National Republican., 1876-01-10
GOVERNOR AMEs AND Josh" MORRIS.

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GOVERNOR AMEs AND Josh" MORRIS.
The New York Herald of Friday pub
fishes another instsllment of Nordhoff'
Mississippi +'Gush," reinforced by letter
from "Josh" Morris, one of the most noto-
riously unreliable of late Mississippi Re-
publicans. Nordhof gives Morris high
character, and mistakes his ordinary nick,
name of "Josh" for judge, under which
! dignifed and high sounding title he makes
him air, through the columns of the Herald,
his slanderous abuse of Governor Ames
and Mr.. Raymond, the State printer.
Morris accuses Raymond of stealing large
sums through the office of State printer
| and dividing with Democrats This man
Morris is represented by Democrats now
in this city as a manitotally without honor
and credit in the State, and his statements
should be largely discounted unless they
are supported by corroborative testimony.
In regard to the stealing or "plundering
of the State treasury, it may be stated that
the debt of the State now outstanding is
only half million; its expenses of govern
ment last year aggregated only S61S, 259. IS
against $90S, $50. 72 in 1874, and 1858, 030. 13
in 1878, showing reduction under the "plun-
dering" administration of General Ames
of over $500, The disbursements ex-
ceeded the ordinary receipts by $500, S95 in
1871; by S347, 552 in 1872; by S674, 12S in
1878, while in 1874, the first yeal of Ames'
Administration, this system was reversed
and the ordinary receipts exceeded the dis
bursements about $50, 600. and in 1875 by
about 100000.
These are not the figures which are
usually displayed by "plundering" ad-
ministration. The truth is that the Ames
government has been faithfully and
honestly administered, and the fact is ac-
knowledged by Democrats as we'll as Repub-
licans, who have no political ends to serve
by making contrary statements. Gov. Ames
is really in the way of the plunderers
They respect while they fear him. They
gnash their teeth at those statements in his
message which accuse the White Liners or
Democrats with carrying the election by
intimidation, but we notice that the Legis-
lature which so defiantly demanded from
the Governor places and dates of these out
RACES, modified the resolution the next
day, after it had been telegraphed to the
Northern market to one of simple inquiry
into the truth of the statements of the Gov
ernor. This fact the Associated Press
agent, it is supposed, forgot to send on
North. Mr.. Lamar and his friends do not
want the Morton investigation. They
have evidently captured Nordhof, who
now only sees through their spectacles,
although he adroitly enough pretends 10
have received his information from admin
istratiOn sources But there is little doubt
that the Morris letter was prepared at
the instance OF Lamar for the Washington
market, and copy sent on to Nordhof for
publication in pursuance of his old con-
tract TO sustain the revolution so simply yet
graphically described in the Governors
message. The arms Of the State were
seized in trGnSitu on their way to the Capl-
tai by the White Liners so that the militia
could not be organized to put down mobs
and prevent violence, and then this same
armed mob of white Liners ostentatiously
proflered lis protection TO the Government
it had disarmed. This mob, misnamed in
the press dispatches, ''the people" or "thc
citizens" was well mounted, and armed
with sixteen, shooter rifles and revolvers.
1t promised peaceful election and pro.
lection to the voters, and it covered the
polls with its arms, and while playing with
the triggers of their weapons rather sig
nificantly, affectionately advised the negro
citizens and voters to vote the Democratic
ticket or 60 home without voting at all.
The Herald is SO pleased with this Nor
rls letter and Mr. Nordhof7s way of put
ting it that it enforces it by an innocent
editorial calling Senator Morton's attention
to it with as much apparent confidence in
its truth as though it had come from STAN
ley and the interior of Africa. 'The rea-
sons are quite sufficient" says the Her.
aid, (for the revolution of the government.)
1.-THE Republican Governor squandered
" the peoples money on favorites and cor
"rupted the judiciary, and the people
"united to fling him and the faction which
" sustained him from power" How COM
placent and how intelligent A day or
two before this announcement the Herald
had published the fact that Ames had
economical over $500, 900 in State expenses
last year. How he must have squandered
the peoples money, to be sure 1.-THE
Tweed of the Mississippi Ring" was this
man Raymond, says the Herald. Why
Tweed used to spend more on the press of
New York alone annually than the entire
cost of Mississippi State government. How
like the Herald! Allpretence and no con-
sistency