The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-09-13
,,o~.ounI sk etch of John 7. H"ii'
GreenDaccO- BulIdozo C"ndidete
For state senator From h"n-
hin and Kinds Counties

saveral of our friends, during the past
week. have indicated q desire to know WHAT
,ha editor of The COMET was going to say
a., re,,v IN Jno T. Hull's slosh in his hide
naodent of last week. Our reply to them
now is that we have nothing to say about
that. The COMET has no taste for throw
inc mud with blackguards; nor no desire to
waste its space upon fools. long time
400. W. d. Roy, once prominent Journal
ist of Mississippi, poured out column OF
billinpsgate upon Geo. d. Prentice, then
editor of the Louisville Journal, and wound
No his rude TRADE with the question; Nov
how does the editor of the Louisville Jour
ma, feel pu To all of which Prentice replied
ave feel like gentleman who had slept all
NIGHT under a buzzard's roost. When
Henry Ward Beecher was lnterrogated
about the dirty onslaught OF victoria
Woodruff, he said: "No gentleman hkes
to have A chambermaid empty bucket OF
slops upon his head
OF course, we do not pretend to any par
tioular qualification of pride III beng the
REGIMENT of the "bucket of slops, OF OF
the results of the ''buzzard's roost in the
Isst Iudependent. With John L. Hull, the
individual, we have nothing to do or to
saw, that would do violence to the supreme
contempt we have for the creature ana MS
shallow pretensions. But with John L.
uull the Greenback candidate for STATE
Senator. the agitator and stirrer up of strife
and race discord, we propose to speak, we
know that we have political right not TO
saw duty, to ventilate the character and
animus of this newly fledged oracle.
The first we hear of this rising genius
was when he was the hero of dazzling eA-
nloit in 1875, The negroes of Clay Groves
Church, few miles from jackson, were
anxious about how they should vote. They
came to d. p Porter, ESD, and asked nm
to invite some prudent and Conservative
Democratic speakers to address them ME-
Porter invited Judge Johnston and ohVer
Clifton to address the colored men. These
oortlemen made sensible and conservative
sreeches, produced good impression, and
annarently, captured the crowd of colored
voters But the genius, the rising man, the
embryo United States Senator, was also IN
vitod and came inoportunely upon the
SCENE. and. of course, he had to make
speech. He opened his remarks, subStan'
tally, as we are informed, in this style
~ am Just from Raymond "-(here he
shook his name menacingly,) land on my
way to this place met Eugene Weloorn'
more vigorouss baking of name, )--"he nae
8 shot gun!'--[ here he threw his body INTO
theatrical contortion, and twisted his face
into tragic distortion, reached down be
hind him and pulled olt long Navy SIX
and waving it triumphantly in the air, ex
claimed) 'but THIS is MY argument !"
The effect was electrical, but the result
was that tho vote of that crowd of darkie
for the Democratic ticket was lost w
understand that he denies the truth OF thu
statement, but this is n useless tamperinf
, with truth, as we are prepared to establish
: it by three truthful and responsible witnes
SEES, who heard the performance.
The next public mark of the genius an
> rising man and embryo United States sen
q ator, was his application for license to prac
tice law in 1877, before the Circuit Court
a Kinds county. The Court appointed Messrt
Nueent. Clifton and james Shelton to ex
, anime him in open court. In the examine
tion. however, he showed that he knew q
much about law as he now knows abou
finances, which is exactly nothing.
, missed fire on every question except one
and answered it imperfectly. OF cours
he failed to get license. But few month
afterward he applied to the Supreme Cour'
; WAS examined by a committee outside {
r the Court room, and was duly licensed
. Possibly the attorneys appointed by tt
:. Supreme Court were satisfied that no gree
:, harm would result to the profession or
= Justice, from the granting to him OF hceni
9 to practice law, since there was nothing
= his knowledge of law or his chances IL
clients which would ever be likely to CIV
l. him any practice
It NAV be inferred that as the genius hi
-. suddenly become reformer and possess
with so much political virtue that he
bound to oppose the Democratic party b
cause it has Gas he alleges) failed to Carl
out It's pledges, that he has ceased to be
bo bloody bulldozer.
u. Not bit of it. He started out, app
rently, in this canvass with his war pal
on. He holds himself down still to his re
ular fighting weight. Only few ola
10 - ago, an Independent meeting was had
Rankin county at Spring Hill. Col Ste
art. Democratic candidate for State Senate
and Gen. Wharton, inofensive private CT
~ zen, attended. The1e was crowd OF t'
or three hundred we are told when Ge
y Wharton and Col Stewart drove up-t'
w sober, staid, elderly citizens, with famill
bo and grown children, with exemplary chs
nd acters at home-surely they presented
,al martial appearance calculated to strike &C
To- sternation to such an assembly as that. y
-, the impression seemed to prevail among
n, reformers that these two men came out
ho bulIdoze the meeting. Col. Stewart
=, Gen. Wharton simply asked for divisi
ota of time, and John T. Hull, the Genius
- Greenback oracle of Kinds county, and CT
didate for State Senator-replied
10, :" We want no trouble, gentlemen, bm
os, are prepared for it I"
Suppose we were to go into the Office
in our friend Judge Alcorn, man with VIII
H. We have never had any personal quarrel,
'Ai 1;aoo,,.io, ond cav. GsSee here. Judge