The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-06-16
The State Convention.
NO PERSONAL POLITICS WANTED IN MIS-
SISSIPPI.

/ NO PERSONAL POLITICS WANTED IN MIS-
SISSIPPI.
Yazoo SetineL
/ Let us understand what are the duties OF
the August Convention supreme iu-
rlSdlctlon Of the party of the State. The
nomination of a candidate for Governor
full up to the highest measure Of require
ment, and other State officers of equal fit
ness for their respective stations, will be
! first in order. The next business should be
the PRONUNCIATION of a platform, declaring
the faith that is in us, and announcing the
principles and policy of the party. The
next thing should be motion to adjourn
and this should be carried unanimously and
with cheers.
What other matters can be properly and
legitimately submitted to the Convention?
Does any overzealous partisan desire to in
troduce useless issues, questions that will
distract ana divide the party-ire- brands
to enklndle strife, to serve personal ambi-
tions, to crafty personal resentments, to
send JOY and gladness to the saddened hearts
of our wary, malevOlent and ndefatigabe
foes. We hope nothing like this will be
attempted, but from surface indications it
would seem that there are some whose zeal
Is in large excess of their discretion, who
would bring the Senatorial and other irreI-
event questions into the arena Of high de
bate.
TO US, such ideas do not merit dignified
refutatiOn, and if they are obtruded into
the Convention, We are quite certain they
will receive unsparing rebuke and unmeas-
ured condemnation. We believe a majority
of our party organs-the best expositors Of
Democratic thought, in the absence Of an
authoritative expression from a delegated
Convention, are hostile TO the Juggling into
the canvass Of this question, or any other
heterogeneous matters that are certain to
mar that union and harmony that are abso-
lutely essential to victory
Then let the Democratic banner, so proud
~ unfurled in lsF5 in resistance to carpet
bag domination, be again "full high adj
vanced," and on its ample folds let US in
scribe principles, not Men," and the pres
ent formidable menace &c Democratic ascen-
dency will vanish into thin air, and the
future, which is SO fraught with hope anG,
fertile PROMISE will be ta cur long tried
people ''the glorious dawning of grander
day"
The people of Mississippi want no per
sonal politics. they believe no single man
embodies all all the virtue, wisdom and
patriotism of the State; they are not prone
to believe that the demise or retirement of
any dozen men would leave them like the
children Of Israel in the wilderness, without
a Moses TO guide them. They want no man
or set of men to keep their conscience and /
do their thinking. They are reluctant to
tie themselves to the political fortunes
Of any man or set of men, no matter if T
talent and moral worth DO adorn the claim
ants to political empire. And another OBJ +
servation we think equally just: i feuds +.
and differences, personal or political, should .
arise among our public men, so much the
worse for those who are thus unhapnilv at .
but not so much the worse far the /
oeople at large; who look upon their dis
.inggished men with equal regard and con
lder their justly earned ren0wn as a part
md parcel of the wealth of the State; but
who at the same time refuse to array them
elves on Ole side or the other in riya!ries
md antagonisms. or &c iHquige into their /
'ause- their sole anxiety Geing 10 utilize
he talents Of al who can Contribute TO the
,lory of Mississippi and the promotion of
leF varied moral and material interests