The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-09-01
The FusIonists.

The Fusion ticket, or the Peoples
Independent ticket, as they prefer to be
designated, composed of Benz. King for
Governor J. B. YellowIey for It.
Governor J. J. Spelman for Secretary
of State; j. VI. Bynum for State
Treasurer A T. Wimberly for Auditor
of Public Accounts W. F. Fitzgerald
for Attorney General, and w. d. Howe
for Superintendent ofPublic Education,
so far as its personnel goes, is respectable
+ in capacity and in fair standing before
the community. Col. King has always
commanded the esteem Of his neighbors,
and has rendered the State valuable
service. w F. Fitzgerald was a true
soldier Of the Southern army, Is a good
lawyer, naturally an orator, and man
+ Of generous impulses who has always
attached warm friends to him especially
in this community where he was born
and reared Nothing is to be gained by
belittling and villifying an adversary,
and as we have said before in abiding
TO the repetition of ISLANDERS against one
Of the candidates on the Democratic
ticket, we trust for the sake Of public
decency that we are to be spared
campaign Of personal defamation.
The Fusionists offer no reason why
they should not be rejected by the peo-
pie. Col. King in his letter of accep-
lance, says that he is only ''Conserva-
tive" a vague term describing nothing
and his platform, as well as that of the
two wings Of the allied forces which he
leads, is embodied in a "full vote,
free ballot aud a fair count" As the
Democrats are solemnly pledged to the
same things, on what ground can the
Fusionists expect any intelligent advo-
cate Of a free election and interrupted
ballot-bOx, to abandon the present rule I
Of honesty, intelligence, economy, low
t,xes, law and order, to ally himself
with them ? But we must 90 behind
the platform Of the Fusionists to find
the evidence upon which to Judge them. /
They are made up for the most part of
Republicans whose record Of exrrava-
gance, corruption, disorder and violence, +
is fresh in the public mind. Carl
Schurz, it was, who said that for down /
right robbery and ruinous government /
the rule Of the Republican parry in the .
Southern States, was without al exam /
pie in history, and the people CT Missis- /
sippi will never forget the sutferinas
and trials 10 which it subjected them .
and the superhuman eiiDrt that was
required to throw it off Thus warned,
they will not plunge themselves into
the same troubles again. II Will not do
70 say that these Fusionists are not the I
Republican parry Of the years Of bit er
memory 1870, II, -, '73, ~, IS.
It is the Republican party reinforced
and renewing the contest for supremacy
with a new name and Gin part only)
under nGw leaders. II is an integra!
part Of the party which is centralizing
the government and building up great
nonied oligarchy which deliberately
'obbed the people Of their choice of
President and Vice-President in 1876 i
which keeps alive sectional agitation as
handmade to its schemes ofspoliation
nd plumber, and is lead by such men
5 Blaine and Logan and Kellogg and
Dawes. BY their deeds and their asso-
iations they are to be judged and con-
emned. From such party the people
f Mississippi will turn with distrust
nd adherence, and they will adhere to {
he Democratic-C Conservative party with I
5 unblemisheG record and its broad /
nd patriotic creed.