The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1877-01-18
The Political EgevOinfion lea Mls-
sissippi and the Causes fnaa
Produced Id.


sissippi was overcome by intimidation
and fraud, and not in consequence OF the
corruption, maladministration and ex-
travagance which had aroused all classes
against it, and produced an invincible
determination on the part of the PEG
pie to rid the State of its rule. The |
Times itself furnishes the most conclusive
answer to IFS present statements as to the
c1use of the political revolution in this
State. 1t opposed the regular organiza-
ton of the Republican party with I'M
bounded zeal in 1874, and charged it |
with being responsible for the evils
whichit 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 corruptionists in Kinds county
Ii VIGOROUSLY bad and corrupt men are
permitted to direct the affairs Of the heretofore
peaceful anu laao abiding county Of Kinds,
may we not responsibly anticipate a repeti-
ion here of the scenes of disorder, violence,
and bloodshed by which Warren county has
! al ready been disgraced?
| This question aoas put TO as yesterday By q
prominent cotored Republican, and zoe unhesi-
! tdtiHgly dnSlcered, Yes.
In further explanation of the casues
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 petition which was addressed to
the Republican Legislature in December
1874, by the Jackson Republican Club:
To the honorable Senate and House Of Rep
resentatiUes of the State of Mississippi
'Whereas 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
cOnfscatOn Of property In the payment OF
these taxes; and whereas the members OF
the present Legislature, before they were
elected, promised reform and retrenchment.
and rigid economy in the administration OF
the governments; and whereas the people
are becoming restless and uneasy, and have
Just cause TO be ALARMED at the present con-
dition of things-the large aud rapidly in
creasng DEBT of the State, the enormous
expenses of the government, the burden
| some taxations to meet these expenses, and
the failure of the Legislature to retrcnch
and reform as promised, and to administer
} the government with rigid economy and
whereas the great excess of legislation, Oc-
) casioned by The too frequent meetings OF
the Legislature ana the long protracted ses-
siOns, the repeating, amending. and modify
= ing of the old laws, and enacting loo 'ely-
! made new ones have made many of the
laws so obscure and uncertain that it is al
r most impossible to understand them there
fore
Resolved, That the Republican Club of
t the city of Jackson appeals most earnestly
to the justice, moderation, and wisdom OF
the members of the Legislature to reme1l
Der their promises of reform and retrench-
ment made to- the people, and adopt such
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.
e 1t has become history that this
5 remembrance against the abuses to
C which the State had been subjected I'M
s der Republican rule, and petitions foi
l. redress, were treated with contempt by
the Republican Legislature.
y In reference to the prevalent corrup
n tions of the cabal which controlled the
n State, Hon. j. S. Morris, Attorney Gen
: eral, in letter to the aforesaid club
II used this emphatic and prophetic Ian
guage:
i The evils which have for some time pas
|. afflicted all classes of our people, are attrib
Is utable. in a large degree to the deserti0n bJ
: high Republican officials of the principle
: of the party, to willful and fragrant viola
tons of the constitution which they ar
to
IS to every intelligent man in the State, an,
= ,eW be Widely and universally discussed, er
posed and punished tn the neat election.
! In 1875 the evils here so forcibly de
scribed were discussed and exposed,
and they were also punished" by pop
5 ular verdict of $1,000 majority agains
u u the party which had perpetrated them
1t Who will aver in the face of sue
n high Republican testimony, that tn
tie verdict was not just, and that
was produced by any other than legit
Is mate and proper agencies springin
le directly from the reason and cor
y viction of the people? Revolutions d
+ not 60 backwards. The party whic
u was elected in 1875 to reform the evil
4 complained of, discharged its obligation
IS faithfully. The masses of the poonlo o
all classes were satisfied with the result
= = 1t was not in human nature for them t
of return to the slough OF despond iron
. which they had extricated themselves
N They had experienced taste of goo
n government and were determined to ad
" here to it. None more than the colore,
] population realized the benefits of tn