Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-02-26
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N4A4Ay MAtMaMA y @@f@J 49,
the Radical Gag TO shs breeze and
wheels into line. Alb, Mr.. Timesl
have you been playing "hids and
20 seek eli this time How
you have deceived the people,
they thought you an ~unalteFahle
enemy OG Radicalism, and now Il
appears that you we're all the
time only ''making bslieve.'-
There certainly could have been
no sincerity whstever In al those
brave declarations In which you
INDUCED 8 few months ago. They
we're slightly TalIeyrandic, were
they? Intended to disguise and
not express your true sentiments.
Naughty Times, to thus impose
upon q good natured and credu-
lOus people. And now, without
any apology whatever, to come
out and say you we're only fool
ishing." Probably you may try
to bring sOphistry to your relief,
and assert that when you said you
we're an Alcorn paper it did not
make you a Radical journal
That specioWs argument won't
win. The eyes Of the people
are not all the time closed. There
are some things which they
see and know as well as others,
and among these things is the
fact that Governor Alcorn is a
member Of the Radical party ;
was elected to Office upon that
ticket; glories in his connection
with 1t and when certain Of his old
friends and Wing associates wrote
to offer him their allegiance he
told them emphatiCally that he
could not receive them except as
members Of the "sredt RepUbli.
can party of the State and Ma
ton" Where is there any Re.
publican party of the Estate or
Nation" which is not recognized
as the Radical party. Governor
Alcorn 10 a member Of the same
Republican party of the nation to
which Ben. Butler, Charles Sum
nsr, Bingham, Boutwell,, Cress-
we'll and all that class are attached.
There 10 no other State or Ma
tiOnal Republican party. Gov
ernOr AlcOrn has no party Of his
own and will never have. Nor
does he desire to have. He
knows that he could build up no
National party upon what local
popularity he may have in this
State, and without q National con
necvion no local party could exist
1t is simply an evasion Of the
true issue for men 10 declare
themselves "Alcorn men" PEG.
pie will have more confidence In
them and more respect for them,
if they will boldly declare them.
selves Radicals, which they are.
what has Governor Alcorr
done TO so enamor the people
with him. He has not yet taken
his seat as Governor; he Ia:
neither approved or disapprOyed
bills he has made no appoint
ments he has not made a single
public speech he has simply
written one letter in which he has
declared that he Is true to tbs
party which elected him, and thi'
is the Radical party. Why IL
Governor Alcorn less objections
BILE since his election than he wa
before it? No organ in the Stat
INDUCED in more Of abuse of Gov
ernor Alcorn, and his 1.-THE Radi
cal party during the late politi
cal contest, than did the Times o.
this city. And yet, now before
Governor Alcorn has performed
one official act by which it car
be declared what his intentions
are, this bitter and unrelentinl
political enemy, proclaims itsel
his friend and supporter.
In observing these surprising
changes; these extraordinary
gymnastic feats Of double bacl
action, somersaulting, we invol
unfairly ask, how far will the Stat,
printing gof Gentlemen wh'
profess to be "Alcorn men," ant
not Radicals, have not the benef
Of the difference between "Lwee
die dunn and tweedle dee" Their
is an appreeiable difference here