The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-01-09

| EDITORS NLARlON-ln justice To myself
it becomes necessary that give your edito-
rial Of myself and communication in yestcr-
days paper, brief notice In the first
place You seemingly take sides with the
other parties, This you have an individual
right to do If YOU choose to do SO, but rs
| public journalist it is in my opinion nothing
but just that you should be impartial in all
controversies between parties. You state
that do not deny that my name was on
Matthews ticket. TO post you Os to that
my name was ON both the regular tickets
aud Matthews tickets, and had nothing to
do with it in either case. Furthermore, my
name was on tickets gotten up by precincts
| outside of anyonc's ticket except my own
interest Hence this matter about tickets
has no bearing whatever upon any reason
able and honest mans mind when the facts
are known, There is nothing in it to show
that am Radical or any part of such,
As to the votes of our county, Republicans
Independents. II It's said the Independents
are Radicals because they received Repub-
licau votes, the same can be said of the SO.
called regular nominees because they also
| received like votes. Let me say again, the
difficulty in our county originated princi-
pally from the disorderly manner in which
our county convention was conducted. This
have explained in my communication of
yesterdays paper, The next point to which
| it is necessary for me to refer, is that YOU
state, or had so been informed, that had
written letter opposing the Caucus sys.
| tenn" The report is untounded. | have
never written any such letter have
| had nothing to do with the caucus contro.
ycrsy. The last matter to which it is neces.
sary for me to refer, is in the place where
YOU drop of part of my communication
and use this language: "The correctness of
which is denied by Mr., Mcneil in language
that il is not our custom TO admit in our
columns, personal abuse must lee
excluded" The above language referred to
was made in reference 20 statement made
| hv Mr.. Wilkinson. You will do me the
Justice to say that said language was neither
vulgar or protane That the statement was
most emphatic denial of what Wilkinson
had said, that he (Wilkinson) is a personal
enemy of mine-the only one ] knowingly
have-a man to whom | have not spoken in
years, This, sir, claim is due me- that
others may know who it is writing about me.
Yours truly,
J. W. MCNEu.
eve do NOT see anything in the foregoing
meriting special attention. Most assuredly
we intended to express the opinion that Mr..
Mcneil had taken himself outside of the
Democratic organization in running as an
'Independent,n and the fact is virtually adj
mtted. He says his name was con both the
regular tickets'-that is, the independent
and Democratic tickets. His name may
have been printed upon tickets which had
Democratic names as a blind, but it was not
printed upon the ticket authorised by the Dem,
ocrdtic Comfy Committee, and he taows il,
In plain words, he was elected as an "Inde-
pendent" which means opposition to the
Democratic party, and is the equivalent of
Radicalism. As he made his bed he ought
to lie down upon it and be content