The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-19
been relieved from paying salaries Of
Probate Judges,

1t Is vain for the Republican lords to
attempt to persuade the people that Rad
ical rule i cheap. They may put up
the figures as they please, still every man
knows that now, with greatly less prop
erty, be pays much more in taxes than
he did under citizens rule. Let the tax
payers compare their present with their
former tax collectors receipts.
THE DIFFERENCE.
We will take two items for illustration,
and they viii give plain idea of the differ
ence between Citizens rule and Radical
robbery.
l. In old times the Governor had a
contingent fund of only $4,000, and he
rarely spent fourth of it. The Radi-
cal Legislature of 1870 appropriated s4,-
900 and added to this fund the sum of $780,
0O0.-making the Governors contingent
fund SD, 900; and the Governor admits
he has spent the achOIe of 1t! As this
item shows, the difference between Citi-
zens' rule and Radical rule is as great as
the difference between one thousand and
fifty-four thousand
This matter shows another striking
difference between plain Conservative
Governor and Royal Republican Gov
ernor. The Conservative Governor was
regarded as a servant of the people, and
he was required to gre an account to the
representatives of the people and show
how much of this money he had expend-
ed, and what he had done with it; but
the Royal Radical Governor was not re-
quired to give any account at all. Acts
1870, p. 607-S.
2. We will take the item of public
printing. In Conservative times the
public printing cost about $4,000 for
thirteen months. In these Royal Republi-
can times it has cost, for thirteen months,
over 1886, O00l The Conservative print
ing averaged about s775 month. The
Royal Radical printing costs over s14, 300
a month";! The Royal Radical printing
costs the State more than nineteen times as
much as was paid to the Conservative
printer! The Mongrel princes of the
Printing House are literally eating up the
people. 1t may be sport to them, but
it is 'death" to the taxpayers.
Lesake County III. w. Warren.
The Pilot states that H. w. Warren,
since his return from Massachusetts, has
taken the field for Representative from
Leake county, and intimates that he will
be elected.
1t is time the people of that county
were rid of him. He has misrepresented
them long enough. He was member
of the Black-and-Tan Convention of
1868, and was prominent in the adoption
of the DISTINGUISHING Constitution. And
again, by grace of Ames' bayonets, fraud
ulent voting, and by disfrancb ising white
citizens, he was elected to the House of
Representatives.
The inscriptions character of the
man may be understood by recurring to
his advocacy of the bill to appropriate
large sum from the State Treasury on
pretence of indemnying the carpet-bag
sheriff, Wood, for alleged robbery of
State funds, which he had collected from
the taxpayers of Leake county. The bill
was of such vile character that Cover
nor Alcorn vetoed it. Nevertheless,
Warren succeeded in engineering It
through the Legislature over his head.
He and Wood were cronies; and it is
alleged that he was one of Woods secu-
rites. The public will draw their own
inference in reference to the whole trans
action.
But this is not all nor the worst of
Warren's outrageous conduct. He was
the author of the following calumnious
dispatch, which was sent to Washington
with view to induce Congress to inter-
fere by military violence in the civil gov
eminent of the South. Not only did he
send statement of the Meridian affair,
which was proved to be false by the tes-
timony of Sheriff Mosely, Post Master
Joshua Smith, and other Republican of
fcials, but one which was not less false
in regard to the whole State. He repre-
sented it to be ia condition of lawless-
ness Sin all its parts" The following
is copy of his dispatch, which even
Governor Alcorn, with all his predispo-
sition to bolster up the Radical party,
denounced as SANDER:
JACKSON, MISS March 10. 1871
Received March IS, II NJ. (
Hon. SENATOR AMEs, State Senator:
The Meridian riot seems, from informa-
ton by most reliable persons, to have been
the result of a combined effort of the .chites
20 ouertkrOU the city and county government.
Result is eight or more cOlored persons
killed Bramlette, white man. killed by
accidental shot. Senators Gleed and Hem
derson, mem bers, arrived by train from Me-
ridian this r. NJ report colored men lying
out, hidden in the woods, whites patrolling
the streets, trains and surrounding country
armed. Large Republican caucus earnestly
urge on Congress the necessity of prompt
and thorough measures TO suppress outrage
and violence in all parts Of the State.
I'll. w. WARREN
President Republican Club.
The strange part of Warren's conduct
S, not that he coniVed at the passage of
he bill making an appropriation to