The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-02-10
The EhectofSctting Aside Dem
era - fO Give Esud5cnIs TNn:cn

TO Give Radicals Office.
In November last, the good people
Of Mississippi rose in their might,
were terribly in earnest, and achieved
a brilliant victory orer tho robbers
and plundercrs of our fair State, aud
have, since that day, INDUCED the
hope that the fruits of that victory
would not be lost. but that united eff
forts would be made to rescue all
possible power from our late oppres-
scrs and place it i'll the hands of tried
and honest men. The great mass of
the people expect this much at least,
though the change might prove, in
some instances, n failure. IT is con-
coded. on all hands, that The Demo
cratic party has patriotism, talents.
learning and honesty ut least equal
to the Radical party, and can fill all
offices as acceptably to the people and
rs efficiently for the public service as
the Radical party possibly could.
Then, if all things ale equal as re-
CARDS fitness for office, surely the
Democratic party should lose no OPP
portunity to place Democrats in pow
er. without any exception. This is
fair, right and just. And if we look
back on the official course of Alcorn
and Ames. we can not find an in
stance where either appointed Il Dem
ocrat ii he could find a Radical at all
fit for the place. Alcorn could have
served the public interest and have
reflected honor upon himself Nnd
State by appointing Hon. William L.
Sharkey Judge Of the Supreme Court:
but hc would not ever give him a
Chancellorship nor the Law Profess
sorship at Oxford, not because he was
unfit, but simply because he was not
in full accord with Alcorn's. Radical
views. With the proscriptive and
ruinous policy of Alcorn and Ames-
and the whole Radical p%arty--in dis
regarding the public interest to sub
serve partisan ends, surely the Demo-
cratic party is justifiable in putting
none but Democrats in office, when
it is paIpable that the public veal
will be promoted thereby.
We desire calmly to call attention
10 what would likely occur if pro-
nounced Radicals shall be put in
office. or all those who now are in
office, it may be safely affirmed hat.
though they may have voted with US
last fall, not one of them can be relied
on from his previous course or dec
larations to vote with us in the COM
ing Presidential election, and if they
are retained in office. next summer
and fall, we will witness Judges and
appointed and confirmed
by DemOcrats-over and above good
and true DemocratS-goipg about,
electioneering and caucusing and at
tending Loyal Leagues in the interest
of the nominee of the Radical party,
perhaps Morton, or Grant, or Blaine.
This state of affairs would exhibit a
wonderful degree Of liberality on the
part of the Democratic party. 1t
would be amusing but for the great
it would inlict upon the Dem
party, directly in giving those
the power to i~njure us, and
indirectly in discouraging those good
and true men who were set aside by
own party friends to make room
for Radicals.
Our party should consider that we
be just to our W people and
just TO the State before we can afford
10 push Il OWL good and true men
aside to give place TO Radicals who
would be bowling for Alnes
and his crowd, if they had not seen
their downfall was inevitable, and
come in at the eleventh hour to swell
I victory already won.
The appointment of Radicals to Of
fee will strike a severe blow to the
party, and it should con-
we'll before it does an act so
to its own success and so de-
inoraliZing to the party.