The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-08-16
THE sENsELEss WAR ON GOV
STONE

1t may be perfectly natural for the Green
back organs in this State, and inc 'ioA'
brro naners TO misinterpret and misrepre'
cot tha conduct and sentiments OF gov,
stone ON the question oil buiidoA'nk w.
wa ara surprised to see journai aS SONS
~. 49, ,he New York Herald, apparently
I,..;no in with them. The Mississippi
organs referred to may, for some potent
reason of their own, desire to get up a cor
mar on tho Governor, and convince in"h,
hind that he Ia directly responsible tor u"
the personal difficulties and family jars
which may transpire in the State and ina,
IL he would only do his duty, NOBODY ~ou''
avar have chance to get mad or cut up !
bpt the New York Herald certainly cannot
have any sympathy with so unjust anu
illiberal a sentiment
Yet the Herald, referring to the ha@oo
matter, gravsly asks, "what Is Gov. o'oho
doinCp" as If Gov. Stone WAS IN the con
6dance Of Dixon, and knew all about hiS
pcendiary attempt to hatch up a war OF
raoas in Yazoo-as If he was advised OF the
nrrnose of the law.abiding citizens Oh
that county to prevent this misohief IN d
manner the law does not recognize luz
u,ho,. affair was over before the Governor
had apy knowledge of its existence, anu
absolute peace restored Would the hetn'
have the Governor call out the State militia
IN make war upon peaceable citizens Tor
crime. If crime it was, subject entirety "
the corrective jurisdiction OF the state
Judiciary? Would 1t have him become
usn,,,er to be the hero Of tarcef Wh!
don't the Herald demand that Gov hoolh'
son call out the New York militia to pu
down Corbin on Ooney Island, FOR eSoluo
Ing the Jews from his summer resort
Corbin has committed a graver onens'
agsinst Constitutional liberty and law thar
Dixon has, perhaps. Certainly a grave
one than the good people Of Yazoo' II I'M
Herald wants Gov. Stone to raise up al
army to put down Dixon, let it make GOV
Robinson raise up an army to put oowi
Corbin.
II ia not true that Governor Stone MAJ
told anv of the disturbers of the pubic
peace that be had no power to suppress
IavIessness, He is as bitterly hostile u
the epirit of bulldozery as any man IN I'll
United States, and he is as ready as al.
Governor in any State to use all the poWe
he has to crush it wherever it lifts lib heao
anS he has as much power as any othe
Governor, His executive prerogatlye, no"
ever does not extend to every little person
al difficulty which may happen in any couh
ty. II was not contemplated by the Ooh
stitntion from which he derives his author
ity that he should rush to the rescue o
every hitter partisan who provokes a nigh
or a row with his opponents Inc state
not under martial law, and the doVerno
is not dictator to arrest and punish Wiz
out warrant of law, nor o constable to jun
in between private belligerents. The JUDI
GARY has a function in Mississippi as
other States, and the power and duties G
the Executive are defined and limited.
The Herald and the venomous htti
Mississippi organs may rest assured that
proper case for gubernatorial interference
occurs, to crush out the mischievous SEED
of bulldozory, Gov. Stone will be pronE
to act; and that too, without reference
the ownership of the OK that Is Gorod'
will be as ready to stretch out his All
against the lawless Independent and Rad
cal Intimidator, as against the Democrat
Balldozer; and papers and gentlemen WI
seem to desire the infusion of a little su
phur into the canvass may as we'll make
, note OF this.