The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-01-24
The Political Revo1asIom In Slisa
siss7Ppi and the Causes shat
Produced It.

.ravagance which had aroused all classes
against it, and produced an invincible
on the part of the PEG
pie to rid the State of its rule. The
Times itself furnishes the most conclusive
answer to its present statements as to the
cause Of the political revolution in this
State. 1t opposed the regular organiza-
ton of the Republican party with un-
bounded zeal in 1874, and charged it
with being responsible for the evils
which it appealed to the people to remedy.
As late as September, 1875, it contained
the following suggestion of revolutionary
means for overthrowing the rule Of the
Radical eorruptionists in Kinds county:
Ii VIGOROUSLY bad aud corrupt men are
permitted to direct The GfatrS Of the heretofore
peacefa aud lar abiding cCtsHty Of Kinds,
NAV We not respOnsibly anticipate repeti-
ion here of the scenes OF disorder, violence,
and bloodshed by which Warren county has
al ready been disgraced!
This question J1as put 10 as yesterday by q
prominent coiored Republican, and re unhest-
tattngly dnsleered, Yes.
which wrought in the public mind a
determination, that nothing could shake,
TO throw off the yoke Of the corruption
lists, we will cite the following extract
from a petition which was addressed to
the Republican Legislature in December
1874, by the jackson Republican Club:
To The honorable Senate and House Of Rep
reseatGtiUeS Of the State Of Mississippi:
s.Nhereas the debt OF the State has grown
so large, and is still increasing with such
fearful rapidity, and the taxes have become
so enormous that they threaten the gradual
contiscation of property in the payment OF
these taxes; and whereas the members OF
fha prcseut Legislature, before they were
elected, promised reform aud retrenchment,
and rigid economy in the administration OF
the government; and whereas the people
are becoming restless and uneasy, and have
inst cause 10 be alarmed at the present con-
dition of things-the large aud rapidly in
creasing dent of the State, the enormous
expenses Of tile government, the burden
some taxatiOus to meet these expenses, ana
the failure of the Legislature 10 retFench
and reform as promised, and 10 administer
the government with rigid economy; and
whereas the great excess of legislation, Oc-
casioned by the too frequent meetings OF
the Legislature and the long protracted ses-
sions the repeating, amending and modify
inc of the old laws, and enacting loosely
made new ones, have made many OF the
laws so obscure and uncertain that it Is al
most impossible to understand them there
fore
Resolved, That the Republican Club of
the city of jackson appeals most earnestly
to the Justice, moderation, and wisdom OF
the meiubers of the Legislature to remeaA-
Der their promises OF reform aud retrench-
ment, made to the people, and adopt sucn
measures as will prove to the burdened and
oppressed taxpayers that they were honest
and sincere in those promises, and that they
intend to carry out the pledges OF economy
thus made.
1t has become history that this
remCnstrance against the abuses TO
which the State had been subjected I'M
der Republican rule, and petitions for
redress, were treated with contempt by
the Republican Legislature.
In reference to the prevalent corrup-
tons of the cabaI which controlled the
State, Hon. j. s. Morris, Attorney Gen
eral. in letter to the aforesaid club,
used this emphatic and prophetic Ian
guage:
The evils which have for some time past
afflicted all classes of our people. are attrlD-
utable. in large degree to the desertlon by
high Republican officials of the principles
of the party, to willful and tlagrant viola
tons of the constitution which they are
sworn to support. These are well known
to every intelligent man in the State, ana
,ciH be 1oidely and universally discussed, er-
posed and punished IN The nert election.
In 1875 the evils here so forcibly de-
scribed were discussed and exposed,
and they were also punished" by pop
ular verdict of 81, 900 majority against
the party which had perpetrated them.
Who will aver in the face of such
high Republican testimony, that the
verdict was not just, and that il
was produced by any other than legiti
mate and proper agencies springing
directly from the reason and con
viction of the people? Revolutions dc
not go backwards. The party which
was elected in 1875 to reform the evils
complained of, discharged its obligations
faithfully. The masses Of the people Of
| all classes were satisfied with the result
1t was not in human nature for them tC
return to the slough OF despond from
which they had extricated themselves
They had experienced taste of gooG
government and were determined to adj
here to it. None more than the colorec
population realized the benefits of the
change. The consequence was an int
creased Democratic majority in the
Presidential election. The charge o.
bulldozing aud fraud is a false and shall
low expedient of office, holders who are
striving to win by tampering with the re-
turns what they have lost fairly at the
ballot box. Mississippi is Democratic
by so, 900, and the vipers may gnaw the
| file to their hearts content.
BILLS have been introduced in the
! Ohio Legislature to allow railroads anG
express companies to charge for storag'
on unmarked packages, and to punish
the obtaining of signatures to Commercial
paper by false pretenses the same as fol-
forgery.
In the Ohio Legislature a resolution
was adopted calling on the railroad com
missioners to inquire and report what rail
roads in the State, if any, are running
cars without being properly equipped
with bridges and guards between the carr
as required by law.
REFERRING to the Democratic caucu: