The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-23
Finale Offhe Senatorial QmesHiom-'
Defeat Of the CarPef-Hsaggers.

Finale Offhe seua aorfal QmesIfom--
Defeat Of the CarPef-Baggers.
The carpet-baggers have come to grief,
both in their scheme to get control of the
Executive Department Of the State gov
eminent, and in their subsequent plot to
elect man Of their own stripe to the Z.
S. Senate in place Of Gov. Alcorn.
Defeated in their effort to carry the first
point, they turned their attention to the
next and were again routed. United in
the common plan of securing the spells,
they were divided as to the manner of its
distribution, and the old saying was
again verified that honest men viii get
their dues when rogues fall out.
The self-assertion of the negroes and
mixed breeds was fatal to the carpet
baggers. The former were quite willing
to go into the election, but they persisted
in claiming the place for one of their
own color. And then the carpet -baggers
could not agree among themselves.
The consequence was an easy victory
for the combined opposition. Governor
Alcorn carries out his own programme of
remaining in the Executive office until he
shall have discharged what he considers
to be his paramount obligations to the
people and in his own time will take
the seat which will remain vacant for
him in the Senate-in defiance of the
carpet bagmen and their African cohorts.
The public understands that this pro
gramme embraces the removal of dishon-
est and incompetent men from office and
the appointment of faithful and capable
men-the reduction of taxes-the curtail
ment of public expenditures, including
the wholesale abuses in the management
of the Public School system-and above
and beyond all others, the execution OF
the Constitution requiring biennial cleo
ton of members of the Legislature and
guaranteeing to the people the exercise
of their right to choose officers who are
elective by them under that instrument.
This is his programme as proclaimed in
his recent messages; his acts removing bad
men from Office and appointing good ones,
and in his public declarations which have
been heard OF all men, On this pro-
gramme the Democrats and Conservatives
in the Legislature rallied as one man to
his support, sinking partisan prejudice,
and the recollection of past differences
and contests in the motive to serve the
people and to deliver them from the gall
and bitterness Of the burdens and humil-
iation which Radical lust of plumber and
vindictiveness have visited upon them.
This is the significance of their action.
This is precisely what it means. Nothing
more, and certainly nothing less. II
Gov. Alcorn carries it out faithfully their
espousal of his cause against the carpet
baggers will have achieved a great thing
for the State If he should fall by the
way-side, they will have lost nothing.
He can possibly do no worse than the
Mongrels who for weeks have been how
ling like sleuth-hounds on his track, and
now badly beaten, may assume the atti-
tude of whipt spaniels in the hope of re-
tanning their places Meantime the OPP
Posers of carpet-baggery will pursue the
even tenor of their way, and keep step to
the music of Retrenchment and Reform
which is heard like the rushing of many
waters all over the land