The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-28
A Suggestion for the Times.

EDITORS CLARION: The present highly
electrified condition of the political atmos
phere, indicates that the election of new
Congress will be not only one of great in
terest to the majority of voters generally,
but promises to be an exceedingly exciting
one to Missssippians specially.
We are brought face to face with new
questions, and made conscious that the
agricultural, mechanical and laboring
interests are menaced by a continued and
growing pressure of procured legislation, by,
and in the interest of the great monied
monopolies
In the canvass of the near future every
question involved win be one of progress or
retrogression. There will be the great
question of finance, embracing currency,
national debt, national banks, appropriations,
and many other incidental questions arising
therefrom ; the question of hi gh protective
policy, which it is asserted, and authenti-
Gated too, takes annually from the laboring
classes of the West and South four hundred
millions of dollars to be paid as bonus to
our Eastern manufacturers questions arts
ing from our Ubiquitous organizations for
transportation, telegraphic transmission and
trade, which has virtually placed all the
business of the country in the hands of
unprincipled capitalists, who both assume
and feel that they are superior to the law,
and above the will of the people !;
besides thousand other questions of vital
Importance to our social, moral and inan-
cial improvement, which are now impeding
progress and debasing us.
The settlement of the questions of the
present requires the mature and digested
thought of statesmen, for we cannot expect
craftsmanship from timid, suspicious, guilty
demagogues, some of whom at Washington
City, are now taxing their ingenuity in try
ing to evade the responsibilities of legisla-
ton.
1t therefore behooyes the people of Mis-
sissippi to select as her representatives,
statesmen who are not only familiar with
all these intricate questions of State policy
but men who dare advocate and urge the
adoption of what they know to be for the
best interest of the greatest number.
Sucha man the voters of the Seventh Dis
triet will find in Claiborne county, who is
now peacefully pursuing the unostenta-
tious vocation of farmer, little dreaming of
being made Cincinnatus OF, or turning his
aspirations in search of political honors.
I refer to Hon. Thos. Y. Berry, Chancel-
lor under Gov Stones administration.
Judge Berry is a native to the "manor
born" and is now just in the prime Of life,
and in the full vigor of his physical and in
tellectual manhood. He is not only an able
statesman, but gentleman of wide and ex-
tended literary culture-not only an orator,
but logical aggressive speaker.
Should the voters of the seventh district
decide to select as their representative this
bold, fearless, outspoken advocate of the
rights of farmers and Iaborers, they will
find that they have selected no cringing,
turning, lodging politician, ever ready to
prostitute his craftsmanship for luere, nor
one who will devote all of his time and
talents to the defence of his party, but they |
will have one who will look the future
squarely in the face, one who will devote his
whole time, energy and ability to the agri-
cultural and laboring interest as being para
to all Others
Judge Berry is pure gentleman, pro-
found thinker, an able writer, a forcibe
speaker, and withal methodical in all his
habits.
The voters of the seventh district would
DO well to carefully consider the suggestion.
PROGRESS.