The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-02-15
Something About Ourselves.

never pc diverted IRON Tue uisCuSsIOu VI
public questions to matters that relate to
its own affairs its rule is not to be so
diverted, and rarely do we ever violate it.
We have given affront to one or two
newspapers because we have urged that
the Democratic authorities who are the
peoples agents, shall adhere to the policy
of the people as initiated in their State
Conventions and county nominations
of selecting for the public Offices mem
bers of their own party who have fought
its battles and won its victories and
while we are thus encountering the enc
my in front, and holding with steady
grasp the banner of our party where the
people planted it, We are assaulted i'll
the rear-charged with living in "glass
house." and all that sort of stuff.
First. A statement, as we find it Gre
produced in the virtuous Memphis Aoo-
1anche,) is made that the CLARION shared
the public printing during part Qwo
years. of the Republican regime. Well,
what of it Had not the proprietors of
the CLARION as much right to participate
in the printing branch of the State SER
vice as other Democrats had to share
the labors of the Legislative, the Judi
ciary, or any other department ? Ger
tainly the Democratic members of the
Legislature at that time thought so, and
hence they held a caucus, and of their
own free will and accord, without the
connivance or instigation of the CLAIR
ION, unanimously agreed that they
would secure to it a share of the work,
and appointed committee to notify its
conductors of what they had resolved.
An indispensable condition, be it always
understood, of the programme aOas that the
prices of printing should be reduced, and
they and the CLARION, as its columns
and the Legislative journals of the time
will show, adhered to it faithfully. The
consequence was the immediate death
of one of the rabid Radical organs
here, (the one which had been
conducted with vigor and intrepidity
by that stalwart Republican cham
pion, DR.. Compton, Superintendent
of the Lunatic Asylum which had sub
sisted on the public treasury, and the
gradual downfall of the other. Now,if our
two Mississippi newspaper accusers, and its
Memphis echo. want to know more about
it, let them apply to Governor j. M.
Stone, who presided over the caucus OF
Democratic members aforesaid, and who
has since been Endorsed by the people of
E his District and State; to Senator r. Fl.
Allen; to Representatives H. M. Street
and A. I. Roane, members of the
present Legislature, and of the
: that Legislature and of the old Guard
that never surrendered, but kept the Re-
form flag flying full high advanced when
stout hearts had despaired and given up
the ship as lost And if these witnesses
who were part of all you have charged
against the CLARION, Messrs. censors,
are not sufficient, for further information
apply;to Gen. j. 4. George, who has since
been pretty we'll endorsed as Chairman
: of the State Executive Committee. He
favored the programme, and drew up
the article of agreement by which il
? was carried out,
, Second. 1t is charged in language not
as elegant as it might be, that zone of
the publishers" of the CLARION was tenn
porarily member of so-called Repub-
llcan Club--we say sO-called, because it
was an organization independent of, out
4 side of, and under the ban of, the Ames
ring. AT that time the Democratic party
e had been disbanded, and nine-tenths OF
its members were supporting full.
+ fedged Republican State ticket with
Alcorn at its head. To show
where that "Club" stood ON the re-
form issues of the day, it is only necessa-
ry to quote the following from series OF
resolutions which it adopted. This was
adopted before the memorable Tax-pay-
ers' Convention was called, and its au-
thors have claimed that it was the initial
step of that grand movement, which cul-
minated in the deliverence of the State !:
"Whereas, The burdens of taxation under
which the people of Mississippi are now
groaning are too grievous to be borne;
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"Resolved, That we respectfully present
, to our Legislature, the following sugges-
tions, looking to the accomplishment of the
desired end, and that we urge upon that
body the vital importance of careful con-