The weekly clarion., 1877-10-31
Keep the Fraud Before ahe Peo.
ME.

The Holly Springs South gives report
OF Governor stones speech delivered in
Tat city, in which he denounced in
strong terms the frauds by which the
will of the people had been defeated at
the last Presidential election. The crime
he said, was one never to be condoned.
Heading its article "Bad Taste" the
jackson Times comments as follows:
We dc not propose to discuss the question.
but merely to remark that His Excelleney
was, IN view OF the peculiar circumstances
under " hich he became Governor, guilty of
at least IN unnecessary display of very mad
taste.
Governor Stones title to the Office,
which he has filled with so much credit
to himself and satisfaction to the people.
cannot be impeached. In 1875 Legis-
lature was elected who were not only
empowered, but instr ucted, to expel
from office the thieves, Cardozo and Da
Wis, and that other head ringster and
arch enemy of the State, Ames, who was
Governor by virtue of bayonets, and to
place in his stead a son of Missjssipni
who was identified with her in eyerv
thought and feeling. In obedience to
that instruction, after Ames had been
turned adrift, the Legislature inaugu-
rated Hon. j. NJ. Stone, then President
OF the Senate, Governor, and for so do
ing IT received the plaudit ''well done"
from every true son of the State He
occupies the Office by the act of the Leg
islature, through the Constitution and
laws, and with the advice and consent of
the people. Without such a warrant he
would not have accepted the place as his
predecessors under the present Constitu-
ton did against the wishes of the gov
erned, and at the hands of Grant, and
with the power Of the bayonet.
What Gov. Stone said at Holly Springs
of the fraudulent Presidency was not
only in good taste, but eminently proper
1t is the duty of every Democrat and
every lover Of the fundamental principles
of the government to permit no opportu-
nifty to pass without denouncing the
frauds perpetrated by the returning
boards Of Louisiana, South Carolina and
Florida, by which man rejected at the
ballot-box has been inaugurated President.
Every member of those infamous bodies
should be sent to the penitentiary, and
the action of the majority of the Electo-
raj Commission (itself an organization
unknown to the Constitution in refusing
to investigate those frauds should be held
up to the contempt of every true patriot.
None deny that the President should re-
ceive the support Of all Southerners in
what he may do right, but no Southern
man can consistently support him in the
appointment of such Radicals as Harlan
on the Supreme Bench, and in rewarding
the members of infamous returning
boards, and those who by their presence
encouraged the frauds that were perpe-
trated by them. When their names
come before the Senate for confirmation
we trust the Democratic Senator's
Northern and Southern alike-will to a
man vote to reject them.
Mississippi especially owes no thanks
to President Hayes. Her sons drove the
Radical theiving ring from power before
he came into office, and the Democratic
House of Congress refused to appropri
ate money to the support of the army
unless it was provided that it should not
be used to sustain carpet-bag govern
ments in the South. This proviso was
rejected by the Radical Senate and the
army was left without funds Instead of
doing any thing for this State, Hayes has,
with the exception of few post offices,
filled every Federal office in Mississippi
with men who voted the black line ticket
in 1875, and who used every means at
their command to keep Ames & Co. in
power. Every appointment which has
been assigned to this State, either at
Washington or abroad, has been given
to carpet baggers, such as g. Whey
Wells and Tarbell, who were driven
from State offices when the people
came to their own. Surely Mississp-
plans need not gush over such generosity.