The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-08-27

| REPRESENTATIVE SINGLETON visited a1oo
county with Major Barksdale, Chairman OF
the State Democratic Committee, and held a
consultation with the regular" Democratic
leaders They represented TO those leaders
that it would never do to allow an indepen-
dent party to be formed in Yazoo; that II
must be npped in the bud, and that AGO
I and all Mississippi must be kept solid Not
many DAYS had passed before the advice given
bore fruit in the Yazoo uprising On his
return to Jackson, Chairman Barksdale issued
a circular to the "Democratic-Conserva
party" of Mississippi, the concluding para
graph Of which reads a. follows: Relieved
from the menace Of organized opposition,
maiorities are liable 10 become Indifferent to
the maintenance OF their own organizations
and to divide among themselves. 1t should
! be remembered that the reforms which have
been inaugurated can be perfected and carried
out only By rigid adherence to the dlsclP-
line and Observance Of the methods by which
| the victories Of 1875, '76 and - were Won"
! N. Y Tribune.
/ The foregoing has been given as
''facts" in the Tribune, but they are
"falsehoods" out Of whole cloth. Rep
resentative Singleton did not visit
1 Yazoo with the Chairman Of the State
/ Committee, for the latter has not visited
the county since the opening of the
canvass. If the occasion referred to
was the Benton meeting, Representative
Singleton, in his speech never even
alluded to county matters as We have
learned from his own lips. So far as
the language quoted from the circular
Of the Chairman Of the Committee Is
concerned, none but a ninny, or will
full faIsifer would put the Tribune's
construction upon it. The preceding
passages had set forth the importance Of
organization by the formation of clubs
in the different counties and the regular
holding Of meetings, &c, for develop
ing the full strength of the party :
concluding that the reforms which
have been inaugurated can be perfected
and carried out only by rigid adherence
to the discipline and observance Of the
methods by which the victories Of 1873,
rs. and IT were won"-referring of
course, to 'tbe discipline and methods
of organization" previously described.
Nobody ever charged that there was even
a semblance,of bulldozing in 1877 one the
years mentioned; and if violent meas
ures were resorted to in 1875-1S76, it
was a natural result of the bulldozing
and strife-making which had been inau-
gurated by the Radical leaders in the
beginning of their power in this State
and had been strictly kept up by the
systematic persecution, and murder OF
unofending Democratic colored voters
the slaughter of defenceless white men
as in the case of the Clinton riot; and
the attempt to keep in office by mob
violence, notorious malefactors, as in the
case of Warren county. But these de-
fensive measures of the white Democra-
CIV who had been literally driven to the
wall, and had either to surrender their
manhood and succumb on Bonded knees
to an insolent power, drunk with the
blood of innocent victims, or to smite
their oppressor with blow for blow, had
nothing to do with the regular organi
cation of the Democratic Conservative
forces, nor are they any part Of the
discipline" and methods" of organi
zation distinctly referred to in the Cir
cular of the Chairman of the State Com /
mittee. 1t Will be time enough to bring
into activity the methods conjured /
by the lively imagination of the Tri-
bune and its coadjutors when the occa-
sion is made necessary by the leaders Of
the faction opposed to the present adj
ministration of our State Government,
and who We regret to know in some
counties, Yazoo among them, have |
shown a decided disposition to force an
other race issue with its unfortunate re-
suits to the peace of the country. 1t
is this issue which Democrats and Con- |
are doing their utmost to
avert; and which they will avert if pos
sible. The peace and good order Of
society demand it.