New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-10-23
Tf.e Ga ia paign la Nl>sisaiapI.
JACKSON, Miss. Oct. 10, 1878

JACKSON, Miss, Oct. 10, 1873.
To the Editors Of tie ieto NutonoI Era and Citi..n:
Not seeing any direct communication in
your valuable journal recently from this
State, | thought it would not be amiss to
send you line or two concerning certain
facts.
Our campaign is progressing in the most
bitter and personal manner. 1t does not
seem to be a fight for the mastery of certain
principles, but between certain leaders of the
party. The fact of Alcorn's boiling has
brought about more personal vituperation
and abuse than l have ever heard. The
personalities last year between Grant and
Greeley are not to be compared to them.
That Alcorn is decidedly on the wrong
side there does not exist the shadow of a
doubt. And that he is actuated totally by
his personal hatred of Gen. Ames is apparent
to every fair minded person. And, as At
torney General Morris said in recent
speech, :" if we get the Amcs ticket we may
get some rascals, but if we get the Alcorn
ticket we are sure to have goodly number
of them"
CERTAIN ACTIONS OF REPUBLICANS.
There are, however, certain actions of
some of our white Republicans that will GER
tainly seal their fate in our party, or else seal
the fate of the party itself, by provoking an
irreconcilable division in it--a division not
such as Alcorn is working for, but one that
will prove mole serious and dangerous in its
of
the State demand three places on our State
ticket, viz: Lieutenant Governor, Secretary
of State, and Superintendent of Public Edu-
cation. But l know of certain strenuous ef-
forts and inducements that were made TO get
one OF our strongest colOrcd candidates for
Lieutenant Governor to withdraw in favor of
one of the white aspirants for the same po-
sition, but he declined doing SO. And when
Col. Bruce, one of the most prominent col
ored men in the State, arrived he was mmc-
diately importuned by some Of our white and
cOlOred Republicans to enter the Geld for the
position of Lieutenant Governor; but his re-
ply was manly and one which ought to ele-
vate him in the estimation of all men. He
said: " Gentlemen, am no candidate for
Lieutenant Governor; | do not wish the
empty honor. l have position that pays
me WELL But, if my services are so much
in demand rs you seem to think, nominate
me for Governor and will accept would
rather be Sheriff of Bolivar county than to
hang to the skirts of any man as his Lieu
tenant"
For the colored men to have taoo places on
the ticket there did not seem to be any spe-
cial objection, but to have three there was a
decided opposition by large majority of the
white Republicans. And l do not believe
that more than dozen of them, out of over
one hundred delegates, voted for the colored
aspirant for the third position; and it WIS
only by determined and united effort on
the part of the colored delegates, together
with few white delegates, that we were
able to get all the colored men on the ticket
that We desired. And ever since the adj
journment of the convention, over six weeks
ago, certain efforts were being made by a few
social acquaintance of oae of the defeated
candidates TO make room for him on the
ticket at the expense OF one of the regular
colored nominees and matters are now
worked up to such pitch that il is expected
that an effort will be made by our executive
committee, which is now in secret session, to
bring about change on the ticket! Should
the effort succeed, it will be the means of
entering n wedge in the ranks of the Repub-
lican party Of the State. The colored men
are determined not to submit to it. But
some of the white men On the committee
land they have a two-thirds majority think