The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-13

headS and load them with letters; or
Legislature which will alleviate their
burdens and turn away the wrath of their
oppressors.
VIII the Clarion tell Its readers all about
the Dent programme, in which it was the
champion organ?
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VIII it also tell the people all about GER
tain propositions made by the Dent party TO
General Ames in May, 1863, Offering him
the United States Senatorship with Dent, if
he would but support the Boilers ticket ?
There is little unpublished history in this
connection which would be interesting to
the public.-Leader.
The foregoing has appeared in the new
Radical paper, and although we are not
given to the discussion of matters not
material to a pending canvass we propose
in this instance to respond plainly and
unequivocally. THE CLARION is not
apprized that any one authorized to speak
for what the Leader terms the "'Dent
party" approached Ames with propo-
sition to elect him to the u. S. Senate
on any condition. If there were any
supporters of that ticket who proposed
such bargain, we. are totally ignorant
of the fact. Certainly THE CLARION
was not in any manner, shape, form or
fashion, concerned in it. Let the editor
of the Leader name the persons alleged
to have submitted it and let Ames
himself proclaim it from the house-top.
While on the subject we will further
add that when DR.. Compton, the editor
of the Leader, by his own consent was
being mentioned as a Democratic candi-
date for Governor, he himself Is k1.OlCn to
have suggested a bargain of the sort aoiHi
Ames, but ON whose authority besides his
own, if anybody's, we are not informed.
The idea on which he was understood by
various persons to found the proposed
arrangement was that it would be better
! to elect -Ames to the Senate than for him
to employ his extraordinary powers to
hand over the entire State government to
the control of precisely such horde OF
''rascalIy adventures as are new hold
ing their carnival in its various depart
ments.
This proposition could not have been
suggested by DIR. Compton in the interest
of the ''Dent party" because he was
understood to favor a nomination for
Governor by the Democratic party and
to be an aspirant for the place himself,
and was therefore opposed to the ''Dent
movement" and consequently could not
speak for it. Nor could his projected
scheme have been abandoned by him in
consequence of Alcorn's subsequent nom
ination as the Radical candidate because
it was well understood at the time that
Aleorn would occupy that position.
This comprises all we know about the
propositions" alluded to. The inference,
however, is that inasmuch as their author
CDR. Compton, subsequently joined the
Radical party and was taken into the
Ring, the propositions were made by
their author in behalf of the side he had
joined, and the bargain closed. Certain
it is that Ames did import vagabonds
from Memphis, New Orleans and other
cities to corrupt the ballot-box and carry
the election and that the Legislature
through his villainous manipulations,
did elect him to the place designated.
1t is also Known that DIR. Compton him
self was among the first who were provi-
ded Cor. 1t was charged repeatedly in
the canvass that bargain of the kind
had been made with the satrap who
held the result of the election in the
hollow of his hand; and subsequent
events have confirmed our opinion of the
truth of the allegation.