it as long
As physically atle If former loyalty 10
the United States Government should be-
made a test b. fore the Convention. Ger
tainly the Republican would be excluded
| For if its editor, himself, carefully KEEP
,ut Of the army. be was nevertheless n ~
anxious to get others in, and evrn nov
from the tone OF some of his late edi'o
| fials, he appears to be still somewhat re
b,liious.
IL is very modest and kind in our friend
Frantz. who appears ia have q grt At pen
chant for feeding at the public crib" Ia
iesire all who might interfere with his
| promotion to take "a back seat" Such
disnt, rested advice is particularly re-
| frtshing. We believe the Clarion is the
oldest paper. and has the largest cifculs
ion of any Journal in the State. Since III
fist day of It's publication, more than "a
| quarter ola century ago,it has never been
suspended, except during few weeks
after the destruction OF eur Office III
| February, 1864 However, it IS Of NOR
| Importance to tie State that the Public
| Printing should be promptly and efficient
| " executed, the laws published in tht
uf1icial pa per and be seen by the people,
than that the Clarion or Republican
should receive the emoluments Of the
7,ffiee. We should not have mentioned
ourselves. in this connection at all, but
Justice to the newspaper press Of the
State required that the article in the r.
publican should be noticed.
In closing we may be permitted to ssy
that should the Clarion enter thu list
against the Republican we would have no
| fears of euferipg by a comparison OF
pspers.
THe TcUrxAMESr AS ''IIans" has
favored US with lengthy AID spirited
communications We viii briefly state
/ shat, in the highly sexcitiEgs contest the
firs. honor wsswon by tfr. VIM Il. Footf.
and TIE wrea,bs by Mes$eTs Fhos. Ivy
[ u. Dr. ir ell of