The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-02-07

THE Memphis Avalanche wants 20 know
what we mean by termng Senator'S Lamar
and George Conservatives. There are two
wings to the Democratic party in this
State. Lamar and George. belong to the
liberal. Just, antisectional wing, while
Barksdae and Singleton belong TO the ex.
IRENE, anything.to-win wing. Barksdale
approved and apologized for the Yazoo and
Rankin Affairs Lamar and George never
did and never viii .-Vicksburg Herald.
The foregoing appeared in the Vicks-
burg Herald soon after the Senatorial /
election. 1t is still on its rounds in the |
newspapers where the facts are not
known, and is making false history,
which, in justice to ourselves and to
others, ought to have been noticed
sooner. The Herald has no authority
from the public acts and expressions Of
Judge George to classify him different
" from Messrs. Singleton and Barks-
dale. They all belong to the same par
ty and their political acts have been in
thorough accord As we have before
said, Judge George was elected on his
own merits NJ Democrat, who had
rendered the State signal service in
Kidding it Of alien rule and corrupt nd
ministration, aud ~ wise aud patriotic
statesman thoroughly imbued with love
for the people and II capacity to serve
them in any sphere Of public duty He
has made no record differing from that
Of Mr.. Singleton and Mr.. Barksdale.
For year past, he has been on the
Supreme bench of the State, and there.
fore could not have mingled in the can
vass Of 1879; but no man has right
to say from his antecedcnts that he
would not have approved what the in
telligcnt and orderly people of Yazoo
felt themselves called upon to do to pro-
tect the peace Of their community and to
} prevent the organization Of strife, vio-
lonce and crime in their midst No one
has authority to forecast his course
when he takes his seat in the Senate
He has committed himself to no man
policy except as it s written in his owl
b record, and that does not prove him t,
be more conservative nor less n Bour
bon, whatever those terms mean, thar
I Messrs Singleton and Barksdale.
The prctencc is false one that Mr.
4 Singleton has not been conservative
I enough in Congress to satisfy the pco
t pie of Mississippi; or that he could not be
trusted in the Senate as safe, discreet
e and at the same time, courageous, pub
lie agent His Bourbonism consisted
in nothing that he had said, or done tC
10 disturb the harmony Of the two sections
or TO interfere with the programme of
cancellation, but in his vote for the re-
? monetintion ofsilver, and the respect
} he had shown for the will of the people
as expressed through their Legislature
on that important question In
all the long struggle of the Dem
ocratic Representatives for that meas
urc Of justice to the people, he
occupied no doubtful position. lie
represented his constituents. faithful.
ly, and thus his conduct was in marked
contrast to that of Mr. Lamar, who had
set up his own Judgment in opposition
to the will of the people, and had AFRO
gated for himself more wisdom thar
was possessed by the Legislature tt
which he was accountable,
Mr., Singleton, not being guilty o
those things, in the estimation of som,
people, is Bourbon. Hence, he anC
Mr., Barksdale who has endorsed BIZ
course and that of the other Repre-
= sentatives from Mississippi, ON tina
subject, "belong to the extreme wing.