The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-01-30

70 IL. Editors Of The Carsoa

To the Editors Of the Clarion
roget To observe that your Venerable
AID distinguished confseTe, Judge Watson
tire very abb. and learned I'd r Of tie
Holy Springs South, Is liz fag.ir Df the re-
app .intment. b. Governor SEane- OF two ei
TIE most prominent officials in Mississippi
| refer to the proposed re appointment Ol
the Hon. III. T. Simrall, Chief justice OF the
Supreme Court. and that of DR.. Wm. n.
Compton, Superintendent of the Lnnatie
Asylum.
IL is not necessary to my present purpose
to question the ability Of either of the gem
tlemen named. 1t is sufficient for me TO
know that Chief ustice Simrall is not sup
ity and legal learning TO be found either in the
State. or in his immediate judicial district.
In like manner, we may concede abundant
ability To DIR. Compton, but VIII any one
have The hardihood TO claim that he Is the
only physician in Mississippi who is capable
of managing the Institution over which he
has d. esided SO long? [ do not credit any
such absurd assumption. The medi-
cal and the legal profession in our
State can each boast a large number OF
gentlemen of ability, purity of character,
and profound professional learning.
coupled with large experience and high
aud honorable sense OF duty and response
biIity both professional and official, and it
is a calumny upon the noble professions of
law and of medicine to assume that the
equal of Chiet-Justice SimIall, as a Judge,
or the equal of DIR Compton. as a Pbysi-
clan, cannot be found in Mississippi. Judge
Simrall came upon the supreme Dench OF
the State with Judge PeytOn, and jonathan
TaFbell. They were each the appointees of
that Radical renegade, James l.. AIcOrn,
and as long as he was in power, his organ
the Mississippi Pilot, continued 10 announce
that he placed none but Republicans in
office. Judge Peyton has been gathered TO
his fathers. aud do not propose TO disturb
his rest Jonathan Tarbell was called to
Washington to fatten upon the spoils OF Of
flee. He is now revel1ng In position
where he eats the bread of idleness, and he is
paid for most incapable and inefficient SER
vice with money wrung from the impover-
ished taxpayers of the cOuntry / do not
propose to disturb Jonathan, or to deprive
him of his ill-gotten gains. That matter
will be- attended to early in 1881, after
Democratic President is installed in office.
Chief Justice Simrall came into office in
Company with Radicals, he is the appointee
of Ra zeal Governor, and as all OF his
tribe are being retired, 1 have only TO So
that the people Of the State desire to see him
follow suit Just as soon as his present term
of office expires. He mounted the Supreme
Court Bench with Radical carpet-bagger,
he upheld the reign of Radicalism until the
people rose in their might and destroyed
the foul monster and it is most proper that
he should share the fate of Tarbell. l be-
lieve no one had the temerity to suggest the
reappointment of Tarbell, and see no more
propriety in reappointing the Chief Justice.
Ii the redemption of Mississippi and the
restoration of Home Rule had depended
upon the will or the efforts of II. F.
Sim rail-, the rule of the robbers would have
been eternal. As the Democrats who achiev
ed the independence of the State are in
power, Judge Simrall should be permitted
to return 10 the shades of private life, with
abundant leisure to muse upon the vanity of
human expectations
DIR. Com ton has not only been a radical
Republican, but he has been one of the most
aggressive and offensive OF the whole tribe.
From the alembc of his fertile brain was
evoked many of the most Odious aud often
siVe measures ever sought TO be imposed
upon free people, and it would be an insult
to the intelligence of the State to keep him
in office one hour after his term expires. Let
him, too, retire to private life, there to re-
fleet upon the ruin he aided 10 bring upon
his own people.
nave no idea that Gov. Stone dreams of
re-appOinting either Judge Simrall or DIR.
Compton, but if he should send in
the name of either, THE PEOPLE LOOK TO THE
SENATE to right such wrongs by prompt
and unanimous rejection Of either or both.
Simrall or Compton.
The Democracy OF Mississippi did not en-
gage in a long. arduous and bitter struggle
for the redemption of the State from Rad
ical rule, merely to perpetuate the power of
Radical office holders, and they will not
calmly brook such action. Politicians may
wriggle and twist as much as they like, but
the honest masses demand that every stall
in the Augean stable shall be thoroughly
cleansed and purified. PUBLIcoLA.