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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17
The Silver Question.

On the invitation of France another
international Monetary Conference is tc
held, and the President has appointed
ex-Secretary Evarts, ex-senator Thur
man and ex-senator Howe as commits
sioners on the part of the United States.
1t is said that if the terms in which
Ela1c' RI i-rT5t fo1rrs rUucneu, COMMIT Ihei
governments accepting it to the.
adoption of bi-metalism and the admis-
sion that the maintenance of the gold
standard is impolitic. England will
refuse to go into the Conference. The
other leading nations of Europe, how
ever, Germany included) which de-
monetised silver, having seen the error
of their way, are anxious for the Con-
ference. This. revolution in favor of
silver is subject of congratulation with
the Democracy Of the United States as
its reconciliation was one of their tri-
umphs. True, they were aided by many
Republicans, but it was essentially a
Democratic measure.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17
The Great Fraud of 1870.

Delaware, Mr.. Bayard's State, at all
events, is not unmindful of the address
of the Democratic members of Congress
on the occasion of r. B. Hayes taking
the Office to which he was not elected
"Let it not be understood that the
usqrpation is forgotten" On the day
Mr.. Hayes went out of the office he had
usurped, the following joint resolution
was adopted by the Delaware House OF
Representatives
ResoIged, That representing an honest
constituency we hereby declare on the 4th
of March, A. ID. 1881, our and their stern
Reproduction of the great fraud perpetrated
on this day four years ago, in the inaugun
ration of a man as President of the United
States who was not elected to that office /;
by which fraudulent act the people of this
country were deprived of their honest
choice, wrong perpetrated upon the right
of honest suffrage which will eyer remain
reproach to free institutions.
- ~ sfegret the
elevation to the Presidency of a man who
was one of the chief actors in the perpetra.
ton and contamination of this great
Fraud.
y Resolced, That the Governor of this State
be requested to transmit copy of the fore
goihg resolution, duly attested by the
Speakers and Clerks of both Houses of the
General Assembly, to the Hon. Samuel J.
Tilden, who was legally elected President
of the United States in 1876.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17
Yazoo's Response to the Suggestion
that Maj. Walpole be Nominated for
Auditor,
YAzoo CITY, March Z. 1881.

YAZoo CITY, March Z, 1881.
EDITORS CLARION :-Prefacing this com
munication by saying. that we ourselves, do
not know whether Maj R. Walpole will or
will not, be a candidate for Auditor, we
wish to express the pride and qualification
of Yazoo Democracy at the letter, from Sup
porters in II" on this subject, which APP
peared in your issue Of March Sd, 1881. 1t
were useless to recount those words of prai Use
and commentator. 1t is enough to say that
Yazoo heartily endorses and approves them.
/ That they are merited and strictly true, no
one acquainted with Maj. Walpole and his
record, will deny. Indeed, where he is best
known there he is most appreciated and
honored. Courteous, kind, efficient and
worthy, his record is best with those who
know him best.
He has ever been true TO Mississippi's
every interest. In all his words, in all his
actions, the same spirit has actuated him,
the desire to promote her interests. In no
instance, during the dark days through
which Mississippi has passed, did Maj. Wal
pole falter or waVeF, but he was ever found
in the front, battling for truth and JUS
tice, for law and order. And when the dark
clouds had been dispelled, and the aliens
driven from our borders, Mississippi, in
casting about for worthy, capable and faith
full sons, with which to fill the various State
offices, fixed upon Maj. Walpole as one ofthe
best for the Authorship, but because Of To-
cality he went down. (Here let me say that
no disparagement Of our present Auditor is
intended,l But no such reason can operate
now. Many and loud have been the praises
of Yazoo Democracy. Thousands Of olsen
thralled Mississippians have proclaimed
that Yazoo shall be recognized in the future
If this be true, we ask them to listen to her
now. Upon her (Yazoo's) banner in bright
letters are engraven 'Walpole and Yazoo
Herald" Yazoo remembers with gratitude
and admiration the course of the -EkTah,
and its able and patriotic editors, and no
dissenting voice viii be heard, in Democratic
councils, when the time comes for her to ex-
press her choice for Auditor. But in no ar
rogant and dictatorial spirit will ahe do this
She will simply present his name to the
Convention ~ worthy son; one honest.
capable and faithful. She will ask for him
and his cause a careful consideration, Should
he be nominated she will be proud of the
honor conferred upon him. Should another
prove the successful one, she will bow to the
decree Of the Democracy, and he will again
bear himself with that lofty, magnanimous
spirit which marked his conduct in defeat in
1877,
In the event of Maj Walpole's candidacy
we ask that his claims be well considered.
Yours truly,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

In A violent discussion with Senator
Hill, Senator Malone declared his in
tention to act with the Republicans,
which will give control of the Senate to
that party We have no sympathy,
nor apology, for Malone, but there was
no reason to believe that he would act
with the Democrats. He was elected
independently of the Democratic party
by negroes, white Republicans and in
dependents, and in the late Presidential
canvass he and his followers were out
lawed by the National Democratic Exec
utive Committee in a formal address.
1t will not d. to make a scape-goat of
Malone He is a broken stick. The
Democrats knew it, and knew that he
had been communicated from their
party The blame for the loss of the
Senate lies in having kept Kellogg in
seat from Louisiana to which he was
not elected. 1t was a preposterous
claim of the Republicans which ought
not to have been acquiesced in by any
Democrat, and which has enabled them
to wrest the control of the Senate from
the Democratic party.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17
The Garfield Programme.

Governor Jewell, Chairman of the
Republican National Committee "be-
lieves the present Administration will
put Republicans in office the country
over. He says that in many of the
Southern States the Republicans have
had no party for four years, so large a
portion of the official patronage being
in Democratic hands. This condition
of affairs, he says is going to be
changed" The meaning Of it all is
that Office, and not principle, makes the
Republican party in the South. So far
as Mississippi is concerned with the ex-
ceptiOn of few post offices, all the in
eumbents of federal places are Republi-
cans.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17


i The tenant may make his own con-
tracts, and obtain supplies from whom
he pIeases. He has the same right TO
mortgage for supplies now that he had
before. His liberty is in no way inter
fered with. Amy person has the same
right now as formerly to take a mort
gage and supply a tenant. In this
respect there is no change in the law.
Under the former law the landlord had
priority only for supplies furnished
before he had actual notice of a mort.
gage or deed of trust given to some
other person. If the tenant gives a
mortgage on his crop, as he may, to a
third person, and obtains supplies from
him alone, the landlord will have no
claim except for his rent, which was a
paramount claim under the former law.
and is now. If the tenant gets supplies
from his landlord, his lien therefor is
superior to the claims of all others.
The only hazard to the third person in
taking a mortgage and furnishing under
it is that the tenant may obtain supplies
from his landlord also, in which case
the claim of the landlord would be
paramount, but the possible knavish-
ness of a tenant may be effectively
guarded against, and the holder of the
mortgage fully protected by the easy
process Of obtaining from the landlord,
in advance, a waiver of his statutory
priority for supplies. The only change
wrought by the new law is to make it
prudent for one undertaking to furnish
the tenants of another on the security
of mortgage on crops, to have an
agreement with such other that he shall
not furnish them that year to the inter
ference of the mortgage, who has
undertaken to supply them. Under the
former law it was necessary for the
third person to give the landlord actual
notice of his mortgage, in order to have
priority. Now, it is prudent to secure
a waiver by the landlord of any priority,
if he should furnish the tenant With
out this, third person only runs the
risk of the dishonesty of the tenant in
getting supplies also from the landlord,
and of the landlord being able and
willing to supply him, contingencies not
very likely to occur. If the present
law should, upon trial, fail to work
well, how would it do to repeal it
The question has been
fruitful of experiments and none seem
To have riuan satisfactinn
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

A LAW of Texas makes the inter
marriage Of whites and negroes peni-
tertiary ofiense. A dispatch from Austin,
announces that the United States
Circuit Court had ordered the issue of
a writ of habeas corpus in the
case of white man sem
fenced by the State Courts to FIVE
years in the penitentiary for the crime
of marrying a oolored woman. II Is
assumed that the law of Texas violates
the Constitution of the United States
and this is the question to be tried.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17
How the Republicans Propose to Re-
capture Mississippi.
speciaI 70 the N. o. Democrat.l

Special to the N. o. Democrat.
WAsHINGToN, March 1.-THE delega-
ton of Mississippi Republicans have laid
before the President plan for carrying the
State by uniting With the Greenbackers,
being convinced of the uselessness of trying
the strength of a straight Republican ticket
again. Their plan is run ex>Gov. Alcorn
for Governor next fall and give the Green
hackers the rest of the State ticket, provided
the President will give them Federal pat :
ronage to promote their plains.
Maybe the foregoing is fictitious,
and may be not. The President will
have very little to do in his Office to
turn aside from its great duties, to
manipulate State elections.
THE best laid schemes or men and mice,
Oft gang aglee7
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

Our friend of the Vicksburg Herald
has undertaken very difficult feat.
He wants to hold his influential position
in the Democratic-Conseryative party of
Mississippi and at the same time run
with the National Republican party.
He might as well give up the idea it
will not work. No circus rider, even,
can ride two horses going in opposite
directions.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

A BILL is pending in the Legislature
of Texas to provide for the appoint
ment of Board of Railroad and Tele-
graph Commissioners, and to regulate
Roads and Telegraph Companies. The
operation Of such law would depend
entirely upon the class Of men appoint
ed as Commissioners. They ought to.
be elected BY the Legislature.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17
The Kemper Democracy Getting in
Line.

We learn from the Kemper Herald
that mass meeting of the democratic
party of Kemper county was held at
DeKalb on the 7th inst, when the
following Executive Committee for the
county Yas elected
Beat No. IA. NJ. Moore, D. w. Kerr
and Ell. NJ. Duke
Beat No. 2-R- F. Cochran, ]. L. Hun
nicutt and J. T. Oden.
Beat 10. 81 A. Burton, B. F. King and
8. W. Key.
Beat No. A. A. Peden, John Rea and
F. NJ. Prince
Beat No. 81. W. Maury. Jas. R. Key
and ]. @. F. Smith.
Capt. Moore was elected Chairman,
and J. T. Oden. Secretary.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

The State Board of Health meets at
jackson on Monday, 4th April, and
the State Medical Association at Winona
on Wednesday, 9th April. DIR. Writ
Johnston, Secretary, has communicated
to members of the profession the rail
road arrangements for the meeting at
Winona
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

THE lower Mississippi river is very
high, and with twenty-foot rise already
started down the river from above,
there seems good reason to fear that
there will be an overflow this spring.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

The question is asked, how shall the
Southern Democracy act towards the
Garfield administration Why, of course,
approve of the measures that are right,
and oppose those that are wrong.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

As WE supposed, that staunch and
able conservative Democrat, Hon. Rod
erick Seal, of Harrison, disavows con-
nection or sympathy with the Republi-
Observation-Disclosures coalition.
He speaks through the Pascagoula
Demoerat-Star.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

The receipts ofcotton at all the ports
thus tar have been 400, 900 bales in ex,
cess Of the last season hut in the port
Of New Orleans they have fallen of.5O,-
600 bales.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

An esteemed subscriber, in the good
old county of Tippah, in renewing his
subscription to THE CLARION, is pleased
to say 81 did not see how could spare
two dollars from my limited means, but
then how could l do without THE
CLARIoS-the pure Democratic paper
Bourbon some may call it"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

The understanding now is that Gar
field will be stronger for a second term
than Grant will be for third term.
With this powerful force operating to
prevent Grant becoming a third term
President and the example of the Chi
cago Convention which eopclusively
decided the third term question, is it
really necessary for Democrats to assist
in pensioning Grant on a life salary of
81 800 in order to keep him out of the
Presidency? Is it not paying rather
dear to avoid an evil which is purely Il
thing of the Imagination ? Besides, is
it statesmanlike way of dealing with
a question involving great principle?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

SECRETARY WINDOW was a champion
of the Eads Jetty system; and is a
known advocate of the improvement of
the Mississippi river. He also voted
for the Bland Silver bill.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

HoN. JOSEPH Holt, once a shining
light of the bar of this State and after
wards Judge-Advocate General, is now
living in Paris, France, in poor health,
in the 18th year of. his age.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

IHhRE are forty-fve millions of dol
u lars Of surplus revenue in the National
treasury. The best use to make Of ii
would be to apply it to the payment Of
the public debt.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17
THE national banks which IateIv :,

The national banks which lately sur
rendered portion of their circulation
as soon as the Funding bin passed Con-
gress, are now applying for the return
OF their notes, They succeeded in bull
doing the President and defeating the
bill at a cost of not less than $40, 600, 900
to the people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

THE selection Of Judge THURMAN as one
81 the commissioners to the international
Monetary Conference at Paris, by Pres
ident Garfield, was . handsome act.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

The Legislature of Arkansas declares
for Farmers Congress, and further,
suggests st. Louis as the place and
October as the month for the meeting.
The grand Congress might then be
made portion of the st. Louis fair.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

The L. S. Senate consists Of rs mem
bers, and 80 a majority Of the number.
There are 81 Republicans, Cor will be
when they have filled all their vacan-
cies which they will do this week. 81
Democrats, and Judge Davis and Gen.
Malone. Judge Davis will vote with
the Democrats in organizing; Malone
will vote with the Republicans.
The casting vote of the Vice-President
in this event, will decide the organiza-
ton. If Kellogg had not been permit
ted to usurp the Louisiana seat, the
Democrats would have had control.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

80 %. ~, - h.

YAzoo CRY, Mss, March l-t
EDITORS CLARION Will
throughout the State are beipg
BY their friends in connection vi,l
ferent State Offices to be filed tbi.e.
me to call the attention Of the p,s
Col J. L. McCuLLrv
of the YazoO City Herald. asaf,.
BILE person for the office of Secrets.
Col. McCuIlum has fought a. r,.-
for the Democracy as any man If,
and never one against it, ItbfnE
pie of the State, and particularly
ofYazoO, are peculiarly indeu.edt..
viz; Maj. Barksdale and Col M.
The writer was in a position To
we'll does he remember dgrir. p.
hours Of 1879, how anxiou~Iv Me- ...
looked to Major Bark,lale for All.
counsel, and how through all of
seven years of political trial we wa...
cd from calumny by the able and
teriug pen of McCulIum, aad r
owes anything To Gaz3o for her r--.
heroic struggle against grra, odd.
ing her place as the Banner D.
County OF the State 10 cauu4. I.....
nize the just obligation than bg -
the just claims OF Col McCu..lm
fee Of Secretary of State
Y
In publishing the above conn.
airy notice to that able and word.
nalist, Col. McCullum, vc d-.....
company it with a pro,c,, Nm.
Barksdale, whose name is kialr
toned, claims to have dome
more than his duty, and that Oh.
for the redemption oflIi~-is.ipa.I
to the people who came forth II
might and their numbers TO dare.
do. }
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

Mr.. J. w. BUCHANAN proprietor Of
the Sentinel, will continue the pubc.
ton Of the Grenada Sentinel 1t is ono
Of our most valued exchanges.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

q vigorous contest is going on over
the Vicksburg Post Office. Its tbaoI5
contest between the outs and The ms
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

EX-SENATOR BRUCE wants 10 be ii
Minister to Chill it is said. WouIdn'
q mission to Liberia 90 as well2
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

The Vicksburg Herald seems to
have concluded to delay the work of
disorganizing the National Democratic
party, and in the meantime it has agreed
not to part company with the party
until it has fixed up good Democratic
Conservative ticket for the State. If
it would also agree to change the
doleful tune it has been playing, and
give us some of the lively and spirited
music of the old Yickshurger, which
gained for its editor the commanding
position he occupies, We assure it that
many of its friends who used to read
the Yicksburger with pleasure, would
be highly gratified.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

Our old friend. Capt. Edmund Odm
Is again at the helm of the Seashas
Gazette.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

WHAT does the Vicksburg Herald
mean when it says, 1--WE can see no
reason why the Southern people
should in any way antagonize the
President. Does it mean if Gar
fields administration shall favor and
support the proposed Republican-Inde-
pendent-Greenback combination, which
it is certain to do, the Democrats of
Mississippi shall not ''antagonize the
President" by running a ticket
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

THE Ripley Advertiser says that Hon.
Francis A. Wolff, of Tippah county, has
received many and urgent solicitations
from different portions of the State for
him to suffer his name to go before the
Democratic nominating convention as a
candidate for Governor and the Adj
vertiser takes it for granted that if his
services are needed he will not decline
nomination if rendered him. As the
Advertiser is Capt. Wolff 5 home paper,
we may infer that he has fully entered
the lists for Gubernatorial honors.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-17

ak population Of Germany at the eo
e 1851 was 45, l94, l72-about 5,005
iesa than the United States,
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sage of bill by Congress, requiring 450
grains of silver to the dollar to be minted
hereafter, instead of 4124 grains as now,
"would take large sum out of the pockets
of the people" Please explain how that
can be.
We thought we had been explicit
enough before, but will try and put it
in such shape as our correspondent can
understand. In the present dollar
there are 4124 grains, which is fraction
more than 12-100 grains to the cent
$50 grains to the dollar would be Al
grains to the cent, or 81 grains and a
fraction more than is now required to
the dollar. These 81 grains, under the
present valuation, are worth nearly 10
cents, which deducted from the present
silver dollar would leave it worth only
80 cents. Such an act therefore, would,
in effect, clip ten cents from the value
of each of the millions of silver dollars,
which now circulate among the people,
and which they have received for their
To illustrate. if our correspondent
cleared $1,000 on his cotton crop and
now holds that amount in silver dollars,
or certificates, he would find upon going
to bank to deposite 1t, or to a mer-
chant to purchase goods, he did not
have $1,000 at all but only 5000, that
two of his fifty dollar bales of cotton had
"gone where the woodbine twineth"with
out his knowing exactly how it happen
ed. If our correspondent had any ex-
perience with the trade or the Mexican
dollars he will remember that they were
distributed by the thousands through
the country at their face value. They
were not legal tenders and were there
fore at the mercy of the bank ring
Soon the word was passed along from
Wall street that these dollars were
worth only so to IS cents each, and at
that price the holders, who had taken
them at 100 cents, had to dispose of
them. They were collected in quanti-
ties. The trade dollars the government
replaced with the legal tender dollars,
and purchased the Mexican dollars at
80 to 95 cents about what the silver was
worth uncoined. On that speculation
a Giving" per cent. was made, first
when the agricultural products were
purchased with these dollars, and
secondly when the dollars were taken
back again at 80 to 50 cents. These
non-legal tenders having reached the
mint are remolded and are circulated
among the people at 100 cents to the
dollar of 4129 grains. Now they are
legal tenders and cannot again be put
through the clipping process unless
Congress abets the scheme by the pas
sage of the bill to which we referred.
We did not know what had become of
of II. r. Pease, ''ex-United States Sena-
tor, etc" until the telegraph informed
us that he had failed of confirmation to
the office of Receiver of Public Monies |
for Dakota Territory.
r. r. Church (col.l has gone to
to get the Memphis Post
Office. The Appeal predicts that he
viii be disappointed.
The Speaker of the British House of
Commons is Mr.. Playfair. The Irish |
Home Rulers in that body think he has
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t.s5S opinion or our co-IaboseFs Of the press.
Inst ue cannot Afford to 81 misrepresented
without 1t lest an effort 70 be placed right
on the record