The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-08-11
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Farmers Reply 20 sIema's re
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Our space win not permit Us to
publish the entire article, but we dnd
some salient points 10 Farmers las,
communication TO the Index, which
are too good 10 lose, and as "Siema'
did not see Farmers first article
until published ia .he MrssrNorn.
we might possibly confer a favor on
him by reproducing this:
EDITOR INDEX: On The 18th ult
The writer published IN the Dispatcb
a communication calling attention 10
"Sigma's' attempt TO show up The
Inconsistencies" in Gov. Stones
Burkitt letter.
After waitinga fortnight, and until
the doors OF full, free and fair dis.
cussion were well nigh closed be-
cause Of the proximity Of the time of
The holding Of the State Convention
"wednesday next, "Sigma' enters
a rejoinder, in which he calls into
question the taste Of Farmers con-
trbution, "because" as he adroitlv
says, cit is not responsive 10 uie
letter Of review, but attempts to
dodge The issue by dealing in per-
sonaliiies" In that we think O. oSig-
ma is mistaken. There was no
need for Farmers "dodging." On
the contrary, Farmer was THROWING
the solid shot Of truth at the shams
erected By Stigma" That the marl,
was hit and the enemy uncovered
and discomftted, is best evidenced
by the feebleness Of "Sigma's" latest
attack, through the Dispatch, where.
in he earns for himself the soubu-
quet, and heuceforth will be recoo-
hized as "The Artful Dodger'
Protesting we did not know "Sig
MAJ land we again state that when
our first article was written, we did
not know who "Sigma" was) there
could have been nothing personal in
its nature, and certainly nothire pei
sonal was intended We attempted
to show the evils of a partisan press
1.-THE power ofa public printer, and
Tic hold the public printer had,
through his newspaper, upon certain
classes-the "you tickle me, and /
tickle you business as organized and
carried out in the present canvass in
certain quarters.
That VIC were partially successful
is manifest by The way "the CALLED
Jade winces."
We accept, too, ia the spirit in
tended, (and do not except to "Sip-
mas" PickwickAn thrusts az the
pleasant surrounding of Farmers
cabin In the simplicity Of his rus
tic heart, Farmer regrets that "Sie-
mas" surroundings are not more of
the character to teach "the eternal
bounds Of Right and Wrong" Far
mer, too, fully appreciates The happy
ding at bis "handsome face" Il is
not the first occasion on which the
sunburnt skin OF those who wear
homely garhs of "hodden gray, -
have been made objects of derision
but there is still remaining to the
horny listed sons Of toll the happy
consolation that hands imbrowned
by honest labor rarely weave nets Co
snare the human kind By them no
deep lail schemes tor public plumber
are set No lines east, as fishermen
for men. True to their sense OF
right, unlearDed in city ways tho
they be, they are, as the stars of
heaven, fixed in their regard for, and
fidelity to, the rights of others
"Sigma," too, in his humorous
way, by way Of retaliation, we sup.
pose, for the suggestion that possi-
bly, he was some shining light in the
Clarion's Mutual Aid and Admira
ton Society, "ventures the assertion
that Farmer belongs TO the Grand
Army OF Appointees." "But," hC
continues, 'Judging alone from bis
letter ! would say that he docs not
hold very exalted position under
his Exeellency not higher thsn that
Of a College trustee or member OF
the Board OF Public Works" Bah
that sounds like the mere drivel Of a
sorehead Byron, whose poetry al
so 'rhymes" and in so far, at least
win be grateful to Signals ears,
wrote
"And shall We own such Judgment ?-No-a
soon,
/ Seek roses in December ice IN June;
/ Hope constaneY in the wind, or corn in chaM
Believe a woman, OF an epiiaph
/ Or any other thing that's false, before
/ You trust IN critics irio hemsslges are sore"
That stigma has not an exalted
opinion of College trustees appoint
ed by Gov Stone was to have beer
expected. That much, at least, j,
readily gathered from his "masterly'
reviews. It may be rather a lowly
place, yet Senator George, and 9th
ers of his ilk, all over the land, are
not above the position, and proudly
answer to the rollca Of the "Grand
/ Army Of Appointees' We are at q
loss, however, to know the occasion
| of Signals thrust at the respectable
/ ity of the Board Of Public Works
we venture his friends and immedi-
ate representatives, with whom he il
now hand and glove, in the Legisla-
turc, worked and voted for the ere
alton Of the Board.
Surely he Is notsore because some
man Of his crowd failed TO get on the
| Board, ia spite of the endorsement
/ of Signals" friends.
1t may be after all that stigma
concludes that only "smalI pertaters'
are put on Boards Of Public Works
because he was interested in tha
East Mississippi Syndicate organize,
TO get hold OF and control the Mis-
sissippi Penitentiary, and was dis
appointed
II that should be the case, Oh
! Sigma heal thy sores, for il
, generally known that the Board wa
obliged, under the law, to award ID
; lease to Others whose bid was nearl
or quite three times IS great as 90.
! ,frhn EVnslfpnfa Tho u,a-.1 1.,..l,I