The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
ANSWER
To the Vicksburg Herald's Arraign-
ment OF Messrs. Singleton
and Barksdale
In another column we have produced


TO win wing" of the Demo
cratic party and The CLARIoS's answer
We have in the same connection pub
lizhed the Herald's rejoinder which with
due respect, Is a rigmarole of scarcely
tolerable nonsense. The proof that Mr.
Singleton belongs to the extreme wing"
when traced up to the Herald's fountain
head consists of his position on the
currency question, which is wholly ir-
relevant to the original accusation that
he belongs ''to the extreme wing"
which everybody understood to refer
to some peculiar position of his upon
the sectional issues. We will dismiss the
arraignment Of Mr.. Singleton with the
bare statement that his position is in
thorough accord with the large body of
solid enthusiasts following in his can
didacy for United States Senator. and
the support which he has received from
as true a Democratic constituency as
any member Of Congress from the North,
or the South, the East or the West, has
ever represented. The editor of the
Herald may learn a lesson if he will
take time TO compare the meagre sup
port which he himself received from the
Democracy Of Warren county, for State
Senator, with the generous and I'M
stinted support which Mr.. Singleton
has received from the Democracy of his
District
In its arraignment Of Mr. Barksdale,
we are sorry to see the Herald repeat
ing the stale slang Of the opposition
press and orators in the late canvass
about his advice 10 the Democrats to
adhere to the methods Of 1875" Adj
hitting for argument sake the correct
ness of the Interpretation placed upon
this language by the Herald and its al
lies, will they please remember that
the very worthy and acceptible gentle
man who has just been elected
Senator, was Chairman of the Dem
ocratic State Executive Committee
in 1873, when the ''methods" of that
year were invented, and that the worst
that can be said Of Mr.. Barksdale,
according to the Heralds ideas, is that
he was following in the footsteps of his
illustrious predecessor. But we have
often said, and have established
by quoting from Mr. Barksdale's
address that when he advised the OBJ
servance of the ''methods of 1875" he
referred to the plan of thorough organi-
zaton by beat district and county clubs
by which the victory Of that year was
won.
Despairing of its ability to prove that
Mr. Barksdale is an extremist" by
anything he has ever written or said
upon sectional issues, the Herald falls
back upon the charge that he advocates
the unlimited coinage Of silver. Does
the Herald forget that the Mississippi
Legislature in 1878 passed a resolution
in favor Of the RECOMMENDATION of silver
and its UNLIMITED coinage?" Does it
not know that on this subject Mr..
Barksdale is in en- rapport with nine hun
dred and ninety-nine out of every thou
sand voters in Mississippi, and are they
all to be classed as extremists ?" Does
it not know that the Senator-elect occu-
pies the same position; and that the
gentleman whom it preferred above all
others for Senator Gen. WalthalD pub
lished letter on the eve Of the election
in which he used this language:
q an IN taror Of the unlimited coinage
of SHEER | favor the use OF gold and
siicer alike as money, and was, as is
known to many IN .fdro7. Of the 1enonetiza
ton Of silrer aoteR the question aCds acted
upon by Congress" Gen. WalthalPs
letter of January ,, 1880, in Vicksburg
Commercial
Now, does Mr. Barksdale's advocacy
of the unlimited coinage of silver"
make him any more an "extremist"
than Gen. Walthall, who was the
Herald's favorite for Senator?
But to return to the sectional aspects
of this discussion, The statement has
been made and reiterated by per
sons for the purpose of malicious
and willful Justification, that Mr..
Barksdale is an extremist"
reckless agitator who would revive the
issues that were settled by the war, and
infame the passions from which the
struggle of the two sections originated.
To vindicate the truth of history, and
show how utterly false this assertion is,
and how monstrous its injustice to Mr..
Barksdale, we will reproduce the fol-
lowing article which he published in
THE CLARION of December 18th, 1878,
warning the Democratic leaders
in Congress against the very
very line of ill-judged which caused
the extra session, and against the rock
upon which the Democratic party has
been well nigh wrecked. 1t speaks for
itself, and shows how basely its author
has been misrepresented by some, and
how egregiously misunderstood by
others.
[E BARKsDALE in THE CLARION of December,
11th, 1881
Living Issues VS.. Dead Ones.
The Democratic members of Congress,
the Southern members, will COM
NIT great blunder if they permit themselves
to be enteed into .orangle over the sectional is
sues By the cunning schensers Of the Republican
party, who are striving to produce diver
sion from the living questions of the day,
upon which they well know they are beaten.
Senators Beck and VOORHEES,, in the Senate,
have struck the keynote in their resolu-