The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-02-01
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m, ootemnorary of the Carthagenian
seems to have the idea wedgeo into hishe"u
somehow or other tnat Governor Stone mas
obused somebody who differed with MIN
obout calEng the Legislature together, and
thot 10 characterized part of the press
WHO camored for an extra session "as TOO
ignorant to appreciate the situation
Really this il perversion of the language
of Governor Stone. He abused nobody--he
made no such sweeping charge against inc
rress. The most that he said on this
ro;pt was that editors aud others who had
apparently impugned his motives and
INDUCED in personal onSlaughts upon him.
were influenced more by their zeal for the
cause than by their knowledge of facts,
and that he had the charity to believe
that they really did not so much want to
strike him down and magnify their own
greatness, as they desired to help the AZ
tiicted-that, in word, their course was
the result of unfamiliarity with the facts
in the case This is, in substance, about
what Governor Stone said, and when our
friend of the Carthagenian looks at the
case AGAIN he will see that he has strained
point.
The Carthagenian has dug up another
mares nest. II says ga paragraph in
some one of our State exchanges stated that
Governor Stone proposed to be one of fifty
men to give 81, 900 each to the yellow fever
sufferers. The people wondered naturally
enough why, if Governor Stone desired to
expend 81 900 in this way, he should make
his offer contingent upon the action and
liberality of forty nine other men, when'
if the State were raked with tine>tooth
comb, that number of men able to contr'-
! bute so large a sum could not be found.
| We cannot believe that Governor Stone
made such proposition, and as the sub
stance of the paragraph alluded to above
appeared in our columns at the time, we
shall take pleasure in making any correc~
ton that the facts in the case may warrant.
There was call for $50,000. Governor
Stone recognizing that he had no right or
mower to draw the sum from the State
Treasury, and wholly unwilling to put the
people to the expense of calling the Legis-
lature together, did say, in the presence of
some friends in jackson, that the quickest
and best way to raise the money would be
by private subscription, and that he would
be one of fifty men who would contribute
one thousand dollars each. This PROPOSE :
ton was made by him in good faith, to
| meet the wants of the sufferers and to 81
| lence the clamor for State aid. OF course,
| if the other contributors were not found,
that proposition fell through. The Cartha>
cenians anxiety that he should have gone
forward and paid the 81 900 anyhow, seems
to indicate that it don't clearly understand
the nature of that proposition. And, the
Carthagenan's other forcible expression
| that YOU might rake the State with fine
tooth comb and not find fifty men able to
give $1,000, shows how poorly advised IL
is about the financial standing of many Of
our people. Why there are five Thousand
men in Mississippi more able to give 81, OO(
each than Governor Stone is. There are
moro than fifty men who pay thousanc
dollars taxes each.
Tqere seems to be some straining tx
make this point against Governor Ston'
which our astute confrere will see as sool
as he considers it.