The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-24

Oh, modest Musl It was enough to
make YOU cuss, that Ames should have
refused to appoint you Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor, after you and your friends had
spent about 5000 to get Davis to resign.
The beet laid plans of '-Mu-s" and men
Gang ait aglee.
The foregoing is from the Austin Cot
ton Plant, a Republican paper We
have not seen IA contradiction of the
observation-disclosures CLARION.
We are authorized to assert that not
one penny was spent by Colonel Mus
grove to induce the late Lieutenant Gov
ernor Davis to resign, or for any other
purpose in connection with the matter,
and that he never directly or indirectly
authorized or suggested the expenditure
of money in that behalf Times,
Between the Republican witnesses, We
do not propose to decide, but it will be
seen that the Times does not quite meet
the statement of its cotemporary. 1t is
that ''Modest Mus and his friends had
spent about $500" in the way mentioned
The Times viudicates the boss but says
nothing about "the friends" Not being
behind the curtains we can't say, but the
Cotton Plaut may have drawn the infer
ence because "Modest Mus" was reparted
to have had "a talk" with the late
Lieutenant Governor pending the mat
ter of his resignation, and is known by
an announcement in the Times to have
been suggested by conclave of his
''friends" to Governor Ames for appoint
ment as Lieutenant-Governor. That
there was intense anxiety with the con-
clave for the said appointment is known
to have been felt from the pressure
which they brought to bear upon Davis
to resign and upon Ames to appoint.
The baffi I'd spoilsmen hoped to gain by in
trigue what they had lost at the polls, for
the Times in arraigning Ames for re-
fusing to appoint Musgrove (who, by the
way confesses that he took a large slice
of White Line in his, at the electio NJ
stated that he had thrown away the op
portunity to save the Executive to the
Radicals, and to secure a judiciary of
Radical appointment, and to put the
Radical party on its feet again in Mis-
sissipPi. Whether a dime was "spent"
to accomplish this object, which was
so dear to the wreckers and the i'm
portance Of which to their future pros
poets they did not overestimate, we
are not prepared to say, but the Cotton
Plant made the charge, and the Cotton
Plant has been regarded as orthodox Re-
publican authority.
Here is another statement which we
have not seen contradicted. 1t WAS
given under oath before the senatorial
Committee by no less person than the
head and front Of the Republican party
in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Adelbert
Ames--who, after his resignation Of the
office of Governor, was endorsed by APP
pointment as delegate at large to the Ma
tional Republican Convention
MODEST MUS.
"Belore the election he tMusgrove) was
one of the most earnest supporters
(Adelbert Ames) had, until he failed to get
a denomination as Auditor, the Office which
he held at that time. His only excuse then
for coming out against me and my admins
tration was that there were certain men
on my ticket who were not good men and
since then he has allied himself most
closely with those very men whom he at
that time denounced, and vino furnished