The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-31

The Trufh al the Bottom of the
New Orleans Times-Mi~~is-
sfppi Well.
Interview with she Hon. Mr..
Catchings.
N o. Pcayune ]

n. o. Hcavune
Apropos OF the incorporate and uniusti-
liable assaults made bv the Times on the
peopieof Mississippi in a supererngatory Ia
Dor OF SANDER, we may record the substance
81 statement made yesterday by Hon. T
Z. Catchings, the only candidate for the
Attorney Generalship of the State, and who
was passing through here on n canvassing
tour TO Mississippi City when the writer
met him.
Mr.. Catehings promised his statement by
a general allusion to the happy effects pro-
duced by the establishment of the Govern
ment OF the people and the overthrow of
Radicalism in high places. As with the
'eopie OF Louisiana under like rule, the
great grievance of the so-called Republican
ADM niStratIon was the excess of taxation
and the general EN- barrasSmeuts it produce
ell, besides the heavy obligations which
each successive year of intolerant extrava-
gance imposed on the shoulders OF the rid
den taxpayers. Immediately after the alb
dication of Ames and the assuCl ption of
gnbernatoriai authority by Stone, the ex-
penses of the Government were reduced to
less than one-half. For 1876 the State tax
was reduced to 81 mills on the dollar: this
year 1t was brought down to five mills and
Mr.. CatchingS thinks that within two wears
1t will De diminished to the nominal sum of
two and half mills. All the debts con-
tracted under Radical rule have been faith
fully met as they matured, and, with the
exception of sporadic cases of disorder
which are just as likely to break out in
Ohio or Massachusetts at any time, and, in
fact. do so, the public peace has not for years
been so well preserved, or the arts of pub
lie prosperity so favorably improved. As
the kemper county outrage has been so
much quoted. aud Gov. Stone held up by
Radical papers like the New Orleans Times,
on an
ALLEGED AND SLANDERoUs
charge of inacti sity in the matter, Mr..
Catchings stated that Gov. Stone has done
all which the law warranted him in doing
and the Grand Jury has found true bills
against thirty-siX residents of the county
for supposed participation in the murders.
Mr.. Catchings does not attempt to apollo
gize for the latter any more than the Attor-
ney General of Massachusetts should be
expected to find an excuse for the atrocities
Of Pomeroy, the boy murderer of Boston,
He showed that Gov. Stone had done his
duty in the premises, and the next labor de-
yolved upon thejudiciary
Mr.. Gatherings is positive that no such or
ganizatiOn as by described by the Times ex-
lists in Pike county. He says it is evident
that some outrages have been committed,
which must be lett to the inevitable deter
minatiOn of the courts, but he does not see
in this a fair pretext for wholesale de-
nunciation of people, ninetenths of
whom were open in their reprobation of
the Individual acts. Even what has been
committed, he says, has been grossly
exaggerated, and there is no more
probability of a renewal of the acts than
there is in any portion of the entire coun-
try. Whatever has been done was the Off
spring OF monetary passion, for which the
actors alone are responsible. lie is notable
that both kemper and Pike are white coun-
ties, consequently the political cry of negro
persecution cannot be sustained. Col.
Faulkner, the private secretary of Gov.
Stone, and now candidate for Secretary of
State, visited Pike county and reported that
police and judicial cognizance.
Mr.. CatchingsSNas very emphatic in his
assertions that the Government OF Missis-
sippi was able to take care of itself with
out any dictation from the Times, and offers
the record of the administration, with the
general peace which has prevailed since
the uprootal of carpet bagging lawlessness
and, spoliation, in proof of the fact.