The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-04
THE SUMMIT TIMES

see US, but To our view, it has been
straightforward and consistent.
In no manner, have we attempted to
g make political capital out of the efforts
at reform" On the contrary, We have
urged all parties to cooperate in every
measure of relief, and have been more
than gratified when we have witnessed in
dications of such a movement.
As for Gov. Ames, towards whom it is
alleged captious spirit is shown, no
charge could be more unwarranted. When
he became Governor, it was the universal
feeling of the Conservatives, who had
opposed his election, 10 forget the past
and to give his administration fair trial
They suspended hostilities, and awaited
the development of his policy, determined
to give him cordial support in whatever
was meritorious. But he has given them
no opportunity to display their magnani-
nous intentions. His Administration
has been vilely and unscrupulously par
tizan Pledging himself to reform, in his
inaugural. and admitting that there was
necessity for it, he vetoed the only bill
which passed at the regular session of
1874 to curtail expenditures.
With an oath on his lips to support the
Constitution, he has repeatedly violated
it by ignoring the prerogatives of the
Senate in his appointment of Chancel-
lors Not mindful that the same instru-
ment declares that the Executive aid
Judicial departments of the Govern
ment are Independent of each other, he
has merited impeachment by violating
the sanclity of the latter and attempting
to subordinate it to the will of the Execu-
tive; and even now he wthlolls the
appointment of Chancellor Pcyton of
this district from the Senate for confrma-
ton, because he refused to conform to his
behest in the decision ofan important case.
He has sent out to the world scanda-
lous reports about the white people of the
State, and maneuvered to bring down
upon them the vengeance of the Federal
goverr ment
He has attempted to draw the color
line and to array race against race at the
peril of public peace and good order.
He spoke contemptuously of the
'howling Taxpayers" Con whose sub
stance he is fed, } in his testimony before
the Congressional Committee, though
nine-tenths of the Republican newspapers
have declared that they had cause of COM
plant, and though he himself had
admitted its existence in his message. In
that paper he pointed out numerous in
stances in which salaries could be cut
down, but forgot TO mention that his own
office, with $4,000 in salary and per-
quisites, presented the most conspicuous
opportunity for reform in the State. He
commended to others a virtue which he
selfshly refused to practice.
In the Warren county difficulties he
stood coldly aloof from the payers,
withheld from them his sympathy, which
he bestowed literally upon the officials
whose dishonesty was at the bottom of the
trouble, and misrepresented the motives
and entire action of the former. BY his
own testimony he is responsible for the
blood that was shed at Vicksburg in re-
sisting the invasion of the mob, which, |
under the name of ''posse," he had
urged Crosby to resist, with promise
to stand at ''his back"
To cap the climax, he is even now
striving to organize hell in our State by
the establishment of State Police at an
expense of from 5000, 900 to $500, 900
per annum, knowing well that no more
potent agent of strife and bloodshed
could possibly be devised; and knowing,
that Notwithstanding all the
to violence which naturally
result from wicked government, no State
IN the Union presents a more shining ex-
ample of good order and obedience to law
han Mississippi.
These things we have seen. They
would even 'glimmer in blind mans
9ye;" and because We have commented
IN them, it does not follow that we are
extremely partisan, or that we are not !
Wiling and anxious to accord praise when
t is due, and to cooperate with good ;
men of all parties, and bad ones, too, for
hat matter, in removing the mountain
Dad of taxation which is crushing the :
ife-blood out of our people.
Even our respected contemporary of the
Zines, who has taken US to task, has
imself set the example of demonstrating
nth the party in power, and of COM
laining that, having the means to correct :
he abuses which the people suffer, it
as been crlminally remiss. In his issue
f the 7th inst, he expressed Indignation
t the loud professions and small perform :
noes Of the Radical leaders in this very =
natter of reducing expenditures and d.
taxes, and pointed them to the
ite that awaited them, if the righteous !
emanis of the taxpayers for relief are :
OF needed He said: :,
The action of the Legislature, in its r,
cent extraordinary session, did not
eet the wishes of the people, nor di6 =
fulfill the promises made by the Ames II
epublicans In the last gubernatorial
Invass.
The Republican party of this State is p
edged To an economical administration u
public affairs, and to positive reduc- in
Dn of taxes, and unless these pledges tn
e made good, the days of the Republi- in
N party are numbered The party ~