Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-25


Communicated recommendation that
No State Convention BE Held This
Ycar--President Hayes Southern
Policy Not the Cause of the Necessity
for This Action.
To the Republicans Of Mississippi. With
an acknowledged majority of more
than 10000 voters, under ordinary cir
cumstances the approach Of a political
event so important rs the election of
State and county officers would bring
together the representatives of the Re
publican party from the several coun-
ties i'll State Convention, to announce
their principles and to nominate candi-
dates; while our opponents, the Demo
Gratis, if they relied for success upon
numbers alone, would doubtless repeat
their stratagem of 1878 ut Meridian,
and disband their hopeless minority.
But this reasonable and logical order
of things has been reversed in Mississip-
pl.
1t is the majority party that now
abandonS the field, and surrenders the
control of the State Government to the
minority. While the Republican party,
with its conceded majority, cannot lind
men in its ranks sufficiently desperate
to aspire to and contend for the State
Offices, the spectacle is presented to the
American people, boastful oftheir liber-
ties, of not less than five Democrats
eagerly and ungraciousy scrambling
for the office OfGovernor, in II confessed
minority, in which, however, the nomi-
nation is confidently regarded as the
assurance of election. This political
paradox may appear strange to the
people of Il State i'll which the ballot is
free. With us it is Il stubborn neccS-
sity.
Your Committee, after carefully con
sidering the situation and prospect, and
after Il very general consultation with
leading members of the party through
out the State, have deliberately con
cludcd to recommend that no State
Convention of the Republican party
shall be held III Mississippi this year,
and that no candidate be nominated.
In protlcrlng this advice, it IS not our
purpose to indulge i'll sullen complaints
or spitetul ordinations.
The facts of history speak for them
selves: tiGud intimidation, amt tiohsnce
hare procticaLy dijfutchiScd tie RepubEcan
palty in this State; and, until the time
shall come when W" can stand erect in
any presence, rs freamcn, and assert
and enforce our rgh ut the ballot-box
we believe it to be the part of wisdom
to retain from the unequal and hope
less contest. With the recollection of
the campaigns of 1870 and 1876 fresh
in our memory, we decline to engage in
a conflict which promises an increase of
bitterness, with equally disastrous re-
suits.
In his cndcavor To elevate the politics
of the country to plane of true patriot
ism and craftsmanship, we tender to
President Hayes all we have to give
om prayerful sympathy and earnest
goodwill. We would respectfully en-
treat those of our Northern as well rs
Southern brethren who, under the in
hucnce of personal grievance and other
causes, inconsiderately com, Jain of his
" Southern policy to remember that
the political condition which we now
deplorc existed long anterior to his ac-
ccsoion to the Presidency, and the course
WHICH we HOW auOpl ilbu DtCollic Il ne
ccSslty.
Before he was ever nominated for
the high Office which he now holds. To
this fact we would direct the special at
tentiun of those who are now most ac-
tive in sowing the seeds of strife against
the President, but who, we we'll remem-
Der, neglected ut the proper time to
adopt the means for preventing the
calamity which the present AdminiStra-
ton, with limited means, seeks to cure.
We have confidence and wisdom in
President Hayes, and, paralyzed asd
poWerlcSs a. Wc are, we profoundly re-
greet any effort, coming from any quar-
ter, to weaken his arm, or which might
tend in the slightest degree to renderun
successful the high experiment IN states
manship which he is now making. 70
obliterate the color-line in politics, to en-
force the laws by the civil power, to rec
ohcile hostile sections, and to bring into
one harmonious national brotherhood
all the conflicting elements Of our COM