Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-10
MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.
The Resdlt Of Radical Ignorance Is Two
Sets Of Officers and the Promise of
Extended Litigation.
POWers's Hone sly silly COnspiraiOrs
Meeting OF the Old Legislature on
the Twentieth Powers has
No Friends.
From the vicksburger.l I

/ One Of the results of Radical ignorance
is two sets Of officers in the State of Mis-
sissipli. A legislature composed of men
of sense would never have fallen into the
error OF leaving it doubtful whether there
should or should not have been an elec-
tiOn last November. There was no ex-
cuse but Ignorance for such a mistake.
! The constitution provides for holding
elections biennially, This is 3 simple,
! plain fact. IL was easy for the legisla-
/ tufe to have enacted laws to secure this
result. As it is, the people have to suf-
4 fer for the Ignorance Of a set OF Legislators
4 who have about as much ability to make
/ laws for a great commonwealth ss they
/ have to calculate the time of the next
/ eclipse of the sun. 1t seems, now,
| that a question that could have been
settled in an hours time by any
man Of sense, is to cause this State
endless trouble and confusion. The
Radicals are directly responsible for this
state of things. They made the cOnsti-
tuition; they control the legislature; aud
they have thrown this State into this
objectionable imbrOgliO. We under
stand that in this county we have two
sets of officers sworn in, and we presume
| il is the case all over the State. How
a decision of the supreme court on the
question, it is to be hoped We will at
least know which master we have to
serve. But, even then, it is by no
means certain that this will be acquiesc-
ed in by the defeated party. The peO-
pie, We suppose, can do nothing but
wait and see which side shall have the
right to take from them something, in
return for worse than nothing.
From the Tupelo Standard
Governor Powers has notified the
members of the old legislature to meet
at Jackson on the twentieth day Of jan
uary ensuing-the time prescribed by
law-for the purpose of entering upon
the work of legislating for the State.
From the Canton MALL
The people will mark the Just from |
the unjust, but do not want the political
ship swamped merely for the sake of |
gratifying one or two old salts who |
have lost their reckoning. If Governor
Powers has the interests Of the State so
much at heart az he processes, let him /
acknowledge that Ames was fairly |
elected, for fairly elected he
certainly was. Let him refuse
this. and the fate of Louisiana,
or even worse, will be ours. Can We
complain if congress inteTferes, should
we have two governors and two iegisla-
lures, when one is sufficient? Who
would not pray that congress might in
terfere should this be the case? Should
the conservative people Of Mississippi
believe that Powers was for them, SIM
ply because he is opposed to Ames?
Surely not, for "by his acts shall ye
judge him. The whole gist Of the
matter is. he IS for Powers, and, with
his clone Jack Morris, proposes to
have little game that is to ''plsy the
deuce, with the State.
From the Corinth News.
1t is confidently hoped and with
good reason believed, that Governor
Powers will make no strenuous
opposition to the newly elected of
Ulcers taking theiT seats. Whatever
may have been the sentiments Of the
intelligent portion of the people few
months ago, now the almost unanimous
voice is, obedience to the laws and the
constitution. The taxpayers are indif-
ferent as to whether Powers or Ames'
friends hold the reins of government,
but they wish for no distractions to be
placed in the way of the proper execu-
ton of the laws. They are weary of
this ceaseless turmoil and strife; they
have become lisgusted with greedy pol
iticians contending for place, merely to
advance their own selfish schemes, re-
gardlcss of the interests OF the people.
Governor Powers, if left alone, is not a
bad man, but he has permitted himself
to be influenced and controlled by
shrewd men, who have used him as a
cats paw to pull the chestnuts out of the
fire. There are not a dozen impartial
men in the State, and only one or two
papers, that sustain him in refusing to
yield his office to his more successful
rival.
From the Jack son Pilot
Governor Powers, being now all that
there is left in the conspiracy lately
formed in the State for defeating and
defrauding the people, is receiving the
Of all the newspapers of Mis-
sissippi. In fact, he is the worst abused
man in the community. The curses
which Senator Alcorn set loose are Ie-
turning TO Powers t'tO roOst, and among
them comes AlcOrn ia bFOpr6d persOR0.
1t certainly is rather too bad that the
mere tool, the stOlid instrument, should
receive all the anathemas consequent
upon failure. Yet we cannot find it
in US to attempt to stand forth in his
defense. We did so, some months
since, during the efforts of other J
journals to fasten all of the Onus
Of the railroad subsidy matter to his
skirts, and we were honestly of the
opinion that he was therein more sinned
against than SHINING, but in this latter
phase of his administration we desire no
part or share, and will not attempt to
set him right. he is wrong. He was
wrong. His companions and cOnfeder- I
ates were wrong, and they knew it, yet
acted with the full knowledge Of the
inevitably to occur, and
they and he shall, as far as we are con-
cerned, receive the complete reward for ,
their villainies. "Let the CALLED jade
wincew Let the governor learn in the ,
future to be honest, politically, as we i
still believe him to be personally and So !
cially.
From the OkolOna Prairie News
The whole scheme Of the cOnspiratOrs
Is too silly and contemplate for the Re ]
publican party to bite at, and the legis- $
.ature, which will meet on the third 4
Tuesday of this month, will inaugurate ;
General Ames without paying any at !
tention to the howl Of Powers. Moth !
ng short of this will satisfy the great !
of the people Of the State, and l
as the legislature represents the will of
he people, the work will be done swiftly |
and efectually.