The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-11

LIE Mempn1S ANaIancle wants 70 know
what we mean by terming Senators Lamar
and George Conservatives. There are two
wings to the Democratic party in this
State. Lamar and George belong to the
liberal. just, anti-sectional wing, while
Barksdale and Singleton belong TO the ex
IRENE, any thing-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 Vickz
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 Il
others, ought to have been noticed
sooner. The Herald has no authorit,
from the public acts and expressions 0.
Judge George to classify him different
" from Messrs. Singleton and Banks
dale. They all belong to the same par
ty and their political acts have been il
thorough accord. As we have before
said, Judge George was elected on hi,
own merits as a Democrat, who had
rendered the State signal service in
Kidding it of alien rule and corrupt at
ministration, and as wise aud patriotic
statesman thoroughly imbued with love
for the people and 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 IA right
to say from his antecedents that he
would not have approved what the in
telligent 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-
lence 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 mans
policy except as it is written in his own
record, and that does not prove him to
be more conservative nor less Bour-
bon, whatever those terms mean, than
Messrs. Singleton and Barksdale
The pretence is false one that Mr..
Singleton has not been conservative
enough in Congress to satisfy the peo-
pie of Mississippi; or that he could not be
trusted in the Senate as a safe, discreet
and at the same time, courageous, pub
lie agent. His Bourbonism consisted
in nothing that he had said, or done to
disturb the harmony of the two sections,
or to interfere with the programme of
Cancellation, but in his vote for the re-
monetization of silver, 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
ure of justice to the people, he
occupied no doubtful position. He
represented his constituents faithful
", 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 than
was possessed by the Legislature to
which he was accountable.
Mr. Singleton, not being guilty of
those things, in the estimation of some
people, is a Bourbon. Hence, he and
Mr.. Barksdale who has endorsed his
course and that of the other Repre-
sentatives from Mississippi, on that
subject, "'belong to the extreme wing :"