The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-14
Col. Taos. J. Hudson, of Benton
County.
COMMISSIONERS OF AGRICULTURE AND
IMMIGRATION.

EDTToRs CLARION The farmers OF MIS-
sissippi are looking with intense anxiety q
see what action the Legislature will take
to advance the material interests of the
State. However much our people may
differ on political Issues, they present an
undivided front in favor Of the establish
ment Of manufactures and the introduction
of capital and labor. To succeed in build,
ing up the first and securing money and
capital, viii require liberal appropriations
of money by the State and the selection Of
wise, active aud energetic agents. 1t would
be a useless expenditure of the public funds,
to adopt plan OF operations and then 70
trust the work to men without capacity and
in whom the people have no confidence.
Without disparagement OF the abilities
of the many distinguished sons OF Mlssls-
sippi. we place in nomination Col. TUCSON
for Commissioner of immigration. Sonar
as information, administrative ability ana
untiring energy are concerned, he Is second
To no man in fitness for the great work now
about to be inaugurated in this State
About twenty-five years ago, 1t was upon
his nation. that the first Agricultural
Convention was organized by the Degisla-
ture. His devotion to the industrial
progress of the State, made him, though
unite Young a prominent candidate for
Governor. At the organization OF the
Planters Convention of the South, IN 1894,
At Nashville, Tennessee, composed OF our
ATHEIST men from every Southern State, he
was elected unanimously its permanent
President. Here he distinguished himself
By an able address, in which be showed that
we then had labor, not then successfully
EMPLOYED in agriculture, that should De
engaged in manu- factories. Since the war,
his pen has never been idle. Years ago, he
was convinced of the Importance OF bringing
the farmers of the Union into a representa-
tive council. After years of labor he has
been rewarded by the organization of
Farmers' Congressnf the United States, and
now the ablest men in the Union are heart
ily at work in the same great movement.
If immigrants and capital can be brought
here, he will do it. be knows no such
word as surrender. He will not stop plead
ing the cause of Mississippi, upholding her
advantages to immigrants and showing
Northern capital how and where 1t may be
proftably employed. Thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with the efforts of other States in this
direction, and to build up new industries,
he will show how this can be done here. If
his services can be secured, he ought to be
elected by the next Legislature, Commits
sioner of Immigration and Agriculture.
No man who knows him, and few of your
readers are ignorant of his history, will
question his fitness or doubt his triumphant
success, if placed in this responsible position.
If elected you will see your Agricultural
statistics annually collected and published
in a form valuable to the legislator and
citizen. He would get up system of crop
reports, which would enable us to act with
out relying upon New York, for information
about the cotton crop. The war left Col. |
Hudson, like many of US, poor, but it is |
well known that he has spent more money |
than the State in the cause of Agriculture. |
Most of our citizens remember the interest |
ing Fairs held in Mississippi before the war. |
To bring improved agricultural machinery
to the knowledge of our people he travelled
North and South to get manufacturers to
atte.d our exhibition. To show the interest
aroused by his efforts, the first speech he
made in Jackson at the Fair, the Legislature
ordered the printing of nine thousand copies
And l predict that he will make the Farm
ers Congress success. He will never
cease his labors until the farmers of the
Union secure the objects and purposes of
the organization and this done, their CO.
operation will be given.
The victories won by Col. Hudson are
easily explained. In the first place he is
man of labor, plain, affable
and unassuming, despising all pomp and
oarade-earnestin every thing-devoted to
ais State he never fails to inspire confidence
N all who meet him. Such is the man
md such are his claims and qualifications,
briefly and imperfectly stated, for the i'm
oortant. position for which we seek and urge
lis election by the Legislature of the State,
ne has served SO ably and faithfully. His
election would be a well-minded recognition
If his valuable public services and would be
gratifying to the citizens of
Benton county, and throughout the State
t would be universally Endorsed and cor
Tally approved
RICHARD II. PARHAM,
MICHIGAN CITY, MISS, Dec 9Th, 1881.